Sentence examples for in a grotesque from inspiring English sources

But in a grotesque twist, their tormentor was also a child, not yet even a teenager.

In a grotesque displacement, the 'real' hidden self feels betrayed by its own actions.

It appeared in a grotesque cartoon that ran last week in The New York Post.

The mouth was extended in a grotesque gash; a hysterectomy had been performed.

Or, rather, the two of them were — but were they actually murderous or merely absorbed in a grotesque fantasy?

Instead, in Uganda, the influence of conservative Christians is found in a grotesque push to execute gays.

Meanwhile, in Sacramento, two of the greatest sprinters, Michael Johnson and Maurice Greene, went down in a grotesque daily double.

In a grotesque sequence, Urrutia Lacroix gives a weekly seminar for the generals, smirking and diligent by turns.

Once, while Lewis was examining the serial killer Joseph Franklin, he sniffed her, in a grotesque, sexual way.

A faceless figure in blue, its belly vastly distended in a grotesque simulacrum of pregnancy, floats across the stage.

The slippery tile sets up a Rube Goldbergesque chain of pratfalls that culminate in a grotesque self-strangulation.