Sentence examples for A bit grotesque from inspiring English sources

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Sometimes, the fancy critical frameworks get out of hand: Welshman's eagerness to talk about "the lifeboat as metaphor" seems a bit grotesque, in this case.

IT would somehow have been both fitting and a bit grotesque if Robert Shaw, the great choral conductor who died just over a year ago at 82, had left behind a recording of a Requiem, to be released after his own death.

Recently, a friend told me about another armchair-detective podcast he's listened to — a shambling one, he said, possibly a bit grotesque, that seemed to be dragging itself out, collecting fancy sponsors long after it had worn out its theories and its welcome.

Despite that, he considered the film's additional screenplay poor and called Falstaff's deathbed scene "non-essential and just a bit grotesque".

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Isn't Sharon Osbourne a little bit grotesque?

"Eventually just this oily man was sitting in her lap and then talking about traffic patterns around L.A. It was a little bit grotesque".

That's a bit of a grotesque-sounding headline, isn't it?

Alison Steadman is a bit of a pantomime grotesque as Gavin's mum, and Smithy's Byronic laments for Gav – now installed in his new job in Cardiff – are fast losing their charm.

The rest of the story is appealingly grotesque if a bit familiar: A budding romance turns tragic because of a father's meddling.

Kevin Cunningham's production, which has a proudly unfinished feel to it, offers a bit of everything, even a grotesque-looking clown and a strained attempt to end with a dance party.

These red state grotesques are offset, a bit later, by a family in Madison, Wis., whose matriarch, L N, a gender studies professor played by Maggie Gyllenhaal, is a soft-spoken medusa of political correctness and New Age malarkey.

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