(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.
Style
Definition:
(v. t.) An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.
(v. t.) Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use.
(v. t.) A pen; an author's pen.
(v. t.) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
(v. t.) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
(v. t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects.
(v. t.) The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon.
(v. t.) The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.
(v. t.) Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression.
(v. t.) Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or accomplishing a result.
(v. t.) Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion.
(v. t.) Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated; the title; the official designation of any important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty.
(v. t.) A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
(v. t.) To entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
(2) More disturbing than his ideas was Malema's style and tone.
(3) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(4) Correlations between measures of learning style and academic performance yielded low, nonsignificant positive correlations and were found to be inadequate predictors of academic performance.
(5) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(6) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
(7) True Love Impulse Body Spray, Simple Kind to Skin Hydrating Light Moisturiser and VO5 Styling Mousse Extra Body marked double-digit price rises on average across the four chains.
(8) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
(9) Portugal's slide towards a Greek-style second bailout accelerated after its principal private lenders indicated that they were growing weary of assurances from Lisbon that it could get on top of the country's debts.
(10) ICR 12, one of a panel of rat monoclonal antibodies recognizing the external domain of the human c-erb B2 proto-oncogene product, (Styles, 1990) was chosen as a candidate for radiolabeling with 124I for positron emission tomography of selected patients with breast cancer.
(11) The video is done in the style of a news report for Russia's Kremlin-controlled Channel One channel, which normally praises Putin in every broadcast.
(12) PES scores were inversely related to reporting symptoms and unrelated to measures of response style.
(13) Group psychotherapy is a treatment modality used to assist patients in learning how they are perceived, what interactions and communication styles are effective, and which behaviors are acceptable.
(14) It was suggested that treatment outcome in a multidisciplinary pain clinic is more immediately related to patients' coping styles and their choice of pain treatment modalities than to their demographics and personalities.
(15) But similar accusations have been levelled by Anders Fogh Rasmussen , the secretary general of Nato, and by pro-shale officials in Romania and Lithuania , as cold war-style tensions have ratcheted.
(16) Trousers were cropped or rolled at the ankle, a styling trick that is emerging as a trend across the shows.
(17) While there are many potential causative factors, erroneous concepts of IOL positioning and design appear to have led to PBK with many iris-supported and anterior chamber lens styles.
(18) Valls immediately attacked Hamon as an idealist who couldn’t win the presidential election and styled himself as the voice of the serious left in government.
(19) Napthine chose not to directly criticise Tony Abbott – it’s not his style – but the coolness was clear.
(20) #WhitePrideWorldWide.” Anonymous replied in true vigilante style on Sunday, by taking control of the KKK Twitter account and replacing the logo with its own.