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The production of "Faust" now at San Francisco Opera features an eloquently simple set made up of movable round-arched gray towers (by Robert Perdziola, for Chicago); a direct, ingenious, desentimentalized staging by Jose Maria Condemi, a young Argentine-born director who makes no mistakes; and a stunning performance of M phistoph

What Staging Can Do, for Good or Ill 2010

Other buildings have a more Californian feel -- unsurprising, given that they are built in the Spanish Mission style, characterized by round-arched windows and smooth, creamy walls.

Forever Art Deco 2009

The old cathedral had been a squat, broad-shouldered building with small windows like beady eyes under round-arched eyebrows.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

It was a straightforward old-fashioned facade with twin towers and three round-arched doorways.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

They entered under the round-arched portico, and came into the familiar cool, echoing gloom of all stone-built churches, smelling faintly of dust, and wax candles, and strongly and reassuringly of home, the chosen abiding-place.

The Confession of Brother Haluin Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1988

They entered under the round-arched portico, and came into the familiar cool, echoing gloom of all stone-built churches, smelling faintly of dust, and wax candles, and strongly and reassuringly of home, the chosen abiding-place.

The Confession of Brother Haluin Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1988

The burning glow of those eyes he shaded, but did not dim or conceal, beneath round-arched lids and copper lashes long and rich as a woman's.

The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

The burning glow of those eyes he shaded, but did not dim or conceal, beneath round-arched lids and copper lashes long and rich as a woman's.

The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

The transition from the round-arched to the pointed style is made still more conspicuous by an increase in the height of the arcades, which involved the discontinuance of the triforium; and the banded shafts of dark Purbeck marble clustered round the later piers also emphasize the change.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See

These were constructed in two series, one being concealed under the sloping roof over the triforium and acting in place of the earlier round-arched abutment.

Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Hubert C. Corlette