grotesqueness
Example Sentences
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With its use of caricature, distortion and exaggeration, art can look “grotesque” without conveying grotesqueness; indeed, it can convey something quite the opposite.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2025
The grotesqueness of the sacrifice seems compounded for the Africans dragooned into fighting somebody else’s war.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023
The Chinese Grand Prix always felt expendable in a calendar already swollen to grotesqueness.
From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2020
It’s the grotesqueness of the sale and ensuing spectacle, and more specifically, it’s the idea that the system is absurd.
From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2019
He sometimes thought, with a sense of the grotesqueness of human affairs, how strange it was that things had not arranged themselves so that Jack had not been Jacqueline’s victim, and himself Judith’s.
From Throckmorton by Seawell, Molly Elliot
