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  • The Baroque style was intended to impress those who saw it.
    baroque = elaborate and ornate decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
  • I've based them on some exclusive pieces from the Baroque period.†  (source)
    Baroque = elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art, architecture, and music that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
  • i don't think they even know i traded my baroque violin for an eight-string hardanger fiddle two years ago.†  (source)
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  • It's quite a sight: like the women, these men — smooth-skinned, well-muscled — look like statues, and grouped like this they resemble an entire Baroque fountain.†  (source)
    Baroque = elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art, architecture, and music that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
  • Polishing Grand Baroque with all its loops and curls is a two-arm job.†  (source)
  • Half of the sculpting done in Renaissance and Baroque Rome was for the funeraries.†  (source)
  • The harpsichord plucks along, the violins make big baroque flourishes—the low, angled space of the attic brims with sound.†  (source)
  • "All right then," she said, in what I thought of as her Mary Poppins voice, "but just till I catch my breath," and we started down toward the crosswalk at Seventy-Ninth Street: past topiaries in baroque planters, ponderous doors laced with ironwork.†  (source)
  • Wealthy families like ours always have elaborate funerals—Metias's takes place inside a building with soaring baroque archways and stained-glass windows.†  (source)
  • And the next great epoch in the history of mankind is the Baroque.†  (source)
  • Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.†  (source)
  • Six Chronos Keep jutted from the easternmost rim of the great Bridle Range: a grim, baroque heap of sweating stones with three hundred rooms and halls, a maze of lightless corridors leading to deep halls, towers, turrets, balconies overlooking the northern moors, airshafts rising half a kilometer to light and rumored to drop to the world's labyrinth itself, parapets scoured by cold winds from the peaks above, stairways— inside and out-carved from the mountain stone and leading nowhere, stained-glass windows a hundred meters tall set to catch the first rays of solstice sun or the moon on midwinter night, paneless windows the size of a man's fist looking out on nothing in particular, an endles†  (source)
  • In this replacement Earth we're building they've given me Africa to do and of course I'm doing it with all fjords again because I happen to like them, and I'm old-fashioned enough to think that they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent.†  (source)
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