Word: gothically
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...from a 200-mile jump-off line around Vitebsk to the present long reach between the Baltic and the Carpathians. The Anglo-U.S. armies could not do this on the narrow Italian peninsula. But they could do as well by an over-water leap to France, bypassing the Gothic Line and the Alps. In effect, this created a two-sectored southern front with the left flank free for unlimited movement...
Wherever it could, the Eighth Army pushed patrols out to test the forward positions of the Gothic Line. By all reasonable standards the Nazis should have been ready to pull out: the landings on the Riviera to their rear were cutting off one of their escape routes; they were reduced to twelve battered divisions...
...most celebrated Gothic monument in Christendom had survived four years of German conquest and, last week, the even greater dangers of liberation. After six German snipers had been driven from its north tower, Chartres Cathedral was found to be almost untouched...
They had covered 55 miles in 36 hours to take Le Mans. From there they had shot out more columns, reportedly to within sight of the magnificent Gothic cathedral at Chartres, only 30 miles from Paris...
...Here is your first eleventh-century church! . . . Serious and simple to excess! is it not? Young people rarely enjoy it. They prefer the Gothic. ... No doubt they are right, since they are young: but men and women who have lived long and are tired, who want rest . . . feel this repose and self-restraint as they feel nothing else. The quiet strength of these curved lines, the solid support of these heavy columns, the moderate proportions, even the modified lights, the absence of display, of effort, of self-consciousness, satisfy them as no other art does. They come back...