How To Use Gothic 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.
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.

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 revelation of Niagara Falls as a place of horror dovetailed neatly with the appearance of the Gothic romance in literature.
In a gothic cathedral, the nave is flanked by aisles which run parallel to it.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
The construction of this Gothic style architectural masterpiece took about two centuries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
‘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.
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.
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 most popular of cosplay themes are the Anime character and Gothic Lolita look.
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.
In the barroom stood an enormous Italian jukebox - the only noticeable thing there apart from the brightly painted Gothic ceiling.
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
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
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_"
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 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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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)
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.
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
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
An 1879 claret jug can be seen as a pared-down variant of an 1862 gothic silver and glass flagon designed by William Butterfield.
They rebuilt the old basilica into a grand, very flamboyant Gothic edifice.
I presume you were rather surprised not to see my _consequential_ name in the papers [1] amongst the orators of our 2nd speech day, but unfortunately some wit who had formerly been at Harrow, suppressed the merits of Long [2], Farrer [3] and myself, who were always supposed to take the Lead in Harrow eloquence, and by way of a _hoax_ thought proper to insert a panegyric on those speakers who were really and truly allowed to have rather disgraced than distinguished themselves, of course for the _wit_ of the thing, the best were left out and the worst inserted, which accounts for the _Gothic omission_ of my The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1
This heresy was a compound of Priscillianism, the dualism of Manes, Oriental and Gnostic fancies, Gothic Arianism, and indigenous superstition, all fused together in what was known as Albigensianism, and which was hardly Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
On balance, however, Mulligan paints a picture of great architectural variety and reveals many hidden treasures such as octagonal boathouses, a gothic mausoleum, old lime kilns, follies and mill buildings.
There are murmurs amongst aficionados of his edgy, Gothic parables of Americana that he has gone over to The Other Side and become mainstream.
Certainly there are fangs aplenty, but gothic fans will have to look closely to see any relevance to the grandaddy of the vampire cult, Bram Stoker's iconic novel Dracula.
It was a dark, rambling, badly-lit Victorian pile, but at the time its ponderous gloominess appealed to my over-developed taste for the Gothic.
The Cathedral of Saint-Nazaire-et-Saint-Blaise is similar in quality; it consists of a Romanesque nave that is flanked by aisles and crossed by a transept in early Gothic style.
Chapter One ended with Mr. Tattoo breathing into a paper bag and Evelyn Wood-ing through his book, not just because Nunzio had walked in ... the owner of the "wronged" construction site whose neck is wider than his head ... but because some guy over in Gothic Romance happened to wink at him. The Tattooed Attorney
The sheer extent and ambition of this book attest to a gothic turn in literary and cultural studies. The Times Literary Supplement
They'll trumpet their exemplar's views when he says too much gothic severity hardens the heart, but probably don't care to publicise such statements as this.
He has added feedback, distorted organs and drones to his melodious soundscape, and his folk songs have become all the more beautiful yet disturbing in their increasingly gothic strangeness.
Go from the acoustic response of a baroque concert hall to that of a 10,000-seat arena or a gothic cathedral with the push of a button.
The Gothic cathedrals were similarly designed in that sense.
In Gothic cathedrals the light flows up to dominate the downward flow of masonry.
And I have already shown that the Gothic Drama in England, in its upspring and through its earlier stages, was entirely the work of the Christian Church, and was purely religious in its purpose, matter, and use. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
Part of the charm of the house is the mix of Gothic and Classic detail. Times, Sunday Times
Today its Gothic bell-tower, much restored in the nineteenth century, is the only substantial survivor.
Although both narrators are prone to purple passages, the texture of Singer's Gothic prose remains one of the novel's strengths.
In ecclesiastical buildings, the triforium, a windowless gallery above the main arcade, was of great importance, largely for structural reasons, in contrast to the enlarged clerestory of Gothic architecture.
The violins send you to a spooky gothic period and the guitar adds substance to the track.
The minster is a Gothic church, and almost the only one in Germany which is actually finished. Down the Rhine Young America in Germany
This influence is seen in the rapid spread of the Gothic style of architecture in northern Spain, and in the introduction of Gregorian chant.
Its 14-story height, considerably greater than that of its neighbors, echoes the brick and limestone gothic tower of the Union Theological Seminary, which stands cater-corner across the street. NYT > Home Page
Catherine's red palace, with a classical plan, white gothic detailing, large columns and ogival arcades, stretches 145 meters long. Escape From Moscow:
The Castle of Otranto" began the vogue for Gothic romance novels.
She stripped away the outer shell brick by brick, and massaged the essence of the structure, fashioning a gothic cathedral.
The first _jog_ and _shog_ are identical in meaning and derivation, and may be traced, by whosoever chooses, to the Gothic _tiuhan_, (Germ, _ziehen_,) and are therefore near of kin to our _tug_. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
Braunau in 1889 has medieval fortifications and broken Gothic arches limned with moonlight.
the Gothic Bible translation
The hunt for earlier evidence of Italian contact (as if this could somehow mitigate the massive Italian influx of the 16th century) has been abandoned in favor of a careful reappraisal of the formerly devalorized late Gothic.
By the time I graduated, gothic halls no longer intimidated me; nor did walking into an oak-panelled room full of folk in dinner jackets; nor did small talk with drunk rugby players destined for a job in their uncle's merchant bank. Crib sheet 14.09.10
St. Vitus' Cathedral's vast but delicate beauty represents the epitome of the Gothic and Neo-Gothic, with its soaring height and geometric webbed tracery on the ceiling.
Jennifer Bostock, a precocious young scientist from New York clad in a vintage velvet dress that gave her the appearance of a slightly aggrieved Gothic tragedienne, swung around from her desk. Soul
The series features all styles and periods of buildings, from country houses and gothic castles to a radar station and a water mill - dating from medieval times to the 20th century.
the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic
The long building in the city centre is surrounded by parkland, and the wondrous gothic cathedral is but a hop away. Times, Sunday Times
Cole painted this capriccio on commision for an architect famous for his Greek and Gothic Revival buildings, Ithiel Town. Capriccio in Art
A wrought-iron balustrade guides you up three flights beneath the ribbed gothic vaults where every surface is painted with heraldic devices, a star-studded firmament and red walls decorated with hundreds of hand-painted fleurs-de-lys. Gothic Renaissance in London
This church is a good example of Gothic architecture.
For observe, I have only dwelt upon the rudeness of Gothic, or any other kind of imperfectness, as admirable, where it was impossible to get design or thought without it. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
You have Grecian monuments, if anything so misplaced can be called Grecian, imbedded against and cutting into Gothic pillars; the doors shut for the greater part of the day; only a little bit of the building used: beadledom predominant; the clink of money here and there; white-wash in vigour; the singing indifferent; the sermons not indifferent but bad; and some visitors from London forming, perhaps, the most important part of the audience; in fact, the thing having become a show. Friends in Council — First Series
Krakow also has a lively nightlife centred on its array of gothic cellar bars. The Sun
In common with other early nineteenth century literature, Emily Brontë's novel contains elements of romanticism, gothic, and fantasy.
He pulled down the shutters of the four-storey neogothic building with tears in his eyes. Times, Sunday Times
There are even pictures of soaring ribbed piers and vaults in Gothic cathedrals, reminding us that of course the origins of the Gothic style must have derived from bamboo and willow construction.
This blunder must date from the second century, for 'iterum' is met with in the Old Latin as well as in the Vulgate, the Gothic, the Bohairic, and some other versions. The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels
Mystery, danger, and black magic combine in this gothic tale set in the early nineteenth century.
This is a popular, neogothic, gnarly branch of saga-telling. Times, Sunday Times
Braka's house, just off Sloane Square, is a testament to his Gothic tastes.
This is perhaps because the later accretions are somewhat dwarfed amid the towering Gothic architecture.
Their Gothic strap-work splats with quatrefoil cut-outs in the lower portion indicate their origin in Philadelphia, where this pattern was popular.
gothic novels like `Frankenstein'
The relationship between Gothic ornament and literature can be quite striking.
This design could not long escape the penetration of the Gothic king, who continued to hold a doubtful, and perhaps a treacherous, correspondence with the rival courts; who protracted, like a dissatisfied mercenary, his languid operations in Thessaly and Epirus, and who soon returned to claim the extravagant reward of his ineffectual services. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The trunks of some of the trees were three times the girth of anything in Europe, and many had enormous walls of wood sprouting from their bases like the buttresses of gothic cathedrals.
Partially held together with garter belts, Spider Lady contains an entire bicycle wheel, the spokes of which play off the crisscross skeins of nylon and string that keep the gothic piece in a kind of bondage.
Krakow also has a lively nightlife centred on its array of gothic cellar bars. The Sun
All are in the same type, the heavy-faced gothic of his second font, are rubricated by the same hand, and though two of them are undated, were all evidently printed at about the same time. Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University
The connection between ancient houses and mysteries of a shameful kind has its origin in Gothic romance.
Above the guardrail is a throne, winged and gothic looking with its clawed feet and wide, bat-wing like back with spindly, spiderlike legs framing the small figure sitting inside it.
He has also revealed notes written in the margins of Latin manuscripts by Gothic hands and then rubbed out by later owners.
Chase argued that American abundance produced "illth," a term he had borrowed from the nineteenth-century British gothicist John Ruskin, who argued that capitalist wealth produced social and mental disorders. TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog
There is a sudden flurry outside the main entrance, a Gothic porch.

How To Use Gothic In A Sentence

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