Example sentences for: siècle

How can you use “siècle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (To sample some bona fide fin de siècle art and poetry, click here.)

  • By clicking on the various section headings, you can get a drop-down list of their current contents and go directly to any article or feature in Slate . We will soon be adding this bar at the bottom of pages, too (in the optimistic belief that even in fin de siècle America, some people will a] finish reading an article and b] wish to read another).

  • These, he explained, were a "constructive" editorial policy for the country in which the paper is located and an appreciation of history: "We are all moving towards what is in a sense the end of history, the fin de siècle , and I believe this is the right time to be alive.

  • (John McCain is a hard case, being conventionally brave and forthright but also kind of a cutup; his crack about propping up a dead Alan Greenspan à la Weekend at Bernie's was very fin de siècle .) However, to give an appropriate nod to the underdogs, the TR model also speaks well for the chances of Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch, and Alan Keyes (none of whom has an ironic or decadent bone in his body, as far as Chatterbox can see).

  • (Chatterbox is not so fin de siècle as to contemplate that this president would take office as Roosevelt did--succeeding a predecessor who dies in office.)


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