grotesqueness
Example Sentences
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The grotesqueness of Eunice’s boss, Jane, a product-damaged monster who is all face and very little body, if not unachievable in live-action — Katherine Helmond in “Brazil” comes to mind — isn’t really sustainable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
So do scribbly, charming drawings of a cat and studies of feet that emphasize grotesqueness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Suetonius detailed Emperor Domitan’s nighttime events, highlighting the grotesqueness of gladiatrices fighting in the shadows.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2024
The grotesqueness of the sacrifice seems compounded for the Africans dragooned into fighting somebody else’s war.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
Its theory threatened to collapse under the weight of its inherent grotesqueness, and here, in the nick of time, was documentary proof, complete and apparently irrefutable.
From The myth of the Jewish menace in world affairs or, The truth about the forged protocols of the elders of Zion by Lucien Wolf
