There is a wonderful scene in which Steve — who had previously been a slightly grotesque figure formed by superimposing Mr. Evans's chiseled face onto the frame of a puny body double — tries out his new body in a shirtless pursuit of some minor bad guys.
'This is my Fight Club," says Todd Zuniga, the editor of American creative writing magazine Opium and the inventor of Literary Death Match, who is already confusing me with his appearance: strikingly fresh-faced, he tells me he is 35; exuding hipness, he is nonetheless wearing a slightly grotesque white jacket with Miami Vice-style rolled-up sleeves.
Ann is the archetypal parent who hovers in eternal rebuke and praise in so many adults' imaginations as a mythic and slightly grotesque nag and comfort.
A bearded older man wields a sword and makes cartoon warlike noises; four trios grimace and gesticulate wildly around small tables; the four Butoh-trained men from the Japanese group regularly split off to perform slightly grotesque, squatting, lurching movements; a woman performs a solo that suggests madness and despair in its abrupt, truncated shakes and clawed hands.
The mixed-media work contributed by Ms. Page (born 1956) is a fragmented, surrealistic interpretation of the human form that Ms. Goleas described as "slightly grotesque, but sympathetic; organic, but alien".
The slightly grotesque nature of his quest only gradually comes into focus.
Fairs may be slightly grotesque, but they are also, in their way, fun.
It was funny, or no, actually not funny, just disorienting, slightly grotesque.
The same elements are present: '80s hair and bathing suits that seem comic and slightly grotesque to us now.
"It's as if there's something slightly grotesque in the Midwest that appeals to him," explains Tom Perrotta, author of the novel "Election".
You have your classic Edward Westonudesle nudes, your darkly brooding Nan Goldinudesle nudes, your provocative and slightly grotesque Helmut Newton-style nudes, and, well, your creamy, dewy, sun-dappled, narcotized David Hamiltonudesle nudes.
