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

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

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

If there is no humor or grotesqueness in Niagara, there is much of both in the human accessories with which the spot is constantly supplied, and these will never cease to stimulate the wits.

From Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier by Severance, Frank H.