Sentence examples for grotesque old man from inspiring English sources
In his stories, the trappings of narrative tend to fall away, and in "Boy in Rome" we're left with some artfully turned self-inquiries: "Why, never having received from my parents anything but affection and understanding, should I invent a grotesque old man, a foreign grave, and a foolish mother?
Siena has added a new wrinkle to his linear system: figuration, in the form of grotesque old-man faces that veer with alacrity from Renaissance character studies to Mad-magazine comics.
Oh, if only.... Before all this there is a tortuous framing device in which Manolo's son Robert Dougray Scottt), commissioned to write a book about Josemaría, tries to interview his estranged father (Mr. Bentley in grotesque old-man makeup), who is near death, about his relationship with Josemaría.
She brought her performance to a close with a final grotesque landai: 'Making love to an old man / is like fucking a shrivelled cornstalk blackened by mould.' The room burst into raucous laughter.
