"Getting the poor to pay for the privilege of taking out their own money is a grotesque practice, which should end immediately," Mr Field said.
Mentions the grotesque practice of swabbing the prisoner's forearm, as if to insure that the puncture wound won't become infected.
Fortunately, it's been reported today that the UN has not listened to the council of cultural relativists, and has instead called for a ban on what it correctly refers to as the "grotesque practice" of female genital mutilation.
In a way, it is a democratic ideal taken to its most grotesque extreme, but in practice it is the opposite of democratic, because it allows the demagogue to exploit gullibility and ignorance.
But, he added, similar "wasteful and inefficient practices" leading to "grotesque leachings of costs" are not unusual.
— Glenn Collins Chicago Reader: Sure, cooking with an ostrich egg seems like a cool idea in the abstract, but it's kind of grotesque when put into actual practice.
And the worst are, as ever, full of passionate intensity, oblivious to the grotesque failure of their doctrine in practice.
The festival itself had already shown its hand by encouraging a crackdown on selfies on the red carpet this year, after the festival director Thierry Frémaux decried the practice as "ridiculous and grotesque".
The Festival's director, Thierry Frémaux, believes that taking a taking a photo of yourself is "ridiculous and grotesque", and will discourage celebs from the practice.
Beyond what we think, it's a practice that's often extremely ridiculous and grotesque".
