Sentence examples for grotesque place from inspiring English sources

His Czernopol is a coarse, grotesque place, as self-serving as the police state that will soon come to replace it; its saving grace is its ability to make light of its own wickedness.

But this is a woman who wore coconuts on her tits on SNL; she can go to the craziest, most grotesque places on the planet in character".

A grotesque and unique place within the history of the Holocaust, at any given time it housed 60,000 people, most of whom were transported to Auschwitz.

Carnivalesque tableaux place grotesque dummies and sinewy women in each other's arms, poised on divans, lounging before swagged curtains, or plunging head first off bierlike beds.

The costumes are glitzy and glammy and sometimes a little grotesque, easier to place in the world of vaudeville or of P. T. Barnum than in that of the Carter Administration.

Greece's most grotesque custom takes place once a year on the first Monday of Lent, in the plain of Thessaly.

"Barton Fink" distances itself from its grotesque protagonist by placing him in a bygone era, but the message is clear: screenwriters are pathetic.

Placing grotesque masks on his children and setting them free, Meatyard captured an un-choreographed mix of childhood innocence amid strange and horror-filled backdrops.

Two younger brothers, Milton and Herbert, were called Gummo and Zeppo, but they never developed grotesque masks and had no place in the act; Zeppo seems as out of place in his five pictures as Chico would have in "The Godfather".

The war is indeed a grotesque waste of resources, which will place huge long-run burdens on the American public.

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