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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.

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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.

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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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