Word: gothically
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However, she says her work in college was not completely irrelevant to her current occupation. In the one composition course she took, McCaffrey wrote a Gothic tale for an assignment based on a visit to the Cape Cod summer home of one of her girlfriends who, in 1950, was also a bridesmaid at McCaffrey's wedding. Snowed in with no central heating, McCaffrey says, "I used quite a few elements of that Easter weekend in Mark of Merlin...
...thousands of workers laboring under perilous and sacrificial conditions on the high cables or underwater in the caissons, it was the greatest engineering feat of 19th century America and, with a central span of 1,595 ft., by far the longest suspension bridge in the world. Its soaring Gothic-arched towers also predicted the vertical city, whose chief element--the high, steel-framed palazzo block--had been adumbrated by Badger but reached its first maturity outside New York in the 1890s, in the buildings of Louis Sullivan and others...
...also had a deeper significance. My left index finger was "Fuschia Pastel," which would be better described as "Daddy's Girl Pink." My right thumb was a bright "Crushed Cranberry," which really means "Fornicate-With-Me Red." My right index finger was "Cabernet," a dark crimson that screamed "Pseudo-Gothic." My left middle finger was a violent dark blue called "Camaro," which stood for "Malevolence...
...discovered that, using these colors, I could actually express myself articulately, even if my range was somewhat limited. For example, combining "Malevolence" and "Daddy's Girl Pink" resulted in the color-coded equivalent of a slap. "Malevolence" and "Pseudo-Gothic" together meant "I want to use you in a satanic ritual." If I combined "Fornicate-With-Me Red" and "Daddy's Girl Pink" with a dark green shade on one of my toes that started out as "British Jaguar" but was really "Racing Green," I could say "I want to fornicate with you in the back seat of the luxury...
...WIRE) NEW HAVEN, Conn.--For the last 10 years, it has been difficult for Yale's lux to penetrate its dark gothic chambers...