gargoyle
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A host of celebrity judges have to decide whether they’re seeing an elaborate cake or Halloween decor like a jack-o-lantern, a black cat and a gargoyle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025
A former tattooist who left a woman "looking like a gargoyle" after giving her botched face fillers had been posing as a doctor at his aesthetics clinic, a BBC investigation has revealed.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025
Kimbrough also lent his voice to a gargoyle named Victor in Disney’s animated film “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
It’s a live-action cartoon with rat-a-tat guns and laughs, and gargoyle villains right out of Dick Tracy.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2020
As they approached, Danny could see the knocker was shaped like a gargoyle head.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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The architect’s mischievous side comes through in countless sketches for his famous gargoyles, which achieve “both anatomical coherence and a sense of demonic vitality.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
Renaissance and Medieval pieces, and the “quality camp” or “fantasy furniture” he favored — weird and whimsical pieces embellished with mythical creatures; chairs sprouting antlers, torcheres bedecked with gargoyles, commodes atop griffin feet.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
Dozens of sculptors have also remade and restored many of the gargoyles, religious icons and ornaments that adorned the original structure.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2023
More amusingly, among the gargoyles and grotesques that dot the various towers are one in the form of a corrupt politician and another representing Darth Vader.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
There were gargoyles on the tower, opening their cold stone mouths at him.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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