Inevitably, some of these accounts are harrowing in their specific detail, or simply grotesque.
And it is simply grotesque that Snowden compares these thousands of government workers — all doing their jobs to protect the United States — to the Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg.
The notion of the Chinese police attempting to buy and prevent release of the movie (imagine a film festival outside China getting hold of a copy — the Chinese government would denounce the practice as piracy, perhaps even sue) is simply grotesque.
The blood flecked bullet marks on the Temple of Hatshepsut are simply a grotesque and peculiarly modern form of graffiti.
Whether or not the amorous visitors are getting an education or simply a grotesque thrill, however, is an open question.
Those images are, simply put, grotesque, and were replayed endlessly on Al Jazeera like a cruel joke.
In another setting, another crime, it might have been ridiculous, but here . . . it was grotesque, it was simply incomprehensible.
The results aren't gory or grotesque, but they're nonetheless fleetingly yet significantly moving, simply because there are humans present, facing the end.
Commentators have called the images of the gusher grotesque, frustrating and simply too distressing to watch.
And the film winds up in a demonstration that Antonio's desire, which is grotesque, uncontrollable — crazy — simply can't be denied.
The book is set in the brutal era of the Argentinian junta (1976-83), when vast numbers (as many as 30,000, according to Amnesty International) of those deemed by a paranoid and irrational administration to be in any way opposed to the government's grotesque aims were simply murdered (or "disappeared" as the process came to be known).
