What's the difference between decorative and rococo?

Decorative


Definition:

  • (a.) Suited to decorate or embellish; adorning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
  • (2) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (3) Structural studies indicate that caveolae are decorated on their cytoplasmic surface by a unique array of filaments or strands that form striated coatings.
  • (4) The first-floor lounge is decorated in plush deep pink, with a mix of contemporary and neoclassical decor, and an antique dining table and chandelier.
  • (5) A small clinic consisting of 1 room decorated with pamphlets against AIDS, malaria, and other diseases was managed by the chief primary health care (PHC) assistant named Joseph.
  • (6) I also earned meals by decorating a wall in a local restaurant.
  • (7) CI evenly decorated the negatively charged surface of endothelial cells in the control brains, in contrast to markedly diminished iron binding capacity of endothelial cells in low pH-treated hemispheres.
  • (8) As expected, antibodies to actin decorated the microfilaments of the microvilli, giving rise to a very intense fluorescence.
  • (9) Men might not have frills and furbelows as women traditionally do, but they’ve got spurious function: knobs on their watches or extra pockets on their jackets that are just as decorative as anything women wear.” 6.
  • (10) Ornamental plants have long been used for indoor decoration.
  • (11) Richard Master is CEO and founder of MCS Industries, Inc, the leading US supplier of picture frames and decorative mirrors, with $170m in sales, 160 US employees and factories in Mexico and China.
  • (12) Microtubule depolymerization is associated with the binding of vinblastine in approximately molar stoichiometry to tubulin in microtubules with apparent low affinity, as determined by binding experiments with radiolabeled vinblastine and by the ability of vinblastine to inhibit DEAE-dextran decoration of microtubule surfaces.
  • (13) In fact, in keeping with its usual practice, the White House hasn't released any details about the menu, the decor, where dinner will be served or what Michelle Obama will wear and doesn't plan to until a few hours before Wednesday's event begins.
  • (14) He has decorated the former shop unit with a nautical theme.
  • (15) Ultra thin, even, and grainless tantalum films have been found effective in eliminating the charging artifacts caused by external fields, and the decoration artifacts caused by crystal growth as seen in gold films.
  • (16) Combined with gold-streptavidin, BHPP decorated the actin filament system at the light and electron microscopic level faithfully and with satisfactory density.
  • (17) The EPR data from [15N,2H]MTSL-S1 decorating fibers are combined with the fluorescence polarization data from the 1,5-IAEDANS-labeled fibers to map the global angular transition of the labeled cross-bridges due to nucleotide binding by an analytical method described in the accompanying paper [Burghardt, T. P., & Ajtai, K. (1992) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)].
  • (18) Many families choose to decorate the coffin, either in the days leading up to the funeral or as part of the ceremony.
  • (19) Upon examination of the immunoreaction at the ultrastructural level, the ubiquitin antiserum decorated the cytokeratin filaments as well as MB filaments.
  • (20) For primary explorers, build habitats out of cardboard with sticky tape and get them to decorate their designs.

Rococo


Definition:

  • (n.) A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The castle used to occupy the most prominent spot in Unter den Linden, opposite Berlin's neo-rococo cathedral and pleasure garden.
  • (2) Over the last three hours, I've learned about the role of The Royal Society in shaping art, and the difference between baroque and rococo architecture – baroque drew upon elements of the Renaissance, while rococo is basically what Donald Trump's bathroom looks like.
  • (3) Saddam's palace in Basra was turned into a museum, despite housing what one general called "vulgar, awful imitation rococo interiors".
  • (4) Addison's shock at receiving praise is convincing, almost as though – after five years in The Thick Of It – he'd been expecting Malcolm Tucker to belabour him with rococo abuse for being too honest.
  • (5) Rolfe's pope is as cussed, rococo and autodidactic as his author, praying in Greek, dabbling in astrology and smoking in office.
  • (6) If there’s a Brexit winner, then maybe it’s Gadheim.” Jürgen Götz, the mayor with responsibility for Gadheim, said he hoped the news would encourage more investment and tourism to the area, whichboasts one of the finest rococo gardens in Germany and a medieval pilgrimage site.
  • (7) It had, he said, ghastly gauche decoration and "vulgar, awful imitation rococo interiors".
  • (8) The theatre itself took on a feeling of rococo mockery and devilment, too hot, a snake-pit of stabbing jewellery, hair-pieces, hobbling high heels, stifling wraps and unmanageable long frocks.” Osborne on the first night of The World of Paul Slickey “Archie [Rice] leapt off the page at me and he had to be mine.” Laurence Olivier on The Entertainer “Osborne has had the big and brilliant notion of putting the whole of contemporary England on to one and the same stage.
  • (9) At the age of four I could distinguish a baroque building from a rococo one, and by the age of 13 I loved [Venedikt Erofeev's profanity-filled novella of alcoholic rumination] Moskva-Petushki and Limonov [the nationalist opposition activist known for sexually explicit writing].
  • (10) On a song called "Rococo", Butler sings of "the modern kids" who "build it up just to burn it back down" and who "seem wild but they are so tame".
  • (11) Then Mikel presents the ball to Matuidi, but the resulting rococo ramble takes France nowhere.
  • (12) Antonio Berardi did something different again: his collection, inspired by Rococo interiors and Italian sculpture, was less about trends than about the beautiful clothes that the formidable, fabulous woman who wears Berardi will want to buy.
  • (13) Having spent time with Peter Mitchell, I finished Tuesday by meeting Jennifer at the Rococo independent coffee house in the city centre.
  • (14) On the one occasion Bob Paisley’s side managed to scrape a last-minute win, in April 1982, Liverpool still suffered the indignity of conceding one of the greatest team goals of all time , Mick Channon putting his name to a move of such rococo brilliance that it made Clodoaldo, Pele and Carlos Alberto look about as elegant as the Three Stooges.
  • (15) It's the steampunk-lite fantasy of a pub; nooks, crannies, an apothecary and antlers fixed on rococo papered walls.
  • (16) Lolita is an incredibly elaborate fashion fad in Tokyo, wherein the wearer dons layers of frilly dresses, bonnets and parasols until they resemble some sort of rococo porcelain doll version of Little Bo Beep – a wonderful contrast to Kitade's bratty, punky music.