How To Use Grotesque In A Sentence
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He was a grotesquely inappropriate choice of speaker.
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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
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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
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I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood.
The Sun
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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.
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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.
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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
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Ironically, despite a global reversal in the world's financial fortunes, the ultrarich continue to grow (grotesquely) richer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Will their taxes repave our pot-holed roads or halt the spread of suburban shanties caused by a grotesque housing shortage?
The Sun
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And I was really embarrassed about how grotesque it looked.
The Sun
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Fish is a close second in this roster of edible grotesquerie.
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This period ushered in the flowering of so-called grotesque ornamentation, where erotic hybrids abounded in uninhibited decorative fantasies.
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He has created a soft-spoken and gentle Barrie who is the boy who never grew up, yet never seems grotesque.
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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
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He began to run about in front of her, to turn, to perform grotesque dance movements that were not without some grace.
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Populated by grotesques and caricatures it was a love/hate letter for an England fading into sepia.
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This kind of grotesque stupidity gives foreign aid a bad name.
The Sun
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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.
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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
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Today we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement.
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Similarly, the emphasis on waiting times for day surgery leads to a grotesque distortion of priorities.
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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
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My sense of proportion left me; my judgment took on the grotesque exaggerations of a cruel cartoon.
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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
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It's jutting out from the corner of the roof, so it could conceivably be a gargoyle proper or a grotesque.
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He occasionally invents grotesquely exaggerated success stories in a self-mocking parody of his frustrated bourgeois ambitions.
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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.
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Similarly, the emphasis on waiting times for day surgery leads to a grotesque distortion of priorities.
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This one is without arms, that one has had his shoulder pulled down out of shape in order that his grotesqueries may excite laughter…
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His apparent instruction to passport control officers to wave through hordes of visitors unchecked was a grotesque dereliction of duty.
The Sun
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A grotesque parody Perhaps that's fine.
The Sun
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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.
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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.
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Even the tots wore their costumes and enjoyed the fun, peering through their grotesque masks, and frightening their elders.
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When Brenda reads to Tony from the morning papers, her disengaged chatter runs together nightmarish grotesqueries and social gossip.
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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
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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
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Such arabesques are called grotesques by the ignorant.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
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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.
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Almost all other commentary was grotesque - the work of armchair generals.
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The military stands out as a particularly grotesque example of the latter.
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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.
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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.
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THE grotesque images of last week's riots will haunt us for many years to come.
The Sun
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It's pretty oblique, and free of some of the grotesqueries that characterize almost everything else he's done.
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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.
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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.
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There is something grotesque about a civilised society failing to give people clean enough air.
Times, Sunday Times
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I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood.
The Sun
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I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood.
The Sun
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I, Darrell Standing, was the linking personality that connected all bizarreness and grotesqueness.
Chapter 6
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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.
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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
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In the drawings each muscle is significantly over-developed and, at times, grotesquely out of proportion.
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During the fuss over the grotesque abuse of women on Twitter, one thing caught my eye.
Times, Sunday Times
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His career and his personal life were a grotesque mirror image of decay.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her account of the incident was a grotesque distortion of the truth.
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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
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Some of his figures, especially the grotesquely curvaceous fat ladies, are descendants of the 18th-century caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson.
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THE grotesque images of last week's riots will haunt us for many years to come.
The Sun
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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
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Probably the most famous creatures of Norwegian folklore are the trolls - large, powerful, grotesque beings.
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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
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But each one also has their highpoints of hysterical heinousness, a reason to celebrate groovy grotesqueries.
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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
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On the contrary, it is a grotesque, undignified parody.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Only the purblind could believe that the Test programme has not been grotesquely over-extended.
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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
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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
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It's grotesque to expect a person of her experience to work for so little money.
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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?
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Out in the street, he found a carnival of grotesques behind the surface of the world.
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I was not her troublesome doll, then, her grotesque duty.
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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.
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It's a truly grotesquely dreadful programme.
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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.”
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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
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From a distance, the village looked like a holiday trailer park surrounded by grotesque, wind-sculptured trees.
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Yet even here there's a kind of grotesque, if unintentional, humour.
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Pletnev's new version does much to tame the score's incipient vulgarity without compromising its more grotesque elements.
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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
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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.
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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
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His descriptions of the "felonry" -- a cutting term devised by himself, are grotesque and amusing.
The History of Tasmania , Volume II
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Shock and disgust remain her primary tactic; the effect is more grotesque comedy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here, Mahler plays down the grotesqueries of the song so that the movement comes across as suave, with a slightly uneasy thread running through.
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He was thirty-four, but looked much older, had a grotesquely humped back, a grey beard and droopy moustache.
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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.
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From a distance it looked like a grotesque act of vanity.
Times, Sunday Times
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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?
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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
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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'
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But this post-World War II system was only a grotesque parody of a gold standard.
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He had become a grotesque parody of himself and the gallery at last began to avert its eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
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His disenchantment is wan, taking the form of desiccated sentiment, not grotesquerie.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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He began to suffer from weakness and insomnia and bouts of breathlessness and his legs became grotesquely bloated with dropsy.
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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
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Shock and disgust remain her primary tactic; the effect is more grotesque comedy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Humans making voyages into deep space are likely to become grotesquely deformed, the festival was told.
Times, Sunday Times
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She has become a grotesque parody of her former elegant self.
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I stare at the painted q-tip in my fingers and smile at the grotesqueness of it all.
Volcano
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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To call the worst of his conduct grotesquely offensive amounts to leniency.
Times, Sunday Times
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His career and his personal life were a grotesque mirror image of decay.
Times, Sunday Times
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If we are not restrained by conventions, traditions or rules we are all capable of grotesque cruelties.
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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
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Now, whats-her-face is a cheap art exhibit of grotesquery.
Media Moratorium: 3 Things I Don't Want to Hear About Anymore
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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.
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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
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The Spanish Steps were crowded with the sellers of grotesque caricatures.
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All of them, including people, are carved in the same beautiful but grotesque style, with beaks, staring eyes, outspread wings and gaping jaws.
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A demonic light flashed behind the grotesque mask of amiability.
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Just the flat-out most bizarre -- though grotesquery is not neccesarily out of the question.
Boing Boing: January 11, 2004 - January 17, 2004 Archives
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From a distance it looked like a grotesque act of vanity.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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But while no one large asset class is currently showing signs of grotesque overvaluation, few are still at bombed-out levels.
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Soon Brundle becomes more fly and less man and it all ends in grotesque tears.
Archive 2008-09-01
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They were twisted, grotesque things, as if conceived by the maddest of artist, or most unremorseful of psychopaths.
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It's grotesque to expect a person of her experience to work for so little money.
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This seemed an area potentially rife with grotesqueries.
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Their remake of the 1969 John Wayne semiclassic hews faithfully to Charles Portis' laconically funny novel, adding just a few Coenesque moments of irony, disconcerting violence and grotesquerie.
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Noise is the first consideration for a successful befana, noise of any kind, shrill, gruff, high, low -- any sort of noise; and the first purchase of everyone who comes must be a tin horn, a pipe, or one of those grotesque little figures of painted earthenware, representing some characteristic type of
Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
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Servillo's performance at the centre of Paolo Sorrentino's grotesque portrait of former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti, as a kind of querulous, jug-eared gnome with homicidal instincts, was hugely entertaining and alarming.
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The former is seen in the rectilinear and symmetrical designs, including some carvings and moldings that are formed with characteristic regence strapwork, grotesques, and classical motifs from antiquity.
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Then the way went by long lines of dark windows diversified by turreted towers and porches of eccentric shapes, where old stone lions and grotesque monsters bristled outside dens of shadow and snarled at the evening gloom over the escutcheons they held in their grip.
Bleak House
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Though he's not exactly the rangiest performer in the cast, Samberg gets a lot of cred for spending his time on these things and not grotesque catchphrase delivery system.
TiFaux
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The way in which O'Connor's work embodies a particular interpretation of Catholic doctrine has always seemed to me the least interesting subject of inquiry into her fiction, and, as Anderson does correctly note, most non-scholarly readers remain unaware that it even is a subject relevant to the fiction, so fully isthat fictionotherwise focused on its depiction of its Southern mileu, grotesque characters, and perversely melodramatic events.
Signature Elements
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So the poor lame grotesque perhaps gets her Upper Second after all.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The word "Watercolour" this being Britain, it gets a "u" occupies the center of a wall in the museum's lobby, hovering over an image of a Turner landscape blown up to the point of grotesquerie.
Medium is message at Tate Britain 'Watercolour' show
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Moreover, in "Szomorú Napok" will be found some of Jókai's most original characters, notably, the ludicrous, if infinitely mischievous, political crotcheteer, "Numa Pompilius;" the drunken cantor, Michael Kordé, whose grotesque adventure in the dog-kennel is a true _Fantasiestück à la
The Day of Wrath
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Weblogs are apparently being "pinged" at random times, thus causing the list to show sites as having updated several times a day, including sadly-missed, and not-updated sites like Grotesque Anatomy.
Archive 2005-09-18
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The characters' grotesque infantilism and puerile sense of humour is an important part of what is being satirised.
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Pay was grotesquely unequal.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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His face was grotesquely contorted into a toothless smile.
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It is beyond grotesque that a group of men who could easily fit in a single golf buggy own more than the poorer half of humanity.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was shocked at what I saw, " he said. "The medial side of my leg was grotesquely streaked in purple-black from the bottom of my calf to my ankle, including the top of my foot.
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A gorgeous-looking Zeta-Jones banters with aplomb and a gallery of grotesques shine as some of the supporting characters.
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He was on a platform surrounded by grotesque men in blue gowns and caps, which marked high rank in Celtic bardship.
Faces and Places
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He mimicked the dance with camp grotesquery.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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And the two idiots, gibbering and mouthing strange noises, danced apart, grotesque, fantastic, travestying love as they themselves had been travestied by life.
Koolau the Leper
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He grew dreamy with waiting -- his thoughts seemed to melt into the softness of the day, to be part of the still air and misty sunshine, just as the triple-barned church with its grotesque tower was part ....
Joanna Godden
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‘Give momma some sugah,’ Penny cooed, pooching her lips out in an odd, grotesque manner.
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It was a grotesque image.
The Sun
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On either side of him the grotesque, clownish faces; set in the brilliant mosaic walls assumed a more menacing, protective aspect.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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Shock and disgust remain her primary tactic; the effect is more grotesque comedy.
Times, Sunday Times
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In an obvious and grotesque way, the Hillary nutcracker is insulting, demeaning, and offensive --- offensive in the sense of intending to put women on the defensive.
The doll and the nutcracker
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His clashes with Gerhard Siegel's penetrating Mime, grotesquely hunchbacked and absurd in the extremity of his fawning and malevolence, took on a broad, cartoonish humor that worked.
Of Gods And Monsters
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The characters, or rather their moulded images, are from the sketchbook, social grotesques masquerading as pillars of society.
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Now the Home Secretary must crack down on another grotesque abuse.
The Sun
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Now these grotesque, giant cybernauts shall come face to face with the steadfast resolve of this residual band.
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His career and his personal life were a grotesque mirror image of decay.
Times, Sunday Times
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No less remarkable is the decoration on an enchanting plate, which is inspired by painted grotesques from around 1500, and surrounds a bizarre mannerist figure.
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Additionally, her characters have exotic and sometimes grotesque attributes that bring to mind the Surrealist tradition.
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People who watch TV are not stupid, and they know when someone is grotesquely overpaid.
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His sword winked out, and then his armor as he gasped and clutched at his throat in a way that reminded the dwarf grotesquely of his nephew Joffrey's death.
Trial of Seven
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A grotesque parody Perhaps that's fine.
The Sun
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They emerged from these underground rooms -- "grottoes," as they called them -- to decorate Rome in a new, "grotesque" style.
Underground Rome
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It's grotesque to expect a person of her experience to work for so little money.
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Accordingly, Wolverton's illustrations, done in the same unmistakable, stippled style that characterized his grotesqueries, show off the grim, the violent, and the destructive in the Old Testament, putting the blood and guts in the spotlight.
Boing Boing
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Barrowvians, _i. e._ a grotesque kind of phantasm that frequents places where prehistoric man or beast has been interred; Planetians,
The Sorcery Club
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Though his love of grotesques seemed to amp up, perhaps I was not ready for them.
8 1/2 Criterion Blu-ray Review – Collider.com
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It was a grotesque image.
The Sun
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The countryside had no grotesqueries or mummer shows ... though it did have wells aplenty, to swallow up unwanted kittens, three-headed calves, and babes like him.
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We drew prancing starfishes; frogs in mortal combat; hydra-headed worms; stately crawfishes, standing on their tails, bearing aloft umbrellas; and grotesque fishes with gaping mouths and staring eyes.
Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction
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It was playground pettiness, grotesquely selfish folly that was not only self-destructive but bound to do serious damage to the interests of his team.
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On the dead face the handsome pair of gold pince-nez mocked death with grotesque elegance; the fine gold chain curved over the naked breast.
Whose Body?
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Fabliaux were comical and often grotesque stories in which the characters most often succeed by means of their sharp wits.
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During the fuss over the grotesque abuse of women on Twitter, one thing caught my eye.
Times, Sunday Times
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His accent is a weird mixture of Robert De Niro and Jimmy Durante, radiating guignol menace and barbaric handsomeness, especially when called upon to make an exhibition of himself as the grotesque civic celebrity he has become.
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Like jackals around a tiger kill, small flies hovered around the feasting mantis, even daring to settle on its grotesque pea-like eyes.
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The gruff, strangulated tones seemed to reflect the woman's petulant desires and suffocated potential, making her initially quite grotesque but ultimately deeply sympathetic.
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Its leader, an old grotesque-looking fellow, dressed in a priest's vestments -- doubtless a part of the plunder of the night -- and seated on a barrel on wheels, like a Silenus, from which, at their several halts, he harangued his followers, and drank to the 'downfal of the Bourbons,' soon let me into the history of the last twelve hours.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
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behind the house lay two nude figures grotesquely bald, with deliberate knife-slashes marking their bodies
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A grotesque parody Perhaps that's fine.
The Sun
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The last part explores the values and significance of the characteristic of grotesqueness of network literature from its grotesque features, that is, unofficial, legal and Utopian.
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He had become a grotesque parody of himself and the gallery at last began to avert its eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Much has been made of the occasional references to grotesque Negro facial features, but minstrel songs, particularly those written during slavery, more frequently referred to longings for beautiful slave women on the plantation.
A Renegade History of the United States
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During the fuss over the grotesque abuse of women on Twitter, one thing caught my eye.
Times, Sunday Times
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The star lot is a striking mid-18th century Irish mahogany side table. The later rectangular marble top sits above a plain gadrooned frieze, the deep shaped apron centred by a grotesque mask flanked by scrolling acanthus.
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Why make yourself look a grotesque caricature of yourself?
The Sun
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However, this work is not simple enough to just be the presentation of binary oppositions; the repetition of the work confuses the distinction between beauty and the grotesque.
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Greased up and encased in this garment, with its mittens and booties, I am like some grotesque infant!
ANTI-ICE
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This grotesque bird is specialised for taking honey from wild bees' nests and has no feathers on its head.
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Do trickledown economics work or is it simply a self-serving justification for grotesque inequality?
Times, Sunday Times
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It was only the rather comic grotesqueness seen sometimes in the face of a little child when he is what his mother calls a naughty boy, and distends his mouth and closes his eyes for a genuine howl.
Bunyip Land A Story of Adventure in New Guinea
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At least that's what I found anyway when I saw one gruesome seens (none of the scenes were close the "grotesqueness" of the Saw and Hostel movie series), but a few of them did strike a nerve for a short while anyway I must admit.
Undefined
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It is beyond grotesque that a group of men who could easily fit in a single golf buggy own more than the poorer half of humanity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every part is richly decorated with flowers, hearts, twisting vines and grotesque heads.
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His apparent instruction to passport control officers to wave through hordes of visitors unchecked was a grotesque dereliction of duty.
The Sun
