grotesque
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Nor are the formerly enslaved Americans who forced the nation to confront the grotesque contradiction between slavery and constitutional liberty.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
English historian Simon Schama described Hegseth’s words as “a special kind of loathsomeness: a blend of historical deafness, grotesque stupidity and comically ludicrous self-importance.”
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026
That sense of complexity fuels Vecna, the antagonist of “Stranger Things,” whose climactic final season sees the character, played by Jamie Campbell Bower, take on a multitude of faces — some human and some grotesque.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
Fair warning for those who dare to risk entry to the eerie and unsettling horror feature “Backrooms”: This film contains graphic, even grotesque imagery of early 1990s furniture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Her mascara started streaming down her face, which made her look like a grotesque clown.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
Part of this is in the rich tradition of European reporters sojourning in the United States who find casual grotesques about Americans far more lucrative and less taxing than actually trying to meet the natives.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2026
But he had his own quirky, even obsessive interests—in all things ancient and Roman, in architecture, and especially in the hybrid ornamental figures known as grotesques.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
With the genre claiming 17% of the domestic box office for 2025, production studios are eager to feed our seemingly bottomless appetite for cinematic grotesques, especially those based on true stories.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2025
Perhaps I would also check on some of the cathedral’s grotesques, which include Darth Vader and lots of whimsical creatures.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2022
Whether any of the nephews shared Yezzan’s fondness for cripples, freaks, and grotesques was far less certain.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Vocabulary lists containing grotesque
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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