grotesqueness

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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

In hindsight, it’s as though Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy were holding back the impeding tide of celebrity excess: the costly haute couture, the personal branding, the competitive public confessionals, the grotesqueness of it all.

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2019

The aliens' look is unconvincing and forgettable, lacking either the deliberate cheesiness of "They Live" or the believability and grotesqueness of "Starship Troopers" and "District 9."

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2019

The multifarious cast members combine raw psychological realism with Dickensian grotesqueness.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2017

"But its grotesqueness will not be so obvious at the Ringers' Arch," he said.

From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary