Sentence examples for grotesque attempt from inspiring English sources

It is the manipulation of memory — not fit remembrance — that has turned an attack by a band of fanatical Muslims into grounds for the grotesque attempt to ban Shariah law in several U.S. states, and to scurrilous imaginings about President Obama and Islam.

Nicolai Ouroussoff, the architecture critic for The New York Times, calls the tower base a "grotesque attempt to disguise its underlying paranoia".

Apart from the Putin meeting debacle, and Trump's grotesque attempt to defend the placement of Ivanka in his G20 chair by lashing out at Chelsea Clinton, Trump fundamentally failed to protect America's interests at the meeting.

(At last count he's on number four and considering she's not much older than Ms. Fluke, part of me wonders if perhaps this was all some grotesque attempt at flirting on his part that simply went awry. After all, who wouldn't want to be the fifth Mrs. Limbaugh? Raise your hands high, ladies!).

Helene Alexopoulos and James Fayette danced the Five Pieces, (Op. 10), in which two people make choreographically grotesque attempts to be united.

Don't attend his latest tour if you're easily offended by swearing, sexual imagery, grotesque attempts to offend or sheer bloody-minded nihilism.

And before that, it wasn't exactly a bed of roses: there were still thousands of people feeling abandoned by politics up and down the country, reeling from de-industrialisation; there were the grotesque attempts by New Labour to appeal to middle England by treating the working class as voting fodder; the unwillingness to criticise free market capitalism and plastering over the cracks it caused.

In a memorable phrase, the critic and program annotator Michael Steinberg wrote that as a young man, when he first heard the finale of the Mahler Seventh, it sounded like "someone's grotesque and futile attempt to remember how the 'Meistersinger' Overture goes".

Calling the remarks "misogynist and very grotesque," she said they were an attempt "to try to isolate our leaders from the social movements.

The Syracuse Orange have an appealingly un-fierce mascot, but their color identity, like several other schools, is mainly an attempt to obfuscate a grotesque and racist past.

Tasteful suggestions of violence would at this point be a more grotesque form of comedy than "Bonnie and Clyde" attempts.