I just could not buy Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo as characters from the 1950s and with so many modern filmmaking flourished from Scorsese mixed with the obvious gothicism of it all and Shutter Island felt confused and really quite boring. ❋ Glenn Dunks (2010)
For myself, it's Burton's second greatest film (behind the 1994 effort, Ed Wood); saturated withthe gothicism and dark humour which makes his work bothredolent of the 1930s Universal horror films and also - somehow - thrillingly distinctive. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Villette as examples of not simply one of the last gasps of high Victorian gothicism, but also of the internalization and critique of gothic theatrical technology. ❋ Unknown (2005)
He was a complex writer, who believed correctly that both verisimilitude and gothicism depended on intricate structures of both plot and language. ❋ Princeofcairo (2007)
Villette as examples of not simply one of last gasps of high Victorian gothicism, but also of the internalization and critique of gothic theatrical technology. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Although we got there at midday with a strong sun that detracted from the potential gothicism of the place it still has a magic to it even at high noon, baby. ❋ Ed (2004)
The _gothicism_, hinted at by Shaftesbury, appears manifestly in the wretched situation to which the best authors were reduced. ❋ Caius Cornelius Tacitus (N/A)
But the season was past: _barbarity_ and _gothicism_ were already entered into the arts, ere the savages made an impression on the empire. ❋ Caius Cornelius Tacitus (N/A)
In this relief, thronged with men and horses, the gala-life of the past survives in unexampled fulness; and March blamed himself after enjoying it for having felt in it that toy-figure quality which seems the final effect of the German gothicism in sculpture. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
Certainly, there was no trace here of sombre German gothicism and all that old - fashioned stuff; under the hands of my friend, the piece ran along the keyboard with a degree of "Greek serenity" that left me at a loss whither to turn; in my innocence I deemed myself transported to a neo-hellenic synagogue, from the musical cultus of which all old testamentary accentuations had been most elegantly eliminated. ❋ Richard Wagner (1848)
Because these stories are in the broadest sense comic-and because they portray a culture of which most educated Americans of the 50's knew little or nothing-it was inevitable that they would be misunderstood by many of their first readers, who wrongly pigeonholed their author as a purveyor of the same Southern gothicism and grotesquery that they had previously encountered in such novels as Erskine Caldwell's
The coat is classic Burton gothicism: "the exact opposite of Southern California," where he incongruously grew up.
But he does not seem to have enjoyed the theater much in Paris, a city for which he conceived at once the greatest dislike, he says, "on account of the squalor and barbarity of the buildings, the absurd and pitiful pomp of the few houses that affected to be palaces, the filthiness and gothicism of the churches, the vandalic structure of the theaters of that time, and the many and many and many disagreeable objects that all day fell under my notice, and worst of all the unspeakably misshapen and beplastered faces of those ugliest of women." ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
