It has a rather evocative, fin-de-siecle style gloominess. From Wordnik.com. [The concrete jungle's really going crazy] Reference
If only those poor fin-de-siecle suckers had stopped at Perl. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: August 15, 2004 - August 21, 2004 Archives] Reference
Social butterflies are booking space for fin-de-siecle blowouts. From Wordnik.com. [Lifts, Lasers And Liposuction: The Cosmetic Surg] Reference
That statement about the Victorian fin-de-siecle feels weirdly current. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Literary Criticism] Reference
The Symbolist era of fin-de-siecle Europe inspires much of the aesthetic of my work. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
In place of a plot, "Eisenheim the Illusionist" supplies a mini-history of magic at the fin-de-siecle. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
‘Fewer jobs but those remaining more valuable’ certainly has a whiff of the fin-de-siecle about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Valley of My Dreams: Why Silicon Valley Left Boston’s Route 128 In The Dust] Reference
One politician was quoted as saying that Blair's silence only adds to the fin-de-siecle feel around Tony Blair. From Wordnik.com. [Blair's Tennis Partner Arrested In 'Cash-For-Honors' Inquiry] Reference
Angst-ridden, bereaved, paranoid, nervous, strung out and suffering mild symptoms of fin-de-siecle cataclysmic psychosis. From Wordnik.com. [Not the End of the World]
Fin-de-millennium America is an infernal carnival — a pyrotechnic insanitarium, like Coney Island at the fin-de-siecle. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference
The Waldorf-Astoria on Fifth Avenue "the epitome of fin-de-siecle luxury ... a thousand guest rooms and half a hundred public rooms". From Wordnik.com. [When the Astors Owned New York] Reference
The Gilded Age of fin-de-siecle America was a time of unbridled capitalism, and, as a consequence a time of immense disparity in wealth. From Wordnik.com. [The New Gilded Age] Reference
England had entered one of her uncertain, self-examining periods of nostalgia, looking back to the fin-de-siecle and Edwardian social certainties. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
From Sarajevo in the 1990's back to Bosnia during World War Two, the salons of fin-de-siecle Vienna, the inquisition in Venice and Barcelona in 1492. From Wordnik.com. [People of the Book] Reference
All I can say for now is that this discovery has been lurking in the depths of fin-de-siecle Paris for more than a century, but has so far gone unremarked. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-06-01] Reference
Give me some good, solid mittel European melancholy with a bit of crumbling Habsburg, some fin-de-siecle Vienna thrown in and it will keep me quiet for hours. From Wordnik.com. [44 entries from December 2007] Reference
Born in fin-de-siecle Germany, Ernst left school in 1908 to pursue a career on the stage, eventually landing as an actor in the prestigious Max Reinhardt Company. From Wordnik.com. [John Farr: Laughing in Style: That Special 'Lubitsch Touch'] Reference
The persistent desire to find similarities in both the fin-de-siecle and the turn of the twentieth century has attracted a locus of academic interest in Wilde's life and work. From Wordnik.com. [From Whitman to Wilde: A Cultural Perspective on Individualism at the Fin de Si�cle] Reference
Shanghai, reflects the city's various turns as the fin-de-siecle. From Wordnik.com. [Flavorpill San Francisco Events] Reference
In its fin-de-siecle mood and beauty, it reminded me of Last Days. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
However, looking back from our fin-de-siecle perspective, it is. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
The story begins with the embrace of dynamite by Ireland†™ s Fenians, and then by fin-de-siecle anarchists. From Wordnik.com. [SA Latest News] Reference
Just like our ancestors in the fin-de-siecle city, we are using new technology to fight the shortcomings of the old. From Wordnik.com. [Freakonomics] Reference
S The various styles of: German fin-de-siecle, Japanese woodblock, symbolist and, cubist were seen in his photographs. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The story tells of teen-age students coming of age in the stultifying and strait-laced atmosphere of fin-de-siecle Germany. From Wordnik.com. [Crosscut] Reference
This fin-de-siecle coming of age show was so controversial when it was written in 1891 that it wasn't performed until 1915. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Sadly, her utopian exhortation of fin-de-siecle divine friendship reflects little democratic give and take, not this day at least. From Wordnik.com. [Kafila] Reference
Here was a love -- it may be modern, advanced, chic, fin-de-siecle, up-to-date, or anything the coming generation may choose to call it. From Wordnik.com. [With Edged Tools] Reference
Act III Waltz purrs a fin-de-siecle song of haunted elegance, the strings and harp all but dripping Viennese schlag through the speakers. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
Kandinsky, Munter and Schoenberg were each played by a singer, an actor and a dancer, the cast clad in all-white fin-de-siecle period garb. From Wordnik.com. [Austin360 - XL Headlines] Reference
"There are a million sides to this question of the modern young woman -- the fin-de-siecle girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Canyon] Reference
"She (along with Britney, I suppose) embodied the fin-de-siecle celebrity archetype. From Wordnik.com. [E! Online (US) - Top Stories] Reference
Movement in the fin-de-siecle Vienna. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
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