How To Use Goth In A Sentence

The figures of his angels are elongated, with wings stretched upward as if they were sculpted by the Gothic masters.
Secular remains of Gothic architecture in Czechoslovakia are fewer.
Referred to simply as the Gothic Cruise (for brevity), this cruise is for fans of goth and industrial music and has been held annually for the past 15 years. Twilight Lexicon » Go Cruising Vampire Style
Essentially, these Gothic novels are not the Gothics of today.
Here was no pindling fowl that had taken the veil and lived a cloistered life; here was no wiredrawn and trained-down cross-country turkey, but a lusty giant of a bird that would have been a cassowary, probably, or an emu, if he had lived, his bosom a white mountain of lusciousness, his interior a Golconda and not a Golgotha. The Old Foodie

Witches, goblins, ghosts, ghouls and some gothic mums and dads were among an estimated 9,000 crowd that turned out for what is believed to be the country's largest Halloween party.
The inquiry was launched four months after Gotham published a scathing dossier. Times, Sunday Times
Tuck into local foods while admiring the city's gothic, renaissance and baroque architecture. The Sun
It is a classic style of Gothic buildings.
They are very nice examples of the gothic form, employing noble materials, good colour and detailing, and in edifying proportions. Solemn Mass at Ss. Gregory and Augustine Oratory, St. Louis Abbey
Maces of the late 15th and 16th century often had multi-flanged heads shaped in the Gothic style.
The fountain illustrated, an exquisite piece of Gothic architecture in miniature, was designed to be both fanciful and functional.
His placing of the location of numerous Gothic, Celtic, and other early manuscripts is a virtual travel guide to Old and Middle English biblical manuscripts.
The church was built in a Gothic style with a belfry.
The place immediately struck me as a seemingly ideal spot for me to headquarter, so even before I arrived in Gotham it ranked as a first-line destination.
The revelation of Niagara Falls as a place of horror dovetailed neatly with the appearance of the Gothic romance in literature.
It's set in a real city (Los Angeles) instead of a glamorized or revisionist version, like Gotham City. Archive 2009-12-01
In a gothic cathedral, the nave is flanked by aisles which run parallel to it.
In Gotha the plant is valued for curing chronic skin diseases, particularly of a fungoid character, such as ringworm; also for diseases of cattle. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
Simeon II, or to give him his civilian name Simeon Borisov of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, styled himself "tsar of Bulgaria" while he lived in exile. Prepare for the reign of Charles the Meddler | Nick Cohen
Although William Beckford wrote a Gothick romance as reckless and immoderate as himself, his life of epic prodigality would arrest attention had he not written a single line.
It radiates a Goth passion, a combination of lust and cruelness: the metal rounded quarter of an egg shaped, lead-hued metal in contrast to the blood-red transparent glass within which beats the cold-heart of a contemporary vixen. Archive 2009-02-01
The same year she created her first piece, which was an evocation of a Gothic Virgin.
Of course, there are ciboria in a gothic mode as well. Possibilities for the Ciborium Magnum in Neo-Gothic Churches
Gothic architecture has a particular look: the pointed or ogival arch, ribbed vaults, rose windows, towers, and tremendous height in the nave, supported by flying buttresses.
And for years Roxy has remained Gotham's hottest spot for shirtless dancing studs.
To this fusion are added Gothic style elements in the legs (a rounded arch above and a trefoil below each), colorful French ceramics with a Moorish flavor, and exotic serpents on either side of the ceramic cylinder.
If it wasn't for the facial features and the pentagram, she'd just look like a Goth. GOING OUT
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, They gave Him Vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when He had tasted thereof, He would not drink.
Charlotte Brontë's novel is not very different from typical gothic thrillers - everything from a sadistic schoolmaster to the arsonist madwoman in the attic.
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Perhaps something new and different, yet traditional, will spring from its roots, like Goodhue's Gothic sprung from the earlier work of Pugint, Scot and Bodley, or how Comper's unified eclecticism came from everything he saw, but we have to start somewhere, and there is still so much to learn, in terms of design and craftsmanship. The Dangers of Architectural Positivism
I find her a bit vague and she reminds me strongly of the goth girls who used to run stalls in Kensington Market a few years back.
Construction of the chapel was begun in 1475 by Edward IV and completed under Henry VIII in 1528 and represents one of the finest examples in the country of the Perpendicular Gothic style.
To our right was the Gothic tower, with its arched entranceway and the stable block attached to it on the left. GOTHIC PURSUIT
Her long black hair, having been pinned randomly across her head, and dark eye make-up gave for a very gothic look.
They're more mukluk than goth, but you can't beat 'em for warmth. Calling all Knitters! And Sock Lovers! Emergency Knitting please? Plus see squirrel pics!
During the time when these styles of Gothic architecture prevailed that are now called the Decorated and the Perpendicular, the roof, [14] the columns, the stained glass windows, the seats, altar, tombs, and even the flooring, were filled with emblasonment. A Short Account of King's College Chapel
Century, published by Simon and Schuster is a magical gothic tale about a strange family living in a dark, decaying mansion where it is always dark and eternally winter.
In the corner someone had daubed red paint on the arms of a goth mannequin with leather wrist bands, a nod to the obsession with self-harm that features in many of the songs with which its teenage customers are familiar.
Polakow-Suransky pierced the consciousness of Gotham's education community late last year, in the wake of Cathie Black's appointment, assuming the role of deputy chancellor for performance and accountability to buttress his boss' subpar C.V. Dubbed "a data mining administrator" by The New York Times, he was introduced to the locals with the menacing headline, "New Schools No. 2 Wants More and Better Testing. Susan Ochshorn: Teaching, Learning and Assessment: Getting It Right
The construction of this Gothic style architectural masterpiece took about two centuries.
But this focus on play is nothing new, says a researcher at Sweden's University of Gothenburg.
And the broken stones of the Gothic ruin, in the freshness and rawness of their ruin, seemed to be bleeding out human aspiration, spilling it footlessly upon the dead earth. The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
Gothic romance: "Now the co-presence of something regular, something to which the mind has been accustomed in various moods and in a less excited state, cannot but have great efficacy in tempering and restraining the passion by an intertexture of ordinary feeling, and of feeling not strictly and necessarily connected with the passion" (609). Gothic Visions, Romantic Acoustics
We will visit the Sforza-Castle, the magnificent gothic Cathedral and the well known La Scala opera house.
They smell of fabric softener but have perfect little Goth get-ups - angry black t-shirts, leather collars, safety pins & black lips.
In her Scurved posture, draperies gathered to one side of her body, we recognize the Gothic ivories and stone portal figures that were her ancestors.
The prized gothic building, with its intricate stonework and archways, is getting a new roof, new gutters and good-as-new parapets for £1.2 million as part of a huge restoration project.
Yet in some high schools, Straight Edgers have as much of a presence as say, the jocks or the Goth kids.
Gothaer Cervelat is a cervelat of German origin; made only of very lean pork, finely chopped and cured.
Visigothic and Vandal productions were for a certain time extolled, panegyrized, and admired in the journals, especially as they came out under the protection of a certain lady of distinction, who knew nothing at all about the subject. A Philosophical Dictionary
I know not how many hundred years old it is, but everything of Gothic origin has a faculty of conveying the idea of age; whereas classic forms seem to have nothing to do with time, and so lose the kind of impressiveness that arises from suggestions of decay and the past. Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2.
Me, I'm trying to decide if I should pack the cordovan mary janes OR the black chinese style slippers, and if I can get away with leaving behind any of: hiking boots, running shoes, Tevas, climbing shoes, goth boots (which count as athletic footwear ... * g*) ... NEED MOAR SHOEz.
The late Gothic builders of the Sainte-Chapelle removed the supporting function of the wall to its maximum, leaving most of the elevation to be filled with stained glass windows.
There is a picture, in my mind, of an impossibly long, steep path up a bleak peak rising Golgotha-like above a fold of green hills.
The creation of works of art involves all degrees of intention, from the hut in the wilderness rudely thrown together, whose purpose was shelter, to a Gothic cathedral, in its multitudinousness eloquent of man's worship and aspiration. The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life
A stone doorway of Gothic form and a kind of almery or safe exist in its cellars. Vanishing England
The term Gothic was first used during the later Renaissance, and as a term of contempt. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Arabian taint; Gothic pure, authoritative, unsurpassable, and unaccusable; -- its proper principles of structure being once understood and admitted. Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
Their twin USPs are, first, their cleverly constructed harmonies, which offset the affectlessness of Roxanne Clifford's voice, and, second, that they eschew the twee and embrace the gothic, be it suicide (Beachy Head), romance with the afterlife (Found Love in a Graveyard), or simply nameless dread (Bad Feeling). Veronica Falls: Veronica Falls – review
The neogothic church had been in a state of disrepair for many years. Times, Sunday Times
The southwest tower is a wonderful instance of late Gothic work.
Mystery, danger, and black magic combine in this gothic tale set in the early nineteenth century.
The justly famous building that replaced it once more illustrated Wren's genius for combining classical and Gothic themes.
In a gothic cathedral, the nave is flanked by aisles which run parallel to it.
The church is just down the road from the Gothic Glasgow Cathedral, nicknamed Saint Mungo's Cathedral because it's on the spot where the sixth-century bishop built his first church.
The tripartite division was East Germanic (Gothic and other extinct languages), West Germanic (German, Dutch, English), and North Germanic (Danish and the other Scandinavian languages.) Languagehat.com: LOWLANDS LANGUAGES.
But Gill also gives vivid accounts of the domestic life of Victoria, who had nine children at the rate of one every two years, and the German-born Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. 2009 July 01 « One-Minute Book Reviews
They feature palatial cathedrals, now totally imaginary, and evoking the grandest styles, from the Sacré-Coeur to the Kremlin, from Saint-Sophia to English gothic, Austrian or German baroque.
It's easy to dismiss Peake's visual output as indulgent gothic fantasy; and indeed his images set the tone for so many subsequent cliches of the genre: the emaciated pallor of his somnambulistic protagonists, the obsessive detailing and filigree patterning of his graphic mannerisms, the too easy reliance on grotesque distortions. This week's new exhibitions
An old brass clock, inlaid with arabesques, adorned the mantel of the ill-cut white stone chimney-piece, above which was a greenish mirror, whose edges, bevelled to show the thickness of the glass, reflected a thread of light the whole length of a gothic frame in damascened steel-work. Eug�nie Grandet
Frisic, or northern Dutch, and the Germanic, in all its recondite phases, with the ancient Gothic, and its cognates, taking in very wide accessions from the Latin, the Gallic, and other languages of southern Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846
The decor is arty and playful, with murals in the bedrooms, 'goodnight' graffiti in the corridors and grand neogothic windows. Times, Sunday Times
It is not likely that this selfish and unwarlike pedant -- a "nithing", as they probably called him -- had ever been aught but a most unwelcome necessity to the lion-hearted Ostrogoths, and for all but the families and friends of the three slain noblemen, the imprisonment and the permitted murder of his benefactress must have deepened dislike into horror. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
The couplets of invitatory and collect which occur in the Roman Good Friday service are given with verbal variations in the Gothicum; in both, however, there are other prayers of a similar type and prayers for some of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
He cast himself as an urban philosopher whose overarching theory, which he called Gothic Futurism, posited that graffiti writers were trying to liberate the mystical power of letters from the strictures of modern alphabetical standardization and had inherited this mission from medieval monks. NYT > Home Page
The triple line of fortifications constructed on the land side in the fifth century had held off attacks by Goths, Persians, Avars, Bulgars, Russians, and especially Arabs.
‘I would trace the gothic typeface of The New York Times banner head, [and] practice the copperplate script that adorns wedding invitations with felt markers and ballpoint pens,’ he recalls.
This bold feature film debut combines visual flair with a convoluted Gothic weirdness. Times, Sunday Times
Walpole's more aristocratically-detached contemplation of Gothic paraphernalia is precisely what gave rise to the unprecedented amount of Gothic romances in the Haunted Britain in the 1970s
Built in the 13th century, the chapels are contemporaneous with many of the great Gothic cathedrals.
Assembly lines at Saab's Trollh?ttan plant, north of Gothenburg, ground to a halt in April when suppliers stopped deliveries over unpaid bills.
About 35 serene green miles later, you're in Leiden, a university city girdled by canals and dominated by the gothic ostentation of its 15 th-century church.
The cultivation of flax supposes property, commerce, agriculture, and manufactures] 10 I have used, without undertaking to reconcile, the facts in Procopius, (Goth.l. ii. c. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Lincoln cathedral is one of the most perfect Gothic cathedrals in Europe, dating back officially to the eleventh century and like as not a fair way before that.
The opulence of such clergy as were close to the court expressed itself in the overripe late Gothic of the great collegiate churches at Stirling, Linlithgow, Rosslyn, and Perth.
As a futuristic, gothic thriller, however, the film is somewhat lacking.
This village church is a wonderful example of the gothic style of building.
Ivy is the obvious choice, its triffid-like tendrils quickly blanketing surfaces with dense foliage and bringing an instant gothic antiquity. Times, Sunday Times
The iconostasis of the Orthodox church effects what in Gothic architecture is accomplished by the Rood Screen, the separation of the nave from the sanctuary.
The shrieks and blasterfire prompted Pausert to go right ahead and shield Goth. The Wizard Of Karres
The most popular of cosplay themes are the Anime character and Gothic Lolita look.
On Sunday afternoons, on Jingu Bridge, at the end of Omotesando, "cosplay" (a mix of "costume" and "play") girls from the suburbs come out in their wild outfits, dressed as nurses or goths or dominatrices or Alice in Wonderland. Big in Japan: why Tokyo is top
The grade 1 listed Gothic mansion which will be home to Hirst's collection is believed to have been an inspiration for the Houses of Parliament.
Brian Garrity has been promoted to veepee of corporate communications for Sony Music Entertainment, based in Gotham. Variety.com
The turning point is a terrific number prompted by another song, " I ' ve Got A Dream " ; suddenly the screen is filled with what I can only describe as Visigoth vaudevillians. '
And, as a fact, we do not know that real musicians, _real_ Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha and Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life
In the barroom stood an enormous Italian jukebox - the only noticeable thing there apart from the brightly painted Gothic ceiling.
Meanwhile, Californians will be voting this November on a $10 billion bond issue that would help fund ahigh-speed rail line running from Sacramento to San Diegothat could travel from San Francisco to Los Angeles in two and a half hours. Amtrak Business Increases, But Can it Handle it?
The sheer extent and ambition of this book attest to a gothic turn in literary and cultural studies. The Times Literary Supplement
Either way it's a sublime cover: yellow gothic lettering above a motorcade that looks like it's emerging through the luminescent smoke from some hellish underworld.
Thus the Gothic cannot be defended as a universally valid period concept even in architec - ture, but is only applicable to ecclesiastical buildings, their decoration, and sphere of influence. CONCEPT OF GOTHIC
[S] 526 A.D. [T] 531 A.D. But at a later time [60] Theodatus, the ruler of the Goths, upon learning that Belisarius had come to Sicily, made a compact with the Germans, in which it was agreed that the Germans should have that portion of Gaul which fell to the Goths, and should receive twenty centenaria [61] of gold, and that in return they should assist the Goths in this war. Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.
Perhaps it is enough to experience this building as a piece of urban sculpture, seamlessly wrapping the street and offsetting the Gothic angularity of its surrounding churches.
The album, titled "Saturnalia," is some heavy-ass neo-gothic gospel. Boing Boing
The closing story in this collection, "Pride and Prometheus," recently published in F&SF, is a splendid exercise in Jane Austen pastiche, a younger Bennet sister meeting Victor Frankenstein and striving to reconcile his cruel Gothicism with scientific ideals. Financial independence via munchkinland
Can't help wondering what Kal-El would say about the presence of a gambling den in his fair burg - seems like something more appropriate to Gotham City.
Some subgenres, such as the Gothic and science fiction, have until now made little headway in Arabic popular culture.
Nomi's look suggested dangerous androgyny, a sexless scariness that drew directly from both glitzy drag and gloomy Gothic ideals.
The original neo-Gothic chapel fell victim to subsidence and was replaced in 1963 with a tepee-like structure covered in copper.
Breaking away from the roofline of a condemned Gothic-style church, a goat-headed being with gray wings took flight, cutting from building to building in short trips as if it wanted to remain unseen. Crossed
The ease with which the novel of sensibility blends with the Gothic and even the pornographic is readily explained: feeling is gendered female in patriarchal culture, since the mother seems to be the source of all emotion, as we see in Sade's dream. Notes, "'Mummy, possest': Sadism and Sensibility in Shelley's _Frankenstein_"
It was in the year 711 that the Moor first landed in Spain, and, setting up the Crescent against the Cross, he had in a short time established himself and almost conquered the Land that had withstood Rome at the zenith of her power; but the Visigoth was a sturdy stock and in the mountain sections he withstood the new invader and maintained himself. The Old Dominion
Roberta Brandes Gratz is an urban critic and author of "The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs.
Here was no pindling fowl that had taken the veil and lived the cloistered life; here was no wiredrawn and trained-down cross-country turkey, but a lusty giant of a bird that would have been a cassowary, probably, or an emu, if he had lived, his bosom a white mountain of lusciousness, his interior a Golconda and not a Golgotha. Cobb's Bill-of-Fare
Thus, the companion record is currently the best goth album on the market.
Both the Visigoths and the Franks, in emulation of the Old Testament, anointed their kings with holy oil.
Like Teds, Mods, Rockabillies, Punks, Ravers and Goths, gay male fetish queens do not change much over the years.
More haunting images of ruins, depeopled cities, and Gothic landscapes come from this gallery of abandoned places. Information, Culture, Policy, Education:
Marvel at the terrifying Alpine passes into Switzerland and the Gothic architecture of Germany and Belgium.
On top of the hill four sharp spires rise from the Transitional Gothic cathedral.
The Tennessean sons of a preacher man swerved past the curse of the ‘difficult’ second album to create an almighty slab of jaded gothic Southern rock.
But if you look to your Johnson, you will find, to your better satisfaction, that the name means "bird of porticos," or porches, from the Gothic "swale; Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
Beautiful gothic style church was full to witness the special and different customs performed by the church celebrant.
The Franks, Visigoths, and Burgundians all made large inroads into the western empire.
We had the usual groups; jocks, preps, Goths, emos, nerds, geeks - by the way, I would consider myself in the geek group.
The trees, which are of magnificent size, are left to grow naturally; -- the Isar, which is turned into it, flows in more than one stream with its mountain impetuosity; the lake is gracefully indented and overhung with trees, and presents ever-changing aspects of loveliness as you walk along its banks; there are open, sunny meadows, in which single giant trees or splendid groups of them stand, and walks without end winding under leafy Gothic arches. The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
Granada, in the heart of their great conquest; and it is a most beautiful church, of a mingled Saracenic plateresque Gothic, as the guide-books remind me, and extravagantly baroque as I myself found it. Familiar Spanish Travels
These arches may have been evolved for the purpose of strengthening the fabric, or for ornamental reasons, or in imitation of similar arches in the Carolingian domical churches; but whatever their source the fact remains that they form the first structural step towards the evolution of the Gothic system of construction. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
For them, skulls, gargoyles, devils, and gothic knickknacks are part of the decoration.
I know nothing which more shows the essential and inherent perfection of simplicity of thought, above that which I call the Gothic manner in writing, than this, that the first pleases all kinds of palates, and the latter only such as have formed to themselves a wrong artificial taste upon little fanciful authors and writers of epigram. Essays and Tales
Japanese pattern, and while the ivy that covered the Gothic ceiling trailed long tendrils of the palest and most delicate green, each leaf glossed as if it had been varnished, this unheroic-hero, this pantheistic-devotee, this heathenized-Christian, this half-happy-go-lucky æthestic Bohemian, lay upon his pillow, the incarnation of absolute repose. In the Footprints of the Padres
They realised the necessity of compelling barbarians and provincials alike to respect the elementary rights of person and property; Theodoric the Ostrogoth and Gundobad the Burgundian were the authors of new criminal codes, in the one case mainly, in the other partially, derived from Roman jurisprudence. Medieval Europe
The carving of this late-gothic International Style is especially noteworthy for figures that often appear to have no feet and are supported by their elaborate drapery — here especially beautifully carved. Beautiful Mourning
Adult shells of both C. syringothyriformis and species of Regelia are large with alate cardinal extremities and large nearly catacline ventral interareas.
The young Karl Marx criticised the utopian egalitarianism of the German socialists' Gotha programme by saying that socialists had to accept that good workers would expect the appropriate rewards, but would also expect the problem of shirkers and poor workers to be addressed. Teachers, stop being so defensive. It's time to embrace the no-excuses culture | Will Hutton
The rectory was a fine old house, crowned by a belvedere, with Carpenter's Gothic trim and long French windows, a house that captured and stored the available light. Incubus
The local gothic mansion, Bled Castle, is situated on a cliff overlooking the lake and dominates the landscape.
Following extant written sources, this process has been seen in relation to the quartering of troops that occurred during the war between the Byzantines and the Goths, or simply as the result of occupation by squatters.
This collection of essays explores the relationship between Romantic Gothicism and the rise of the visual technologies centred on commercial exploitation of the magic lantern. About This Volume
They also don't much live in gothic castles and haunted houses. Times, Sunday Times
They visited many places of interest during their stay including the magnificent St Colman's Cathedral in Cobh which is constructed in a French Gothic style and has a carillon of 47 bells, one of the largest in these islands.
This is perhaps because the later accretions are somewhat dwarfed amid the towering Gothic architecture.
How defeatist does the imitation - Gothic interior appear, once this has been realized.
The gothic also mystifies the social system in other ways, most notably through a type of transference.
Gothic style, whether in literature, architecture or fashion, tends to polarise opinion. Times, Sunday Times
Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, and rococo facades combine to create majestic results.
Mystery, danger, and black magic combine in this gothic tale set in the early nineteenth century.
The southern end of Bombay is a playground for ideas in Gothic decoration that make St Pancras look like the work of Mies van der Rohe. Bombs, slums, and brightly-coloured balloons « Squares of Wheat
He's here with the results of a special investigation into the world of goths, witches, and wiccans.
Some purport to function as collections for the Frankish and Visigothic kingdoms, like the Vetus Gallica of c.700 or the Hispana, c.700, respectively.
On either side of the large doors is a gallery of Gothic arches facing west.
But a full goth loli in Japan will cost about $500 to START that neck chocker is $40 for example! Sakura-Con Day 3: Sweet & Goth Loli, cross-dressing fencers & Kyudo Archery explained! (Plus bigger breasts & I win a prize!)
With her expression twisted in a scowl, Veronique instantly morphed from crude biker bitch to a goth-looking Satan worshiper. Pure Paradise
Belgium, for one, would have fallen apart long ago had it not been for the House of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha. Matthew Yglesias » Iraqi Self-Identification
What had possessed him to leave the beautiful greenness and fresh sweet air of Hilgoth?
In the 19th century Augustus Pugin, co-architect of the Houses of Parliament, declared gothic to be a morally superior style. British architecture: from Georgian to the present day
It's like a Gothic fortress pumped up on steroids, a scary building that was apparently designed with the idea of imbuing recruits with a bit of the honor code of the medieval knight. CounterPunch
Any farmers' gothic pub could improve itself immeasurably simply by throwing a white tablecloth on each table. Times, Sunday Times
This virtuoso decorative carving is a typical feature of late Gothic architecture in Bohemia.
The term Gothic used in its customary sense is quite incorrect, but is hallowed by tradition. I. The Great Hall. Book I
This has been particularly challenging in the hotel bedrooms, where it was essential to keep the fireplaces which no longer function, and the original pointed Gothic windows had to be double-glazed to keep out the noise. Gothic Renaissance in London
The church's 120 foot gothic spire was paid for by public subscription in 1939.
Hooray for Gotham, though - a perfect choice by someone who knew what they were doing.
Few writers move so effortlessly from the gothic tale to the psychological thriller to the epic family saga to the lyrical novella.
Slovenia has an unusual variety of art ranging from Gothic frescoes to contemporary sculpture.
Thus, the companion record is currently the best goth album on the market.
Settlements were offered to the Goths in Lombardy, and they advanced from the Po towards the Alps to take possession of them. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The gates of the city were thrown open, and the new emperor of the Romans, encompassed on every side by the Gothic arms, was conducted, in tumultuous procession, to the palace of Augustus and The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
When this is grayed with age it is indeed of the effect of old silver work; but the plateresque in Valladolid does not suggest fragility or triviality; its grace is perhaps rather feminine than masculine; but at the worst it is only the ultimation of the decorative genius of the Gothic. Familiar Spanish Travels
The doors of the bookcase, instead of being glazed, have brass trelliswork framed by a double row of Gothic arcading.
We are worried about neds targeting goths at Gig on the Green.
It is a classic style of Gothic buildings.
Been-there-and-back soul, an ability to separate the glib from the gothic. The Nightingales of Troy: Summary and book reviews of The Nightingales of Troy by Alice Fulton.
They found a 19th-century neo-Gothic chair, and then recreated it in plastic using an industrial method known as rotational molding, usually reserved for objects like footballs and airplane parts. Out of the Gallery and Into the Home
And Wuthering Heights shows a Gothic writing style, which stems from the Bible.
Another exercise in sublimely spooky, Gothy electro from the recent Matador signees. Singles file: Nicki Minaj, Crystal Castles, U.S. Royalty
Many-tentacled Gothams like Los Angeles and Washington stretch endlessly, crosshatched with a myriad of concrete overpasses, transit beltways and suburban shopping metroplexes.
In 1790s Gotham, most children were educated within an informal system of ‘pay schools’ presided over by independent schoolmasters and schoolmistresses.
Upstairs, besides the bedrooms, was a little chapel with some remains of Gothic carving, and a few interesting pictures of the fifteenth century; a cunningly contrived priest-hole, and a long gallery lined with dusty books, whither my lord used to repair on rainy days. Vanishing England
Eventually the Visigoths, after a brief period of fighting for the Romans in Spain, were established in south-west Gaul in 418 by the praetorian prefect.
The great "lion" of this district was the famous and extraordinary Fonthill Abbey, an amazing erection in sham Gothic, built by Wyatt, that "infamous dispoiler, misnamed architect" to the order of the eccentric author of Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
I'm a huge fan of the cybergoth, fetish, punk scene, especially the hot bright colours. Fashion World of SL
Gotham Chopra is a writer, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. Gotham Chopra: Peaks, Potties, Perspectives
A Gothic castle almost takes on the role of a central character: 'The lofty battlements, thickly enwreathed with ivy, were half demolished, and become the residence of birds of prey. Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)
One faith rises and another declines, the very scenario that prompted Augustine to write The City of God De civitate Dei after Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410. SuperCooperators
Gothic architecture has a particular look: the pointed or ogival arch, ribbed vaults, rose windows, towers, and tremendous height in the nave, supported by flying buttresses.
Each location and set is opulent, textured and rich, portraying a period feel while keeping a morbid and often gothic atmosphere.
Hence," says M. Laboulaye, "the expressions sortes Burgundiorum Gothorum and klhroi Ouandigwn; hence the German words allod, allodium, and loos, lot, which are used in all modern languages to designate the gifts of chance. What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.
It was now that I began to realize that those whom I had been great friends with during elementary were slowly dropping from my side, joining new confidents like the skaters or the Goths.
Decked with Gothic windows, Renaissance loggias and Baroque stairways, the city's public spaces emulate the comfortable stride and swagger of Shakespeare's stage Italy.
The walk up the ramp from Waverley Station reveals on the left the beetling houses and gothic towers of the Old Town, clinging to the sides of the Castle rock.
Absolutely sightworthy is a collection of portraits of the Polish kings titled ‘The entrance of Jadwiga’ by Wladyslaw Rossowski, a model of a late-Gothic town, and a huge panoramic painting of the city.
Particularly did it differ from the Roman vault in that, while the latter had a level crown, obtained by using semicircular lateral and transverse arches and elliptical groin arches (naturally formed by the intersection of two semicircular barrel vaults of equal radius), the "Lombard" vault was constructed with semicircular diagonals, the result being that domical form which was always retained by the Gothic builders of France because of its intrinsic beauty. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Their subjects were unremarkable: the left hand panel depicting a scene in Eden, the right, the Hill at Golgotha. SACRAMENT
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Hundreds of delicate columns of white marble, filagreed and inlaid with gold and mosaics, and with exquisite capitals, rose before me on all sides, which, with the fine tracery of the Gothic windows, formed a vista of perfect classic loveliness. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
Through the mouth of his court panegyrist he was claiming to be descended from the Emperor Claudius Gothicus.
Located in Hampstead, London, originally this spacious flat used to be a ground floor and basement for a gothic-styled grand house built for an artist way back in 1870. Luxurious Home in London’s Holland Park

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