Sentence examples for grotesque I from inspiring English sources

Now, this might be grotesque, I just have to use it as an example.

When people say that Dickens's characters are incredible and grotesque, I seriously wonder whether they ever walk the streets.

In an interview, he once claimed, "If I am not grotesque, I am nothing".

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.

I am reminded of Sherwood Anderson's "The Book of the Grotesque" (I live in Belfast: it's never far from my mind), which describes a world full of beautiful truths to live by and the paradox whereby a person snatching up one of those truths and trying to make it his own becomes a grotesque, and the truth so embraced a falsehood.

Apple's bad dream of an advertising image reminded me of another grotesque I'd seen recently.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Charney called the board's actions "grotesque," adding, "I think I will be back in my office before long".

That a top high school student may also be among the market's extreme and grotesque creations — i.e., an adolescent who accepts authority, willingly does absurd amounts of homework, is respectful of his or her college guidance counselor, listens to his or her parents and is a dedicated standardized-test-taker to boot — doesn't seem to occur to Golden.

With grotesque hauteur, I said that I didn't realize we had ever met.

"It's grotesque and I am sorry that I am being interrogated about declarations of Gaddafi or his son on an important channel like TF1," Sarkozy snapped.

I realise with that grotesque term I've consigned Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling and Lena Dunham to the sidelines of relevance for the sake of something as arbitrary and sexist as hair colour, but bear with me.