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baroque

having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation the building...frantically baroque — William Dean Howells of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750 elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century

Baroque

the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe (= baroque) of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750

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Simple sentences

I have no trouble sight-singing baroque music.
Baroque music refers to Western music composed from 1600 to 1750.

Movie subtitles

Baroque.
Yet you know these baroque ornaments. this stucco hand, holding grapes. behind it, foliage. as though from a garden awaiting us.
Have a look at this pair of Baroque-style angels.
It is a bit old fashioned and baroque shaped.
Put that baroque masterpiece down!
A baroque commode, two armchairs.
Biedermeier or baroque?
I'm old-fashioned enough to think they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent.
Scene: A baroque fountain in a nobleman's grounds.
Baroque I'd say, wouldn't you?
Baroque but noisy.
As they leave the baroque archive, Leni feels the anguish in her heart being transformed back to her previous admiration, but this time. with the depth of a love. reborn.
This is yet another example of the late-neoclassic Baroque period.
When Baroque eventually appeared, what did they want?
Yet you recognize these baroque ornaments, this stucco hand holding a cluster of grapes.
It's Baroque Renaissance style.
The abbey was founded in 1410. the church built in a rich Baroque style. 1721-25.
Possibly the finest Baroque tower of Austria. You sound like Baedeker.
Make it nice and big and fancy, curlicues and stuff. Make it baroque.
But that troubled me baroque world and child naive and refined where Anne liked to hide.
The baroque stucco ornamentation is the work of Corbellini, a contemporary Italian master.
And, as I always say, if it's not Baroque, don't fix it.
But the German late baroque was heavily influenced by the Italians. Several of our paintings are Italian.
He was the most ingenious composer of the Baroque movement.
I always say, if it ain't Baroque, don't fix it.
He is the baroque genius, everyone agrees.
Twenty-four churches, if I'm not mistaken, including a few distinguished Baroque specimens of the late 1600s.
From now on, even the baroque arches belong to them, and the gilded salons of Don Rodrigo, and the great cathedrals.
But the style is Baroque.
Baroque. Like it?
This was my conversion to the Baroque.
You know, the Lecce baroque is unique and sophisticated. It's simple. There could be some naked columns with some huge work inside.
The Lecce baroque flourished because it's easy to work the local stone.
And then. the baroque church burned down.

News and current affairs

The baroque structure of US government has always been hostile to the effective exercise of fiscal policy.
Consider Moscow, a highly seasoned imitator (though nowhere in the league of St. Petersburg, that baroque Italianate city on the Neva, as an urban mimic).
Their absurd and baroque infatuation was as much the product of ignorance of Mao's crimes as it was the result of boredom in a prosperous society where unemployment was virtually nonexistent.
Now consider fiscal policy. The baroque structure of US government has always been hostile to the effective exercise of fiscal policy.

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