Sample Sentences forbaroque (editor-reviewed)
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The Palace of Versailles is an excellent example of baroque architecture.baroque = elaborate architectural style popular in various parts of Western Europe between the late 16th and mid-18th centuries
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Bach is my favorite baroque composer.baroque = an elaborate musical style noted for its ornamentation; a Western European movement from about 1600 to 1750 and noted for such composers as Bach, Handel, Hayden, Vivaldi, and Pachelbel
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I enjoy artists from the baroque period like Caravaggio and Rubens.baroque = a Western European art style of about 1600-1740 known for portraying a dramatic sense of movement
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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
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I've based them on some exclusive pieces from the Baroque period.† (source)
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The light from the single source threw the baroque detailing of Montana's body into sharp relief.† (source)
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And the freaks, who had been toting the baroque dump, now fled to shadows.† (source)
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And the next great epoch in the history of mankind is the Baroque.† (source)
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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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The harpsichord plucks along, the violins make big baroque flourishes—the low, angled space of the attic brims with sound.† (source)
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"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)
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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)
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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)
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Wealthy families like ours always have elaborate funerals—Metias's takes place inside a building with soaring baroque archways and stained-glass windows.† (source)
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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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No rambling weeds here, no tattered wreaths, no jumble and confusion; nothing like the baroque efflorescences of Europe.† (source)
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