grotesqueness

The grotesqueness of the sacrifice seems compounded for the Africans dragooned into fighting somebody else’s war.

To make room for that grotesqueness, that depraved thinking, to believe in any murder’s necessity, you must abandon reality.

As his legendary status grew, his human side – so flawed, so painfully angry and confrontational, so complicated – appeared to morph into an ever increasing grotesqueness.

Yet the same writer admitted that Lincoln possessed “an air of strength, physical as well as moral, and a strange look of dignity coupled with all this grotesqueness.”

The Chinese Grand Prix always felt expendable in a calendar already swollen to grotesqueness.