grotesque

Competitors are judged on their ability to pull the ugliest or most grotesque face.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Once the viewer understands where Refn is headed, they can submit themselves to his grotesque neon visions.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

She physically twists Odysseus’ men into pigs in a grotesque sequence of body horror, with no romance, yearlong idyll or magical help.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Nor are the formerly enslaved Americans who forced the nation to confront the grotesque contradiction between slavery and constitutional liberty.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026

He studied one by one the grotesque carvings of dwarfs that decorated the roof bosses, and the corbels finishing the doorway.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

Part of this is in the rich tradition of European reporters sojourning in the United States who find casual grotesques about Americans far more lucrative and less taxing than actually trying to meet the natives.

From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2026

But he had his own quirky, even obsessive interests—in all things ancient and Roman, in architecture, and especially in the hybrid ornamental figures known as grotesques.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

With the genre claiming 17% of the domestic box office for 2025, production studios are eager to feed our seemingly bottomless appetite for cinematic grotesques, especially those based on true stories.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2025

The Watergate grotesques form a small portion of the weird and sometimes wacky, but always carefully curated, world of Ellison.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

When first he came to Dragonstone, the army of stone grotesques had made him uneasy, but as the years passed he had grown used to them.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin