Like watching a train wreck in slow motion, the sight is grotesquely compelling. |
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In the drawings each muscle is significantly over-developed and, at times, grotesquely out of proportion. |
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The sailors affected were so grotesquely swollen that they were essentially unrecognizable. |
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I saw a row of five brightly colored portraits of a wild-haired, grotesquely made-up young woman in a floral-print dress. |
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Some of his figures, especially the grotesquely curvaceous fat ladies, are descendants of the 18th-century caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson. |
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The character is an old, hunchbacked lady with grotesquely misshapen teeth. |
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He began to suffer from weakness and insomnia and bouts of breathlessness and his legs became grotesquely bloated with dropsy. |
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He occasionally invents grotesquely exaggerated success stories in a self-mocking parody of his frustrated bourgeois ambitions. |
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The army's response was either wholly unwarranted or grotesquely disproportionate. |
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People who watch TV are not stupid, and they know when someone is grotesquely overpaid. |
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The film is about what happens following this grotesquely ill-advised decision. |
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But the dividing line between their beliefs and the grotesquely distorted ideals of National Socialism was a very fine one. |
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They become grotesquely empowered by calmly taking pleasure in their rebellion. |
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Only the purblind could believe that the Test programme has not been grotesquely over-extended. |
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Messer portrays her as a dough-faced sad sack who slumps glumly in front of a couple of her trademark paintings of grotesquely buxom women. |
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It is grotesquely, disastrously wrong about the Labour Party, and it imposes an abstract answer on a concrete situation. |
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Huge cracks blemished the skis, the bindings were grotesquely twisted, and the poles bent at right angles. |
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One of the sport's most celebrated figures was a small right-winger with grotesquely shaped legs and an extraordinary style of play. |
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It would be as if, when Gregor Samsa awoke from his sleep to discover he had become a grotesquely huge beetle, no one was bothered by the change. |
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Once the thin blue line defending a society's fundamental values, the police have now grotesquely turned into a weapon against them. |
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None of which changes the fact that it's a truly grotesquely dreadful programme. |
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The women are slags, either scrawny with straggly blonde hair, or grotesquely fat and bulging out of their tracksuit bottoms. |
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She could see the round, spherical canvasses stretched across the metal, almost grotesquely. |
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A college student of 19 was so severe a stutterer that his face during speech became grotesquely distorted. |
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Yet the damage done by his grotesquely lopsided report vastly outweighs the gravity of the offence. |
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His belly swells grotesquely, his hands curl, his cheeks puff out, his mouth contorts into a rictus of pain. |
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In the past, Hamad has suffered some health problems, in part because he has diabetes and used to be grotesquely obese. |
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In this grotesquely acquisitive society, all cultural markers are subject to violent revision as the inhabitants seek to fulfil their various appetites. |
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It would be grotesquely unfair to freeze the housing market. |
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It was playground pettiness, grotesquely selfish folly that was not only self-destructive but bound to do serious damage to the interests of his team. |
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Ministers must bring an end to this harrowing, grotesquely unjust process. |
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Wittgenstein is acting in his usual grotesquely arrogant self-opinionated, rude and boorish manner. |
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So, this is clearly freakazoid behavior, and is obviously a grotesquely inappropriate thing for a medical professional to do. |
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And did you not also, in between shivers, admire how grotesquely pretty the shot was? |
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Mr. Speaker, why is the government so grotesquely irresponsible when it comes to corporate social responsibility? |
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The depiction is on a wooden display and the diamonds are grotesquely executed in fake marble. |
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Now, so grotesquely one-sided are we that the mind and sensibilities of the individual get little consideration. |
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In his duo Le Show,he and Thomas Lebrun are concerned with showing, grotesquely, what distinguishes the dancer from a mere lump of flesh. |
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Christ's teachings have been grotesquely distorted to serve selfish motives ever since. |
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The novel still stands, however, as a record of a grotesquely decadent period in American history. |
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Over the footpace of the altar hangs a unique crucifix on which the carved oak corpus leans forward in a spasm of death agony, with its arms grotesquely twisted behind. |
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Sinking his teeth into her gorge, he grotesquely tore her throat out. |
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Who in their right mind would turn down the job of their dreams even though deep down they know themselves to be grotesquely underqualified for said job? |
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So clearly, even under the grotesquely inadequate laws of 2003, the police do not seem to have been significantly impeded in their ability to spot-check ID and nick people. |
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Their bodies appear broken and almost grotesquely malformed. |
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A small, if nonsensical, price to pay for America to stop being so grotesquely fat. |
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From here on, the movie is a grotesquely overacted, ineptly staged screamfest. |
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Their grotesquely enlarged features give them a monstrous quality. |
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Complex nations were grotesquely simplified for the voters back home and the boys sent to fight abroad. |
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The bodies hung there for weeks, reeking and swelling grotesquely in the equatorial heat. |
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Killings were sometimes grotesquely accomplished, with excessive butchery. |
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Taken together, they demonstrate his remarkable range, capable of an achingly internalized turn in Gatsby and a grotesquely externalized one in Wolf. |
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When the phonograph needle gets stuck, the soprano's voice keeps repeating the same word on the same quaver, which suddenly assumes a grotesquely independent life. |
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He was covered with deep bruises and his hands were grotesquely swollen. |
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As we have seen the Supreme Court come to some conclusions, some of us have been marginally and sometimes grotesquely critical, but nonetheless we watch what has been going on. |
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There can be no better example of this than the one million signature petition calling for an end to the utterly pointless and grotesquely expensive monthly pilgrimage to Strasbourg. |
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He draped himself grotesquely in his toweling bathrobe and a pink and white couch-cover, and sat lumpishly in a wing-chair. |
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Greenberg focuses on the grotesquely metonymic image of the spine to concretize a strong emotional response. |
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Yes, the element of Pooterism is fantastically strong, taking yourself grotesquely seriously. |
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The Most Obvious Question of All: Even leaving his grotesquely problematic past to one side, how is it that a public and contumacious dissenter like Raymond Gravel was not dismissed from the priesthood three years ago? |
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This captain, played with ghastly vehemence by veteran heldentenor Wolfgang Schmidt, was a sight to behold, grotesquely overweight in suspenders and sporting fat-man falsies. |
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Especially now, in a culture that rewards self-aggrandizement to such a warped degree that some people find even their most grotesquely squalid distinctions aggrandizable. |
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Like Shadow, they are dressed in white smocks suggesting the orderlies and nurses of the asylum, a grotesquely and psychotically idealized white national culture. |
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