There is something symbolically apt, for example, about the way the grotesque figure of the dead paedophile, Father Brendan Smyth, has returned to threaten the position of the head of the Irish church, Cardinal Sean Brady.
Spero summed it up herself via an image that recurs across the Codex – a disembodied head with a grotesque phallic tongue protruding from its mouth: the organ of speech envisaged partly as a weapon and partly as a gag.
Accusing McCluskey of "destructive behaviour" motivated by a political grudge, Murphy said the Unite leader's claim that Labour had lost the election because of Scottish Labour's disastrous performance was a "grotesque insult" to the party's membership and activists.
There now emerged into Osborne's ken an economist called Jim O'Neill from a bank whose grotesque wealth makes Tory and Labour ministers alike go weak at the knees, Goldman Sachs.
Leave space for Beyoncé Sure, it might be tempting to fill the entire frame with a grotesque closeup of your own face.
This was Australia's very own "Scopes Monkey Trial" … a "disgrace to universities"… a "grotesque betrayal of the tradition of free thought" … a "craven surrender to the mob".
Dov Charney said the company he founded 25 years ago, and which became known for its Made in the USA fashion items, had embarked on a "grotesque" and "hateful" campaign against him.
Christof Heyns, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions wrote in the Guardian last week that if the death sentence is carried out tonight it would be "another grotesque and unjust execution.
If Tarantino isn't entitled to make Django Unchained, how is Samuel L Jackson entitled to take the role of the house slave, Stephen, in the film, a grotesque caricature that he plays with bitter relish?
As they stand, most free and open online business models rest on a grotesque inequality between what is given by the many – detailed, constantly updated personalised data – and what is taken by the few: profit, knowledge, and the indefinite and largely unaccountable possession of both.
A grotesque and unique place within the history of the Holocaust, at any given time it housed 60,000 people, most of whom were transported to Auschwitz.
