Example sentences for: rococo

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

  • In gentler contrast, the nearby church of Sant’Ignazio stands in an enchanting Rococo stage-set of 17th-century houses.

  • For purposes of comparison, rent the video of Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend --amid all the chatter is a brief scene of Mireille Darc emerging from a flaming wreck that, as a crash-sex icon, beats anything in Crash . And in the mostly ludicrous 1987 opera-video movie Aria is a sequence by Ken Russell, of all people, that conveys sheer rococo horror: A young woman sees herself being anointed and bedecked with jewels, but we then see that she is in an emergency ward, and that her jewels are in reality car-crash wounds.

  • The charming Rococo palace, found through a small side gate just to the left of the church steps in the town center, once belonged to the Dukes of Estói.

  • This rococo ballroom with its marble walls, dripping with gilded stucco, leads to two rooms containing a fine group of Watteau paintings.

  • Any moderately priced furniture or porcelain that claims to be Baroque or Rococo is probably a copy.


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