How To Use Grotesquerie In A Sentence
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Did it conquer new territory for female expression, or did it somehow incorporate the misogynistic grotesquerie it cited?
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The first-person voice is amazing--the narrator's funny and warm and entirely persuasive and completely likeable--and it's got the right kind of grotesquerie to really conjure up the memory of life as a young person.
Manstealing for Fat Girls
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These images may take some readers aback, but because today's youth have little or no conception of the grotesqueries of modern war teachers may want to consider seriously using these in the classroom.
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Must every report be concluded with such smug grotesquerie?
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They stayed away from the Wednesday's grotesquerie, with one explaining the decision thus: ‘Why should we interfere?’
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It is time to leave Ashley and Zach, along with their quiet little hometown, along with the beauty and the grotesqueries that lay hidden beneath it.
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If now, in addition to all these things, you have properly reflected upon the odd disorder of the chamber, we have gone so far as to combine the ideas of an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity, and a voice foreign in tone to the ears of men of many nations, and devoid of all distinct or intelligible syllabification.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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Chris Matthews, who chose the curiously sweet, rather affectionate word "fondling" to describe Mr. Schwarzenegger's behavior, seemed mostly interested in getting Senator Dianne Feinstein to compare the actor's grotesqueries to Mr. Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Eschaton
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So don't fret about distractions like whether or not Murdoch retains his title or position at News Corp. Here's all that matters: this amoral grotesquerie is going to be in the lead of his obituary.
Paul Slansky: Karmageddon
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I used to watch this show when I was a little tacker and it combined precisely the right amounts of grotesquerie, intrigue, schlock and sci-fi.
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His style is remarkable for its grotesquerie, its implicit use of European philosophy, and its pastiches of different languages and dialects.
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And the problem had nothing to do with any of the myriad of shinplaster grotesqueries we have come to expect from the Department of Homeland Security.
Thomas Lipscomb: The Trouser Bomber Effect: Watching Government Cure Incompetence with Idiocy
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Her work for children is a curious mixture of Victorian grotesquerie and post-modern knowingness: a cast of eccentrics with an equally garrulous and intrusive narrator.
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The overall effect is one of both grotesquerie and glittering beauty.
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‘There are more than a couple of moments in this film that get his sense of grotesque tragedy and tragic grotesquerie just right,’ it said.
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With the National Defense Authorization Act about to become law and SOPA on the brink of it, we are facing new challenges that do not merely fail to address the grotesquerie of the Bush/Cheney years; they are deepening and extending the violations.
Jack Healey: Can Human Rights Be Saved?
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The parade of grotesqueries viewed and heard at breakneck tempo induces a hypnotic state that some audience members may mistake for an enriching experience.
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The bear had halted and was watching this grotesquerie with black-sequin eyes.
SACRAMENT
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It comes close, at times, to grotesquerie and many scenes are hard to watch.
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As his adventures progress, Martin grows stronger and more confident, but also frightened at the grotesqueries of his appearance.
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It also defines why she had proved so adept at slipping into a rich variety of guises, gowns and grotesqueries.
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However, this adaptation promises to be a far more rompingly gorgeous grotesquerie, complete with plenty of rotten teeth, cackling mockneys, tight corsets and a sadistic toff.
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Still, the great achievement of the novel is its dizzying invention and grotesquerie.
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I resort to voting Republican, myself, but Kaus shows integrity and originality and, big bonus, seems to get the grotesquerie of our hide-bound institutions, corrupted ways andmeans.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Mickey Kaus’s Ad, in His Primary Campaign for the U.S. Senate Against Barbara Boxer
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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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Yes, it stops shy of grotesquerie; that would be Ruth, or worse.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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But over time, the horror genre has gone largely from realism and warning to grotesquerie and farce.
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Misdirection is one of the prestidigitator's tools, after all, and Welles' flair for grotesquerie and offbeat humour are as much a part of the entertainment as the tortuous plot.
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This is not quite the disaster it might be, because in some ways the house style - lots of expansive gestures repeated very, very slowly by lots of performers in tableaux - is well-suited to the grotesqueries of Gogol's story.
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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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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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When Brenda reads to Tony from the morning papers, her disengaged chatter runs together nightmarish grotesqueries and social gossip.
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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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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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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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But each one also has their highpoints of hysterical heinousness, a reason to celebrate groovy grotesqueries.
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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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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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His disenchantment is wan, taking the form of desiccated sentiment, not grotesquerie.
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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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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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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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Fish is a close second in this roster of edible grotesquerie.
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It is impossible, however, not to be amused, disgusted, and even awed by the book's ingenious observations, its satiric bite, its rich and vivid catalogue of human grotesqueries.
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The title suggests Lynchian grotesquerie, but the horrors in this Calcutta-set drama are far more straightforward: hunger, poverty, and desperation.
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Misdirection is one of the prestidigitator's tools, after all, and Welles' flair for grotesquerie and offbeat humour are as much a part of the entertainment as the tortuous plot.
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The participants fumbled around with the primary grotesquerie of speaking about evil at a well-fed and well-managed conference; this was well before we got to the unspeakability of evil itself.
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It's worth a look if only for its very British, near-Dickensian combo of squalor, social comment and comic grotesquerie.
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It's like a scene out of Anthony Powell or Evelyn Waugh, a bit of macabre comedy that seems innocent compared with the grotesqueries of the bloodshed ahead.
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What sorts of people were attracted to an impoverished life on the road, a ‘career’ that emphasized one's alienation from upward mobility, a commitment to brutal comedy, grotesquerie, rootlessness?
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Antiliberal, antiscientific, a foreign absolutist authority dictating to its half-educated adherents, Rome was given to such grotesqueries as the 1864 Syllabus of Errors and the 1870 declaration of papal infallibility.
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The show should be popular not just because people are always curious about the grotesque, but because our own situation today cries out for a master of grotesquerie.
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The artist's early scratch-board, pen-and-ink, pastel, and acrylic grotesqueries vie for wall space with his more recent oils, the newest of which stand frame to frame on the floor around the area's perimeter.
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The drawing style is painstakingly precise, and every page comes with a decorative border of grotesqueries.
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People know that a huge network of necessarily anonymous readers send in those church bulletin typos and linguistic grotesqueries that other readers enjoy.
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Max has grand ideas about modernity - popular images and kitsch, grotesqueries, and performance.
