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grotesque

[groh-tesk] / groʊˈtɛsk /


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Once the viewer understands where Refn is headed, they can submit themselves to his grotesque neon visions.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2026

Nor are the formerly enslaved Americans who forced the nation to confront the grotesque contradiction between slavery and constitutional liberty.

From Slate Jul. 2, 2026

Southern writers were drawn to the grotesque, Flannery O’Connor wrote, because they conceived of humankind theologically, in relation to the Fall.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

One of the most grotesque displays on view is an albumen print of an 1863 photo titled “A Harvest of Death,” taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan after the Battle of Gettysburg.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 10, 2026

Of course, she’d have to duel the grotesque one.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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

More amusingly, among the gargoyles and grotesques that dot the various towers are one in the form of a corrupt politician and another representing Darth Vader.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 7, 2023

Another night of Stew Beef making dynamic subtleties with his drum and living, sculptural, grotesques in the dance.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston




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