He seemed to see his fellow-creatures grotesquely, and he was angry with them because they were grotesque; life was a confusion of ridiculous, sordid happenings, a fit subject for laughter, and yet it made him sorrowful to laugh.
The saddest thing about them was that they were grotesque, and the more pathetic they were, the more you wanted to laugh.
It is a grotesque misapprehension which sees in art no more than a craft comprehensible perfectly only to the craftsman: art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
Scrap's fears that she would grab seemed grotesque in retrospect.
Never in all her life had Marilla seen anything so grotesque as Anne's hair at that moment.
He kept up this grotesque foolishness for some time; but by-and-by, while he was in the midst of some dangerous gymnastic performances, he glanced aside and saw that the little girl was wending her way toward the house.
The moonlight is streaming down through the foliage, casting bushy shadows on the ground from high above, dark and checkered, as grotesque as a party of spectres; whereas the benign figures of the drooping willows, here and there, look like paintings on the lotus leaves.
The crowd gaped, for it was a grotesque sight to see this little man ranting away just as if hewere addressing his followers.
Laugero-Lasserre, an art collector from France, called the work "grotesque and amazing at the same time".
The worst of it was my mouth, a grotesque blob of purple and red, all bruise and stitches.
This is a grotesque picture.
It was grotesque.
Stones of grotesque forms are often attractive with undulated lines and water holes.
"The Hunger Games" has never been antiwar, and while some object to a fiction in which adults send children to slaughter one another, what's truly appalling is that this isn't a grotesque fantasy but a bitter truth of human civilization.
It wasn't easy, because Hassan's upper lip was a grotesque mesh of swollen, raw tissue.
Along with a rather short stature, he had a grotesque hunchback.
If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.
It features beautiful mountains, clear rivers, grotesque rocks and mystic crags, which is a feast for the eyes.
'Selloptape selfies' are popping up all over Facebook, where thousands of people have been wrapping clear tape around their face to make themselves look like grotesque ogres.
Verses too were written over the windows in old-fashioned letters, and grotesque faces, curiously carved, grinned at you from under the cornices.
