Word: gothically
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However much Cortazar may remind readers of Poe, Maupassant, and Camus, his cool style and gothic viewpoint make him a unique storyteller. He can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night. What is it-a burglar, beast or spectral thing? If it occurs in a Cortazar story, it is likely to be something nameless and decidedly lethal...
...master of the flawless snowscape; it is both artistically and emotionally comprehensible and satisfying. Adams' irritating crispness of vision is relieved in "Woman at Screen Door" by the device of shooting through the screen and using it to soften the subject's face. Otherwise it would be "American Gothic" all over again...
...many critics, the most exciting works were four oils and two sepia sketches of the view through his window by the German Romantic, Caspar David Friedrich, who died in 1840. Their misty vistas and eerily precise draftsmanship emphasize the mystic tie that binds Goethian romanticism to 20th century gothic surrealism...
...might hear a physics lecture surrounded by splinters of electronic music, or a description of the circumcision rites of remote African tribes described by a dry, rustling voice like the crumbling of yellowed paper." On the city's famed markets in the fall: "Rows of hare-gray, attenuated Gothic sculptures-cling to the portals of butcher shops, flanked by pheasants whose brilliant tail feathers swing and whip in the breeze...
Down the street from the Rococo, in a dimly lit basement nightclub, a shaggy combo, the Golden Boys, hammered out a lilting press release for Saint Vitus Cathedral, "Pride of all Gothic." The locale may be different, but anyone west of the Carpathians would recognize the tune as Winchester Cathedral...