Word: gothically
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...Congress but dropped him quick when Jim's political rival exposed his affair with a dashing socialite. When Jim lost his fortune in the Depression, he salvaged what he could and settled down in the old Richardson house to live out a life of hate and Gothic horror with Caroline. Caroline went looking for an anodyne. "Find me a young gentleman roomer," she urged her cousin. "A strong young man. Please, please do that...
...devotional life-"whether it is the framing of a liturgy for corporate worship, or a set of retreat exercises, or instructions for private prayer." To the free church congregations, for whom sacramentalism or the priest's role is not central, old liturgical molds are as irrelevant as the "Gothic church, which was built to focus all upon the choir and ultimately upon the dramatic stage of the Mass table, where Christ is believed to be literally materialized and made present. But if we admit this irrelevancy, we have not yet found its equivalent...
...This Gothic tale is artificially tensed by Author Brooke with misleading clues (the point of the confrontation at the Druids' stones is never made clear) and contrived devices of suspense. The Scapegoat still has the ugly reality of a fatal disease...
...rose near the site of a Roman fort on the barbarian frontier. Three hundred years ago it looked out on the Turkish horde sweeping in from the East. During the siege of 1683, Vienna's resolute commander Count Ernst Riidiger Starhemberg climbed to the highest perch in the Gothic steeple, fired rockets of distress, at last spied the armies of Poland's Jan Sobieski and other allies marching to the city's relief. The Turks were beaten back, and the bells of St. Stephen's intoned free and joyous thanks...
...such brilliant moderns as Wright, the Saarinens, Antonin Raymond and Pietro Belluschi are "functional" in that they use the latest structural materials and techniques in such a way as to emphasize rather than conceal the way they were built. As Architect Belluschi tells prospective clients, he loves the Gothic far too much to design a cheap imitation that conceals a steel frame behind an ivied stone facade...