Sentence examples for grotesque figure from inspiring English sources

Claire is a fairly grotesque figure.

His long arms and legs, his grotesque figure, made him too easy to caricature and ridicule.

The teenage Claude cut a "mildly grotesque" figure, with his high-domed forehead and crinkly black hair.

She seemed a grotesque figure in the 1980s, even though the amounts she dodged were pin money by today's standards.

Then a grotesque figure the girls call Mama appears in the shadows and begins to wreak havoc on their lives.

The local Okinawa "boss" is equally ridiculous, a grotesque figure in a red suit, lavender shirt, yellow tie and dark glasses.

Many of them are there still. 1 Antickes are grotesque figures.

Roman tables took on quite elaborate forms, the legs carved in the shapes of animals, sphinxes, or grotesque figures.

His "Beatitudes," depicting amorous acts with grotesque figures, affronted even his admirers, and the Church-House project failed to attract a sponsor.

With its long spout and surface richly embellished with decorations of grotesque figures, swags and shells, it is considered an important work by the Italian Renaissance sculptor Andrea Riccio.

Some of the newly displayed carvings, including a rollicking sequence of grotesque figures, match stones still in place in the ruined walls.