1.   Another compelling event of the fin de siecle was the Ryder Cup of golf, a biennial competition between the United States and Europe.

2.   Bill Earls of Middletown, Conn., wrote last month to say he was fed up with frisson and fin de siecle.

3.   A trend toward a new austerity in commercial design seems to be gathering momentum as a new fin de siecle approaches.

4.   But in the last few years, sexual abuse of children has become a matter of grave social concern, the most alarming crime of the fin de siecle.

5.   But what could be more exemplary of our fin de siecle?

6.   Fin de siecle is not a Midwestern kind of phrase, unless we happen to be sitting in a college French class.

7.   He was the performer who, more than anyone else, came to represent the sound, style and lilting grace of his own fin de siecle Vienna.

8.   Indeed, its popularity is very much a fin de siecle happening.

9.   Its attempt to transplant sexual anxiety from fin de siecle Vienna to contemporary Manhattan is only skin deep, with the sexual energy of a dead battery.

10.   Oh, sure, such a solution might sound preposterous to the hustling entrepreneurs and financial wizards who run the fin de siecle NHL.