romanesque

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“I really, really felt like this was it,” O’Hara said in an interview Tuesday in his first-floor office at City Hall, a Romanesque building known for its looming clock tower.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

He was able to combine the rich ornamental vocabularies of various Classical, Romanesque, Moorish, Gothic and Renaissance styles into successful residential architecture that was grand in scale yet comfortable to live in.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2023

From the outside it’s a white-pink granite cliff with yawning windows shaped a little like the openings to caves, nestling the museum’s wonderful Romanesque Revival addition from the turn of the last century.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023

His glacier-blue eyes and Michelangelo bone structure derived their power in large part from being harnessed, like Brando’s Romanesque beauty, to something animal.

From Washington Post • Oct. 16, 2022

Most of the buildings are red brick too; some have arched doorways, a Romanesque effect, from the nineteenth century.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood