| These are fin de siecle documents, grand apocalyptic opinions, unbendable and intractable, often fermented in a social and political cocktail. |
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| Blavatsky was a Russian emigre, uneducated but with enormous chutzpah who, between 1873, when she arrived in New York, and her death in 1891, dominated the fin de siecle New Age scene. |
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| Some, as we have seen, infected with a fin de siecle mood, are pessimistic about the possibilities of doing anything much to deal with the current situation. |
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| Truly the Kali Yuga seemed at hand, and, as with the last fin de siecle, there was a revival of occultism. |
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| The Importance of Being Earnest is read against the height of British Idealism and the beginning of pragmatism and analytic philosophy during the fin de siecle. |
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| Fin de siecle suspenser has atmosphere and a classy veneer, but is really kind of stagey and musty. |
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