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"Grotesque" in a Sentence (20 examples)
They made huge, grotesque, yet beautiful poles of red cedar.
When seen in the perspective of half-a-dozen years or more, the best of our fashions strike us as grotesque, if not unsightly.
I saw some English female soldiers in yesterday night's news reel. For some, you couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman, but the majority were rather feminine, and it didn't feel that grotesque.
From this point on, the story becomes so twisted and grotesque that I can't stop reading it anymore.
It is grotesque: every private company, even small private companies, think European nowadays, but not so the governments of their states.
If the agreement were enforced, it would create a situation verging on the grotesque.
Quite apart from the concerns surrounding this injustice itself, it seems grotesque that this situation has been brought about by a committee whose very purpose of existence is the defence of women's rights and equal opportunities.
As the grotesque parade passed by, everyone came out of their homes, hypnotized.
What is happening at the present time in the dispute over place-name signs in Carinthia is grotesque.
In her latest works she lets the uncanny swing like a grotesque pendulum from the humorous into homelike cosiness and back again.
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The chimney-piece was of party-coloured marble, covered with figures, some of whose faces were beautiful, but generally running off into those grotesque combinations which characterised the peculiar taste of their time.
A Libyan longing took us, and we would have chosen, if we could, to bear a strand of grotesque beads, or a handful of brazen gauds, and traffic them for some sable maid with crisp locks, whom, uncoffling from the captive train beside the desert, we should make to do our general housework forever, through the right of lawful purchase.
Some of the vehicles are, indeed, taxis, but all of them are unoccupied, and most have their doors left open. There are colossally tall darkened figures stalking down the streets, so dark and slender that Wheeler actually fails to notice them. There is screaming, a grotesque, awful screaming coming from many human mouths, coming from somewhere down the main road. But that's the only way he can go.
Trump’s grotesque and incomprehensible fondness for Putin makes the details of any deal highly dangerous for Europe and the NATO alliance, founded to confront Russia.
Obese and largely unintelligible, Don Vito represents a working-class white male grotesque, the picture of excess.
He’s also the new character from Sacha Baron Cohen, the man behind Ali G, Borat and Brüno: that unholy trinity of comic grotesques that told us a lot more about ourselves than we’d like to admit.
Why, when I saw that bestiality— / So beyond all brute-beast imagining, / That when, to point the moral at the close, / Poor Salabaccho, just to show how fair / Was ‘Reconciliation,’ stripped her charms, / That exhibition simply bade us breathe, / Seemed something healthy and commendable / After obscenity grotesqued so much / It slunk away revolted at itself.
This is to grotesque Dante, not to translate him.
At this point, species is seen antagonistically by the subject as something intent on restricting its freedom and grotesqueing its vitality.
Filking also allows fans to ‘answer back’ by reworking – resisting, grotesquing or parodying – the negative media stereotypes thrown at them.
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