Sentence examples for grotesque event from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, a woman is found dead in her apartment after attending a grotesque event for foodies.

She has abandoned the oblique historical miniatures with which her last decade had been occupied... and she has returned to that vein of comedy in which a self-projection becomes caught up in a series of grotesque, fantastical events... Beryl Bainbridge is an immortal".

The sequence of grotesque events is so outrageous that it is almost, but not quite, funny.

Give Not Invading a Chance: This weekend, "one of the most grotesque events in the political history of the modern world" will take place in Myanmar, writes Timothy Garton Ash on the op-ed page of The Los Angeles Times.

This weekend, unless Burma's generals rediscover in their shrivelled souls some remnant of human decency, there will take place in the Irrawaddy delta one of the most grotesque events in the political history of the modern world.

But a focus on the grotesque events in the bunker, at their centre the physical and mental wreck of a man about to kill himself as his world collapses in ruins, can in itself do little to explain how it had come to this.

And then of course there is the grotesque case involving seven men who conspired to abuse very young children, even raping a baby and filming the sickening event so others could watch it happening live.

"This is a grotesque result".

While the search for meaning preoccupies Watt, grotesque characters and events provide comic relief.

Often beauty radiates from the eyes of the subject whose proud gaze conveys a steadfast determination to confront a grotesque turn of events with fortitude.

We are standing to one side, apparently powerless, watching a grotesque parade of events set in train by religious fundamentalists of every stripe: Christian, Islamic, Jewish.