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How To Use Grotesqueness In A Sentence

  • Masked, they were dynamic, varied, and hilarious, so that their masks actually seemed to become their faces, despite their grotesqueness; unmasked, they were slow, hesitant, and awkward, as if ashamed of the material.
  • I, Darrell Standing, was the linking personality that connected all bizarreness and grotesqueness. Chapter 6
  • Hanley Black's wife, a stout-in-the-middle matron of 45, thinks "It's positively indecent" while her husband "surveyed his wife's criminal shapelessness and voluminousness of ante-diluvian, New England swimming dress with a withering, contemplative eye" and tells her in a sentence never uttered by a human before or since, "You appear as a creature shameful, under a grotesqueness of apparel striving to hide some secret awfulness. “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
  • I stare at the painted q-tip in my fingers and smile at the grotesqueness of it all. Volcano
  • The last part explores the values and significance of the characteristic of grotesqueness of network literature from its grotesque features, that is, unofficial, legal and Utopian.
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  • It was only the rather comic grotesqueness seen sometimes in the face of a little child when he is what his mother calls a naughty boy, and distends his mouth and closes his eyes for a genuine howl. Bunyip Land A Story of Adventure in New Guinea
  • At least that's what I found anyway when I saw one gruesome seens (none of the scenes were close the "grotesqueness" of the Saw and Hostel movie series), but a few of them did strike a nerve for a short while anyway I must admit. Undefined
  • Even in its miraculous element it stands to some extent in contrast with all mythologies, where the marvelous has ever a predominant character of grotesqueness which is absent from New Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
  • The grossness and the sliminess of it was forgotten in the simple grotesqueness of it, and he had the saving sense of humor. The Benefit of the Doubt
  • From its opening moments, the film alternates wide-angle panoramas with screen-popping close-ups of the actors, most of whom seem to have been picked for their grotesqueness.
  • Most of the minor characters are cartoonish in their grotesqueness, and they provide an effective foil for the two leads.
  • You appear as a creature shameful, under a grotesqueness of apparel striving to hide some secret awfulness. THE KANAKA SURF
  • This description of the Foul Fiend has an element of grotesqueness which is rather Christian than Moslem. Arabian nights. English
  • The grotesqueness of the story is rendered through the ridiculously difficult process of choosing a proper dress that will emphasize the heroine's femininity and attractiveness.
  • Insects are frightening not for their grotesqueness alone, but for their lack of personality.
  • Of the grotesqueness of our own Shakespeare I need hardly speak, nor of its intolerableness to his French critics; nor of that of Æschylus and Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920
  • She laughed genuinely at the grotesqueness of the idea. CHAPTER II
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  • The only element even slightly fantastical is the sheer grotesqueness of the characters, the sheer size of the giant, moldering castle. Are There Any SF/F Books You Could Not Finish?
  • And, finally, adding to the grotesqueness of the process is the added burden for immigrants who do not understand English of trying to comprehend the court proceedings. Bennett L. Gershman: How Immigration Courts Contaminate American Justice
  • But in spite of its merits, its dialect wearies the modern reader, and gives it an air of grotesqueness which is very alien to the spirit of the Latin. The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor

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