Sentence examples for grotesque fact from inspiring English sources

The European Union should also have protested forcefully against the grotesque fact of Mugabe's attendance at the FAO summit in Rome not all that long ago.

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".

There something grotesque about the fact that the audience who devoured his work turned him kitsch and (even more) misunderstood.

Apparently not wanting his audience to miss out on any grotesque angle or the fact that he's a total dick Bowmar even attached a GoPro to the spear.

Yet, far more grotesque (and stolen, in fact), is Dubya's embrace of the severely injured Iraq war veteran.

"Childbirth is grotesque because of the fact it challenges the integrity of the human body by, in essence, presenting the human as its constituent elements - it is a reverse crucible.

Through the film's lens, the grotesque is matter-of-fact, and all the more provocative because of it.

The sets and the costumes, by the Canadian artist Marcel Dzama, are full of grotesque fancies; they are, in fact, the ballet's strongest element.

But it is legitimate to doubt — in fact, it is grotesque to suggest — that hanging (or beheading, stoning, shooting, electrocution, or lethal injection, the other methods currently in use in the countries, most of them unfree, that still practice capital punishment) can possibly be done in a "dignified way".

These books are notable for a deft manipulation of mood, swaying between the fantastical and the realistic, the grotesque and the matter-of-fact, the serious and the playful, a medley that seems of a piece with Carey's satirical yet forgiving overview.

In fact, there is the grotesque possibility that Orwell, had he been living and writing now, would not have won the Orwell prize, the political writing award set up in his name.