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

The Chinese Grand Prix always felt expendable in a calendar already swollen to grotesqueness.

From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2020

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 multifarious cast members combine raw psychological realism with Dickensian grotesqueness.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2017

The mermaid is a frequent subject, but more monotonous in its form and action than any other creature, and is generally found executed with a respectful simplicity that scarcely ever savours of grotesqueness.

From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall