Word: gothic
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Auburn hair swirled into a massive cone above her head, her strapping (5 ft. 9 in., 180 Ibs.) figure dominating the stage, she swept through Beatrice's gothic intricacies with the ease of a nanny crooning a lullaby. Her voice was round, smooth and flexible, negotiating the score's chromatic difficulties with unfailing precision. Oddly enough, before any particularly difficult passage she seemed at her most relaxed and carefree; within seconds, she would take off on a high E, then ripple back eleven notes to a mellow A. Her complete, sunny ease caused one concertgoer...
...Tabernacle as theater lasted only five months before fire consumed it in February, 1846. Not ready to admit even this as the end of the world, Ford called in Isaiah Rogers to design the present New England warehouse Gothic building. Despite its exterior, which some claim is quite handsome, the theater soon came to be known as one of the most beautiful in the country. This may be partly because the Howard was the first in the country to use cushioned theater seats. But it was also, no doubt, because of the excellent stage, first-rate acoustics, and an unobstructed...
...visiting American, life at New College seems to be a curious combination of the very primitive and very elegant. Certainly the 14th Century architecture is as uncomfortable to dwell in as it is beautiful to look at. Through the magnificent arches, behind the Gothic windows, lie dark little rooms with gloomy, yellow wallpaper. Some of them have no hot water, and where this is so, their occupants have to use a great church-like building that houses nothing but baths, rows and rows of them...
...less than a simple climber. He is an empty man, one of nature's nihilists. For every serious matter he has a tweeded pose and a hollow, echoing gibe. He even sneaks into one or another of Oxford's numerous, empty churches, but nothing happens in the gothic twilight...
Shadows on the Grass, by Isak Dinesen. This aristocratic Danish author of superior Gothic romances has fashioned a nonfictional still life, elegiac in mood, diamantine in craft, of her past as a coffee planter in Kenya...