Sentence examples for gothic from inspiring English sources
The word "gothic" is correct and can be used in written English
It can be used to refer to a style of architecture, literature, or music-related to the Middle Ages and characterized by an emphasis on darkness and mystery. For example: "The gothic architecture of the old cathedral was impressive."
noun
A novel written in the Gothic style.
Here, he sets out the mix of gothic horror and downright weirdness that makes up his cultural DNA… "I have been to see Alice Cooper about 20, 30 times.
Cash then went into the realms of gothic horror when she described the unassuming Labor finance minister Penny Wong as "sitting reaping the spoils of the victory, drinking from the chalice of blood".
You pass a banqueting hall, a mayor's parlour, committee rooms and reception rooms, until you reach a tiny office in which crouches the genial figure of Sir Howard Bernstein, like a spider in a gothic web of corridors, exuding power.
The narrow Gothic eyes of Mary and Gabriel lock, in a moment of revelation and truth.
Painted around 1333, with Lippo Memmi creating a gothic structure for his panel, he does not have the other artists' Renaissance mastery of perspective and depth.
But once you have seen enough castanets and Barcelona football shirts, a left or right turn will take you into the narrow streets of the Gothic quarter.
Hear the words "Ford Madox Brown" and "Manchester" in the same sentence, and you think automatically of the Town Hall murals, that 12-part picture book of the city's history which Brown was commissioned to paint on the interior walls of Alfred Waterhouse's neo-gothic civic palace in 1878.
He cited the example of a new hotel planned for Leningradsky Prospekt, one of the main city thoroughfares, for which one design plan envisages a mock-up of one of Stalin's "Seven Sisters", the neo-gothic skyscrapers that dot Moscow.
Geddes himself is a barely disguised fanboy – check out his 1991 essay on Chinese "hopping vampires" – though, rather like the festival itself, he has graduated from cargo pants and gothic-cross earring to blazers and shirts.
So they built the mighty neo-gothic houses of parliament.
Through lack of a deliberate strategy, the pro-independence campaign stumbled across a formula that suited it perfectly: pluralism.Your correspondent finds himself walking the hilly, neo-Gothic alleys of Edinburgh wondering how this nation will vote in a little over 24 hours' time.
