| Here's a brief guide to the freaks and grotesques that populate the Peepshow world. |
| Out in the street, he found a carnival of grotesques behind the surface of the 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. |
| The characters, or rather their moulded images, are from the sketchbook, social grotesques masquerading as pillars of society. |
| Standing among these grotesques, one immediately attempted to connect the images, to deduce the cultural and social milieu from which they came. |
