Sentence examples for a grotesque sort of from inspiring English sources
The fate of these would-be soldiers does, in the end, achieve a grotesque sort of pathos, and in Riz Ahmed's portrait of an angry Omar there is a tragic sense of waste.
Don Ciro (Gianfelice Imparato) is a harassed bean-counter employed by the camorra to patrol the estate's grim walkways and dole out a grotesque sort of maundy-money to its various mendicants and pensioners: widows, the elderly, those who in general need to be kept pacified.
Over the past twenty years, failure to protect our children from hypersexualization and early sexualization has resulted in a grotesque sort of job security for me as a therapist, because little children don't stay little.
Instead, it is a grotesque form of physical vanity.
The faces are cast from a bizarre color pallette and have jagged and grotesque features, sort of like the characters in Beavis and Butthead.
Tommy is a walking showman who turns his life into an unwanted show, delivered with a sort of grotesque charisma but no technique, nothing but the raging impulse of the moment, all organized around his unbending and universal theme: he is a star, the central attraction of wherever he is, the hero of his own place, and the failure of the world to acknowledge this is a cosmic injustice.
"People don't think of me as an actor − I'm not complaining − a character like Edna and even Sir Les Patterson has a sort of grotesque reality that no one thinks is actual acting.
"Passion," which is based on Ettore Scola's 1981 film, "Passione d'Amore," could easily register as a sort of grotesque comedy of love's arbitrariness, a pathological variation on Titania's falling for Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
Approaching a police officer (Orlando Valenzuela, from Colombia), she recognizes him as one of the assailants and, in a sort of grotesque annunciation scene in which the officer plays the role of exterminating angel, he takes the glue she has been sniffing and throws it in her eyes, goading her to find her friend now that she is blind.
