"It was an ironic, comic and grotesque speech," he said.
Clearly, the OPTF's prosecutions are based on subjective conservative morals and are placing limits on the capabilities of free speech, however gross and grotesque free speech may get.
Sarkeesian is targeted with grotesque hate speech on social media, has had public appearances disrupted with bomb threats and has been the subject of a crude video game about punching her in the face.
The satirical character of the book stems from the underlying grotesque scenario, the speeches of Pitar and his fellow hominids, the mentioning of artifacts which have not yet been invented, and the numerous allusions to world history and literature.
The settlement of the West, by taking large numbers of young men beyond the pale of urbane society, made for grotesque looseness in speech.
The characters may be superhuman and godlike in appearance, speech, and deed or grotesque and ridiculous, perhaps even puppets, but as long as they behave in even vaguely recognizable human ways the spectator can understand them.
(Holk's monologue is a grotesque inversion of Lene's coolly self-aware speech in "On Tangled Paths").
Spero summed it up herself via an image that recurs across the Codex – a disembodied head with a grotesque phallic tongue protruding from its mouth: the organ of speech envisaged partly as a weapon and partly as a gag.
That's what makes this rally so depressing and grotesque: It's an anti-rally, a kind of mass concession speech without the speech some kind of sick funeral party for Liberalism, in which Liberals are led, at last, by a clown.
"Let us be a force for change in the world", he urged Britain in his inaugural speech as Leader, "a force that recognises we cannot go on like this, with grotesque levels of inequality, grotesque threats to our environment".
