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How To Use Fin-de-siecle In A Sentence

  • In short, wherein lies the passage from space demon to fin-de-siècle smiley-face?
  • Along with his artist peers, Toulouse-Lautrec developed a social awareness that characterized the fin-de-siecle arts.
  • Vaslav Nijinsky rose to stardom as the golden slave in Diaghilev’s ballet, Scheherazade, appearing “in brown body paint, and grinning, and wound with pearls — not so much as a sex object but as sex itself, with all the accouterments of perversity that the fin-de-siècle imagination could supply: exotism, androgyny, enslavement, violence.” Scheherazade Goes West
  • According to John Richardson's book, Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters, she disdained the fin-de-siecle froufrou (dust cathers, to be sure) and maintained a low-key style, whose principle was "Elegance is elimination. Archive 2008-02-01
  • It is an irreverence which comes to what is, for me, its crisis when articles by serious anarchists, Chiaromonte and Goodman, are presented along with the cud of fin-de-siècle diabolism.
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  • She renovated the ruined fort, laid out ornamental gardens and turned this unlikely corner of Brittany into something of a fin-de-siècle social mecca.
  • You can sip an anisette in the Caffè Meletti, a beautifully restored fin-de-siècle restaurant, with your view of the square unobstructed by sweating tourists.
  • It was a classic fin-de-siècle American protest: a staged telegenic moment steeped in Western symbolism.

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