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- noun Plural form of
grotesquery .
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Examples
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Working together with a creative team of huge experience, he has refracted the story through 100 years of German history and culture, from the 19th century to the Third Reich, from the romantic imagery of Caspar David Friedrich, through the grotesqueries of Otto Dix and George Grosz to Leni Reifenstahl's film of the 1936 Olympics.
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The Wall Street Journal's critic hailed his "sheer pictorial elegance," while criticizing the paintings as "grotesqueries with an avidness worthy of Barnum."
Painter's 'Naked Portraits' Depicted Friends, Relatives Stephen Miller 2011
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Accordingly, Wolverton's illustrations, done in the same unmistakable, stippled style that characterized his grotesqueries, show off the grim, the violent, and the destructive in the Old Testament, putting the blood and guts in the spotlight.
Boing Boing 2009
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If painting in watercolour really is irredeemably minor, then how to account for the haunting visions of William Blake, the proto-modernist landscapes of JS Cotman, key symbolist work by Edward Burne-Jones, Paul Nash's hellish war paintings, Edward Burra's grotesqueries, not forgetting some of Tracey Emin's more affecting pieces?
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Joined in the booth by his darkly beautiful girlfriend, Alondra, and his devoted engineer, Watt, Joaquin masks his skepticism, encouraging callers to withhold nothing as they spin nightmares and grotesqueries they swear are true.
WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR FEBRUARY 21ST | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010
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The work "never comes from an interest in mythology," he says, but from "logic and materials"—handling the clay, Styrofoam, resin, plaster, Plexiglas, quartz, chains, mirrors and other media that he uses—and from being open to the larger-than-life shapes and grotesqueries that form.
Sculpted Monsters of Myth Rachel Wolff 2011
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Joined in the booth by his darkly beautiful girlfriend, Alondra, and his devoted engineer, Watt, Joaquin masks his skepticism, encouraging callers to withhold nothing as they spin nightmares and grotesqueries they swear are true.
WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR FEBRUARY 21ST | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010
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The youth market still has some newness and grotesqueries but it tends to be a bit bland.
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But Amis has always delighted in detailing the betrayals and indignities of the body, just as Charles, in The Rachel Papers, delights in detailing the perceived grotesqueries time (all 20 years of it) has wreaked on his physique.
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She was, to a certain degree, responsible for the various grotesqueries with which the WWE once afflicted the nation.
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Another example:
"The half-dozen vending machines in the Maracaibo's snack bar dispensed a wide variety of grotesqueries: Hostess Twinkies, Li'l Debbie Snack Cakes, Ring Dings--each item underscoring Oliver's creeping conviction that, with or without a Corpus Dei, Western civilization stood on the brink of collapse."
From p. 333 of Morrow, James (1994). Towing Jehovah. New York: Harcourt.
June 22, 2012