(a.) Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust. of Abacus, and Capital.
(n.) The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See Goth.
(n.) A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.
(n.) The style described in Gothic, a., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(2) The first episode of the gothic drama pulled in 6.1 million viewers on Easter Monday but that number dropped to only 4.5 million for the second episode, prompting fears that the audience numbers could decline even further for Wednesday's finale.
(3) I remember putting on Gothic in 1986 as the finale of the London film festival.
(4) The commemoration began when the clock on the neo-gothic Town Hall struck 12, and a maroon was fired from the roof.
(5) When I first read her at the age of 13, I thought she was another boring Gothic drudge who got lucky.
(6) While gothic grandeur fills the windows, the walls are plastered with pop memorabilia and personal paraphernalia: tributes, affectionate caricatures; a Who poster signed by Roger Daltrey; a Queens Park Rangers banner and, relegated to the top of a bookcase, a ministerial red box from the Home Office.
(7) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
(8) In a nutshell: Sandcastle settlements Poland – Impossible Objects Gothic fantasies ... the Poland pavilion.
(9) Gothic began with exotic locales set in the distant past; one of the Victorian period's innovations was to draw this alien otherness back to Britain itself, to the here and now.
(10) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Curators: Institute of Architecture – Dorota Jedruch, Marta Karpinska, Dorota Lesniak-Rychlak, Michał Wisniewski A welcome respite from the barrage of information on display elsewhere, the Polish pavilion presents a stark marble tomb, looming in the centre of the bright white space like some gothic fantasy.
(11) Compare the credits of current gothic ITV procedural Whitechapel and Channel Five's high-concept US import Under the Dome .
(12) This discovered gothic quality within everyday life found one of its finest expressions in the American work of French-born director Jacques Tourneur , especially the brilliant Cat People (1943), Curse of the Cat People (1944) and Night of the Demon (1957).
(13) I was happily haunted for many years afterwards by the spooky gothic stairs, halls, corridors and windows I had witnessed vanishing into a kind of architectural gloaming even in the middle of a bright June day.
(14) The stories range from the subtly sinister to the outrageously gothic.
(15) Bradlee’s old chair, the conference table used in the newsroom during Watergate, the lead plate for the front page headlined “Nixon resigns” and the Gothic-lettered Washington Post sign will all be preserved.
(16) (It is surprising how little actual violence there is in the best gothic films.)
(17) The city's splendid neo-gothic town hall is to be closed for the day on Wednesday.
(18) The inter-maxillary relationship at the horizontal level was obtained by using a gothic arch recording.
(19) (The idea of the soul captivates gothic films from Dracula to The Devil Rides Out , though most tend to express that fascination through ssaults on the body, achieving carnality in sexual desire or in gore.)
(20) "At one level he was a master of the fantastic, creating astounding fashion shows that mixed design, technology and performance and on another he was a modern-day genius whose gothic aesthetic was adopted by women the world over.
Romanticism
Definition:
(n.) A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi/val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style.
Example Sentences:
(1) The work of one of the greatest writers of German Romanticism, E.T.A.
(2) To those critics who will accuse him of romanticism and nostalgia, his defiant reply is the first page of the introduction: things were better in the past, and it's not nostalgic to say so.
(3) "There's a certain romanticism to the hijackers and that's something, again, that Taruskin picks upon.
(4) Reading it again today, one is struck by its rightwing romanticism, its lack of interest in new drama, its belief that tragic heroes have to descend from a great height.
(5) All of these have become twisted in the years since the space race, but Cernan believes we can – and will – recapture that sense of romanticism.
(6) Even though there was a lot of politically committed music during the late 70s and early 80s, there was also New Romanticism, which was essentially people putting their fingers in their ears and going 'Wah-wah-wah-wah'.
(7) Eleven years of New Labour government, of moderation, pragmatism and early nights, have not quenched the party's inherent radicalism or its romanticism.
(8) He said that he felt he may have got carried away with the film's high Germanic romanticism, with the first 10 minutes devoted to a series of visually arresting, apocalyptic tableaux set against the complete Prelude to Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
(9) The tension between the church and the world, between Catholic and Protestant, between religion and Romanticism, is now resolved, for all are united against this extreme evil.
(10) The letterings trail and expire, and that sighing of the hand reflects Twombly's self-declared romanticism ("I would've liked to have been Poussin") and the overall psychophysical drift towards release and collapse that is the level on which meaning actually comes through in his art.
(11) That’s a racial slur in our nation’s capitol and a romanticized stereotype,” Houska said of the DC football team, adding that it reinforces the false idea that Native Americans all died out.
(12) And couldn't poor Brod see that in eliding Lehár's jolly and farcical operetta with Wagner's crushing toten lieder , Kafka manages in a single aside to undermine the entire airy and castellated edifice of late German romanticism?
(13) The early Hammer films offer a last gasp of British romanticism, the solid sets drenched in a soft brilliance of shadows, of greys, reds and blues; when these films stray into the far woods, it's always autumn there, never spring.
(14) Fiction blurs with reality, and there is geology and Romanticism, sightseeing and wine-tasting and much rumination on ageing and masculinity, relationships, love, fame and comedy itself.
(15) Estonia finished at sixes and sevens, which felt harsh given the romanticism of their campaign when they have proved to be one of the most enjoyable surprise teams.
(16) For 19th-century poets such as Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki, lamenting the final partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, themes of loss were mixed with the mysticism of romanticism, Catholicism and suffering to produce an allegorical vocabulary of sacrifice and resistance, as in this verse by Kazimierz Brodziński: Hail O Christ, Thou Lord of Men!
(17) That is the first untruth, for as they know, policy is, at its best, an attempt to impose a framework on an emotional mess of romanticism, reaction, self-interest, altruism and all their many subsets.
(18) He now writes symphonies, concertos, and sacred works of grandiloquent romanticism and religiosity.
(19) The tension between classicism and romanticism expresses itself in clinical problems no less than in theory.
(20) The appointment came shortly after the premiere of McGregor's ballet Chroma, a 21st-century answer to Ashton's Symphonic Variations whose minimalist design and abstract choreography resonated with a passionate, wayward romanticism.