Sentence examples for grotesque sum from inspiring English sources
After the mighty Staatling-Wapachung Corporation bought Joshie out for a grotesque sum of money, everyone was given a rank, the least enthusiastic among us simply told to go home.
Thus, did the grand arbiter pass judgment on these huge doings even though, as a professor of economics, Larry was known to resent the grotesque sums of money being spent on ball players.
So parents who can afford it are paying grotesque sums to give their kids an edge.
That grotesque, riveting image sums up in an instant the potent mixture of violence and mystery at the heart of the Bluebeard story.
The economics of the proposed high-speed railway look more grotesque every time the sums are totted up.
Bacevich's scorching litany of what he sums up as "grotesque and contemptible irresponsibility" is a bracing indictment of my profession, and how no one suffers consequences for even the most humiliating failures in prediction and analysis, as long as those failures favor the use of military force.
Walmart pursues poor people for petty sums that seem grotesque when compared to the great wealth of the family that profits most from Walmart.
Lynch moved to the city in the wake of the scarring 1964 riots in North Philly and during the rise of the brutal policeman turned mayor Frank Rizzo, whose grotesque braggadocio can be neatly summed up in a mid-election statement to reporters: "I'm going to make Attila the Hun look like a faggot".
The sum of these parts is one of the many grotesque creatures in "Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration," at the Museum of Modern Art.
This was Japan's "Taisho era", a rare time of democratic upheaval and self-indulgence, summed up in the phrase eroguronansensu, or erotic, grotesque nonsense.
Archie Bland It says something about 2016 that the work of art to sum it up best was an apocalyptic installation that recreated a grotesque version of Hitler's bunker decorated with premonitions of the end of the world.
