baroque

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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

This dip takes its inspiration from a more baroque, arguably campy, ancestor: the seven-layer.

From Salon

It was an opera house, and it was really there, with its baroque moldings and balconies sprawling out atop the Empire Polo Club stage at this year’s Coachella festival.

From Salon

Continuing apace, voters in November elected a political newcomer and relative moderate, Daniel Lurie, as mayor and punctuated the sentiment by gifting him a more simpatico Board of Supervisors at San Francisco’s baroque City Hall.

From Los Angeles Times

For Ryan Murphy, entertainment is a series of baroque monstrosities, human and otherwise, as seen in ‘Grotesquerie’ and his latest installment of ‘Monsters.’

From Los Angeles Times