Sentence examples for grotesque behaviour from inspiring English sources
In spite of his villainous propensities, his inarticulacy, his grotesque behaviour, he comes across as eminently human.
Mahmood, as even a complaisant police force now realises, didn't always investigate crime or grotesque behaviour so much as contrive the circumstances in which A- and B-list celebrities might be tempted to pass some drugs parcel or deliver headline-worthy indiscretions.
A Temperance tract entitled On the Effects of Ardent Spirits provides an excited list of the grotesque behaviours that follow intoxication, among them unusual garrulity, profane swearing and fighting, as well as "singing, hallooing, roaring, imitating the noise of brute animals, dancing naked, breaking glasses and china and dashing other articles of household furniture upon the ground or floor".
Yet such dodgy behaviour is even more grotesque when the fat cats are public servants who are partly reliant on taxes.
Several other varieties of clowns were popular in the 19th century, particularly the elegantly costumed whiteface clown, favoured in many European circuses, who appears rather severe and domineering, and the happy-go-lucky Auguste (German: "foolish") clown, conceived by the American Tom Belling in the late 19th century, whose makeup, costume, and behaviour are exaggerated and grotesque.
When you're teaching journalism, you teach students how to write that opening paragraph that will attract the attention of search engines but you get these grotesque "filter bubbles" [where website algorithms guess what content users would like based on previous behaviour].
At times, when Hannah is smashing expensive wine glasses or Lowell is brooding by a window, turning his head "so that the light hits him just right", their behaviour borders on the absurd, and I longed to see a chink of humanity in their glossy, grotesque exteriors.
The situation is grotesque.
