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211 examples of Gothic in a sentence

On the right, ancient Gothic, cut in the resistant material of steel by hand.
It was a battle for the Gothic Line.
The Germans were surprised, and they took the hill and broke the Gothic Line.
Collectives like Five Ton Crane come together to share skills and take on complex projects a single artist would never even attempt, from a Gothic rocket ship that appears ready to take off at any moment to a fairytale home inside a giant boot complete with shelves full of artist-made books, a blackbird pie in the oven and a climbable beanstalk.
From the prisoner strapped under a descending pendulum blade, to a raven who refuses to leave the narrator’s chamber, Poe’s macabre and innovative stories of gothic horror have left a timeless mark on literature.
The gothic label belonged to literature and film until the 1970s when a new musical scene emerged.
By the early 1980s, similar bands were consistently described as Gothic rock by the music press, and the stye's popularity brought it out of dimly lit clubs to major labels and MTV.
And today, despite occasional negative media attention and stereotypes, Gothic music and fashion continue as a strong underground phenomenon.
They've also branched into sub-genres, such as cybergoth, gothabilly, gothic metal, and even steampunk.
The history of the word gothic is embedded in thousands of years worth of countercultural movements, from invading outsiders becoming kings to towering spires replacing solid columns to artists finding beauty in darkness.
And he ornamented those buildings with metal trim and bays and Gothic turrets which really pop on the skyline.
O’Connor’s mastery of the grotesque and her explorations of the insularity and superstition of the South led her to be classified as a Southern Gothic writer.
Now, today we think of Poe in terms of gothic poems and telltale hearts and ravens.
He considered his own greatest work not to be one of his gothic tales but rather his epic prose poem "Eureka," in which he expounded his own personal view of the cosmographical nature of the universe.
Born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1890, Howard Phillips Lovecraft grew up admiring the Gothic horror stories written by Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Chambers.
The best example of this would probably be the Gothic, and the Gothic was invented after the invention of calculus, although the Gothic architects weren't really using calculus to define their forms.
But what was important is, the Gothic moment in architecture was the first time that force and motion was thought of in terms of form.
We wanted to make a kind of Gothic cathedral around the footprints of the World Trade Center site.
After exploring the underground of Paris, I decided to climb up, and I climbed a Gothic monument that's right in the middle of Paris.
This is a gothic cathedral.
(Music: "Spem In Alium" by Thomas Tallis) In a gothic cathedral, this kind of music is perfect.
It's not as big as a gothic cathedral, so he can write things that are a little bit more intricate.
Jane Austen was poking fun at the Gothic mania in her society, and much of the novel is tongue in cheek.
Also, as others have pointed out before, this novel was intended to satirize the Gothic craze prevalent in Austen's time, but it appears that this "soft horror" film was designed and meant to be taken seriously.
Over this plays a languid but mysterious Twin Peaks piano arrangement and it's all adequately moody and atmospheric in an American Gothic sort of way.
Rollin's movies are unimaginably boring, they all feature the same basic concept (lesbian vampires in various settings), the dialogs are incredibly absurd, the marvelous Gothic setting are always underused and the production values are cheaper than the price of a bus ticket.
The sad attempt to pull in a Gothic girl, an overworked business man, and 15 year old geek, and some random guy into a video game that kills you is a bad plot to begin with.
"The Vampire's Coffin" is a rather disappointing sequel, as director Fernando Méndez doesn't re-create the Gothic atmosphere of the 1957-original but puts the emphasis on comical situations and dialogs.
The performances in this thing are so over the top and melodramatic that it's almost a farce of a Jane Austen story, which is ironic since Northanger Abbey is a sort of homage/send up of the early Gothic novel.
This film has little of Austen's charm and ironically mimics the Gothic novels that Austen so wonderfully mocked.
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