Example sentences for: baroque

How can you use “baroque” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Then cross the square to the church of the Ognissanti (All Saints Church), 13th-century but with a Baroque façade of 1637.

  • Can't the Post see that whereas the actual phrase used would go by virtually unnoticed, the paper's baroque translation only forces the reader to dwell on the matter?

  • The Monestir de Pedralbes in Pedralbes has a superb Gothic church with a charming two-story cloister and part of the excellent Thyssen-Bornemisza art collection, including important works from the medieval to Italian Baroque periods (the major part of which is housed in the Thyssen museum in Madrid).

  • Two pillars surviving from the Greek Temple of Apollo stand like a gateway, but the Spanish era has given it a charming 17th-century ambience of Baroque houses with iron balconies supported by floral carvings and an occasional stone nymph.

  • If a work is "about" "abandon, irrationality, and ecstatic release," but its execution displays "measure, reason, and control" --one might place any number of baroque operas in this category, for instance, or Nathaniel Hawthorne, for that matter.


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