grotesqueness

Example Sentences

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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

The grotesqueness of the sacrifice seems compounded for the Africans dragooned into fighting somebody else’s war.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023

The Chinese Grand Prix always felt expendable in a calendar already swollen to grotesqueness.

From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2020

It’s the grotesqueness of the sale and ensuing spectacle, and more specifically, it’s the idea that the system is absurd.

From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2019

Gogol has made brilliantly coloured pictures of his Zaporogues, which please by their very grotesqueness; but sometimes it is too evident that he has not drawn them from nature.

From The Mantle and Other Stories by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich