How To Use Grot In A Sentence

This beautiful stone built agrotourism hotel is situated 47 kms north west of Limasol at the village of Lemithou, at an altitude of 1200 metres above sea level. TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
In a little water in front of the grotto is the lotus-flower, a regular Indian plant; while in the shade of some of the petrified wood are several beautiful English ferns. Three Months in the Soudan
He was a grotesquely inappropriate choice of speaker.
The Australian Alps are also known for the annual migration of Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) which aestivate in the mountains each summer. Australian Alps montane grasslands
Here and there a mother turned her head to call back anxiously for the bleating lambkin lost behind the white curtain; and, dim and grotesque, the awkward strayling would come gamboling into sight. Virginia: the Old Dominion

The point of reading Kafka's fiction is not, it seems to me, to arrive at a conclusion that the world we live in is absurd, or frightening, or grotesque, but that the world Kafka has created is self-sustaining and entirely logical. Translated Texts
I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
Masked, they were dynamic, varied, and hilarious, so that their masks actually seemed to become their faces, despite their grotesqueness; unmasked, they were slow, hesitant, and awkward, as if ashamed of the material.
It is actually something of a challenge to locate sentences in The Structure of Evolutionary Theory that are not unwieldy, ridiculously self-referential, and grotesquely polysyllabic.
The role of veterinarians as first responders to outbreaks of animal disease is central to national efforts to defend against agroterrorism.
Hats bowl away, coats fly open, skirts cling, umbrellas flype themselves: and their owners, grotesquely running, grabbing, snatching, struggling, are consumed with rueful and involuntary mirth. Try Anything Twice
It looked like it was going to be grotty, but as I was on the tube the clouds all seemed to disappear and by the time I came back above ground at Tottenham Court Road station the sky was a beautiful clear blue and the sun was shining brightly.
Ironically, despite a global reversal in the world's financial fortunes, the ultrarich continue to grow (grotesquely) richer. Times, Sunday Times
I was offered to stay for as long as I wished, as I wanted to see how agrotourism works on the island, however I could not accept her offer this time. TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
Will their taxes repave our pot-holed roads or halt the spread of suburban shanties caused by a grotesque housing shortage? The Sun
And I was really embarrassed about how grotesque it looked. The Sun
Fish is a close second in this roster of edible grotesquerie.
This period ushered in the flowering of so-called grotesque ornamentation, where erotic hybrids abounded in uninhibited decorative fantasies.
He has created a soft-spoken and gentle Barrie who is the boy who never grew up, yet never seems grotesque.
The eyes were open—grotesquely oversize in his emaciated face, and bright yellow, the pupils as small as pinpricks—from which dribbled ocherous tears the consistency of curd. The Curse of the Wendigo
He began to run about in front of her, to turn, to perform grotesque dance movements that were not without some grace.
Populated by grotesques and caricatures it was a love/hate letter for an England fading into sepia.
This kind of grotesque stupidity gives foreign aid a bad name. The Sun
By the 1670's, most English silver was being heavily embossed and chased with flowers and foliage, fluting and gadroons, grotesques closely following the Continental pattern books.
Tracing the growth of the border is a pleasant pastime, a game of history in which amorini, grotesques and nymphs are the personages, and garlands of flowers their perpetual accessories, but first comes the time when there were no borders, the Middle Ages. The Tapestry Book
After passing the huge sitting Golden Buddha of Wat Tubborn and later the cowboy-themed Chok Chai Farm, a center of agrotourism, we turn onto Phansuk-Kudkla Road. Shifting Gears
Today we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement.
Similarly, the emphasis on waiting times for day surgery leads to a grotesque distortion of priorities.
For, although the said Giovanni and others have carried them to absolute perfection, it is none the less true that the chief praise is due to Morto, who was the first to bring them to light and to devote his whole attention to paintings of that kind, which are called grotesques because they were found for the most part in the grottoes of the ruins of Rome; besides which, every man knows that it is easy to make additions to anything once it has been discovered. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto
The outside world shrank down to the space of the secluded grotto, the powerful, stern-faced man in front of her, the measureless depths of his stare. Earl of Durkness
He will buried in the tomb left vacant after the remains of Pope John XXIII were exhumed from the cramped grotto under St. Peter's Basilica in 2001 and moved to the main floor following his beatification. USATODAY.com - Bells, white smoke to announce new pope
My sense of proportion left me; my judgment took on the grotesque exaggerations of a cruel cartoon.
The Stuarts preferred the watery art of grottoes and fountains and canals, of elaborate parterres and radiating avenues - vividly shown in bird's eye views of Knyp, Knyff and Badeslade.
Further, Mr. Grote supposes, not that (Greek) means ‘revolving,’ or that this is the sense in which Aristotle understood the word, but that the rotation of the earth is necessarily implied in its adherence to the cosmical axis. Timaeus
Take, for instance, 'The North Will Rise Again' from the new 'Grotesque' album, a song widely misconstrued as just another provincialist rant: New Musical Express
At 11 am there will be a May procession to bless the new grotto to Our Lady in the garden in Spring Gardens.
Zion thus calls her kinsmen (Ro 11: 14) slain throughout the country or carried captives to Babylon [Grotius]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Hansen spent his summers exploring the grottoes and caves along the coastline, surfing its waves, and playing in the forests on San Simeon Point.
It's jutting out from the corner of the roof, so it could conceivably be a gargoyle proper or a grotesque.
He occasionally invents grotesquely exaggerated success stories in a self-mocking parody of his frustrated bourgeois ambitions.
The small, intimate restaurant glowed with the lit gas lanterns; the shamisen player played a beautifully grotesque arrangement of the centuries old song that probably had no end.
Similarly, the emphasis on waiting times for day surgery leads to a grotesque distortion of priorities.
This one is without arms, that one has had his shoulder pulled down out of shape in order that his grotesqueries may excite laughter…
His apparent instruction to passport control officers to wave through hordes of visitors unchecked was a grotesque dereliction of duty. The Sun
A grotesque parody Perhaps that's fine. The Sun
Immediately opposite was a grotesque figure of Satan, no doubt in canonicals also, with cloven foot and horns, belching out fire and brimstone on the terrified audience.
During the week, youngsters tried their hand at pumpkin carving and visited a haunted house grotto.
I have tremendously fond memories of the Free Trade Hall, despite its general grottiness, and its poor acoustics.
Having immersed myself in his life, it infuriates me that the man behind some of the greatest films ever made should have been reduced to this awkward, exiled and in some ways grotesque figure.
Even the tots wore their costumes and enjoyed the fun, peering through their grotesque masks, and frightening their elders.
But lest anyone though he had been rewarded too much, he's now stuck in a grotty bedsit facing years on the waiting list for a council home. The Sun
When Brenda reads to Tony from the morning papers, her disengaged chatter runs together nightmarish grotesqueries and social gossip.
He wrote a very funny piece about going on a boat from Naples to Capri, and when all the tourists went into the Blue Grotto in tiny coracles, he remained on the boat, thinking how nice it would be if they never came out again.
This year's grotto opens on the lower arcade in Canal Walk in the Brunel Centre at 11 am on Saturday.
Here Grote defined philosophers as ‘individual reasoners' who ‘dissent from the unreasoning belief which reigns authoritative in the social atmosphere around them’.
Beauty and light glowed from classic mantel and carven cornice and walls grotesquely figured, while a sleek black cat rose yawning from hearthside sleep that his master's start and shriek had disturbed. The Best Endings in Science Fiction
Sailors from a Navy reserve unit in Groton, Conn., recall the Heroes or Villains?
Despite the figurative grotesquerie, which is more nuisance than threat, it is a painting of nothing — no thing as such but atmosphere — a moody, indeterminate matter expressive of an interior mental state conjured through paint and paint alone. Ensor Unmasked
We passed through the Grand Arch, a majestic limestone-cavern entrance-way into a hidden valley, and surveyed the spectacular grotto called Devil's Coachhouse, continuing our cryptozoological pursuit.
Such arabesques are called grotesques by the ignorant. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
The one true romance has had its legs cut out from under it; we are left with the ugly, grotesque caricature of lust that drives these two to their ultimate doom.
Along the path there were fascinating details, composed of the manifold greenery which revels in damp heat, ferns, mosses, confervae, fungi, trailers, shading tiny rills which dropped down into grottoes feathery with the exquisite Trichomanes radicans, or drooped over the rustic path and hung into the river, and overhead the finely incised and almost feathery foliage of several varieties of maple admitted the light only as a green mist. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Almost all other commentary was grotesque - the work of armchair generals.
The military stands out as a particularly grotesque example of the latter.
My brother was ‘a naughty boy’ and dabbled with drugs, nothing grotesquely bad, just uppers and downers, but we think one day he got carried away and accidentally took too many of one sort or the other.
And why should we live in boring, utilitarian spaces when we could live in grottoes and crooked caverns?
The ill-considered and grotesque roadway has been a scar on the wonderful upland environment since a former owner of the estate thought he could create a ski development up on the roof of Scotland.
In Ford County, Kan., law enforcement, veterinarians and others have launched a neighborhood watch-style program to mitigate the threat of agroterrorism.
At length these streets becoming more straggling yet, dwindled and dwindled away, until there were only small garden patches bordering the road, with many a summer house innocent of paint and built of old timber or some fragments of a boat, green as the tough cabbage – stalks that grew about it, and grottoed at the seams with toad – stools and tight – sticking snails. The Old Curiosity Shop
THE grotesque images of last week's riots will haunt us for many years to come. The Sun
It's pretty oblique, and free of some of the grotesqueries that characterize almost everything else he's done.
In the painting the revolution's populist crowd is transformed by the painter into a common herd, a mob of grotesqueries, to be manipulated by the speaker to do his bidding.
The seats in each row are only about four centimeters higher than the seats in front of them, so that my experience of M. Ward's performance is profoundly hampered by the wispy, frizzled locks of the enormous, grotesque head in front of me.
Deum rogat, non pro salute mariti, filii, cognati vota suscipit, sed pro reditu moechi si abest, pro valetudine lenonis si aegrotet. Anatomy of Melancholy
There is something grotesque about a civilised society failing to give people clean enough air. Times, Sunday Times
I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
And equally, some other aspects will, subject to a realistic judgment, find their home in a grottier percentile. Times, Sunday Times
I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
As for the judgment of our own divines, _Calviniani_, saith Balduine, (440) _morem illum quo eucharastia ad aegrotos tanquam viaticum defertur improbant, eamque non nisi in coetibus publicis usurpendam censent_. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
I, Darrell Standing, was the linking personality that connected all bizarreness and grotesqueness. Chapter 6
The theoretic innovations of this thesis include the advance of the conception of grotesque merry-andrew and the analysis about it's functions and it's aesthetic contributions.
Lena's heavy face drew into anxious, grotesque wrinkles at this kind of talk, and he visited the uplying pasture more and more frequently. Hillsboro People
In the drawings each muscle is significantly over-developed and, at times, grotesquely out of proportion.
MPs attack £5bn government bill for 'grotty' new housing Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk
During the fuss over the grotesque abuse of women on Twitter, one thing caught my eye. Times, Sunday Times
They line up for hours to pray at the grotto, drink the water, light candles and take photographs.
The garden also features a gazebo, garden seats and grottoes.
David Mitchell: 'I should probably be thinking seriously now about not living in a grotty flat on my own' Peep Show's David Mitchell joins Charlie Brooker to grill politicians in new live show
And no wonder - his once notorious bachelor pad is now apparently rather grotty. The Sun
The grotto will be restored to its original form and repairs will be carried out on the walls surrounding the demesne.
His career and his personal life were a grotesque mirror image of decay. Times, Sunday Times
Her account of the incident was a grotesque distortion of the truth.
It is not the task of catallactic theory to depict in detail the calamities of panicky days and weeks and to dwell upon their sometimes grotesque aspects. _Politik
Some of his figures, especially the grotesquely curvaceous fat ladies, are descendants of the 18th-century caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson.
THE grotesque images of last week's riots will haunt us for many years to come. The Sun
There was most likely an extension towards a smaller grotto to the east - south - east.
Ice rink and grotto cost extra. The Sun
We've started many a meeting with Dwight's quote that TripAdvisor is 'the lifeblood of agrotourism,'" Ms. Petersen said. NYT > Home Page
A grandad from Trowbridge has transformed his garden into a magical grotto for children to enjoy.
And Antonio spent one portion of his life transforming a rocky hillside in Barcelona into a labyrinth of walkways, serpentine retaining walls, small ovalesque grottoes, a typography of earth and mind, a physical rendering of flamenco patterns, flying lines, and planes kerned in kinetic chthonic exclamations! The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Minimalism fiction stripped to verbal basics, shunning flourish and style, and McGurl's alternative category of miniaturism, are not so much genuine artistic movements as system grotesqueries imitating theory, creative writing's opposite ravenous beast. Anis Shivani: Can Writing Be Taught? The Systems-Theory Rationalizations Of An Insider
Probably the most famous creatures of Norwegian folklore are the trolls - large, powerful, grotesque beings.
Where but a few moments before had been men were only grotesque heaps, swiftly melting, swiftly rounding into the the semblance of the mounds that lay behind us — and already beginning to take on their gleam of ancient viridescence! The Moon Pool
But each one also has their highpoints of hysterical heinousness, a reason to celebrate groovy grotesqueries.
It's easy to dismiss Peake's visual output as indulgent gothic fantasy; and indeed his images set the tone for so many subsequent cliches of the genre: the emaciated pallor of his somnambulistic protagonists, the obsessive detailing and filigree patterning of his graphic mannerisms, the too easy reliance on grotesque distortions. This week's new exhibitions
On the contrary, it is a grotesque, undignified parody. Times, Sunday Times
John Stuart Mill remarked that Grote's History was written ‘with the precision and minuteness of one who neither desires nor expects that anything will be taken upon trust’.
US hardens line on Syria's Assad THE US says it has no interest in seeing Syria's President Bashar al-Assad survive simply to preserve regional "stability", hardening its line on what it termed a "grotesque" crackdown on dissent. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Only the purblind could believe that the Test programme has not been grotesquely over-extended.
At his suggestion we go diving in the blue grottoes offshore.
a strangely grotesque object, that, in the semi-darkness, somewhat resembled a human figure, but proved to be the tarnished uniform worn by the old officer -- coatee, helmet, sword and belts gorgeous with ornamentation, a pair of pistols with silver butts, and a small flag of faded silk and gilt stuff were grouped over a gold embroidered saddle and tarnished shabrack of Indian work. The Dark House A Knot Unravelled
Nelken, who believes preventing agroterrorism should be a high priority, even thinks that security cameras should watch over unattended crops. CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2006
This is a deranged concept leading an innocent man to do horrific tasks in grotesque detail, and it puts it all in first person. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Some skinny on the actual play of Manhunt 2
It's grotesque to expect a person of her experience to work for so little money.
The 1st-century mosaics decorated the nymphaeum, an artificial grotto with water features. Times, Sunday Times
It contains nothing fantastical, except for the mere overlarge size of the house in which the toadlike grotesques slump and commit arson or murder, and the world is more dreary, disenchanting, and mundane than our world, not less. Voice Of The Fans: What Books Have You Stopped Reading?
Usually a little grotto is prepared for the Pope's tomb.
Out in the street, he found a carnival of grotesques behind the surface of the world.
I was not her troublesome doll, then, her grotesque duty.
On a typical day when the Coliseum was playing to a full house, the place was crowded with men, women and children - yes, the Romans thought nothing wrong with exposing children to this kind of grotesquerie.
It's a truly grotesquely dreadful programme.
Hanley Black's wife, a stout-in-the-middle matron of 45, thinks "It's positively indecent" while her husband "surveyed his wife's criminal shapelessness and voluminousness of ante-diluvian, New England swimming dress with a withering, contemplative eye" and tells her in a sentence never uttered by a human before or since, "You appear as a creature shameful, under a grotesqueness of apparel striving to hide some secret awfulness. “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
She just finds another grotty flat. Times, Sunday Times
At the shrine he was hoisted onto a kneeler, where he prayed before the ivy-covered grotto.
arguments" the term venerable is used instead of mouldy, and hallowed instead of devilish; whereas there is nothing properly venerable or antique about a language which is not yet four hundred years old, and about a jumble of imbecile spellings which were grotesque in the beginning, and which grow more and more grotesque with the flight of the years. Chapters from My Autobiography
But lest anyone though he had been rewarded too much, he's now stuck in a grotty bedsit facing years on the waiting list for a council home. The Sun
The brand's Grottaminarda gold or silver metal cuff is $5, and all net proceeds go to YouthAIDS. Fashion Forward: Blanchett is bright in Armani's Black Lace makeup
Cheap and quick to build - and better than a grotty bedsit! The Sun
From a distance, the village looked like a holiday trailer park surrounded by grotesque, wind-sculptured trees.
Yet even here there's a kind of grotesque, if unintentional, humour.
Pletnev's new version does much to tame the score's incipient vulgarity without compromising its more grotesque elements.
But he stuck manfully to a number that were quite as revolutionaryfor example, aker for acre, cag for keg, grotesk for grotesque, hainous for heinous, porpess for porpoise and tung for tongueand they did not begin to disappear until the edition of 1854, issued by other hands and eleven years after his death. Chapter 8. American Spelling. 2. The Influence of Webster
Then there was the equally intriguing suggestion that what happened was simply a grotesque outgrowth of things which happen all the time in some small businesses.
With a desperation that was madness, unmindful of the pain, he hurried up the slope to the crest of the hill over which his comrade had disappeared — more grotesque and comical by far than that limping, jerking comrade. LOVE OF LIFE
His descriptions of the "felonry" -- a cutting term devised by himself, are grotesque and amusing. The History of Tasmania , Volume II
Shock and disgust remain her primary tactic; the effect is more grotesque comedy. Times, Sunday Times
Birch, alder, ash and hazel line the path, and the Grotaig Burn forms a steep-sided gorge for part of the way, the sides of which are covered with ferns and woodrush.
Intended as a site for diversions, a refuge from the rigid protocols of the royal court, the grotto was also one of the stops on her way to the guillotine. Prunings XL
Here, Mahler plays down the grotesqueries of the song so that the movement comes across as suave, with a slightly uneasy thread running through.
Booking has begun for the Northwest region all-weather Santatown and Santa Village Grotto at the Sligo Folk Park, Riverstown.
He was thirty-four, but looked much older, had a grotesquely humped back, a grey beard and droopy moustache.
Simon Donald, the co-founder of Viz - the filthy-funny comic book for lads and ladettes - has given us grotesques such as Billy No Mates and the Fat Slags.
From a distance it looked like a grotesque act of vanity. Times, Sunday Times
The hotel was well out of the centre in a slightly grotty area, and so there wasn't much to see in the immediate vicinity, but in any case I wanted to work on the act for the night.
He took an avid interest in the school play, the debating society, the Grotonian literary magazine.
It contains nothing fantastical, except for the mere overlarge size of the house in which the toadlike grotesques slump and commit arson or murder, and the world is more dreary, disenchanting, and mundane than our world, not less. Voice Of The Fans: What Books Have You Stopped Reading?
Western scholar Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes , John Locke , Rousseau expand and supplement the human rights theory from different respects.
For I have lived long enough to learn that the monstrous and outlandish figure, the _magot chinois_ whom I believed to be but a memorial of our forefathers 'mental aberration, that grotesque _potiche_, works! Notes on Life and Letters
Fred the picture of the moonraker is that the pub that was destroyed in the war over in what we called the Grotto, if so nice to see what it looked like i can only remember the shell we used to play in (even though it was banned) we used to walk across the beams that ran across the bombed floors, it was always dark and everyone said it was haunted. London SE1 community website
All these books have strange, often adolescent protagonists to whom weird and grotesque things happen almost by accident, casually disturbing their otherwise suburban lives – and also a certain sense of timelessness and placelessness (this is an America we recognise, yet it is not real, and its cities are rarely named). Daniel Clowes: 'You've got to be obsessed'
But this post-World War II system was only a grotesque parody of a gold standard.
He had become a grotesque parody of himself and the gallery at last began to avert its eyes. Times, Sunday Times
His disenchantment is wan, taking the form of desiccated sentiment, not grotesquerie.
Or was it some kind of situationist art installation designed to highlight the grottiness of the lavatory?
Above the triforium is the clerestory, which contains one light to each sub-bay, and surmounting all is the vaulting, which springs from the piers and from grotesquely carved corbels between the triforium arches. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See
Essentially, the sisters' show is a series of sketches set in a stage school which is staffed and attended by grotesques, halfwits and bubble-brained wannabes.
Black Matt and Tom Morrisey merely held on to each other and lifted their clumsy-booted feet in what seemed a grotesque, elephantine dance. Chapter 4
It's hardly a grotto at all, merely a kink in the shadowy, soot-darkened stone passageway.
After they scrambled out of the grotto, the apostles conducted Ivan round the corner of the cliff, where the vertical granite wall turned into a less steep slope covered with thick brushwood.
It is believed, too, that Arcimboldo had first-hand acquaintance with Leonardo's drawings of grotesque heads, many of which belonged to a family friend; the irregular profiles of the composite heads often have remarkable cognates in Leonardo's distorted profiles. The Proto-Surrealist
The grotesque comedy of the couvade, which proved a tragedy so often for the poor mother compelled by the custom to rise in her weakness and even neglect her new-born baby, in order to do double work and to tempt the appetite of her lord after his make-believe pangs of childbirth, was one sign that primitive consciousness found the new knowledge of double parentage very exciting. The Family and it's Members
He began to suffer from weakness and insomnia and bouts of breathlessness and his legs became grotesquely bloated with dropsy.
Grotesque ideas, but masterful ideas, masterfully shaping the child mind wherein they germinated; burrowing in clutchy roots; pressing up in strong young saplings. This Freedom
Shock and disgust remain her primary tactic; the effect is more grotesque comedy. Times, Sunday Times
Humans making voyages into deep space are likely to become grotesquely deformed, the festival was told. Times, Sunday Times
She has become a grotesque parody of her former elegant self.
The grotto is the essence of the resort, which emphasizes healing, relaxing and rejuvenation; "out of the silence emerges the sound of your life," is one of the resort taglines. Andrea R. Vaucher: Along for the Ride: Two Bunch Palms Resort & Spa
I stare at the painted q-tip in my fingers and smile at the grotesqueness of it all. Volcano
In the Renaissance garden, elemental forces of nature were represented by fountains, statuary, and artificial grottoes.
Again, the musical backing is just as thrillingly ugly and grotesque as ‘Ladies’; Kurt Weill would be proud of this jarring burlesque scene, the bilious portrait of corruption in all its glory.
Dozens of families boarded a vintage steam train and went the short distance up the track to see Santa in his grotto.
Babichev, who personifies the purblind utopianism of the Communist regime, cuts a truly grotesque figure as the votary of social planning, epitomized in his quest for the perfect mass-produced sausage.
Having first described the Stabl Antar, he says: – In another grotto I found twice over the name of the city written in hieroglyphic characters, Çi-ou-t. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
If it would be grotesque and insensitive to boom out the poems and project them through a megaphone, it would be equally inappropriate to read them too delicately and reduce them to something like a whisper.
The idea of the bully fits neatly with one of the most grotesquely enduring of all anti-American beliefs: that Americans are all dumb Yanks.
Many show the popular imagination at work, with jocular and sometimes grotesque names, names that betray attitudes -- amused, derisive, envious, sardonic, rejective. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 2
To call the worst of his conduct grotesquely offensive amounts to leniency. Times, Sunday Times
His career and his personal life were a grotesque mirror image of decay. Times, Sunday Times
They were routinely betrayed by being sold substandard produce, grot wrapped in pap.
If we are not restrained by conventions, traditions or rules we are all capable of grotesque cruelties.
It included rock gardens, grottoes, ferneries, follies, fountains, garden ornaments, bridges and even ornate ceilings. Times, Sunday Times
He's the $600 million dollar pointman, the "car czar" for the Obama Adminstraion's assault on American auto workers, which is the greenlight for the attack on the jobs and living standards of every working class American in order that the US might "recover" on their backs through austerity for the poor and grotesquely increased profits for the already wealthy. The Car Czar's plan to gut America's autoworkers
Now, whats-her-face is a cheap art exhibit of grotesquery. Media Moratorium: 3 Things I Don't Want to Hear About Anymore
In the large ensemble cast, he gives the standout performance as the endearingly needy, shambling Tommy, the most human figure in what often seems like a gallery of grotesques and cartoon caricatures.
The Landless People's Movement (LPM) lamented on Thursday what it described as a grotesque distortion of its programmes by the media, and denied it had any violent or lawless intentions. ANC Daily News Briefing
The Spanish Steps were crowded with the sellers of grotesque caricatures.
All of them, including people, are carved in the same beautiful but grotesque style, with beaks, staring eyes, outspread wings and gaping jaws.
A demonic light flashed behind the grotesque mask of amiability.
Just the flat-out most bizarre -- though grotesquery is not neccesarily out of the question. Boing Boing: January 11, 2004 - January 17, 2004 Archives
From a distance it looked like a grotesque act of vanity. Times, Sunday Times
It is a language which invites the mind to rebel against itself causing inflamed ideas grotesque postures and a theoretical approach to common body functions.
Accordingly, agrotechnical promotion is versed in the development of oppose agriculture and rural economics is crucial.
By grots and caverns shagged with horrid shades, nay, in the midst of every tremendous assailant, "might pass on with unblenched majesty," uninjured and invulnerable. Lives of the Necromancers
Other parts of Rainbow River are better known for caves and grottos.
On a higher level grow broad-leaved acanthi and wild artichokes, and thick festoons of cactus hang down from the top of the rock and shade the entrances to the grottoes. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
But while no one large asset class is currently showing signs of grotesque overvaluation, few are still at bombed-out levels.
Soon Brundle becomes more fly and less man and it all ends in grotesque tears. Archive 2008-09-01
The child opened the heavy door for him, and he looked into a poor mountain grotto, with bare stone walls. The Girl from the Marsh Croft
They were twisted, grotesque things, as if conceived by the maddest of artist, or most unremorseful of psychopaths.
It's grotesque to expect a person of her experience to work for so little money.

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