Sentence examples for grotesque for from inspiring English sources

It seemed grotesque for people to live in lightless dwellings alongside their animals.

Is it grotesque for a woman to want to "have it all"?

It's grotesque for him to pose now as a fiscal conservative, an environmentalist and a peacemaker.

It is particularly grotesque for Republicans to charge, as Jim Nicholson did, that the opposition to John Ashcroft is personal.

In these very large color photographs from 1985, Ms. Sherman broached the grotesque for the first time.

But the rest fit the masochistic bearing of a style that felt all the more grotesque for being executed with the artist's insinuating brushwork and ticklish color.

The book has its grotesques, for sure.

"I write poems for poets, and satires or grotesques for wits.

Maclean creates a gallery of startling grotesques for Silas and Jay to run into, and in a lesser film these would be lazy episodic sketches there to pad the film's substance.

It's tempting to say that Pollock has set loose a crew of grotesques — but grotesques, for all their twisted absurdities, are still capable of arousing sympathy amid revulsion, and "The Devil All the Time" is a darker book than that.

Terry Gilliam is one of our favourites; he's a perpetual imagination machine spewing out grotesques for major studios baffled by him.