Definition of GROTESQUERIE

Examples of grotesquerie in a Sentence

born Joseph Merrick, the so-called Elephant Man was for a time exhibited as a sideshow grotesquerie

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Maybe that’s the explanation for some painful — and unnecessary — zaniness in the late going, from a costumed lip-sync number with Farmiga and Schaal to one insert shot too many of those Crumb-ly grotesqueries. — Tom Russo, BostonGlobe.com, "‘Boundaries’ follows three generations, one car, and a lot of pot," 4 July 2018 The result is a panorama of atomic grotesquerie that is at once troubling, surprising and ruthlessly entertaining. — The Economist, "Secrets and lies of the nuclear age," 7 June 2018 This version of the Cinderella story sets the gentle, patient heroine against the comic grotesqueries of her domineering stepmother and twit-like stepsisters. — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, "French Opera Takes Over New York," 23 Apr. 2018 If America is lucky—and America has been a lucky country—out of the grotesqueries of this Trumpian era a rectification will gather force. — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, "The Post Office and Trump’s Culture War," 20 Apr. 2018 And a growing commitment to augmenting the grotesqueries of Gothick design, colored glass at the windows lending the place a cathedral air with images not of saints but suns and moons, stars, falcons, an antlered stag. — Longreads, "The Ladies Who Were Famous for Wanting to Be Left Alone," 17 Apr. 2018 The war’s proponents deploy propaganda with all the loathsome rhetoric of the white supremacist alt-right; the war’s atrocities are Mengelean in scope and grotesquerie. — N.k. Jemisin, New York Times, "The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy," 6 Sep. 2017 In some ways, the grotesqueries of his persona, rather than anathematizing him to voters, only enhanced his appeal among those wishing for something different. — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, "Protest Works," 24 Jan. 2017 Donald Trump’s grotesqueries have presented the Republican Party’s intellectual class with a searing test of faith, somewhat akin to the way Marxist intellectuals experienced Stalin’s pact with Hitler or Khrushchev’s secret speech. — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, "Does Charlie Sykes Understand How the Right Lost Its Mind?," 15 Oct. 2017

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