Sentence examples for for grotesque from inspiring English sources

It has also provided an opportunity for grotesque psychological generalisations.

He added, "Nevertheless, we owe major apology for grotesque, offensive cartoon".

That Renaissance dynasty is famous for grotesque murders, orgies and conspiracy and a complete lack of piety inside the Vatican.

The Swiss-born Zimmermann's taste for grotesque forms of violence, animal antics, and racism seems as much American as German.

Adam Smith denounced the Company as a bloodstained monopoly: "burdensome", "useless" and responsible for grotesque massacres in Bengal.

Instead of a severe streamlined play with form the piece was a theatrical fable for grotesque characters in masks.

It is also safe to say that his talent for grotesques is largely what made him.

The tales are startling for their grotesque humor, for the light they shed on the draggled hinterland between the civilized and the monstrous.

A confrontation with his pious neighbour leads to this man calling for a grotesque "miracle" for Morten – and this gripping film sets about giving birth to one.

There, in 1943 and 1944, Dr. Mengele reputedly selected about 400,000 victims for the gas chambers and others for his grotesque medical experiments.

Indeed, the most democratic period of prewar Japan, the "Taisho democracy" of the roaring 20s, was known for ero guro nansensu culture, short for "erotic, grotesque, absurd".