Sentence examples for pretty grotesque from inspiring English sources

One depicted a pretty grotesque scene on the subway — not something you'd want to put up on a wall for the public to see.

The men claim their supplement has certain practical benefits, like reducing the risk of yeast infections, which in theory seem fair enough, but everything else about their invention sounds pretty grotesque.

"Seeing beaches full of ladies in white gloves applauding mock attacks on mocked-up Vietnamese villages and someone calling out the body count and people applauding, it was pretty grotesque," he said.

But the fact is that the liberation strategy of terror against Israeli civilians that Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian leadership selected in the 1960s-80s was really pretty grotesque and inexcusable, even compared to the sins committed by a lot of other founding fathers.

"It was pretty grotesque.

In a 1917 article entitled "The Extreme Adolescence of America," Vogue introduced its readers to the flapper: "She is a fantastic grotesque, pretty in the modern manner, which is a wild mixture of Paris, futurism, the primitives, and a little rouge … She is feverishly interested in two things, herself and her clothes".

It's got all the hits: pretty girls, faintly grotesque girls, excruciatingly slow pacing, mysterious places outside of space, glitchiness, menace, doubles and, finally, two people switching lives, to the extreme confusion of both.

"PRETTY UGLY" Sprawling, confusing, grotesque, and impressive, this two-gallery show was organized by Alison Gingeras.

The band snapped it shut, but Iggy Pop kept dancing: grotesque and pretty, whirling, contorting and pivoting.

I leave the box and I'm confronted with the physical art associated with the project, which ranges from the cartoonishly grotesque to some pretty nice portraits of people, most of them including text that satirises how we view the virgin, as well as the whole wanting-to-have-sex-for-fame thing.

Callot in grotesque mode can be pretty far out, but he can also turn such effects on and off.