grotesque

“Siegfried” is a grotesque coming-of-age tale, comic and terrifying by turns; “Götterdämmerung” expands into grand opera, with public reckonings and collective catastrophe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

"It looks to me designed to be a grotesque spectacle," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

But where Hwan’s Christianity is a willful, grotesque misreading of the Bible, Latif actively wrestles with his moral shortcomings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

And Neill relished that ability, returning time and again to characters whose unpredictability mirrored life’s, creating an oeuvre that is both grotesque and supremely human.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

This part of it would have been comical if the results were not so grotesque.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

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

Later, at the premiere of the film, he portrays the gathered reporters, photographers and gawkers — mostly men — as grotesques, their mouths agape in obscene rictus grins.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2022

It’s even proposed that the grotesques in medieval art may have been influenced by Ad Herennium s advice on the use of outlandish images to nail an idea in memory.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith