baroque

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Mr. Venables’s music, built on baroque and folk styles and instruments, enriches and illuminates the text.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Lately, however, there are signs that the story has entered its baroque phase, as firms have to reach further and further to meet heightened expectations, and some new efforts begin to feel overwrought.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

Though he was 3,000 miles away in California, Aldous' distinctive voice filled the room, his baroque prose about “a vast ubiquitous web of beknottedness and diversity” sending Francis into fits of uncontrollable laughter.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2025

At that moment, the song explodes into a baroque rock opera, all power chords and chunky harmonies, before jumping into a double-time groove that recalls Laura Branigan's 1980s hit Gloria.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2025

I liked the shameless extravaganza: gold leaf and baroque excesses did not put me off.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood