"gothic" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Even when the storytelling swerves into Gothic melodrama, the clinical detail is never less than, well, instructive.
- The book's style was innovative, combining naturalism with gothic melodrama, and broke new ground in being written from an intensely first-person female perspective.
- This novel is partly-biographical, painstakingly researched, and steeped in Victorian gothic melodrama.
- The scene-bright colors, huge shadows, flying sparks-was staggering in its impact, awesomely effective, an image from some gothic melodrama.
- All three books also share an annoying, and sometimes inadvertantly amusing, propensity for Gothic melodrama and romance-novel prose.
- To affect a plausible narrative voice for her period piece, Ms. Hill resorts to a style of Gothic melodrama that sometimes borders on parody.
- We're actually in England circa the late 1950s and the '60s, when a studio called Hammer Films was churning out cheap but ritzy-looking Gothic melodramas.
- Looking back, almost everything about Mrs Thatcher's 12 years seems touched with gothic melodrama - the political landscape was illuminated not by daylight but by periodic lightning-flashes.
- George went on to appear in Rex Ingram's Gothic melodrama Black Orchids (1917) as a character named Ali Bara.
- With disarming ease, he could fuse a comedy of manners with Gothic melodrama, blend realism with illusions, and juxtapose low humor and lofty abstractions.
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