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How to use grotesque in a sentence

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From a distance, the village looked like a holiday trailer park surrounded by grotesque, wind-sculptured trees.
It stared at them with eyes they could not find in the convolutions of its grotesque skin.
All of them, including people, are carved in the same beautiful but grotesque style, with beaks, staring eyes, outspread wings and gaping jaws.
Fabliaux were comical and often grotesque stories in which the characters most often succeed by means of their sharp wits.
The pristine beach was now a sheet of razor-sharp glass, twisted into hideous and grotesque spires and craters.
Above the rusticated north arches is another grotesque mask, carrying a pearl swag, also done in shells with a background of pebbles.
A grotesque formation vase catches the attention of guests at first glance.
She lay sprawled on the ground below, one leg cocked beneath her at a grotesque angle.
Some American journalists are still wearisomely offering his hard childhood as an explanation for his grotesque behaviour.
He is pursued by the Furies, grotesque female divinities charged with the punishment of those who have shed the blood of kinfolk.
The mix is astonishing, from the kitsch to the majestic, from the grotesque to the sublime.
And I was transfixed, almost hypnotised by the grotesque scene in front of me.
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.
It's a grotesque and hacky travesty of application compatibility, but there you go.
Additionally, her characters have exotic and sometimes grotesque attributes that bring to mind the Surrealist tradition.
It is perhaps the most disgusting, grotesque and repulsive thing ever shown on television.
Even in his later work, when a human presence enters it is either grotesque, so schematic as to be without mood, or troubled.
Like jackals around a tiger kill, small flies hovered around the feasting mantis, even daring to settle on its grotesque pea-like eyes.
It is more or less reduced to Janus-faced etiquettes of the moral and grotesque body, placed by the author, as it seems, where most suitable.
This commingling is seen by many reformers as a grotesque reduction to the base material level of human corporeality.
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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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