grotesque
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Grotesque as Frank and Julia are, the supernatural creatures pursuing him, the Cenobites, are the film's true stars, beings from a place where pleasure and pain are indistinct.
From Salon • Oct. 8, 2022
Grotesque inequality long ago became a principal characteristic of the world’s biggest and most crowded cities.
From The New Yorker • May 25, 2015
"American Grotesque" recounts this conflict, and much more, in a long-overdue assessment of Mortensen's work and aesthetic philosophy.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2014
Another of her novels, Grotesque, centred on a prostitute and her sister, both of them struggling against the subordinate role of women in Japan, searching for a way to have control over their lives.
From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2013
They crowd before the stall's bright altar rail, Grotesque, and sacred, for that light's brief span, And all the shuddering darkness cries, "All hail, Daughters and Sons of Man!"
From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred
Vocabulary lists containing grotesque
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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