grotesque

The lyric soprano Katarzyna Wietrzny sings her in an arch scene played for laughs where something more grotesque seems called for.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

By the time Coralie Fargeat’s 2024 “The Substance” reaches its gloriously grotesque climax, Demi Moore’s Elisabeth Sparkle and Margaret Qualley’s Sue have effectively fused into the spectacularly deformed creature known as Monstro Elisasue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

"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

Mukbangers, content creators who eat grotesque amounts of food on camera, frequently feature fried chicken.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

At her forecastle stood a grotesque figurehead, some worm-eaten wooden eminence with a constipated look and a scroll tucked up under one arm.

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

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

The Watergate grotesques form a small portion of the weird and sometimes wacky, but always carefully curated, world of Ellison.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

"Speaking for the grotesques," he said, "I beg to differ. Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin