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  • adverb In a baroque style.

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Examples

  • Borrowing from J-Horror films like Ring (1998) and Pulse (2001) as well as ergodic works such as Danieleweski's House of Leaves (2000) it uses emails, blog posts, chat logs, press releases and transcribed interviews to tell the story of a baroquely shot 1920s snuff film that manages to escape its original medium.

    REVIEW: The Best Horror Of The Year, Volume 2 edited by Ellen Datlow 2010

  • Borromini's was surely a life lived baroquely, and his reputation was dealt with in no less a manner.

    Borromini: the first architect 2011

  • He is now in his 80s and, following a number of health scares and other late-life catastrophes, finds himself in melancholic mood, planning a capacious, personal and baroquely styled critical study of some of his own abiding influences: Shakespeare, Yeats, Whitman, Emerson and Hart Crane among them.

    The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review 2011

  • Fabtastically, baroquely, OMG I can't believe they just did that with a plain bald face terrible.

    [AKICILJ] for forty days and forty night they rode through red blood to the knee ellen_kushner 2009

  • The garment was aubergine and baroquely laced around the edges.

    Origin 2010

  • This is a dish simultaneously so utterly simple and so baroquely fusionesque that describing it as if it had "origins" is entirely ridiculous.

    Farm Box Lindy 2008

  • This is a dish simultaneously so utterly simple and so baroquely fusionesque that describing it as if it had "origins" is entirely ridiculous.

    Suppers Lindy 2008

  • This is a dish simultaneously so utterly simple and so baroquely fusionesque that describing it as if it had "origins" is entirely ridiculous.

    Collards, Deconstructed Lindy 2008

  • Four books later, Lethem has settled down a lot -- this book is only a detective story, a shrewd portrait of Brooklyn, a retold "Oliver Twist" and a story so baroquely voiced (the hero has Tourette's syndrome) that Philip Marlowe would blush.

    Books, 'Tis / Frank Mccourt 2008

  • This is a dish simultaneously so utterly simple and so baroquely fusionesque that describing it as if it had "origins" is entirely ridiculous.

    Toast: Lindy 2008

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