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- adjective Of or pertaining to
romance orfable ;fanciful .
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Examples
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While I admit to preferring a church by Pugin, or other cases of "revival" architecture which borrow from the baroque, gothic or romanesque as it was traditionally expressed, there are various elements in each of these churches which, I believe, are quite successful, appealing and well suited to the ceremonial life of the Church.
A Consideration of Two Very Different Directions in "Contemporary" Church Architecture 2009
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They went to Bayeux, not to see the tapestry, but to pay homage to oriental figures in the romanesque part of Bayeux cathedral.
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Most often when we see a ciborium magnum today, it comes in the context of a classical or romanesque idiom.
Possibilities for the Ciborium Magnum in Neo-Gothic Churches 2009
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“Le sentiment ‘minoritaire’ et identitaire dans la création romanesque de Myriam Anissimov.”
Myriam Anissimov. 2009
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Paris: 1973; Histoire et représentation: Le génocide dans la fiction romanesque.
Charlotte Wardi. 2009
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I like good architecture in general from classical, pre-romanesque, romanesque to this.
"He makes you see what you take for granted. And we do that in our houses. We do that in our marriages. We do that with our children." Ann Althouse 2009
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Entitled Histoire et représentation: Le génocide dans la fiction romanesque (1956), it questions the portrayal of the Shoah (with an all-too-often attendant kitschiness) by such world-renowned writers as William Styron and Heinrich Böll.
Charlotte Wardi. 2009
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“Altérité juive, altérite romanesque: Rachel (E. Foa) et Lavinia (G. Sand).”
Eug��nie Foa. 2009
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In the popular imagination, such arches point upward to heaven, but in architectural terms their benefit was to carry weight downward -- and not outward, as do the round arches of a romanesque building.
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Marvel at La Seo, the soaring cathedral of San Salvador, built between the 12th and 17th centuries and gracefully incorporating romanesque, Gothic, Mudéjar and baroque architecture.
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