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That was gothically ornate, black and shiny, too pretty to be much use in close combat.

Best remembered for his gothically themed introductions and wordplay.

"These local boys and girls sure do play some gothically ethereal (or ethereally gothic?)

Rima Suqi, 30, a freelance writer, found a silver lining in what had been a Gothically dark wedding experience.

He nodded in reply as he stared at Deep Space Nine's gothically ornate alien beauty.

The catastrophe emerged from Wiener's German-born wife, Margaret, and their almost gothically weird relationship.

Was its portrait of life inside a ballet company any more accurate or truthful than the gothically gripping but utterly ludicrous movie Black Swan?

Her stout but resigned voice lingers over lyrics that are almost gothically depressing, often about ended relationships or the constitutional impossibility of having one at all.

Their stories of dysfunction, related with matter-of-fact irony, feel as gothically spooky as any page in the vampiric virgin's diary.

So does the gotcha culture of Washington journalism stride on well beyond Mr. Nixon, who energized it so Gothically.

The Night Master appears to be a demonic sorcerer bat (as such, he hates light) of some description and has a liking for "gothically" ostentatious outfits.

The top 27 stories of the landmark at 233 Broadway are to be turned into condominium apartments, including a five-level penthouse in the copper-clad, Gothically encrusted pinnacle.

To be sure, there'll be a payoff for those gothically inclined young readers who, as adults, see the sick joke at the heart of characters named Klaus and Sunny.

It was printed with a newly cut Gothic Antiqua, a small but easily readable, still gothically influenced, printing type, using sixty-six lines of forty letters in each column.

What follows is either a ghost story or a thriller depending on how you read it, as the Ayres family begins literally, and rather gothically, to be killed off or removed from Hundreds Hall.

But the building he has in mind isn't the Danzig-Neugarten Courthouse with the Special Court on the fourth floor; rather, it is the thickset Church of St. Mary, which he erects Gothically, brick by brick.

While the overall architectural style of the building is usually described as Spanish Colonial Revival the corner clock tower has been interpreted as English-Norman style architecture or as a "Gothically capped Classical clock tower".

The soundproof, if not quite leakproof, grand jury room on the third floor of the E. Barrett Prettyman courthouse has come to loom Gothically over the White House as the jurors tracked Mr. Starr's pursuit of the President.

A review by Rock Sound of their first EP, In Grandomina, described the tracks as "gothically inclined pop-rock songs" that "boast some decent hooks, with a new romantic sensibility spliced into the mix in a weirdly effective fashion."

With the enthusiastic help of Rolf Langenfass, who designed the gothically ugly sets and costumes, Mr. Prince has turned poor old "Faust" into something between "The Phantom of the Opera" and "The Night of the Living Dead."

It sounded such a humble and gothically minded Fratelli, a Fratelli drawing on the robust Italian Catholicism of his parents, a Fratelli who for the moment renounced the shining nimbus of his helmet and the authority of his side-armed waist.

If the film's gothically gloomy ambience recalls Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow," its allegorical story of an Eastern European village where Jews and Christians compete for the soul of a half-mad visionary has the vividly fanciful quality of a Yiddish folk tale.

Embedded in a gothically shadowed novel about the barren marriage between a plantation owner and his wife in antebellum Louisiana is another tale, about the power struggle between the wife and a beautiful slave woman she receives as a wedding gift and who bears a son to the husband.