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How to use grotesque in a sentence

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Some of Fellini's situations seem impossibly grotesque, yet they have echoes in recent world events.
In Don Quixote, the grotesque Gamach is fantastically played by a young French actor.
A grotesque formation vase catches the attention of guests at first glance.
For all his morbidness and grotesque humor, he rarely lost touch with an emotional core in his songwriting.
Pletnev's new version does much to tame the score's incipient vulgarity without compromising its more grotesque elements.
The old lady's habit, formed of stiff brocade, gives her the appearance of a squat pyramid, with a grotesque head at the top of it.
The gap is made more grotesque by the fact that if you want an unpretentious, unpatronising way into classical music, Cadenza provides it.
I can truthfully say that this whole proposition appears to my mind as one of the most grotesque and unpractical that I have yet encountered.
They were twisted, grotesque things, as if conceived by the maddest of artist, or most unremorseful of psychopaths.
It's a grotesque and hacky travesty of application compatibility, but there you go.
But this post-World War II system was only a grotesque parody of a gold standard.
Additionally, her characters have exotic and sometimes grotesque attributes that bring to mind the Surrealist tradition.
Even grimmer and more grotesque scenarios are amply available in the world of globalization.
Fabliaux were comical and often grotesque stories in which the characters most often succeed by means of their sharp wits.
The latter piece, rather grotesque and humorous, will probably never become popular.
Turning on the Admiral, her face twisted into a grotesque mask of furor and grief.
Another boy did a grotesque parody of a monster drawling incoherent, preposterous demands.
Their spirits will not find peace hanging there like grotesque decorations from an evil celebration.
Beneath my feet huge cracks scarred the landscape like grotesque crazy paving while all around almost everything was slowly dying.
We should close down this grotesque spectacle, and grant these performing primates their freedom and their privacy.
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Examples from Classical Literature
These stories, in their grotesque severities, have almost the air of an extravaganza.
The outrage on the Warden was not so grotesque, but the effect was the same.
But this grotesque sentiment did not pass current even in the smoking-room.
Who and what were the persons of whom the preacher gave this grotesque account?
To suppose that a cock-fighting guatemalan priest could have scruples about stripping his church would be grotesque.
A note on the emblems of the Evangelists follows in the remarks on the combinatory forms met in grotesque art.
Yard-long antennae, slender and luminously green, wavered above a grotesque head.
Poverty and showiness, supreme beauty and grotesque ugliness, jostle each other at close quarters.
It is more grotesque than beautiful, but was beloved in a day that deemed the tiger lily the most beautiful of all lilies.
Another flare flashed in the sky behind him silhouetting a row of grotesque trees.
On the second table lay a twisted, distorted thing, an apelike body with which fate had played grotesque pranks.
With such shifting, grotesque and inadequate fables, the cosmogonic myths of the world are necessarily bewildered and perplexed.
Notwithstanding the strange, not to say grotesque, appearance of its beak, the seiche is decidedly an interesting creature.
Charles saw that the idea of primitive male combat, over a manly woman's Career, was unmodern and grotesque.
If the whole affair had not been so piteous it would have seemed grotesque.
First we have, in the myths of all races, the most grotesque conceptions of the character of gods when mythically envisaged.
The walls, wainscoted in dark walnut wood, were adorned with grotesque carvings of hunting scenes and instruments of venery.
He had on a war bonnet with eagle feathers sticking in it around the upper edge, making it look like a grotesque crown.
Then he was, somehow, in that grotesque position that is only absurd to the on-looker, on his knees beside her.
Her father, in a grotesque crouching posture, was mounting the ladderlike stair.
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