Sentence examples for a grotesque amount of from inspiring English sources

"Two hundred and sixty pounds for a pair of shorts is a grotesque amount of money!,"said one.

And Juventus, under their new manager, Gigi Maifredi, had spent a grotesque amount of money on Roberto Baggio, Thomas Hässler and Julio Cesar.

One is about the grotesque amount of packaging - virtually nothing is sold loose, it seems.

The most sickening thing I've seen in twelve years of inner-city reporting isn't one particular act of violence; it's the grotesque amount of wasted potential.

The premise is simple: in each clip, a man named Zach — played by Galifianakis himself, in a flaming-red wig that might best be described as the love child of Bea Arthur and a tsunami — pours his similarly bewigged friends, "Tim and Ericic," grotesque amounts of vodka, swills it with them perfunctorily, then loses his temper for no apparent reason.

Not once does he question the frailty of those terms in an industry reliant on players in impoverished countries (grotesque amounts of poaching are de rigeur in Zimbabwe, as any seasoned hunter knows).

Smallholder farming requires "grotesque" amounts of labour, Mr Studwell concedes.

"Independent" groups are spending grotesque amounts of money on Congressional races and governors' races.

Then there were suggestions that he was demanding grotesque amounts of money for putting himself at the EU's disposal.

Now staff talk of "grotesque amounts of empty space" on floors of the Time-Life building where writers and executives used to fight for a window seat.

Some attribute that to surprising technical errors, like a grotesque overestimate of the amount of fissile material that was needed and a failure to realize that readily available graphite, if highly purified, could be used to moderate the atomic reaction instead of scarce, hard-to-get heavy water.