Elaborate an extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century

Usage examples of baroque.

He alluded to the baroque amatory practices of the Third-Level Illyalla people, and soothed himself, in the classical Dar-Halma tongue, with one of those rambling genealogical insults favored in the Indo-Turanian Sector of the Fourth Level.

Its face was an antique white analogue clock with spider-thin baroque hands and the hours marked off in Roman numerals.

She pursues doggedlythe rococo, the classical homophonic reaction against the Spent baroque.

Dangling from her ears were baroque pearls and, tight about her throat, a single strand of well-matched pearls that stole the heat from her flesh and glowed mellowly white-grey-cream.

Brothers and nephews and grand-uncles took to practicing together, under the baton and guidance of the reigning Munk, and over the following decades the all-male Szondi Symphonic Philharmonic, not to mention the numerous Szondi baroque ensembles, became as famous in the musical circles of central Europe as the all-female House of Szondi had become in the world of banking.

Better to succeed unnoticed at a classic than fail ignominiously at the snazzy baroque of hip-hop.

The thinko has shown him pictures of them, spectacularly decadent in size and appearance, long-snouted duckbilled monsters as big as a house and huge lumbering ceratopsians with frilly baroque bony crests and toothy things with knobby horns on their elongated skulls and others with rows of bristling spikes along their high-ridged backs.

Phlosine nor Dominique had the slightest interest in the murder of Hesione LeGros and were instead consumed with questions and gossip concerning the baroque details of the Avocet scandal.

He was sort of surprised, when she led him into her well-lit Spanish Baroque front parlor, to see that she was a Junoesque gal old enough to have a streak of silver in her black braided hair, and that she looked more Indian than full-blooded Kinipai had.

An old seedcompany calendar from Monterrey was nailed to the wall above them and in the corner stood an empty wire birdcage hung from a floorpedestal like some baroque lampstand.

Not many pearls, mostly small baroque, but we still have the deck cargo to open.

The head-ends of the tanks protruded a couple of feet from their shoulder-height plyboard cubicles, like stupidly baroque brass coffins covered with cheap decorative detail.

It was famous for its universities, its medical centers -- most Poulsen treatments were administered there for the Web citizens who could afford it -- its baroque architecture -- especially beautiful in its mountain fortress, Keep Enable -- and its industrial output.

To enjoy Vance, you have to enjoy words as sculpture on paper, reality as a baroque landscape, and sardonicism for its own elegance.

Caroline is on the verge of screaming, Talk to me, God damn it, talk or let me go--but Scottie is admiring the baroque wing of the architectural folly.