How to Use grotesquerie in a Sentence

grotesquerie

noun

• The seams between bolsters can trap all kinds of tiny grotesqueries.
  — Blake Z. Rong, Esquire, 11 May 2017
• The grotesquerie is edged with triumph and therefore not remote from truth.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 July 2022
• The grotesquerie of the images is meant to interrupt what pleasure the scene might otherwise prompt.
  — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• In Loro, the effort to plumb the void at the center of all the grotesqueries is given a sharper, more historically specific edge.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2019
• Able to spin memories into literary gold, Hull’s warmth and sadness call to mind the grotesqueries of Flannery O’Connor.
  — Jessica Ferri, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
• But much of this year’s broadcast took a laugh-to-avoid-weeping approach to the Trump Era, and poking fun at political grotesqueries has long been Colbert’s forte.
  — Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2017
• Both the prosecution and the defense aimed to find a thread of logic in an inexplicable grotesquerie.
  — Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
• At first glance, armed right-wing militants dressed in floral shirts may seem like another baffling grotesquerie in the parade of calamities that is 2020.
  — Dale Beran, The Atlantic, 4 July 2020
• The grotesquerie Houellebecq is famous for pervades Serotonin.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 16 Nov. 2019
• Rarely has an extended metaphor turned into such a final-boss-battle grotesquerie.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2022
• 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, 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, 17 Apr. 2018
• The image seems almost forced apart by the grotesqueries of stereotype, technology collapsing under the weight of history.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2017
• 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, 4 July 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, 6 Sep. 2017
• But just in case a reader still has the stomach for more grotesquerie by the time the main narrative is finished, there’s a 70-page appendix filled with truncated tales of lascivious behavior — bonus nuggets of lechery.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
• Beran understands the grotesqueries of 4chan as a kind of modern monument to disconsolate male heartbreak.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 31 July 2019
• The result is a panorama of atomic grotesquerie that is at once troubling, surprising and ruthlessly entertaining.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• 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, 24 Jan. 2017
• This movie is a gleeful carnival of nauseating grotesqueries.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• 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, 23 Apr. 2018
• The third season kitchen-sinked with luscious grotesquerie, clashing giallo horror into a Euro-trippy showdown.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• There’s the sour news, which is complicated by tangential sensations of grotesquerie and elegance, fury and poignance, and, perhaps, of philosophical insight.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
• For all its rage and grotesquerie, that book was ultimately a conversion story about a depressive misanthrope who learns to live again, aided by psychopharmaceuticals and a brush with mass tragedy.
  — Jess Bergman, The New Republic, 22 June 2022
• For the most part, Ellis's original darkness, grotesquerie, and societal critique has been similarly cordoned off.
  — Jesse Oxfeld, Town & Country, 22 Apr. 2016
• The Chechen war, for all its unforgivable grotesqueries, yielded something every beleaguered democrat could celebrate: the strength of the independent airwaves.
  — Andrew Meier, WIRED, 1 Dec. 1995
• Donald Corren’s Fagin is a roguish scene-stealer, shunning gross grotesquerie without succumbing to blandness.
  — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2018
• The apparent grotesquerie — honoring the mother of the Saviour of the universe, the vessel of salvation, with muscular gyrations designed to capture the momentary interest of six-year-olds — is inexpressibly beautiful in the mind’s eye.
  — William F. Buckley Jr., National Review, 26 Nov. 2020
• More Stories The answer might be that Tarantino is out to absolve Hollywood, and himself, for grotesqueries, excesses, insensitivities, and lapses.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2019
• To avoid sappiness, Donnelly tends to complicate his allusions with willful grotesquerie.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021

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