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
Suetonius detailed Emperor Domitan’s nighttime events, highlighting the grotesqueness of gladiatrices fighting in the shadows.
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2024
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
"But its grotesqueness will not be so obvious at the Ringers' Arch," he said.
From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary
