Sentence examples for Quite grotesque from inspiring English sources

Carl Jung wrote of "the sometimes quite grotesque coincidence between a man's name and his peculiarities".

The author takes crime-scene photographs from the nineteen-fifties (some quite grotesque, I can tell you, having glanced quickly through the pages), and uses Lacanian theory to attempt to solve the mysteries they present.

Not only did it rescue triumph from the jaws of what threatened to be a quite grotesque disaster, it had Rooney, pictured, off his seat with the dreamy look of a vindicated prophet.

In a recent four-minute speech to the European Parliament, she squeezed in three examples: 70% of marine pollution is caused by plastic; 95% of Fulmar seabirds in the North Sea have plastic in their guts; and Europeans get through a "quite grotesque" 100bn plastic carrier bags every year.

I have so many other things which are so successful that it would be quite grotesque to have regrets!" On publicity: "The worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are up to now, how they evolve.

He later referred to Rufus as "quite grotesque to look at" when describing the new characters for the game.

As for Mr. Lucas, one can only guess what's next: not in a long time has so genial a presence allowed himself to become quite so grotesque.

"And some of the iconography is quite terrifying, almost grotesque".

He remembers things such as the committal for Rose - 'five of us in the overspill room with an audio feed, quite the most grotesque details being read out, and we all felt somehow sullied.

The closing track Life in a Glass House, featuring octogenarian trumpeter Humphrey Lyttleton, is quite breathtaking, a grotesque New Orleans funeral march that sleazily explodes into life around its chorus.

In terms of subjects, I think I'm quite drawn to grotesque things.