Sentence examples for grotesquely expensive from inspiring English sources
Hope @theresa_may understands how awful her attempt to blackmail Parliament looks - and how grotesquely expensive.
The government's problem this week is that an event sold to London by the IOC in a frenetic market for glory has become so grotesquely expensive that politicians feel obliged to render some account for it.
The case for keeping the hospital, made by an exceptionally well-organised and widely supported local campaign – strongly backed by local GPs and Lewisham hospital staff – was being ignored in favour of a financially driven plan that saves the government from dealing with the prime cause – grotesquely expensive PFI contracts.
But the actual deployment for war in central Europe makes no sense and is grotesquely expensive.
Wind power is a grotesquely expensive and inefficient form of energy, and the new windmills are hideous things, ruining the landscape and making an infernal noise.
In what has been the ugliest and most grotesquely expensive campaign of the 2014 midterms, North Carolina's Democratic incumbent Senator Kay Hagan is running dead even with Republican challenger Thom Tillis, with outside groups spending $72 million to influence the race.
The actual threat of low-dose radiation to humans is so low that the LNT hypothesis can neither be proven true nor proven false, yet it continues to dominate and misguide policies concerning radiation exposure, making them grotesquely conservative and expensive.
For filmgoers who are increasingly put off by large, expensive and grotesquely spectacular films about very little, "Last Orders" may be the alternative.
He described the $65 million figure as "grotesquely excessive".
Perhaps Apple is correctly priced, the market too expensive and growth stocks grotesquely so.
And it is expensive, this stuff: the contemporary art market is grotesquely overvalued; the relationship between the aesthetic value of works by big-name international artists and the sums they fetch at auction is tenuous at best.
