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

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

And adding to the grotesqueness of the events that day, the police told investigators they believed that a 12-year-old was actually 20 years old.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2015

For ourselves, we make no secret of the grotesqueness of the contrast thus, for the second time, presented to the imagination.

From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William