| It's a magnificent, ridiculous song, equal parts grotesquery, sentiment and melodrama. |
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| Reviewing his life, the great lover sees mostly grotesquery and humiliation. |
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| Mr. Six does not deny that his movie was designed to provoke, and is happy to capitalize on anything that burnishes its reputation for over-the-top grotesquery. |
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| Through the elements of slapstick, physical grotesquery or parody, humour ranging from the melancholy to the astonishing breaks through the critical commentary on topical issues. |
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| Read as a grotesquery, into which parody reels off, even Plyushkin turns into a dynamic character, enlivening the novel's deadliest spot. |
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| As with Jack Maggs, however, the end of the novel surpasses Dickens in grotesquery and horror. |
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