grotesque

"It's not something we've asked for and actually I think it looks quite grotesque in the climate that we're in."

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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

I knew this because they were skulking in the bushes outside the detention room, making grotesque faces at me through the window.

From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman

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

And then there is the structure itself, with its towering walls of stone, its flying buttresses and its weird populace of gargoyles and grotesques watching the city from on high.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 25, 2022

Whether any of the nephews shared Yezzan’s fondness for cripples, freaks, and grotesques was far less certain.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin