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 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
The multifarious cast members combine raw psychological realism with Dickensian grotesqueness.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2017
He has produced an historical romance inspired by the perusal of Sir Walter Scott, fantastic legends, psychological studies, marked by a mixture of sentimentality and grotesqueness.
From The Mantle and Other Stories by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich
