Word: gothic
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George Burns' On the First Day of Christmas is a Gothic shocker in modern dress, complete with Freudian visions and dexadrine. Suicide and castration are legitimate, if sensational, topics, but in this case their function is more emetic than literary...
Burke replaced Chazen's remarks on Belgium with a text stressing Brussels' Gothic artifacts that Marlin wrote...
...union of technique and architectural expression reached its greatest perfection during the Gothic period, the Italian architect said. In Gothic construction, "one cannot distinguish the engineering aspect from the architectural...
...Gothic structural technique, Nervi claimed, was so perfectly suited to its ends that, using the same materials, modern engineers could not "introduce important modifications with out at the same time destroying the main anticipated result, Le., to cover stably the large central nave...
Nervi also ascribes the extraordinary aesthetic and emotional success of Gothic architecture to the "inseparable mixture of cold technique and fervid passion" which went into...