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

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 aliens' look is unconvincing and forgettable, lacking either the deliberate cheesiness of "They Live" or the believability and grotesqueness of "Starship Troopers" and "District 9."

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2019

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

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2017

There is positive grotesqueness in the idea, seen in this obliterating haze of fatigue that so maliciously dwarfs and slurs.

From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday