Sentence examples for grotesque about from inspiring English sources

There's something grotesque about it, much like the music itself.

There can be something unsettling, and even grotesque, about works that extol the effects of video games without reservation.

But both Rufus Norris's production and Eldridge's text show there is something grotesque about the guests' reaction.

They sent the leader of the country hilarious tweets verging from the mundane to the grotesque, about their monthly visitor.

But there was nothing particularly grotesque about this brisk and bouncy trio for Amy O'Brien, Vernon Scott and Todd Lawrence Stone.

There is something grotesque about the fact that Mao's mausoleum is still standing and still visited by citizens who bring flowers and "bow and leave their offerings".

(Catsoulis) 'SEPTEMBER DAWN' (R, 111 minutes) This maudlin, grotesque western about the massacre of about 120 settlers by Mormons (and their Paiute Indian mercenaries) on Sept. 11, 1857, apes "Schindler's List" in hopes of creating a Christian Holocaust picture.

On a self-made drawing (reproduced in the book) from this period, we see him at work late at night in his lab, while strange ideas, shaped like grotesque animals, float about: an oneiric self-portrayal in Jungian style.

Despite the astronomical amount of money the Russians spent on transforming Sochi into an Olympic site, for the rest of the world the Winter Games had an eerie quality: the threat of terrorism; Putin's grotesque comments about gays and lesbians; and the menacing situation about a thousand miles northwest in Kiev.

More because that was when the first impact was about to be felt of the Labour government's grotesque miscalculation about the numbers arriving from the New Europe.

Shriver's new novel, "Big Brother" (Harper), is another ghost story, a broad, sometimes grotesque satire about how things might have turned out.