Sentence examples for grotesque use from inspiring English sources

It was hardly news to me that my Net spying had now exceeded even the most grotesque use of the term "reportage".

This has been the case since the beginning of Iran's program; the revolutionary regime first turned to A. Q. Khan's salesmen in the wake of Saddam Hussein's grotesque use of chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq War.

But this time seemed different because of the existence of a videotape that clearly showed the grotesque use of what turned out to be deadly force by a group of police officers the size of which would have been appropriate for the investigation of a serious, deadly offense rather than the most minor of nuisances.

Cronenberg and Wagner manage to crawl under your skin with their repulsive characters and the former's signature instances of body mutilation -- said arson/battery, incest (so trendy lately) and also a rather grotesque use of the now-extinct Genie Award (another moment of industry humor).

Chabrol's fascination with the grotesque, his use of the irony of situation, and his commingling of tragedy and comedy reflect the strong stylistic influence of the English director Alfred Hitchcock.

Neither quality appears in the defendant's, for while he goesto get his grandchild, it is rather out of a truculentdetermination not to be forbidden, than from pride in his progeny.For the rest he is only a grotesque hobbledehoy, used for lowcomedy of the most conventional sort, which any one might borrow,if he chanced not to know the exemplar.

Hynde railed against modern-day dairy-farm practices that "turn cows into robots" and use "grotesque and archaic machinery".

In a statement, GLAAD said, "The film, its title and its marketing misrepresent the lives of transgender women and use grotesque, exploitative depictions of violence against transgender women".

In the Daily Mail in 2007, Humphrys asseverated that "vandals" who use "grotesque abbreviations" in their text messages are "pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary".

These, like many of the works in this show, are clearly religious; three use grotesque and diabolic figures as warnings against sin and greed, and the fourth, "The Peddler," has a pilgrim turning away from a brothel.

Like these expressionists, Murnau uses grotesque and strange images to touch the inner mind.