grotesqueness

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With its use of caricature, distortion and exaggeration, art can look “grotesque” without conveying grotesqueness; indeed, it can convey something quite the opposite.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2025

In hindsight, it’s as though Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy were holding back the impeding tide of celebrity excess: the costly haute couture, the personal branding, the competitive public confessionals, the grotesqueness of it all.

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2019

The multifarious cast members combine raw psychological realism with Dickensian grotesqueness.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2017

And adding to the grotesqueness of the events that day, the police told investigators they believed that a 12-year-old was actually 20 years old.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2015

He has produced an historical romance inspired by the perusal of Sir Walter Scott, fantastic legends, psychological studies, marked by a mixture of sentimentality and grotesqueness.

From The Mantle and Other Stories by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich