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baroque
adjective as in decorative, especially architecture
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This dip takes its inspiration from a more baroque, arguably campy, ancestor: the seven-layer.
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.
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.
For Ryan Murphy, entertainment is a series of baroque monstrosities, human and otherwise, as seen in ‘Grotesquerie’ and his latest installment of ‘Monsters.’
God knows, having worked a whole career in government, I understood their critique of its baroque and sclerotic routines.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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