grotesque

"It's not something we've asked for and actually I think it looks quite grotesque in the climate that we're in."

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

And Neill relished that ability, returning time and again to characters whose unpredictability mirrored life’s, creating an oeuvre that is both grotesque and supremely human.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

From this there carries a limited space for courts to reject grotesque or unconstitutional plea bargain terms.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

That sense of complexity fuels Vecna, the antagonist of “Stranger Things,” whose climactic final season sees the character, played by Jamie Campbell Bower, take on a multitude of faces — some human and some grotesque.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

“I don’t know,” the chaplain wailed softly in a quavering voice, squinting with grotesque contortions of anguish and incomprehension.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Part of this is in the rich tradition of European reporters sojourning in the United States who find casual grotesques about Americans far more lucrative and less taxing than actually trying to meet the natives.

From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2026

But he had his own quirky, even obsessive interests—in all things ancient and Roman, in architecture, and especially in the hybrid ornamental figures known as grotesques.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

With the genre claiming 17% of the domestic box office for 2025, production studios are eager to feed our seemingly bottomless appetite for cinematic grotesques, especially those based on true stories.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2025

The Watergate grotesques form a small portion of the weird and sometimes wacky, but always carefully curated, world of Ellison.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

It’s even proposed that the grotesques in medieval art may have been influenced by Ad Herennium s advice on the use of outlandish images to nail an idea in memory.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith