“The comic grotesque, the source of laughter, is thus linked to that which is simultaneously attractive, the funny and humorous representations of the body, and the repulsive, appalling images of the body suffering pain.”

“The leisurely rhythm provides a conspicuously lyrical contrast with the grotesquerie of the images on display.”

“It's worth a look if only for its very British, near-Dickensian combo of squalor, social comment and comic grotesquerie.”

“His style is remarkable for its grotesquerie, its implicit use of European philosophy, and its pastiches of different languages and dialects.”

“Insects are frightening not for their grotesqueness alone, but for their lack of personality.”

“For all its archaizing grotesqueness, or partly because of that, it was the only translation of many of Nietzsche's works for almost fifty years.”

“Most of the minor characters are cartoonish in their grotesqueness, and they provide an effective foil for the two leads.”

“It's a magnificent, ridiculous song, equal parts grotesquery, sentiment and melodrama.”

“Reviewing his life, the great lover sees mostly grotesquery and humiliation.”

“Savage philosophy mingles them together in one phantasmagoria of grotesquery and horror.”

“Here's a brief guide to the freaks and grotesques that populate the Peepshow world.”

“Social life, as usual with Dickens, is just a bewildering assortment of eccentrics, grotesques, amiable idiots and moral monstrosities.”

“In the process, what could have been a portentous freak show of rural grotesques became a memorable portrait of painful family fissures.”