Sentence examples for grotesque thing from inspiring English sources

I just remember listening to her and imagining her with blue eyes, and it was a grotesque thing.

The ship is a grotesque thing, on which the men were to live and work for eight months.

In each episode of the podcast, before the guests delve into whatever grotesque thing Trump has done in the last day or so, Di Domenico reads out the latest ramblings from the man's Twitter feed with pitch-perfect precision.

Doing what she is paid handsomely to do (and presumably what got her 291,000 Twitter followers), Hopkins came up with the most grotesque thing she could say about the issue and condensed it into 140 characters, tweeting that the nurse in question was a "sweaty Glaswegian" and referring to Scots as "Jocks".

As Arthur Mizener, Fitzgerald's first biographer, pointed out, "It is precisely this loss which allows Gatsby to discover 'what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.' " Perhaps Fitzgerald could have captured this heightened state of awareness in a script, but was this what the studios were looking for?

Without wanting to give away the ending for new readers, it is hard to read The Swimmer without recalling the Gatsby who was forced to look upon "an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely collected grass".

So we make them grotesque instead.

But remarkable or unseemly or grotesque things can happen to the most flat-footed of us.

There were grotesque things: flowers wandering across the room, faces turning inside out.

"And the most grotesque things that happen in life you don't want to put in your book".

Clowes's stories are always peopled with the difficult characters he finds so intriguing, misfits to whom terrible – even grotesque – things frequently seem to happen.