baroque
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Its baroque, acoustic sounds of a pastoral countryside in ye olde England mesh disturbingly well with softly sung, darkly opaque lyrics.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 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
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
Particularly baroque screw-ups generally make it into the media, but for the most part these things don’t get screwed up.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2025
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.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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