Sentence examples for perfect grotesque from inspiring English sources

As an example of what Tambor - perhaps the finest comic actor currently active - is routinely called upon to essay, it's perfect: grotesque hubris leading, inexorably, to abject humiliation.

SHOWCASE about Francesco Rosi's "The Truce"... Shortly after "Barton Fink" won the Golden Palm at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, the great Italian director Francesco Rosi ("Three Brothers," "Eboli") told Barton Fink himself, the New York actor John Turturro, that he would be perfect for a "grotesque and ironic" movie he had in mind.

Complete with grotesque signage.

The lab has perfected a serum that causes grotesque mutations.

While some celebrated her cartoonishly perfect body, others mocked it as shockingly grotesque.

But once said reader spends a little time in Russia, he will realize that the novel is not grotesque and cartoonish, but a perfect mirror of Russian life.

"While Mr. Cronenberg's ingenious approach to his material matches Mr. Burroughs's flair for the grotesque, it also shares the author's perfect nonchalance and his ice-cold wit," Janet Maslin wrote in The Times in 1991.

"I was flesh bereft of spirit," wrote the journalist Patricia Pearson in "A Brief History of Anxiety (Yours and Mine)," in a pitch-perfect description of this emotional morass, "a friable self, grotesque..

In the middle of this sorry collection of lager louts and megabores stands the grotesque human phenomenon known as "Becks" - the perfect icon for our narcissistic, materialistic and under-educated times.

He has the perfect foil in Rufus Hound, who somehow manages to be both grotesque and endearing as the slob of a rival con man.

The more grotesque something is, the more chance it has to be perfect.