Word: gothically
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...physical city tamed too. Gothic extravagance yielded to gracious Georgian façades; Disraeli snorted over London's architectural insipidity. The criminals, the riffraff and the poor were vital; the rest of the nation was one sallow hunk of middle-class mutton. Where berserk bulls had once been a traffic problem, "scorchers" on bicycles were called a public menace. The last gold sovereigns of England sang on the counters of World War I. Most revealing of all was the history of city lighting: after centuries of blackness, a slow, fuliginous dawn of lanterns and dim cressets, then mirrored lamps...
...excellent shot in the arm for Ivy League football. There has been an increasing tendency toward a stuffy smugness in the non-existent league, a tendency to shout down its own rain barrel persistently in an attempt to justify sloppy half-hearted football with a lace collar of gothic-tower dignity. There is the gentlemanly nonsense which leads a Harvard man to beaming play patty-cake over the fact that although the season was one big set-back, "after all, we did beat Yale." The Dartmouth
...harbor of Santander an oil tanker exploded, pitched against a dock; fire spread from the dock to the city. Fanned by the wind, the flames cut a swath across Santander, destroyed the custom house, the Bank of Spain in the heart of the city, the 13th Century Gothic cathedral and hundreds of houses. Before the fire was put out 30,000 people were homeless and an epidemic threatened...
...tale with simplicity, insight, and a rare gift of phrase. She makes its tortures seem at least as valid as the dull suburban tragedies from Farrell's or Dreiser's Midwest, commonly called lifelike. Reflections in a Golden Eye is the Southern school at its most Gothic, but also at its best. It is as though William Faulkner saw to the bottom of matters which merely excite him, shed his stylistic faults, and wrote it all out with Tolstoyan lucidity...
...past two centuries have been almost the only period in history when religion was not the principal patron of architecture. The low point in church design coincided roughly with the high point of Victorian morality, but even the recent revival has been almost entirely an eclectic re-creation of Gothic, Byzantine, or Christopher Wren inspirations. Only in the past few years, with Frank Lloyd Wright's Community Church for Kansas City, the Albert Hoffmann-designed St. Peter Claver Mission (Negro Catholic) at Montclair, N. J., the modern Catholic churches of Barry Byrne, a sprinkling of others, has the Church...