Meanings of baroque style in English

My mum had a go then, but found Nabokov's baroque style irritatingly impenetrable.

The players had obviously recreated the baroque style and they performed with Mediterranean warmth.

In keeping with the baroque style, Stephenson's books have become longer as he has gained recognition.

The rococo period began in the late 17th century as a rebellion from the popular baroque style.

Very loud rock and roll - in baroque style - was provided by the New York Rock-and-Roll Ensemble.

Painting was sentimentalized and "moralized" under their tuition; architecture adopted the baroque style, gaudy and insincere.

It almost has the mark of a professional slaying; but professionals do not indulge in such a baroque style.

In an article about the 16th-century architect Andrea Palladio, we said his work was preceded by the lavish baroque style.

She'll direct and perform a baroque style concert with the group in the intimate setting of St Andrews on the Terrace.

Save says it campaigned in vain to protect the Futurist Cinema -an early 19th-centurybuilding in modern baroque style in central Liverpool.

The beautiful seventeenth-century cloisters, the old convent church of S. Romualdo in the baroque style of 1630, and the convent itself are delightful.

As the seat of the Maltese nobility, its streets and squares were lined with stately palaces, mostly built in a restrained baroque style.

There area few rococo churches in Italy, and perhaps more in Spain, which approach the perfection achieved by the Wurzburg cathedral in the baroque style.

The west facade (main entrance) of Milan Cathedral, built in baroque style in the 16th century, with a retro-gothic third tier added later.

Designed in the baroque style by Andreas Schlüter, it was crafted under the supervision of a Dane, Gottfried Wolfram, between 1701 and 1709.

Accessible by elevator, your bedroom is decorated in Gothic Baroque style.