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Baroque


Definition:

  • (a.) In bad taste; grotesque; odd.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That crowded, baroque city, with its high tally of wooden buildings, was incinerated on the night of 13 February 1944 in a man-made firestorm that destroyed 90% of the city centre.
  • (2) For Merkel, the meeting is the start of a week of whirlwind diplomacy that will see her meeting heads of state in Tallin, Prague and Warsaw before hosting first the leaders of the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, and then the presidents of Slovenia, Bulgaria and Croatia at Schloss Meseberg, a baroque castle outside Berlin.
  • (3) The first museums on history of nature were opened in early Enlightenment and had originated from baroque curio galleries at most of the European courts.
  • (4) In an unusual move seen as evidence of their good working relationship despite their differences on key issues, Merkel invited Cameron to bring his wife, Samantha, and their three children to stay at Schloss Meseberg, an elegant baroque manor set in picturesque grounds.
  • (5) He has also moved towards building up a sense of culture shock through withholding information rather than lathering on baroque descriptions.
  • (6) Professor Padre Erico Hammes of the Pontifícia Universidade of Rio Grande do Sul said Francis's direct and simple speaking style was in marked contrast to the baroque language of his two predecessors.
  • (7) 9.46pm BST 45 min: Messi skips along a baroque route down the right.
  • (8) "Bavarians live the baroque life," says Angela Schmid, head of the German housewife association's Württemberg branch.
  • (9) Just the fact of its being there at all took my breath away - a discordant modernist appendage to the gilded baroque former courthouse which is the entrance to the museum, and thus a symbolic reproach to bürgerlich Berlin itself.
  • (10) Why the bodies of the saints have remained intact is a mystery – legend has it that they have special powers – but the church's exquisite baroque façade is arguably just as magical.
  • (11) Official advice on low-fat diet and cholesterol is wrong, says health charity Read more Artichokes are still a Roman delicacy, and when it comes to diet in Renaissance and baroque Italian art, this is a clue.
  • (12) Listening to Temples' Prisms three and half decades on, to its shimmering Beach-Boys-in-66 sonics and baroque arrangement (warning: features prominent use of flutes), you might feel similarly baffled.
  • (13) Van Helmont has been qualified as a medical exponent of the baroque spirit.
  • (14) Underneath its ghoulish milieu, Penny Dreadful throbs with a big, bruised heart and a baroque web of emotional nuance.
  • (15) So it's therefore doubly fascinating to see that the artist whom Francis holds in highest esteem is Caravaggio, the Baroque gay icon and street brawler who used prostitutes and rent boys as models for his work.
  • (16) Like the jazzy nest of some mutant raver-crows, it is a curious arrival to the sleepy medieval lanes, a 90m-long torrent of orange sticks between the classical law courts and the baroque bell tower.
  • (17) Over time, however, the film world caught up with Scott’s floridly conceived baroque visuals, and it’s fair to say it has become the industry norm, in this era of superhero fantasies and effects-driven thrillers.
  • (18) The figures and speech of passion are clinically polymorphous and heterogeneous: from the baroque of the mystical ecstasy, the iconophily of religious and political ideologies, the collector's usual fetishism and the paranoiac insanity of hatred to the passions of knowing and loving.
  • (19) Germany's parliament has voted for the baroque castle that used to exist here to be rebuilt.
  • (20) He left his mark on the sensibilities of the cultural commissars from the moment of his literary debut in 1956, when, on the strength of one article published in a new magazine, Kveten, he was invited to take part in a conference held to introduce – and keep an eye on – young authors at the Writers' Union's grand country quarters in the baroque palace of Dobris.

Kapellmeister


Definition:

  • (n.) See Capellmeister.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Like an old-fashioned kapellmeister, Maxwell Davies now thought of his works in sets.

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