How to Use the baroque in a Sentence

the baroque

noun

• Not Bach — not classical in the baroque sense, but in the romantic sense, the Byronic sense.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
• Too often the violence is itself the punchline, and the baroque ways in which it’s meted out the prime evidence that anyone put any thought into this show at all.
  — Time, 27 July 2023
• And her experimentation with the baroque and the surreal set her apart from most other Brazilian writers of her time.
  — Ana Ionova, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
• Restoration work in the 17th century in the baroque style radically changed the cathedral’s outward appearance.
  — J. Eugene Clay, The Conversation, 28 July 2022
• Performing the complete cycle takes around two hours, and doing it live probably qualifies as the Mount Olympus of the baroque violin.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
• Courtesy of Francesca Inverarity A great in-between cut, the baroque bob is a midway point for those growing out a shorter bob, or an easy way for those with longer hair to go shorter without too drastic a change.
  — Hannah Coates, Glamour, 29 Feb. 2024
• Quite who put the hit on the yakuza guy is less important than the baroque, ritualistic way Boksoon is going to off him, first giving the unarmed man a sword to defend himself with, then selecting for herself a cheap DIY store axe.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 28 Mar. 2023
• One longstanding collaboration is with the baroque ensemble, Agave.
  — Beth Woodcontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2023
• The government’s prosecution of Winner reflected all the baroque contortions and absurdities of the post-9/11 legal system.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
• Cinematographer Linus Sandgren's lens evokes the baroque darkness of Caravaggio and the rococo trappings of Gainsborough.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2023
• The limited series sets up the baroque political situation in 1600s Japan with dizzying economy and moves swiftly into what really matters: the thrilling chess matches between the principals.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
• Gone, too, are the baroque sets and atmospheric lighting of previous installments, replaced instead with retina-searing studio interiors.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2022
• The most obvious comparison with Joy is Vaughan herself — the rich lower register, the baroque melodic ornamentation, swoops up and down octaves from word to word, multi-note melisma stretching one-syllable words to infinity.
  — Jon Garelick, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024