baroque

In “Deep Water,” there is so much practical attention given to the couple dealing with their young daughter and the realities of child care even as there’s a baroque murder plot happening around them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Smoke swallows civilization while sparks fall around the baroque column of the Fuente de los Luceros.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

It has a chorus that would make Celine Dion jealous, and features a baroque piano breakdown before an almighty key change in the final refrain.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

As the Cosmic Weatherman, John Mburu ably demonstrated how smoothly baroque arias for bass—regardless of their original subjects—can be repurposed as howls of despair about a modern apocalypse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

In Korean, there are no separate sounds for L and R, the sound is singular and without a baroque Spanish trill or roll.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

The Pinctada maxima are the biggest oysters in the world The pearls, once harvested, range from perfect spheres to irregular "baroques".

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2012

Most of the baroques are too irregular in shape to have any special name applying to their form.

From A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public by Frank Bertram Wade

And never minding the seed pearls, you've got quarts of baroques there.

From A Son Of The Sun by Jack London

Scattered among them were the flashing emeralds of the glaciers and the immense pallid baroques of the snow fields.

From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt

There, the baroques, the arabesques, the colourings gorgeous, are dead, at least inanimate; here, they palpitate with life.

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani