grotesqueness
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So do scribbly, charming drawings of a cat and studies of feet that emphasize grotesqueness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
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
The mermaid is a frequent subject, but more monotonous in its form and action than any other creature, and is generally found executed with a respectful simplicity that scarcely ever savours of grotesqueness.
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge
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