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- noun The quality of being
grotesque ormacabre - noun literature A genre of literature that was popular in the early 20th century, and practiced by writers such as Ambrose Bierce and Fritz Leiber
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- noun ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion
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Examples
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Despite the figurative grotesquerie, which is more nuisance than threat, it is a painting of nothing — no thing as such but atmosphere — a moody, indeterminate matter expressive of an interior mental state conjured through paint and paint alone.
Ensor Unmasked 2009
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Despite the figurative grotesquerie, which is more nuisance than threat, it is a painting of nothing — no thing as such but atmosphere — a moody, indeterminate matter expressive of an interior mental state conjured through paint and paint alone.
Ensor Unmasked 2009
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The first-person voice is amazing--the narrator's funny and warm and entirely persuasive and completely likeable--and it's got the right kind of grotesquerie to really conjure up the memory of life as a young person.
Manstealing for Fat Girls Jenny Davidson 2005
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The first-person voice is amazing--the narrator's funny and warm and entirely persuasive and completely likeable--and it's got the right kind of grotesquerie to really conjure up the memory of life as a young person.
Archive 2005-12-01 Jenny Davidson 2005
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With the National Defense Authorization Act about to become law and SOPA on the brink of it, we are facing new challenges that do not merely fail to address the grotesquerie of the Bush/Cheney years; they are deepening and extending the violations.
Jack Healey: Can Human Rights Be Saved? Jack Healey 2011
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The word "Watercolour" this being Britain, it gets a "u" occupies the center of a wall in the museum's lobby, hovering over an image of a Turner landscape blown up to the point of grotesquerie.
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I resort to voting Republican, myself, but Kaus shows integrity and originality and, big bonus, seems to get the grotesquerie of our hide-bound institutions, corrupted ways andmeans.
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So don't fret about distractions like whether or not Murdoch retains his title or position at News Corp. Here's all that matters: this amoral grotesquerie is going to be in the lead of his obituary.
Paul Slansky: Karmageddon Paul Slansky 2011
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With the National Defense Authorization Act about to become law and SOPA on the brink of it, we are facing new challenges that do not merely fail to address the grotesquerie of the Bush/Cheney years; they are deepening and extending the violations.
Jack Healey: Can Human Rights Be Saved? Jack Healey 2011
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With the National Defense Authorization Act about to become law and SOPA on the brink of it, we are facing new challenges that do not merely fail to address the grotesquerie of the Bush/Cheney years; they are deepening and extending the violations.
Jack Healey: Can Human Rights Be Saved? Jack Healey 2011
john commented on the word grotesquerie
"Set amid the members of a high school faculty, “Miss Guided�? (which begins on Tuesday and then moves to Thursdays) belongs to the universe of stunted-growth comedy. This is a genre that has had a sporadic if successful run on television, beginning with the brilliant “Get a Life�? in the early ’90s, a series that starred Chris Elliott as a 30-year-old paperboy, and getting a kick with “Strangers With Candy,�? a wonderful grotesquerie in which Amy Sedaris wore a fat suit and Howard Hughes toenails to play a 40-ish high school student addicted to adolescent styles of humiliation."
The New York Times, "A Guidance Counselor’s Second (Pained) Adolescence", by Ginia Bellafante, March 18, 2008
March 19, 2008