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

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

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

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2017

Plate 11—“With Dreams upon my bed thou scarest me and affrightest me with Visions”—has something mediaeval in the grotesqueness and ingeniousness of the horrors depicted.

From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Langridge, Irene