Sentence examples for become grotesque from inspiring English sources

I can take a very human desire, insert it into a supernatural world, and watch humanity become grotesque.

Mr. Makine's version of this scene is made both grotesque and incredibly moving by the ways history itself had become grotesque since the days of Tolstoy.

An illustrator's hands become grotesque cauliflowers; a woman's face grows gradually enormous; a census taker is forced to count all the flies in the world.

In the face of pressures like these, recruitment strategies can become grotesque, as when a Stanford history professor, while Chelsea Clinton was a student there, wrote on behalf of the admissions office to one "H.P".

"The Sect of the Idiot" follows a man as he discovers a cult of people who have willingly become grotesque versions of their former selves, staring forever into the void with their "withered, wilted claws bearing numerous talons that tapered off into drooping tentacles".

MARILYN MINTER: PRETTY/DIRTY The last venue in a touring exhibition of Marilyn Minter's paintings, from the banal, photorealistic works of the 1970s to her close-ups of women's eyes, lips and feet in which beauty products and accessories become grotesque and sometimes torturous.

All the people around Liberace become grotesques, from the bewildered Thorson, who attempts to understand him, to his mother (an unrecognisable Debbie Reynolds with a prosthetic nose and a thick Polish accent) who doesn't want to question her son too closely.

But add too many and the shellfish becomes grotesque.

Rogue ministers ran amok; corruption became grotesque, and major infrastructure and development projects stalled.

As a result, the extreme is diminished in its awfulness, the trivial becomes grotesque and, ultimately, any analogy becomes possible.

Everything that is not necessary becomes grotesque, especially in our time".