But six months after the girls were taken, the contrast between the rampaging outrage of the Twitter campaign and the conspicuous absence in Nigeria of much urgency about their plight is so grotesque it is almost comical.
It's almost defiantly grotesque".
And the coiffures, each individual, were almost all grotesque, with vast, isolated curls and quiffs.
"I was extremely hard on myself in those days, and I had the feeling, by the time the show aired, that it was almost a grotesque character".
The sequence of grotesque events is so outrageous that it is almost, but not quite, funny.
Referred to as his mug, the figure looks like a grotesque caricature of Gainsbourg, with a face that is almost entirely taken up by his long, pointed nose.
There is something almost grotesque in the contrast between the self-indulgence of the Conservative leadership contest and the anxiety gripping millions of families worried about the future.
There's something almost grotesque in the aesthetic of this top-down sports game, with two pairs of players each controlling a long worm-like creature with a head and arms on each end.
There was something almost grotesque about sitting and watching for an hour or so the looting at a CVS pharmacy store as people very casually wandered into the store and wandered out with their arms full.
It's late isn't it, almost grotesque.
