Word: gothically
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...physical Yale is plunked incongruously down in the heart of a prosaic, overgrown town-a neo-Gothic citadel besieged by a grid of Main Streets. Neon signs blink into its leaded windows; drugstores, shoe stores and tailor shops challenge its ivy-covered walls. The worlds of Samuel and Howard Johnson are but a step apart...
Carson McCullers was no flash in the pan. A year later, in. 1941, came another novel, Reflections in a Golden Eye. It was an exercise in the gothic tale, Southern style, and was crammed with pathology, but the pathology was handled with restraint and taste. In 1946 she published her third novel, The Member of the Wedding, a winsome remembrance of adolescence that later became a hit Broadway show...
...near Paris. As they worked, a nun in full habit picked her way through the chaos of scaffolding, pipes and plaster, and the others turned to look at her with sharp interest. Even the Mère Abbesse showed special respect. The abbess pointed to the outline of a Gothic window above a freshly mortared chapel wall: "And there, Mère Geneviève, we shall need three large windows...
Ever since the 13th Century, when they started to build it, the people of the French city of Rouen have taken a mighty pride in their gothic cathedral. Architecturally, it is too much of a hodgepodge to rank with the cathedrals of Chartres, Amiens or Reims. But Rouen's delicately detailed Butter Tower,* fine sculptures and stained glass are among the prides of France. The largest of its great bells was named for Joan of Arc, who was brought to Rouen for imprisonment and trial, was burned in 1431 near the cathedral in Rouen's market place...
...reproduce destroyed sections as faithfully as possible, Chauvel had sent workmen to Chartres and Reims to learn what other church builders knew about medieval construction techniques. Scholars were commissioned to search out old books and manuscripts containing hints on gothic church building...