English example sentences with "grotesque"

They made huge, grotesque, yet beautiful poles of red cedar.
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When seen in the perspective of half-a-dozen years or more, the best of our fashions strike us as grotesque, if not unsightly.
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I saw some English female soldiers in yesterday night's news reel. For some, you couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman, but the majority were rather feminine, and it didn't feel that grotesque.
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From this point on, the story becomes so twisted and grotesque that I can't stop reading it anymore.
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It is grotesque: every private company, even small private companies, think European nowadays, but not so the governments of their states.
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If the agreement were enforced, it would create a situation verging on the grotesque.
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Quite apart from the concerns surrounding this injustice itself, it seems grotesque that this situation has been brought about by a committee whose very purpose of existence is the defence of women's rights and equal opportunities.
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As the grotesque parade passed by, everyone came out of their homes, hypnotized.
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What is happening at the present time in the dispute over place-name signs in Carinthia is grotesque.
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In her latest works she lets the uncanny swing like a grotesque pendulum from the humorous into homelike cosiness and back again.
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The figures and grotesque masks decorating the modillions are interesting.
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His photographs are unsparingly critical, and his inimitable eye unmasks the banal as well as the grotesque.
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The exposition is dedicated to photographs of ideal, natural, and grotesque bodies; conceives of sexuality as a part of existence; and presents photographed sexual practices, desires, and phantasms.
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It's grotesque.
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Tom is grotesque.
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It was grotesque.
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The olm is my favourite animal, due to its grotesque appearance.
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Sami's story was so grotesque that nobody believed him.
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There were grotesque dolphins turning somersaults, and gigantic whales squirting water through their nostrils like hundreds of fountains on every side.
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Among the familiar things that he would encounter would be creatures recognizably human yet in his view grotesque. While he himself laboured under the weight of his own body, these giants would be easily striding. He would consider them very sturdy, often thick-set, folk, but he would be compelled to allow them grace of movement and even beauty of proportion. The longer he stayed with them the more beauty he would see in them, and the less complacently would he regard his own type. Some of these fantastic men and women he would find covered with fur, hirsute, or mole-velvet, revealing the underlying muscles. Others would display brown, yellow or ruddy skin, and yet others a translucent ash-green, warmed by the under-flowing blood. As a species, though we are all human, we are extremely variable in body and mind, so variable that superficially we seem to be not one species but many.

Bvalltu was partly responsible for my long spell on the Other Earth. He would not hear of my leaving till we had each attained a real understanding of the other's world. I constantly stimulated his imagination to picture as clearly as possible the life of my own planet, and he had discovered in it much the same medley of the splendid and the ironical as I had discovered in his. In fact he was far from agreeing with me that his world was on the whole the more grotesque.

Lukas was chased by a grotesque monster.

Rodrigo witnessed Rima’s grotesque killing.

The Cenobites' appearance is twisted and grotesque, with their bodies heavily modified and adorned with various hooks, chains, and other instruments of torment.

He has a nasty and grotesque appearance.

His story is too grotesque to be a lie.

The monster was grotesque but not intimidating.

This film can only be described as grotesque.