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"grotesque" Definitions
  1. strange in a way that is unpleasant or offensive
  2. extremely ugly in a strange way that is often frightening or funny
"grotesque" Synonyms
deformed distorted twisted misproportioned misshapen malformed abnormal mangled gnarled mutilated crooked warped contorted irregular bent disfigured wry shapeless monstrous thrawn hideous ugly unattractive unlovely unpretty unappealing unhandsome unpleasing repulsive unbeautiful uncomely unsightly gross fugly huckery vile homely ill-favoured(UK) ill-favored(US) grating jarring harsh unaesthetic glaring glary strong blinding dazzling intense rough disagreeable grinding coarse bad unpleasant displeasing uncongenial strange odd bizarre queer peculiar weird outlandish rum freakish fantastic freaky eerie surreal unnatural aberrant uncanny whimsical fanciful extravagant extreme awful disgusting foul horrid sickening horrible horrendous nasty odious shocking appalling nauseating revolting distasteful repellent gruesome ghastly grisly macabre grim morbid horrific dreadful frightful horrifying frightening terrifying lurid nightmarish spooky preposterous absurd ridiculous ludicrous farcical outrageous incongruous astonishing incredible unbelievable crazy unthinkable foolish silly senseless laughable nonsensical inane conflicting clashing unsuitable incompatible unharmonious contrasting loud dissonant out of place discordant inappropriate inconsistent discrepant irreconcilable inharmonious perverted debased debauched depraved sick dissolute perverse amoral corrupted degenerate deviant evil immoral wicked decadent risible funny comical humorous hilarious comic droll uproarious chucklesome amusing hysterical riotous humoristic comedic killing sidesplitting entertaining facetious hysteric antic baroque showy elaborate ostentatious ornate decorated fancy rococo flamboyant florid ornamented fussy embellished busy elegant decorative rich flowery gingerbread monster monstrosity ogre grotesquerie grotesquery beast creature demon bogeyman fiend troll brute ghoul devil giant daemon goblin critter bugbear phantom freak aberration abnormality anomaly oddity mutant eccentric malformation irregularity teratism abortion chimaera(UK) chimera(US) curiosity Frankenstein hunchback miscreation More
"grotesque" Antonyms
normal aesthetic(UK) attractive beauteous beautiful bonnie bonny comely cute drop-dead esthetic(US) fair fetching good-looking goodly gorgeous handsome knockout lovely ordinary usual customary typical common standard traditional habitual natural routine constant conventional recognised(UK) recognized(US) accepted regular everyday household humdrum frequent comforting calming relaxing soothing gentle kind reassuring consoling encouraging heartening supportive kindly lulling pacifying tranquil uplifting allaying assuaging inspiriting envigorating(UK) clean decorous restrained tasteful appropriate decent polite genteel respectable suitable innocent moral simplistic unostentatious demure simple unfussy cultured tactful unpretentious healthy salubrious wholesome happy joyful pleasant pleased sound soft diffuse diffused low dim dimmed subtle cool light mild faint glimmering glowing pale softened tinted agreeable blurred diminished harmonious pleasing firm smooth steady sensible judicious prudent sagacious sage sane sapient wise reasonable realistic practical logical justified rational pragmatic responsible coherent intelligent reasoned shapely curvaceous statuesque elegant graceful sightly balanced curvacious buxom rounded hot beautified sexy sylphlike gainly proportioned virtuous good just blameless honest upright honorable(US) honourable(UK) angelic lawful scrupulous worthy guiltless immaculate incorruptible proper undistorted humorless(US) humourless(UK) lame serious unamusing uncomic unfunny unhumorous unhysterical somber(US) sombre(UK) impressive stirring accomplished inspiring skilful(UK) skillful(US) admirable exciting skilled superb consummate expert masterly fine outstanding excellent marvelous(US) marvellous(UK) angel god humanitarian philanthropist cherub seraph archangel guardian divine messenger divine being guardian spirit heavenly messenger messenger of God celestial being God's messenger guardian angel heavenly being holy being supernatural being spiritual being benevolent spirit

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Too grotesque to ignore The YouTube war finally became too grotesque to ignore.
Blank was a grotesque infused with optimism; "At Home" is optimism improved by the grotesque.
Milo is an extreme example of someone behaving in grotesque ways, and other instigators like him are similarly grotesque.
"  The mayor said Trump's online behavior is "grotesque," adding that "it is the nature of grotesque things that you can't look away.
"I was taking this dude to task for what I saw as a grotesque stunt and matching it with another grotesque stunt," Misty said.
" And though at times, comics are grotesque just to be grotesque, "there's a lot of clever work going into how Strode builds its famously violent moments.
The result is a grotesque body seemingly born of the grotto (which is, after all, the root of  "grotesque"), startling in its indecency and sheer queasiness.
The details are grotesque, and stretch far beyond online trolling.
Uncomfortable with such expectations, she has called that suggestion "grotesque".
It is a grotesque slow grind, their pursuit of victory.
With its disemboweled boom boxes, it's chaotic and electrically grotesque.
Indeed, it is the conventional that becomes absurd, even grotesque.
Schutz's other work tends toward the absurd and the grotesque.
It is grotesque and beautiful, strange and wondrous to behold.
It's a scene out of a Cronenberg film: abstract, grotesque.
"It's grotesque and kind of gross and messy," he said.
To watch another human being shot to death is grotesque.
"Millie…" isn't just a story about grotesque abuse and revenge.
There's a grotesque pilgrimage going on, and it's absolutely beautiful.
Fat Whites are incredibly visceral and grotesque, but not joyous.
This is a deliberate, and a grotesque violation of trust.
Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn was unmoved by the grotesque unexecution.
The morning of my wedding, I woke up looking grotesque.
I can do certain grotesque characters the others wouldn't touch.
The grotesque image of bone pressing through skin is hidden.
Kavanaugh called the trend a symptom of "grotesque" religious bigotry.
There is, however, no "grotesque" exception to the First Amendment.
And Kaschei, amusingly and frighteningly grotesque, is an aged ghoul.
I'm not talking about his grotesque personality, any of that.
On another, Nat and Samuel witness a grotesque forced feeding.
It's awful and grotesque, which was sort of the point.
But visions of total unplugging also seem a bit grotesque.
I was staring into the truth: the undeniable, the grotesque.
It's fun, really enjoyable to look at, but also grotesque.
By depicting a grotesque, speckled, blue-eyed head devouring a black woman whose back is turned toward us, and whose face we never see, Williams utilizes the grotesque to address the fundamental imbalances defining America.
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It's a strange, slightly grotesque, and thoroughly entertaining look at politics.
Bob Corker, a deficit hawk, called it "grotesque," and Louisiana Sen.
This is grotesque and ridiculous, let's focus on the real issues.
The weight of graphic, grotesque violence hangs over the entire movie.
But crucially, acid is a weapon with a uniquely grotesque impact.
It teeters along the threshold of the grotesque and the tangible.
This dovetailed nicely with my interest in fear and the grotesque.
This is a frightening, grotesque and disturbing development in American politics.
China's grotesque overinvestment in industrial goods is a far bigger problem.
It explored the philosophically aggressive, grotesque, and taboo aspects of humanity.
The more grotesque the time the more intensely it plugs in.
"To dismember an individual like that is pretty grotesque," LAPD Capt.
The French toast bagel is a grotesque violation of bagel code.
Often grotesque, her characters are portrayed with a layer of humor.
Writer/director Darren Stein conceived the grotesque film as a comedy.
Most of Trump's promises are too grotesque to actually be realized.
Y'all can keep your boney, grotesque, broken little baby bird wings.
In two essential novels reissued by Picador, the exquisitely grotesque Crash
His grotesque nature is so vile that it borders on unbelievable.
She's in the climactic week of a grotesque battle with another.
She's here to interrogate broken wage promises and grotesque Playboy punters,
José Clemente Orozco tried to outdo Goya in grotesque newspaper cartoons.
His mocking of a Times reporter with a disability was grotesque.
" She cites rap videos and the idea of the "sexy grotesque.
Moments later, a grotesque darkness began to crawl up my arm.
People used it as a prank, a grotesque form of Rickroll.
Details of a Russian sleep deprivation experiment leads to grotesque results.
It's sometimes silly and sometimes grotesque, not unlike a carnival itself.
Mr. Pavlensky is known for dramatic, even grotesque acts of protest.
How else to explain the grotesque faces floating in every painting?
The grotesque nature of cryptocurrency makes it a two-faced system.
Democracy can't flourish in a context of grotesque concentration of wealth.
The "memorial" was a grotesque Frankenstein's monster made of desecrated graves.
The murder of Mr. Khashoggi was a brutal and grotesque act.
This is not a question of being merely grotesque, but daring.
His artworks are neither beautiful nor grotesque, neither dire nor reassuring.
They make grotesque faces and talk and sing in cartoon voices.
What can explain the museum's grotesque inversion of African-American history?
Star's old tweets are a graveyard of grotesque threats and insults.
The statistics are undeniably grotesque, yet compelling in their rigid judgment.
Her detractors pilloried her movies as sexist, politically incoherent and grotesque.
Even now, Duca continues to experience a grotesque amount of harassment.
So even at the most basic political level, this is grotesque.
He was his own gilded man, going his own grotesque way.
"Pico, the English Grotesque Clown" will haunt or amuse your dreams.
I wasn't sure what I was expecting but the pictures looked grotesque.
The social outpouring seemed grotesque in comparison to images of broken bodies.
What a grotesque epitaph for this self-styled champion of the people.
"From the looks on people's faces, it was quite grotesque," she said.
To say these sculptures are otherworldly and often grotesque is an understatement.
"Pence invoking Martin Luther King Jr. is grotesque," wrote one Twitter user.
"We're famous for our fairly grotesque and extreme kill-cams," he said.
There is a grotesque boxing match that recalls Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man".
This is grotesque and fans the flames of rage among the unbalanced.
He doesn't melt — and it is kind of grotesque at the end.
That's why the footage that surfaced Friday, while grotesque, was ultimately unsurprising.
Wheatley suffuses the film with dread and grotesque violence, particularly against women.
Each year I make a few pieces in the "grotesque Americana" category.
But Nerdland is even more in love with the raunchy and grotesque.
A Plague Tale: Innocence is a grotesque game, but a beautiful one.
It was funny, or no, actually not funny, just disorienting, slightly grotesque.
Often times, the work he shares is grotesque but impossible to ignore.
With the other, physicality and sound were explosive, loud, funny, excitingly grotesque.
Then a grotesque figure the girls call Mama appears in the shadows.
For the American Jewish community, this was a grotesque part of history.
Grotesque in its stupidity, tragic in its context, hilarious in its execution.
In her bombastic totality, she embodies the grotesque effects of extreme wealth.
Suddenly my impression seemed like a grotesque representation of the actual man.
Some of it is really basic, conversational, others get pretty pervy, grotesque.
You know, the grotesque one that tried to block Syrian refugees forever.
The boy's face had turned grotesque shades of red, yellow and blue.
And other grotesque questions Pakistanis ask in the face of rampant pedophilia.
His clownish, abstract, cartoonish and grotesque works reflected his bent for provocation.
They're grotesque, they're flamboyant, but they're real — they're real within the structure.
Kolhatkar never reduces anyone in "Black Edge" to a stone-gargoyle grotesque.
The messages contained threats, personal attacks and grotesque stereotypical images of Jews.
It is a little nasty and it is grotesque, but it's beautiful.
Doubling down today on her grotesque comments after the horrific Florida shooting.
In a fairly grotesque mechanism, Zika virus causes microcephaly in unborn fetuses.
Bob Corker (R-TN) a deficit hawk, called it "grotesque," and Sen.
For some, it is grotesque and contemptible, a bizarre myth, an offense.
Critics have praised the gameplay while condemning the pandering and grotesque sexuality.
"I'm usually unmoved by still visual art, but the longer you stare at the tapestries, the more beautiful and grotesque you realize they are, and I wanted to send these beautiful and grotesque images to my friends," he said.
They were performing in a way that exposed the grotesque and the absurd.
There are some hilariously grotesque pictures that are too good to be true.
Britain's broken and cruel housing market may be the country's most grotesque inequity.
After killing them, Alcala placed their bodies in grotesque poses, sometimes photographing them.
Chris' description of her memories, Jesus—this grotesque major-key transposition of everything.
He's described as this grotesque corpse, decomposing and cloaked in darkness and blood.
When he insults them in such a grotesque manner he insults us all.
When the magazine received Beardsley's drawing, editors deemed it too grotesque to print.
On the one hand, you focus on the man himself as a grotesque.
Hyun-jin Ryu suffered a grotesque groin injury; Kenta Maeda strained his hip.
This eliminates the earlier grotesque spectacle of women undergoing hearings against their will.
I would go a step further and say it has now become grotesque.
Some are grotesque or violent, but Femi, for example, didn't do anything wrong.
I make these works both attractive and alluring but also grotesque and disconcerting.
The despair, this particular publishing season, comes in many forms, including the grotesque.
What you get out of it may be totally different, possibly even grotesque.
The myth is a grotesque comedy, the play a much more sparkling one.
Then she's crawling around on the floor, which looks really grotesque and bizarre.
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The show's featured artworks range from the deeply conceptual to the outright grotesque.
Four years later, in a contest marked by grotesque vituperation, Jefferson beat Adams.
It is, after all, a show that starts off with a grotesque murder.
We've already seen cabinet members discarding self-respect and sinking to grotesque obsequiousness.
Erdogan, in grotesque fashion, proclaimed that Nazism has risen again in Dutch guise.
And yet choosing to be grotesque can be a form of liberation, too.
"It was this very grotesque experience," Ms. Walsh recalled in a phone interview.
Danger is always overhead: the grotesque face might peer into your window next.
An "overweight, greasy has-been", Lamb is a grotesque and a flawed champion.
"The auction thing is grotesque," one of the artists remarked in the email.
CH: People may think you're trying to shock, or trying to be grotesque.
Given the grotesque proliferation of preteens with iPhones, this is to be expected.
"I've always been drawing grotesque figures and monsters," she said in an interview.
" Justice John Scurfield said in his ruling that the "grotesque acts" were "appalling.
In their disdain for the power-hungry abuses of the church, the grotesque superstitions it encouraged in the laity and the equally grotesque scholasticism it encouraged in the era's theologians, they might have been natural allies; instead they became implacable foes.
Rather than grotesque caricatures, pedestrians are mute passers-by, going about their daily lives.
"It is the nature of grotesque things that you can't look away," he said.
The grotesque jokes on imageboards such as 4chan and 8chan were not her scene.
FYI, "Grotesque" is pretty much just a fancy name for early sans-serif fonts.
And I thought the design was grotesque too, but that is beside the point.
But of course Kelly's tenure was going to end after a grotesque, ugly explosion.
My doctor assured me the grotesque look of the tissue expander was only temporary.
"The Trump Administration's actions at the southern border are grotesque and dehumanizing," Cummings said.
What is (sort of) novel about Unhinged is the grotesque specificity of its detail.
Think Nepal with the grotesque spike in sex trafficking after the earthquake in 2015.
Vanitas is about life and death, the grotesque and the gorgeous, eternity and dust.
The grotesque, in particular, takes a couple of forms in The Shape of Water.
A third, if memory serves, had a penis being manipulated in various grotesque ways.
None of this is to suggest that Trump is not unqualified, incompetent, and grotesque.
This grotesque display of amplification only made people love the band even more, though.
I also know it routinely featured depictions of women that were grotesque and oversexed.
Do you think it's important to navigate the grotesque with a sense of humor?
"It was a grotesque spectacle from the Cold War," Rodriguez said of Trump's speech.
Patsy is getting more and more grotesque; there is nothing inside her at all.
" In Yingling's view, it was grotesque to exploit that honor "as a political asset.
Despite welcome glimpses of grotesque humor, this overlong show is erratic rather than rollicking.
And, as grotesque as it sounds, so does the human waste of her descendants.
"Grotesque lies, lies about immigrants, about crime, about costs to the community," said Biden.
The wall funding controversy today is a grotesque result of both of these failures.
This surreal and grotesque direction is derived from an influence of sci-fi movies.
Eat Me may put some people off; it luxuriates in the gross and grotesque.
The show's approach makes for an extremely satisfying penetration of often repellently grotesque artworks.
Donald Trump had just taken office, and the grotesque elements of "Sabrina" felt different.
Steve Castor, the committee's Republican counsel, tried to discredit him in a grotesque manner.
Her outfits are grotesque, glittery, and often reveal what's going on beneath her skin.
It's not just Joe who sees the world in a grotesque and entitled way.
The president will sacrifice America's moral standing for a grotesque blood-for-money transaction.
It is a grotesque whimsy to want to dance on top of a skyscraper.
There's a grotesque attempt to deprive tens of millions of Americans of health insurance.
We were surreptitiously deemed grotesque miscreants by our classmates simply because of our weight.
Supporters of the president chose to attack the whistleblower's credibility, often with grotesque visceral.
The siphoning of wealth that had long defined Ukrainian politics soon reached grotesque levels.
His dancing was too fanciful to be masculine and too grotesque to be feminine.
The tumors bulge and blister from backs, foreheads, breasts, and arms in grotesque shapes.
One depicts Japan as a grotesque dragon; another shows Lenin literally going to Hell.
"The Trump administration's actions at the southern border are grotesque and dehumanizing," Cummings said.
Leroy's grotesque and textural nudes are also exploded — into tiny fragments of oil paint.
It would be a grotesque abuse of power, but it would be completely legal.
In doing so, they felt the need to make vicious, grotesque and utterly false statements.
X.E. is advertising her wares — "feathers glisten like diamonds" — to a decadent, almost grotesque clientele.
There are few things more nostalgic — and often, wildly grotesque — than combing through dated recipes.
Designers meticulously crafted the fish-man's physique to make him handsome and a bit grotesque.
As the months went on, eating became an even more ritualized and often grotesque affair.
Like his greedy citizens, Mr Yan sometimes fails to put a brake on grotesque excess.
It lays a foundation for progressively weirder phenomena, building to grotesque surrealism at the climax.
With so many troubling and grotesque accusations, it's clear Toback's career won't survive the scandal.
GINGRICH: You know, you have to say to yourself this is the most grotesque abuse.
Due to the nature of my drawing, things become distorted—they come out looking grotesque.
This is not the first time the intelligence agency has been accused of grotesque abuses.
That grotesque cheese-filled bun that seems designed to blister the roof of your mouth.
The danger of this is that it turns you into a caricature—even a grotesque.
Those grotesque battlefield scenes are also mesmerizing and directed with tremendous clarity, confidence, and intensity.
A deft hand at grotesque caricature, Chick was more successful at drawing sin than sainthood.
There are plenty of other forms online where that kind of grotesque speech is allowed.
As a professional muralist, her work expands on the theme of the urban girly grotesque.
The other was the grotesque exploitation of loved ones of people who have died tragically.
Such books refract ordinary life into the grotesque surreal through their insistent lack of engagement.
Of course, as everyone knows, the legislative process is sausage making at its most grotesque.
Many of Ms. Sherman's past pictures of women have been caricatures, mockingly absurd or grotesque.
The more I think about it, the more I love how grotesque Hannah has become.
You could see the face of the fish and the teeth, which really looked grotesque.
As the fight wore on Dorsey's blood and sweat-soaked face became a grotesque mask.
It was grotesque at first, but with time — and a beer — the vista became lovable.
The barbaric video of Gadhafi made me open my eyes wide -- the scene was grotesque.
Wray's work uniquely combines a documentary aesthetic with melancholy, sometimes grotesque, imagery and bizarre juxtapositions.
Through action or belief, they have removed themselves from human decency, and become something grotesque.
It's grotesque, gigantic, and totally capable of killing all of us without breaking a sweat.
That's probably the most romantic and least grotesque theory, so let's just go with that?
The fact that even part of the community has been usurped by Nazis is grotesque.
That particular crew consists of grotesque caricatures of white privilege who distract from worthwhile discourse.
You didn't see him lying so grotesque and pasty beside the gravel road in France.
HERBERT S. CARON, PARMA, OHIO To the Editor: Another grotesque mass shooting fills the headlines.
What are you going to do about the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality?
They thought the combination of living and dead, human and animal, was perverse and grotesque.
List any of your "favorite" episodes and there's likely something grotesque buried in the plot.
Meanwhile, the Saudi coalition is starving millions of Yemenis as a grotesque tactic of war.
Femicides are frequently carried out by domestic partners and often involve grotesque or degrading violence.
Peggy speaks in a screech of affronted privilege, and her politics are right-wing grotesque.
This is why the Russian disinformation and its grotesque twisting of facts is so effective.
Other times, their anger, filtered through the lens of a man, manifests onscreen as grotesque.
O. This book is dizzying and grotesque — and I say that with the utmost love.
What first appeared as a grotesque act of racist clowning on the part of Gov.
The #MeToo movement has clearly been instrumental in surfacing the grotesque sexual misdeeds of men.
Even the notoriously grotesque Neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer scrubbed the Pepe's from its website.
Some of the stories sound like grotesque sexual coercion at best, and rape at worst.
Car companies have acted with grotesque dishonesty throughout the history of the fuel-economy debate.
That was my idea of what heaven would be, a land of outsize gestures, bright colors and mind-candy melody, all presided over by a figure of titanic self-assurance who was too grotesque to be beautiful and yet too beautiful to be grotesque.
Meanwhile, Byrne is the lead detective on a confounding case of grotesque and seemingly random killings.
Are we content with the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality that we are experiencing?
Her blonde pigtails, limbs, and disproportionately large breasts seem disjointed, grotesque, and maybe a little humorous.
Some of the details are grotesque and you could do without, but it presents real life.
Olaf is grotesque, creepy and just plain awful, but he's the orphaned Baudelaire children's new guardian.
"Using outdated laws to jail reporters covering (the) Rohingya crisis is grotesque and unjust," Verhofstadt tweeted.
"It is tragic and unfortunate that Steve would make these grotesque comments," Miller said on CNN.
The exodus has surged under Mr Maduro's rule, characterised by political repression and grotesque economic mismanagement.
While "the customer is always right" obsequiousness is endemic to capitalism, it's especially grotesque in gaming.
At her press conference to announce her candidacy, she called such notions "grotesque and almost absurd".
The symptoms manifested as grotesque boils that would pop and ooze puss along my panty line.
One could argue that The Walking Dead arguably shows similarly grotesque things on a weekly basis.
In a world of grotesque physical attacks that may appear a heavy-handed approach to some.
He has sex, which in a horror story normally leads to some form of grotesque punishment.
Liberals have understood all along that Clinton's depiction in right-wing circles is a grotesque caricature.
After Milo Yiannopoulos' latest grotesque statements, publisher Simon & Schuster finally decided to cancel his upcoming book.
Instead of going cute with characters like Lumiere and Cogsworth, Condon envisions them as slightly grotesque.
" Cranley described the shooting as "a multiple shooting of innocent victims," saying it was "horrific. Grotesque.
" Toobin branded the move a "grotesque abuse of power by the President of the United States.
And Chaka Khan's existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, gave you something to complain about.
And for that grotesque suggestion, Benoist's hyperreal simulation of the king's hair can be snickeringly appreciated.
Given that history, the shots of Glenn's murder were outrageously grotesque, and utterly out of character.
And it is a grotesque betrayal of our founding promise, as a nation built by immigrants.
The final boss in Bloodborne: The Old Hunters, the grotesque Orphan of Kos, is a bastard.
But there's also the grotesque contribution by Christopher Willauer, which appears to be snot on paper.
Instead we have Honor Molloy's grotesque but richly satisfying drama "Crackskull Row," at the Theater Workshop.
The Law of Parties stands as a grotesque demonstration of how utterly arbitrary capital punishment is.
Like the city, the people of Karnaca are an unusual combination of the beautiful and grotesque.
And a lot of the stories about women on death row are similar — pretty grotesque crimes.
The spending levels without any offsets are grotesque, throwing all of our children under the bus.
Though it seems grotesque today, sixteen years ago such questions were seriously being considered by researchers.
Is this hyperbolized, grotesque vision of our present really the near future for the Great Lakes?
The terrifying and grotesque game show returns for its ninth season, with Ludacris serving as host.
The collection gives us an excuse to explore the grotesque and dare to call it beautiful.
" Yet these days, Gingrich describes Mueller as an "out-of-control prosecutor" guilty of "grotesque abuse.
"It's grotesque how unequal this has become," said Louis Hyman, a business historian at Cornell University.
The Ferengi, a species of traders, were physically grotesque, deceitful, and always looking for a profit.
This is a grotesque and strategically layered delight (not technically ice cream — rather, a "dessert bar").
It's grotesque that Black Cube did so by targeting the spouses of former Obama administration officials.
Sometimes these were functional, more often they were just decorative, but almost always they were grotesque.
In the end, "Madar-e Bamb-Ha" became the star of a grotesque reality television show.
Who were these people, and why had the artist depicted them in such a grotesque way?
In short, the Senate bill is every bit as cruel and grotesque as its critics say.
" Thus Kavanaugh made the claim that the Montana Constitution is rooted in "grotesque anti-Catholic bigotry.
The fear caused nightmares, which in turn inspired paintings and drawings of grotesque landscapes and faces.
"The daily papers and television news are a much better source of grotesque humor," he said.
So embracing it doesn't mean you're rejecting the kind of grotesque super-sized corporations Amazon represents.
His behavior has been grotesque, and it's human nature to want to repay him in kind.
Liberals and environmentalists mostly exist as grotesque caricatures on the conservative media that dominate the airwaves.
It's a grotesque, dehumanizing stance that suggests that sex workers are a different breed of woman.
The first cohesive theory of the grotesque is often attributed to the Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin.
" — Gabriella Paiella at GQDescriptions of the humanoid cats ranged from "creepy" to "grotesque"..."With its grotesque design choices and busy, metronomic editing, &aposCats&apos is as uneasy on the eyes as a Hollywood spectacle can be, tumbling into an uncanny valley between mangy realism and dystopian artifice.
To use words to serve the cause of human unfreedom is grotesque, like a physician serving torturers.
At its heart is Sunni Arabs' sense of dispossession, of which IS is the most grotesque manifestation.
The grotesque nuggets have been so popular that the museum decided to make them a permanent exhibit.
After all, a grotesque-looking alabaster sculpture of a man's head was also found near the tomb.
Though the imagery is fantastical and often grotesque, it is informed by the artist's real life encounters.
Ferrell's Reno was simultaneously lovable and grotesque, and McKinnon and Poehler added real flesh to their caricatures.
The 50s and 60s haven't really been explored except, I feel, in a very sometimes grotesque way.
There are comic books bearing her triumphant image; there are memes comparing her to the grotesque Momo.
Garner has sharpened her style of grotesque beauty for several years, and the effect is deeply disquieting.
The film also shares its predecessors' grotesque violence; attacked bodies don't merely bleed, they contort and implode.
First, an army of grotesque zombies is on its way to destroy everything and everyone Jon loves.
Gooey, grotesque, at times bloody — no pimple popping video will ever be deemed "safe" for the squeamish.
The reasons are varied and grotesque, but they are simultaneously the best and the worst of us.
The tour gradually gets stranger and stranger (human fingernails are involved), until it hits a grotesque peak.
The doppelgängers—"the tethered"—are grotesque caricatures of the family members: recognisably the same but demonically different.
So far, it only knows how to climb up a ladder in a grotesque yet mesmerizing fashion.
However, she rejected the responsibility that was pushed onto her after Trump's win as "grotesque and absurd".
In Lynch's hands, the sometimes grotesque view of the body seems natural and, as he says, amazing.
These stories took pains to justify the bloodlust of human characters by making dinosaurs grotesque and violent.
"It appears that this was a grotesque and obscene act by the elements within Saudi Arabia," Sen.
Whether one is a Democrat or Republican, one must admit that the double standard here is grotesque.
"People who are anticipating some type of grotesque transformation really don't know Brett Kavanaugh's record," Turley said.
" He is interested in how life was still "grotesque and distorted, sick and crooked, undignified and humiliated.
He doesn't care who he offends and many of his movies are pointlessly violent, grotesque, and unfunny.
As we speak, the entire Deadpool team is engaged in a grotesque, early morning tickle-fight. pic.twitter.
Vincent and Frankenweenie are about normal boys feeding their love for the grotesque within quiet normal households.
It's appalling that she had to endure this; it's grotesque that government officials would want her to.
The case at hand involves hunting down a famous artist known for her grotesque and macabre paintings.
If it sounds grotesque, well yeah, the upsetting excess of it has become part of the point.
For filmmakers, food is a powerful tool for encapsulating the decadent, nostalgic, and even grotesque on-screen.
Black-and-white illustrations of grotesque, grinning spirits haunt pseudonymous artist Junk Yard Chicago's body of work.
A video of that meeting is grotesque, the crowd disgracing itself in howling and foul-mouthed curses.
Drawn like Daddy Warbucks crossed with the Goodyear blimp, he's grotesque yet oddly endearing in his eccentricities.
Nora, its emotionally unhinged, substance-abusing protagonist, perfectly encapsulates the mix of the gut-busting and grotesque.
He embraces his disease by making a wild, grotesque joke of it, even when he's in pain.
Mr. Garland has a talent for unnerving you with quietly dissonant notes and an occasional grotesque flourish.
This week should give us confidence that a woman can lead the fight against this grotesque president.
As grotesque as Dern can make herself, the effect is never just horror and never just comedy.
Not that Hen feels deprived; she loves her work creating "grotesque, surreal tableaus" to illustrate children's books.
A wild animal," with grotesque tails "full of mucous, full of slime—half woman and half monster.
Another employee, who made grotesque sexual comments about Ms. Fairley's 1-year-old daughter, was eventually fired.
Otherwise you get grotesque asset bubbles like we saw, and the engine just runs out of fuel.
The portraits are all slightly surreal and a little grotesque — something is just-off in the faces.
And they filter up from grotesque online havens for white supremacists who preach intolerance and worship violence.
But there's a point at which this transformation spins off its axis into something grotesque and unfathomable.
Barbara Garson, an author, called Free Speech Week a "grotesque parody" of the movement she helped lead.
McCarthy sees lust and sickness as inseparable elements of humanity, and "Ulysses" as an emetic, scatological grotesque.
If true, it was hard to conclude anything other than that this was severe and grotesque negligence.
Over the next six months, the investigation unspooled in strange and grotesque ways, an epidemic in miniature.
That last one may disturb you, but that's food for you — most appetizing at its most grotesque.
Anti-Semitism and other forms of grotesque racism were suddenly acceptable and violence seemed to be inevitable.
" It is grotesque and offensive for Trump to dismiss these stranded, mistreated human beings as "Boston bombers.
Our empathy for them blends with disgust, which is nearly the definition of the grotesque in literature.
But in her attempts to "follow his moral logic," she entertains his tortured excuses and grotesque fantasies.
And there's something grotesque about that, because Supreme Court justices used to just retire like anybody else.
This was grotesque, delegitimizing malfeasance, especially in contrast with the agency's refusal to discuss the Russia connection.
Conservative columnist George Will warned Friday that "grotesque" is becoming the new normal for the Republican Party.
"Please free us from the grotesque, and clean up the stadiums from this horrendous mob," he wrote.
In addition to being untrue, this was a ready-made justification for grotesque experiments in social engineering.
When you get grotesque inequalities of the sort we see today in the US, democracy gets sick.
But despite the grotesque visions of ourselves which we see reflected back, there is hope of repair.
Instead of making his subjects look grotesque, Wood's emphasis on physical imperfections just makes them look human.
It remains to be seen whether the SDNY even wants to cooperate with Epstein, given his grotesque conduct.
It's complicated to decide if a piece of content — even if it's grotesque — is newsworthy enough to stay.
That Drake made a halfway decent album despite himself is a triumph appropriate to our grotesque celebrity era.
Opponents of Trump wondered, yet again, how a man whose public actions were so grotesque could be elected.
Wide shots in Handmaid's have a painterly beauty that serves to highlight the grotesque order of this dystopia.
I think to show his vanity, and just how grotesque he is on the inside and the outside.
In a way, Frotty is like Ari Spryos in that he doesn't know what makes him so grotesque.
This grotesque character assassination will dissuade confident and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country.
Bronn doesn't know Jaime has just revisited the grotesque details of his son's death, and Jaime doesn't share.
Jessica Jackson Hutchins challenges Northwestern traditions of ceramics, painting, and homemaking by combining the practices in grotesque sculptures.
We are a very private family [who] do not use social media outlets prior to this grotesque tragedy.
Rather, glass is used to highlight sociopolitical subjects or allude to biological forms, some mesmerizing and others grotesque.
PowerPoint is terrible and no one should use it, but there's a grotesque poetry to the Pentagon's presentations.
This humor could be profoundly ugly, given how it's aimed at reducing other people's grotesque deaths to punchlines.
The artists rose to the occasion, offering portraits of kings, grotesque body horror, and images of crying girls.
Lorelei believes her use of the grotesque is grounded in art history and her desire to subvert it.
This grotesque character assassination will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country.
The episode revolves around a series of grotesque deaths caused by little robot honeybees, or Autonomous Drone Insects.
Rachel Sklar: This is an everywhere story The allegations against Harvey Weinstein are grotesque and horrifying and familiar.
"Bucklew has provided evidence of a serious risk that his execution will be excruciating and grotesque," he explained.
Her mother was an orthopedic nurse, and she had seen videos of athletes' legs broken at grotesque angles.
Hillary on a podium with Bill Cosby, who looks as grotesque in the photo as he seems today.
Betting on the outcome are Judy Geeson and Malcolm McDowell, done up like grotesque, 17th-century French aristocrats.
One by one, they flipped through the pages of "grotesque stuff," as Coats put it, that innovation fostered.
Mark: D A few lines in, the images in this passage coalesced into an Robert Crumb cartoon grotesque.
And while he doesn't label himself a Surrealist, he is very interested in the grotesque and the absurd.
The grotesque or sinister contrasts with the ideal of beauty or the sublime and establish a dramatic link.
Instead of having giant Jedi statues (like in Rogue One) we used something more grotesque and Sith-like.
The details are grotesque and absurd (who among us will ever look at a bathrobe the same again?).
This grotesque, character assassination will dissuade confident and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country.
Often they originate on viral news sites, which seek out the most grotesque and graphic stories for clicks.
The attack on the former spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia, is another classic if grotesque play.
"There's a scene [in Salem] that's a little uncomfortable considering" the grotesque nature of the trials, Rafuse says.
The sculptural dog is a grotesque creature, an eyeless, brown and red ceramic work that looks vaguely scatological.
What I've found is more than just a community twisted into a grotesque parody of its original shape.
Blackface tells me absolutely nothing about myself, but it does tell me about whiteness, and its grotesque projections.
She created grotesque versions of her critics, wearing garish wigs, fake witchy noses and prosthetic, cartoonish muscle suits.
These are grotesque charges — and, like the previous ones, they leave oceans of room for speculation and doubt.
Ms. Brown's acrid palette and stylized, often grotesque figures signal a departure from her earlier, more sedate realism.
He faced down death threats and a waterfall of hate mail, as Americans disgorged grotesque demons at him.
"I am sick of my life, this grotesque life," reads the letter, which was posted on social media.
"The faces of those around me appeared as grotesque, colored masks," Hoffman wrote in a first person account.
As even a cursory glance at his back catalog will tell you, it's far from his most grotesque.
"Sure, you might actually be consuming more, but you're probably having a worse, more grotesque experience," he wrote.
Knight's cartoon depends on a black grotesque seeming natural, which makes it the very essence of visual imperialism.
Critics referred to the characters as grotesque while viewers similarly said the designs were terrifying with bad animation. 
Then came a cartoonish drawing of a party full of grotesque men and women leering over cocktail glasses.
Much of the modern independent movement is influenced by, if not outright referencing, these grotesque, gimmicky time-wasters.
They display her hallmark style — grotesque, often violent, and layered with art-historical references and sideways cultural comment.
They could use it in all kinds of grotesque and violating ways and it would be perfectly legal.
Nothing is simple here — something is no sooner sublime then it's grotesque, things are hopeful and then disastrous.
He turns the mere act of punching telephone buttons into a grotesque manipulation of the levers of power.
To justify our own pursuit of safety, we avert our eyes from the grotesque reality of unfettered butchery.
At four in the morning the dark made every fairy-tale feature of the park into something grotesque.
And there might be nothing she's written more vindictive and grotesque--and revealing--than 2014's The Silkworm.
Like some bizarre version of the game "telephone," each rendition of prior decisions becomes more distorted and grotesque.
Like many male British writers my age, I am engaged in a grotesque Oedipal struggle with Martin Amis.
Blomkamp's grotesque mixture of the war and horror genres show builds on existing concepts in Vietnam's ghost mythos.
The final act of the book in terms of what Sarat Chestnut does is sort of cartoonishly grotesque.
It comes close to him, and he is screaming, and its grotesque tuft of hair brushes against his face.
Their dirty biannual photo-based magazine specializes in mixing grotesque, absurd imagery with the glossy, sterility of commercial art.
It's just this sort of grotesque power fantasy of mine, this game, but it felt really good and healthy.
Sarah Rose Etter's The Book of X is dizzying and grotesque — and I say that with the utmost love.
The problem is if you get a bad scan, the grotesque result is far worse than some standardized avatar.
Exaggerated, grotesque characteristics define the signature styles of American illustrators such as Robert Crumb, Raymond Pettibon, and Ralph Bakshi.
The walkthrough attraction features actors playing the grotesque living dead chasing attendees through various locations such as a hospital.
A grotesque beast—captioned "the monster of the West"—looms over a city, grasping at a shoal of fish.
Greer's work bears visual similarities to Jake Hempson's 3D-printed sculptures of bones taken from the supernatural and grotesque.
I could probably think of an even more grotesquely timed potential rockstar death, but this one is grotesque enough.
"It's messy and grotesque and disgusting and lovely and heartwarming all at the same time," she continued of parenting.
Kavanaugh flatly denied the allegation, calling it "grotesque and obvious character assassination " and vowing not to withdraw his nomination.
Okay, that's probably the worst and most grotesque euphemism to use when talking about knives, but bear with us.
Even as he inflicted grotesque cruelties on her, he explained that what he was doing was just and righteous.
Wolverton seems to have been besotted with the question: How funny can you make the grotesque and the repulsive?
"An insect, with a lot of things, a lot of legs or whatever—'grotesque,' that's his term," she said.
Oh, and then they put a video of the entire grotesque display on social media for all to see.
They lent a dangerous, violent, often grotesque edge to his rallies, and they're obviously not going away anytime soon.
The results are colorful canvases of grotesque and powerful women that challenge colonial representations of race, class, and gender.
"It's messy and grotesque and disgusting and lovely and heartwarming all at the same time," she said of parenting.
During your escape, you head to the bowels— ahem—of the prison, revealing a grotesque, dark river running underneath.
And don't think that Dragula is just a show about drag queens who love grotesque, hardcore queer performance art.
That being said, this episode doesn't really push the boundaries of the grotesque — unless you're squeamish about your nostrils.
In a memorable interpretation, he describes their 1980 album Grotesque (After the Gramme) as an act of counterfactual history.
There is no making nice here, no trite and hopeful conclusions, no apologies for the persistently grim and grotesque.
The earliest portrayals of Medusa show a grotesque part human, part animal creature with wings and boar-like tusks.
So does a certain grotesque quality that Schulhoff courts even in the expressive markings of some of his movements.
Sure, we usually laugh at their grotesque images, so different from those reliable reflections found above the bathroom sink.
They didn't just do an exhibition; they did an installation and turned the gallery into a strange, grotesque Disneyland.
Amnesty International rightly condemned the occasion as a 'grotesque parody of justice' and the court's decision as 'grossly unfair'.
As for us, we never apologized for our grotesque overreaction to hearing what we now know to be true.
Dressed like a bride of Frankenstein, Vangeline interprets the well-known music with grotesque and frightening physicality (1:00).
Dressed like a bride of Frankenstein, Vangeline interprets the well-known music with grotesque and frightening physicality (73:00).
He traffics in conspiracy theories that he cannot possibly believe and in grotesque promises that he cannot possibly fulfill.
It's a place where all manner of fetishes, from the grotesque to the glamorous, were explored in unrelenting detail.
There aren't enough trigger warnings in the world for the film's movement toward sexual assault, or its grotesque aftermath.
Donald Trump, with his grotesque embrace of Putin's thuggishness, is not the man for that task or any other.
But my youthful preconceptions were perhaps shaped more by Boglins, a series of grotesque rubbery puppets released by Mattel.
Mr. Traini's rage crystallized, in grotesque form, the growing backlash against migrants and the rise of right-wing politics.
When Harris was freed after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, he continued doing his grotesque work.
WOVEN INTO THE GROTESQUE details of this continuing annihilation of Myanmar's most helpless are vexing dilemmas about international complicity.
"Over all, its account is grotesque, tendentious and regrettable," wrote Francesc Valls, a journalist, in the newspaper El País.
This weird formal style creates the illusion of a placid surface, which is invariably punctuated by grotesque, shocking violence.
Wolff is, to borrow a recent phrase in the news, a sort of perfectly grotesque Boswell to Trump's Johnson.
But ignoring Trump's lies doesn't make them disappear — if anything, his deceptions are becoming only more elaborate and grotesque.
William Harper: The Beautiful & Grotesque is on view from April 4 to June 14, 2019 in CIA's Reinberger Gallery.
I don't think I'm being grotesque when I tell you I've been flayed and slayed and force-fed anguish.
The result is what we might call, if the analogy were not a little grotesque, entertainment-industry income inequality.
This Argentine writer's stories are propulsive and mesmerizing, laced with vivid descriptions of the grotesque and the darkest humor.
Woven into the issue are questions of race, and class, and the grotesque economics of big-time college sports.
And for foods popular among minorities, there is a history of grotesque stereotypes used as marketing, Mr. Twitty said.
It does not emerge from the plot, because the plot is just a series of grotesque and unlikely coincidences.
An ardent anticapitalist and anti-imperialist, Mr. Corbyn once defended a mural featuring grotesque caricatures of hooknosed Jewish bankers.
With its grotesque monsters and ability to conjure overwhelming dread, Guillermo del Toro's work typically isn't meant for children.
Russia, painted as a grotesque demon by commentators in Ukraine and the West, was darker still in Voronenkov's telling.
"For example there is kimo-kawaii [which is sometimes also called gro-kawaii] — kimo means grotesque," Kakeda told me.
The stories got more and more extreme and more and more grotesque, and so many of them weren't isolated.
The images we made are all nicely grotesque, shot on a black background with the model in a white gown.
And the photo has gone viral as a particularly disgusting vision of a man who's grotesque both inside and out.
Trump is the only person that you can be as grotesque as you want with when poking fun at them.
The tropical disease causes painful fevers and grotesque swelling of various parts of the body, including sexual organs, Carter said.
He is also a grotesque misogynist who comes off as if he's a caricature of a character on Mad Men.
It's hard enough to get the president of the United States to stop tweeting grotesque insults about women he dislikes.
The scene is rife with peculiar humor and creepy vibes as the woman transforms into a grotesque creature of sorts.
That I wasn't a grotesque mass who'd have to whittle myself out of existence before I could be considered attractive.
This grotesque and coordinated character assassination will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country.
Paroxysm of Sublime troubleshoots the turning point when all that is familiar begins to morph into something grotesque and nightmarish.
The rulers of hell are grotesque, petty, and humorless, unable to grasp Crowley's achievements, because they don't understand modern technology.
Johanna Went was one of its most formidable figures, attracting renown with her cacophonous vocals, elaborate costumes, and grotesque spectacle.
But let us not become so world-weary, so jaded, that we let an admission this grotesque pass without alarm.
I know biology, I know it's not grotesque, so I'm not going to stop when my partner has her period.
By painting such a grotesque image in his tweets, he implies that Brzezinski underwent what he considers a shameful procedure.
Trump wanted his followers to see Mika Brzezinski as a desperate woman, grotesque in appearance, who was a dispensable source.
When Nancy Grace frets about a pretty missing white girl, trolls literally draw out the grotesque racialized picture she's implying.
Even if it wanted to, though, the GOP couldn't have prevented the convention from degenerating into a grotesque, haphazard mess.
In Wave Hill's airy sun room gallery, the installation reads as less extremely grotesque than the pieces at Essex Flowers.
Eyes down, you continue walking, focused on your realistically filthy gymshoes and the grotesque shadows retreating across the pockmarked asphalt.
But Lanthimos subverts the entire idea by turning love into a petty, complicated construct, and magic into a grotesque practicality.
The Lobster starts with an illogical premise, then draws out each idea at length, to their most attenuated, grotesque extremes.
As it is, however, the governor came under fire for seemingly minimizing this grotesque chapter of Virginia history: Virginia Gov.
Thursday's grotesque outburst produced criticism even from Republicans, who have seemed willing to ignore his transgressions up to this point.
"The attack on Amrullah Saleh's political party offices was grotesque and a clear act of terrorism," he said on Twitter.
Each one could all be labeled grotesque—a term that appropriately encompasses the mysterious, fantastic, and incongruous all at once.
Voters are only beginning to understand the full magnitude of unprecedented and grotesque deficits the Trump Republican tax scandal created.
" Faced with such grotesque violence, he continued, "we wonder if the divides of race in America can ever be bridged.
But photographers whose work involves staged scenes of the grotesque, made with artificial light and actors, frequently miss the mark.
Q. There's a tension in the creatures you create between the familiar and the strange, the cute and the grotesque.
The tip-tapping of metal on bone—the dentist/torturer is digging for something, or just for fun—is grotesque.
" On CNN's "State of the Union," Miller denounced Bannon's remarks as "grotesque" and described the president as a "political genius.
Chappell, is a gloriously grotesque "abbess" whose whores are "nuns" and whose "nunnery" is one of London's most exclusive brothels.
This grotesque and coordinated character assassination will dissuade confident and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country.
"This grotesque character assassination will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country," he said.
And why did so many of the women they abused feel so helpless in the face of their grotesque advances?
As the bout progressed Ali's jaw visibly swelled into a grotesque new shape and Ali lost by a split decision.
Judge Kavanaugh's defiant fury might be understandable coming from someone who believes himself innocent of the grotesque charges he's facing.
I have to add my thoughts because what Trump has said is so grotesque it cannot be allowed to pass.
What I like is, they're leaning into the grotesque at times, but then at other times it's monochromatic and beautiful.
For the members, these grotesque displays make the Mar-a-Lago initiation fee — hiked to $200,000 from $100,000 on Jan.
But they rarely capture the cataclysmic, grotesque fatalism that makes those tales truly great, settling for a more generic pastiche.
Those grotesque bookends affirmed that he is changeless and that he rules as he lives, for Trump and Trump alone.
The Verge spoke with Beeple about his prolific creative output as well as his strange and grotesque post-apocalyptic creations.
Following Yossarian's grotesque journey out of the war, I find myself frequently confused and challenged by Heller's sharp, quizzical comments.
Undercover Agents Target Cybersecurity Watchdog By: Raphael Satter This was legitimately one of the most grotesque stories of the year.
The only use I can imagine for Trump's grotesque wall is for Christo to wrap it and set us free.
The grotesque transgressor, having seen the Goddess naked, was delivered by Zeus to Stormy Artemis, who would decide his fate.
With killing this shocking, this jarring, this pleasurable, this thrilling, this grotesque, this climactic, who would want it to stop?
Mika Rottenberg explores capitalist banality through video and installations centering international labor's "invisible people," using grotesque renderings of dystopian kitsch.
Today, even mild interventions, like the shortening of the Democratic primary debate schedule in 2016, are considered illegitimate, even grotesque.
Documenting even this bloodless wreckage feels grotesque but I'm beginning to understand why adrenaline junkies like Adam are drawn to it.
BONGINO: Donald Trump has been a welcome change from the pathetic grotesque eight-year foreign policy of retreat from Barack Obama.
Under scrutiny, the succession of numbers grows more grotesque than sultry, and our attention turns to other elements of the scene.
And the movie didn't say anything grotesque and offensive, which, frankly, is a landmark cultural achievement in these here streaming parts.
Sam bravely performed the grotesque surgery on the mottled knight by stripping off the infected tissue — without anesthesia, or medical experience.
Heifetz notes the influence on her works of well-known German draftsmen, above all grotesque expressionists Otto Dix and George Grosz.
Mr. Lloyd Webber chucklingly sends up his usual gothic plushiness, with thundering organ chords that banish, instead of summon, grotesque phantoms.
Granted, it's less grotesque than when Verizon slapped its logo on the Galaxy Note II's home button, but ugh, just NO!
Williams's narrative invention and interest in the grotesque, caricature, and masks differentiate him from other black artists who depict the figure.
The photos it produced of my body, however, are truly grotesque monstrosities that I pray never see the light of day.
Even at that point in the presidential campaign, the former reality TV star was dominating the media with his grotesque sideshow.
The creatures you encounter are grotesque, somewhere between an early-career Tim Burton sketch and a stop-motion animator's fever dream.
Americans can't seem to stop obsessing over Trump's reaction to Hamilton — and ignoring the grotesque corruption scandals already plaguing his administration.
"This takes us to the broader issue of the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality in this country," he said.
The result is a grotesque facsimile of a face that made him look like a cartoon villain on the witness stand.
I find it grotesque," Rubio said on ABC's "This Week" adding that he did not know the actor was "still around.
But I will say that Inside ends in a way you will not expect, and it's equal parts grotesque and incredible.
At a Tuesday rally in Columbus, Ohio, Trump gave a grotesque description of what "animal" illegal immigrants do to American girls.
The spectacle of death fuels the game's elaborate, grotesque imagery, and the game makes you slowly appreciate it—admire it, even.
I was sort of asking myself why is being in this terrifying, grotesque—but somehow beautiful thing—why is it relaxing?
Genetically modify your body through dozens of Plasmid Stations scattered throughout the city, empowering you with fantastic and often grotesque abilities.
" We hear about the time Ralph Waldo Emerson visited Tallahassee, upon which he immediately (and correctly) adjudged it "a grotesque place.
We don't want the embarrassing, grotesque donation conferences for the wealthy Israeli army, which already has everything it could possibly want.
Having been an eyewitness to Yugoslavia's collapse, he understands the grotesque realities of ethnic strife and power politics with stark clarity.
For some reason, this show is determined to shove my personal nightmare in several scenes that range from startling to grotesque.
It will sanction execution by grotesque means It will invoke the Second Amendment to prohibit states from engaging in gun control … .
The only commonality to be found in our bedroom experiences is the certainty that we're grotesque weirdos doing it all wrong.
"That's what gets me the most — that he's this vulgar, grotesque dope, everything I hate in people," Reznor said last July.
Maybe hanging onto the comb is me hanging onto a worse version of myself who I miss for some grotesque reason.
"Monsters" is perhaps not the best word, but he agrees that the grotesque has become the predominant category for Iranian artists.
But Yasmeen Godder has embraced the awkward and the grotesque instead, becoming one of the country's most important, and polarizing, choreographers.
Shihui Zhou sews together articles of clothing in droopy, evocative ways that make the absence of a wearer seem almost grotesque.
It is a quietly funny, comically grotesque memoir of growing up: a boy gets bitten by a dog on both cheeks.
Trump is a uniquely grotesque individual, but nothing he's done so far has been nearly as destructive as the Iraq War.
It was a repulsively grotesque spectacle, and yet from the assemblage of thousands came applause and roars of approval for Trump.
Moving briskly from story to story, Chytilová creates a place that brims with life, even if at times it's quite grotesque.
Large numbers of Vietnamese babies continue to be born with grotesque deformities: misshapen heads, bulging tumors, underdeveloped brains and nonfunctioning limbs.
What matters in this debate is that the asymmetry between the two sides is so grotesque — there is no other word.
"To write grotesque things is my way of laughing at death," Mr. Hilsenrath told the French newspaper Le Figaro in 22004.
After a while, you take solace in the familiarity of the carousel's dinning music, of the spinning, grotesque animals surrounding you.
The Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby stories were grotesque, with accusations that went far beyond harassment to rape, a criminal offense.
His work has an immersive you-are-there vérité aesthetic that can transform into a grotesque spectacle in the following scene.
After long sojourns abroad, returning to America unleashed an understanding of just how grotesque and imbecilic their country had always been.
Legitimizing these forms of discrimination is itself a grotesque violation of whatever it is that we actually mean by religious freedom.
And wishing for the demise of a family — even a family that includes politicians who have done terrible things — is grotesque.
The first couple seasons of that show were mostly like, women were being shown topless and crazy, like grotesque sex stuff.
In one of its sculptural tableaux vivants , a grotesque male figure, down on all fours, is penetrated by a long pole.
They should say that such partisan behavior is a grotesque abuse of the Justice Department and should constitute a firing offense.
" He added, "This is a grotesque abuse of power and highlights the precarious situation facing human rights activists in the country.
More and better education, we like to believe, will solve climate denialism, overcome bigotry and even mitigate our grotesque income inequality.
But Americans who expect that their government will stop this grotesque flouting of rules and traditional norms have been deeply disappointed.
Poignant photographs of children and adults with tumors that range from barely protruding to tragically grotesque illustrate Dr. Cushing's patients' plights.
They choose the latter, and the resulting scene is at once violent, cathartic, therapeutic, restorative but also utterly grotesque and horrifying.
They are propulsive and mesmerizing, laced with vivid descriptions of the grotesque (another skillful translation by McDowell) and the darkest humor.
The group was known for its incendiary, sometimes grotesque lyrics, and also for songs that grappled with morality in stark terms.
What's notable, aside from the grotesque distortion of the agency's mission, is how well Pruitt represents the state of today's GOP.
The novel The Darkest Minds was a faded pastiche of X-Men and The Hunger Games to begin with, so it may be foolish to have vague hopes that a film adaptation might use the book's grotesque authoritarian future America to address our current grotesque authoritarian America and come up with something that transcended the source material.
The grotesque body, a trope in the grotesque realism of François Rabelais, hinges on the idea of degradation: "To degrade also means to concern oneself with the lower stratum of the body, the life of the belly and the reproductive organs; it therefore relates to acts of defecation and copulation, conception, pregnancy, and birth," Bakhtin wrote in 1984.
For example, "Dogma" (1964) shows a grotesque creature — half-monkey and half-man — chained with a collar and leering with animalistic teeth.
EU official Moscovici was not impressed and later took to Twitter to say that the shoe "episode" was "grotesque" and 'symbolic violence.
Which is how he ended up making this pie, complete with grotesque (and edible!) hair, blood, and stitched pieces of skin pastry.
The resulting portraits are often compared to those of British painter Francis Bacon, who was known for his grotesque and unsettling imagery.
But when everything can be seen to seemingly fit into the grotesque 1984 scenario, the comparisons start to become banal and unoriginal.
It's a style that parallels her good friends in the dance duo FlucT: unsettling, agitated, and borderline grotesque—the human body unchecked.
Thierry Fremaux, who heads up festival, called red carpet selfies "ridiculous and grotesque," and declared that they degrade the prestige of Cannes.
But for black men, they are especially confounding and made even more grotesque because they're paired with the dehumanizing fact of racism.
She is painted as grotesque, wearing an ill-fitting wig and applying makeup beside (not over) masculine facial features to highlight them.
Zuul from 'Ghostbusters', a grotesque and demonic dog-like thing, has inspired its own subreddits, memes, and once, a heavy metal band.
Terms like: disqualifying, vacuous, lies, deeply offensive, harmful, toxic, corrosive, incendiary, grotesque, morally reprehensible, contrary, farfetched, unrealistic and counter to the Constitution.
It's a fascinating take on the grotesque violence of World War II. Furthermore, the war perfectly contextualizes Adepo as a Black lead.
As you might expect from a children's story about deciduous body parts, these accounts are a strange mix of whimsical and grotesque.
This election is about the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality that currently exists, the worst it has been since 1928.
Three grotesque, wax-covered creatures sit in a darkened space littered with detritus and lit by lava lamps and colorful stage lights.
But the terrified tadpoles were desperate, seemingly aware that a grotesque fight for survival lay ahead should they remain with their siblings.
Given all the grubby, grotesque emotions on display in Unsane, maybe it's fully appropriate that the film itself so often looks grubby.
Elsewhere, inmates are "employed" as rodeo performers to entertain a largely local white audience, a grotesque tradition that dates back decades here.
Eventually, the movie's events will change all of their minds, and in doing so imprint a few grotesque sequences into your memory.
Aisles upon aisles of food, the source of anxiety, would suddenly transform into objects, bright and beautiful, often grotesque, and always untouchable.
Even without this context, it's clear that the women resurrected in Soleimani's surreal photographs—bloated and pixelated—have gone through something grotesque.
It's this brutal, grotesque depiction of sex/power/death/God but I don't want it to be satirical, like a comedy show.
By now Pepe the frog, grotesque comic muse and focal point of widespread "meme magic," has become something of a household name.
Marilyn claimed to have written his song 'The Golden Age of Grotesque' in 12 hours on a bottle of the green stuff.
Trump's address to a joint session of Congress was boring and grotesque, but he sort of looked and sounded like a president.
So many designers and filmmakers have said it's the collision of beauty and the grotesque—that's the whole aesthetic of the movie.
"Hundreds of people responded to this in an hour, and some didn't fit into the category of grotesque work," she told Hyperallergic.
Such grotesque and obvious character assassination — if allowed to succeed — will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from service.
Whether it's a simple "hey" or a "compliment" that's as grotesque as it is misogynistic, unsolicited messages are, unfortunately, the new norm.
The jihadist "caliphate" of Islamic State (IS), the grotesque outgrowth of Sunni rage, is metastasising to other parts of the Arab world.
The artist depicts the frightening and grotesque through a colorful animated medium that allows him to experiment with psychological ideas and emotions.
But, even as " GLOW " makes a compelling case for the power and the fun of the grotesque, the show itself is subtle.
The unraveling of capitalism, it's morphing into ever more grotesque shapes, as predicted by Marx, is a huge part of this resurgence.
Brown's premise—that free markets helped activists get celebrity sexual harassers fired—doesn't stand up in an era marked by grotesque inequality.
When Hulu's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale" débuted, in April, nearly every review commented on its grotesque timeliness.
The Loudest Voice is a grotesque show that revels in the bodily details and functions of Ailes and his well-compensated minions.
"This grotesque and coordinated character assassination will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country," Kavanaugh said.
Skripal's death was a "grotesque provocation rudely staged by the British and U.S. intelligence agencies," Naryshkin added, according to the news service.
"Hillary Clinton was negligent at a minimum in not ensuring that they were [granted extra security] … her conduct was grotesque," he added.
The language is the true treasure here, though, as Das imbues even grotesque scenes of cannibalism with a disturbing yet sensuous weight.
No matter what you're packing, there are points throughout history when your dick has been laughable and grotesque, or admirable and desirable.
It's the grotesque list of men who used guns to defend their sense of superiority that I collected and documented last summer.
"That we're told we should hate each other because we have different opinions on who should be president is grotesque," he says.
Aside from a grotesque performance in Game 3, Houston's coaches believe Harden's defense this year is much improved from the 2017 playoffs.
Bb9's merits lie in its ability to prompt critical reflection as a response to its grotesque depiction of the post-contemporary.
You need someone to provide gurgling, grotesque mumblings and rumblings, rasps and hisses for your snake-headed manifestation of an ancient evil?
And that's exactly the same sort of ratio between gold bullion and grotesque bullshit you'll find with the Vega+'s thousand games.
It's one of the more grotesque incarnations of a particularly facile sort of grievance politics: equating having your feelings hurt with oppression.
But it quickly became apparent that this was one more error-filled display in what has been a grotesque carnival of incompetence.
"From menstruation to pregnancy to postpartum, women are seen as some sort of monster out of grotesque art, even today," she said.
By now Pepe the frog, grotesque comic muse and focal point of widespread "meme magic," has become something of a household name.
Actions like Mr. Kim's executions of his own uncle and his half brother have also made the regime look brutal and grotesque.
The only problem with this approach is that the grotesque and bizarre crime wave that launches the narrative remains all but unfathomable.
As for Finkielkraut, Sand's effort to liken him to the racists and anti-Dreyfus zealots of circa 1900 seems to me grotesque.
"This is clearly an act of grotesque violence to innocent people and it should frighten all of us," Mayor John Cranley said.
But of course, Midsommar is an Ari Aster movie, so the thing inevitably devolves into some grotesque horror and bear-related violence.
Despite this burgeoning conversation, however, mental illness was still dismissed as either a fiction or something grotesque and shameful, something to hide.
But to accuse Holocaust survivors of inflicting Nazi-like violence on others, as the guest speaker at Fieldston had, is morally grotesque.
It replicates the same grotesque logic of that Jack Johnson cartoon in which white people are victimized by allegedly monstrous black people.
With its thin characterizations and inconsistent tone, the play becomes a pile-on of increasingly depraved events: rape, murder, grotesque sexual situations.
Simultaneously grotesque and whimsical, the miniatures made from the hardened candy, decorated with paint, buttons, and beads, offer absurd, quaint talismanic figurines.
He is the grotesque embodiment of how Westworld debases a man over time, and "The Bicameral Mind" laughs heartily at his demise.
Such grotesque and obvious character assassination -- if allowed to succeed -- will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from service.
"The shaman's actions may be eccentric, but the Russian authorities' response is grotesque," Amnesty's Russia Director Natalia Zviagina said in a statement.
"Most employees don't sign up looking to be part of a grotesque monopoly; they just want to make things better," said Green.
But that had something to do with the grotesque insults Trump lobbed at John McCain, the man whose "nay" vote sank repeal.
There were grotesque images: like scenes of a black man being flogged in the public square, with white people attending and watching.
Sarkeesian (and her project) became a target of grotesque harassment, prompting others to show their support by financially backing Tropes vs Women.
Kavanaugh testified after Ford finished her appearance, claiming he was the victim of "grotesque and obvious character assassination" orchestrated by Senate Democrats.
No matter how grotesque the enemy or even the self, video games comfort by constructing an alternate universe where you can win.
I tried to remind myself that grotesque pictures had been the point, but inwardly I worried that I had made a horrible mistake.
Most Republican voters disagree with Trump's grotesque, lewd words on an intellectual level -- but they still back the man because they feel defiant.
From the grotesque to the surreal to the slightly nauseating, these eight mutated artworks from EXPO Chicago deserve a second, or third, glance.
In anti-Trump art, bodily fluids and grotesque anatomies have become something of a theme, turning the candidate's own crass rhetoric against him.
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There's the obvious example of Apple's relationship with Foxconn, who has been revealed to employ underage workers and house employees in grotesque conditions.
"This backroom stitch-up after days of talks is grotesque, it satisfies no one but party power games," said Greens leader Ska Keller.
And finally: The Geneva capitals, while following the main Grotesque style, have slightly more classical forms, and are designed to work well together.
But Jim Carrey's Olaf operated on a grander, more grotesque scale that threw a longer, deeper and more villainous shadow over the story.
I'm just translating it into matter... People think there's one way the body can be, and anything that deviates from that is grotesque.
Here's a new trailer for Flying Lotus' trippy, bizarre, and kind of grotesque feature debut, which is pretty much impossible to accurately describe.
When he stumbles into a political meeting, the speaker appears to him a grotesque figure, "a fat balding man, provoking, tempting, laughing, teasing".
Like her mentor at the Daily Show, Jon Stewart, she's blended civic outrage while still reveling in the grotesque insanity of it all.
Just recently, the store's product designers released a "Fried Shrimp Wearable Sleeping Bag," which is just as glorious and grotesque as it sounds.
Tears appear on Davis' face as she watches a particularly grotesque moment from her own performance, which strikes me as out of character.
Amid reports he demanded a loyalty pledge from Comey, critics warned Trump was guilty of a grotesque abuse of power, or even worse.
Though morbid and slightly grotesque, this piece meditates on the death of the animals used in this study and grants them some dignity.
From Ida B. Wells to Ella Baker, black women in particular have had to struggle against incivility, disrespect, and grotesque forms of violence.
I felt a real kinship—I felt at ease, let's say—in the somewhat bizarre, grotesque world of fame and wealth and exclusivity.
And if, having committed a grotesque act, a rapist genuinely repented and rehabilitated, branding them would impede their assimilation back into the community.
Here it becomes a grotesque bacchanal of white-male supremacy, capped by a Fourth of July party that degenerates into a racist riot.
It's impossible to counter either near-religious fervor in the market's liberatory potential or Trump's grotesque materialism without a competing, egalitarian economic vision.
They have the same desert camouflage pattern, the same tan cap and tactical vest, the same cutoff gloves and grotesque scene of bloodshed.
By contrast, "The Favourite" (pictured, above) offers an engrossing, and grotesque, portrait of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), the last of the Stuart monarchs.
I suspect that the exciting, Arbus-like picture of the grotesque Slečna was one that she would have preferred not to have taken.
Partisans for both sides deliver apocalyptic broadsides that manage to be grotesque without sounding all that different from what we hear every day.
" Intelligence chief Naryshkin said Wednesday that the poisoning was "an act of grotesque provocation crudely concocted by the U.S. and British security services.
Today and tomorrow are a fading polaroid of that grotesque thing—and I expedite its deterioration by leaving it out in the sun.
And so I decided to have that conversation with Phillips and the roles we all play in amplifying questionable or grotesque online behavior.
From the perplexing to the grotesque to the straight-up fucked-up, here are the 30 most WTF moments from Game of Thrones.
Equally beautiful and grotesque, the bodies and faces in Dromsjel's work melt, implode, sprout colors and flowers, or serve as portals into space.
He's what a lot of Americans would be if they had a billion dollars: They'd build grotesque castles, bang models, and grow fat.
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The tortured minstrel face embodied the assertion that blackness was grotesque in itself because it could never achieve the mythical ideal of whiteness.
Everyone around Sally is a grotesque: her co-workers, her parents and David, who's less a person than a collection of warning signs.
Not one reporter has ever asked me 'Bernie, what are you going to do about the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality?
The Beautiful & the Grotesque underscores the tension between high and low, between precious and disposable, and between what draws and repels a viewer.
Even that U.S.O. show dream sequence — in which the characters rematerialized as grotesque versions of their daytime selves — felt like so much agitpop.
Simultaneously funny and grotesque, "Wax Museum Strangler, Coney Island, N.Y.," features a wax museum tableau of a killer choking his hapless female victim.
In 1887, when construction started, critics called the monument "the grotesque and mercantile imagination of a machine maker," according to a Times report.
They also told us that they did not consider the Islamic State to be Islamic, and its grotesque violence against Muslims proved it.
Who can honestly defend the current grotesque level of inequality in which the top 1 percent owns more than the bottom 90 percent?
But it is grotesque to argue that that excuses racism against her, or that Trump's taunts have anything to do with protecting Jews.
To see him portrayed as a hero of the fight against ISIS terrorism, as the regime has attempted in recent days, is grotesque.
" In a later conversation, she said, "How do you make a painting about this and not have it just be about the grotesque?
In an interview this month, Mayor Christoph D'Haese of Aalst said that the town was fed up with "grotesque complaints" about the carnival.
Performers were often nude or nearly nude and painted white, and confronted viewers with awkward, grotesque movements and a fluid approach to gender.
The Signalman initially seems more conventional, yet he struggles against PTSD and fear of infection caused by an encounter with the grotesque fungus.
The sentence is both gorgeous and grotesque; she knows that lived experience is more unruly than the stories we tell to contain it.
People on the wrong side of history frequently chide human rights advocates as being "uncivil" for speaking out against grotesque forms of violence.
It's also a reminder that the best horror movies are intensely topical, putting a fantastical, grotesque spin on the tensions of their times.
It imprisoned and tortured foreigners, demanding ransoms for their release and killing those whose countries would not pay in grotesque films posted online.
Mac set himself a challenge: Could he take everything that was ugly, grotesque, dispiriting in the world, put it onstage and transform it?
His caricatural renderings invoke George Grosz's cutting social satire, but he replaces Grosz's dark humor with grotesque and fatalistic images, haunted by death.
This is the main the reason the 3D selfies feature a missing arm or two, or render Menegon's face in rather grotesque fashion.
And, oddly enough, some of them say that the grotesque mess at the presidential level is helping them find recruits for their cause.
Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg included her in their outstanding 2010 anthology Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics (Saturnalia Books), and while Minnis fit just fine into their aesthetic of "burlesque and camp, girly kitsch and the female grotesque," her work also possessed a hypnotic, seductively estranged, subtly dissonant music all its own, something unlike anything else in recent American poetry.
In these sweetly grotesque beasts you see visual beauty — in the beaded patterns if not the comically ugly critters — admirably united with human goodness.
So I just believed it to be a grotesque display of power; a dude misreading the room and making a lame-if-vile pass.
Both drawn and animated with intentional ugliness, each episode follows grotesque versions of the nuclear family as the world around them gradually falls apart.
Vividly, each piece vies to preside over an emergence of the grotesque that is typical of the both scary and deep private dream register.
We know what happened next—the hype cycles sped up faster and faster, until the constant turn-over began to feel kind of grotesque.
What's perhaps most impressive is how the game manages to continuously up the ante and throw you into even more disturbing and grotesque scenarios.
YouTube has faced issues with grotesque, overtly sexual, and dangerous thumbnails for quite some time, as creators try to garner attention toward their videos.
She disappears for a year, before returning to King's Landing dying from the most grotesque Aliens-esque horrors the Seven Kingdoms have ever seen.
Through its performative nature, the work reveals the grotesque side of consumption, making  passersby and diners accomplices of an oppressive and unjust capitalist economy.
But that hasn't made it any easier to explain my love of a genre that is, frankly, weird and more than a little grotesque.
Look no further than U.S. tax policy, which is not a policy at all, but a grotesque conglomeration of special-interest favors and loopholes.
They seem like a little audience of grotesque creatures watching their cult leader perform — a troll army, if you will, huddling in the shadows.
But it's also good at hitting the best notes of The Secret Service, and it's just as stylish — and as grotesque — as its predecessor.
Thanks to his outlandish and sometimes grotesque fashion show themes, he established himself as one of the most talked-about designers of his generation.
Participants clicked on scary images to teach the AI what qualified as truly grotesque, in hopes that it would learn as time went on.
When you're dealing with a TV ad that already looks like a grotesque parody of itself, it's not hard to take the proverbial piss.
Look, I -- I think a lot of the things that Rudy Giuliani said this morning to you were factually, logically almost grotesque at times.
Cardilli described the allegations against the officers as "grotesque and vile," noting that the department's policies and procedures were not followed during the arrest.
At times shouting, crying and interrupting senators, Kavanaugh argued that he is the victim of "grotesque and obvious character assassination" planned by Senate Democrats.
The web project is the brainchild of Brian Tessler and Jon Baken, artists with a penchant for creating intensely weird and often grotesque films.
Grotesque purple giant though he may be, movie Thanos really thinks he's doing this for the benefit of the half of us who remain.
Our fear, they propose, is not so much a conscious reaction to grotesque imagery, but an evolved defense against creatures that might harm us.
But in practice, it was a grotesque display of demagoguery: Christie wanted to stir up the #LockHerUp mob and that's exactly what he did.
The grotesque parade of bureaucratic types and numbing mundaneness of magisterial life borrows more from Franz Kafka than from Frantz Fanon or Edward Said.
Aimee, though often grotesque, is never cartoonish: Smith conjures a strange but convincing creature whose appeal, even up close, is inextricable from her monstrosity.
"The beauty and the spectacle makes it even more grotesque, and you can't decide if it's even okay to enjoy looking at," says Amelia.
At times shouting, crying and interrupting senators, Kavanaugh argued that he is the victim of "grotesque and obvious character assassination" planned by Senate Democrats.
His sculptures feel obviously indebted to Pee-wee's Playhouse, though turned more campily grotesque — his creations include a vomiting version of the beloved Chairy.
But it also feels painfully grotesque, like it's dragging both participants into villainy and dim-witted hatred in order to ramp up the stakes.
If you've clicked into this story, then we can only assume that grotesque zit-popping videos are the kind of things you live for.
"These accounts are grotesque and we do not recognize any of the claims made," said the Head of Security, Lars Bau Brysting, via email.
" O'Connell finds it odd, too, that "billionaire entrepreneurs" are more interested in developing AI than in eradicating "grotesque income inequality in their own country.
And the grotesque result is made even more uncanny by the fact that instead of a canvas, Marie-Lou Desmeules paints portraits on people.
After Keoghan's chilling delivery of these lines, what had seemed Lanthimos's first foray into a dark strain of realism turns into a campy grotesque.
Such grotesque and obvious character assassination — if allowed to succeed — will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country.
"Grotesque," the midseason premiere focused entirely on Nick's efforts to survive trekking across a brutal desert overrun by gun-toting thugs and feral dogs.
Meanwhile Schwitters's Ur-sounds have inspired vocal writing full of odd gasps, shrieks and consonants that take on a grotesque life of their own.
"Grotesque lies about immigrants and policies that rip babies from their mothers' arms carry echoes of the darkest moments in our history," Biden said.
Glam fashion was an almost literal scream, an embrace of the grotesque that somehow made men dressed as space aliens the new sex symbols.
The cute and fun aliens that we want to make into toys or the these grotesque aberrations of nature that must be killed off.
I'm not sure we've ever witnessed a capitulation this grudging, a cynicism this grotesque, a reversal of regard this fraudulent and flat-out hilarious.
Time Out​ had reported that an architecture firm called Shimahara had posted a grotesque illustration of a shiny high-rise at Amoeba's Hollywood address.
This is Hardcore saw Britpop's working class heroes reckoning with fame, hedonism, success, money, and the grotesque distortion of reality that come with them.
The faces are cast from a bizarre color pallette and have jagged and grotesque features, sort of like the characters in Beavis and Butthead.
While it is truly grotesque that the Sixers have been deposited into the claws of the Colangelos, it couldn't have happened without spineless ownership.
They say nature is fragile; nature is relentless and resurrects itself constantly, bullets and machines are just very strong and our appetites are grotesque.
In the "exploded America" of "the medieval Now," where buffaloes mate with butterflies and give birth to buffalowings, "grotesque" is apparently the latest compliment.
Such grotesque and obvious character assassination—if allowed to succeed—will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country.
Monsters & Myths begins with Dalí's 1936 "Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)," which encapsulates the grotesque drama unfolding throughout the exhibition.
But transhumanism isn't just about cultivating a futuristic, sci-fi aesthetic, and H+ doesn't limit itself to the more startling, and occasionally grotesque, images.
But the products of his grotesque imagination, which fixed on anything smelly, phony, hollow, haphazard, askance or asymmetrical, remain testaments to humor's revelatory power.
Visitors to the Cleveland Institute of Art can experience his singular visual voice in William Harper: The Beautiful & the Grotesque, a 20-year retrospective.
Around them swirls a carnival of riotous color and grotesque creatures, rendered in a dynamic mix of blocky pastel marks and smooth gouache strokes.
How vulnerably nontoxic should he make himself in a world that preys on the undefended — but whose opposite is the grotesque alpha-male caricature?
Any tips on the whereabouts of Jared Leto's expensive and grotesque Gucci head can be directed to Jared Leto's actually pretty great TikTok account.
It took an ivy-league educated law professor to bring America the most grotesque array of constitutional legal crises in the last 28503 years.
The sets and the costumes, by the Canadian artist Marcel Dzama, are full of grotesque fancies; they are, in fact, the ballet's strongest element.
This election is about ending the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality that we currently experience, the worst it has been since 1928.
One moment, she was looking through a tiny window, the next, she saw her own face peering in: huge, piggy nostrils, open-pored, grotesque.
Take Black Friday: a secular festival invented in the 1950s to inject a much-needed frisson of grotesque, pointless acquisitiveness to the Thanksgiving holiday.
This election is about ending the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality that we currently experience, the worst it has been since 203.
Raphayet, Zaida and their two children move into a grand stucco villa that comes to symbolize both their worldly success and its grotesque absurdity.
Kavanaugh, nominated by Republican President Donald Trump, said on Thursday he was the victim of "grotesque and obvious character assassination" orchestrated by Senate Democrats.
Lavish lifestyles in mostly impoverished countries, seen as a grotesque kleptocracy by many, and a seeming disdain for the wider population, are a familiar theme.
Gilardi, who worked by day as a dot etcher for lithography companies, created a body of work that is hopeful, grotesque, sexual, humorous, and disturbing.
To the media, being a polite, agreeable actress was acceptable—but being a rich actress who flaunted her wealth and sexuality was grotesque and whorish.
This statement eloquently draws together a number of aesthetic and symbolic components of Standfest's work: contraptions, instructions, maudlin memories, grotesque outcomes, and dark, dark humor.
I can't imagine that SSION—who is glossy and grotesque, sludgy and bright, trashy and iconoclastic—could amass any kind of casual listener or observer.
The enemy types appear as grotesque as "Dark Souls" The protagonist's prosthetic arm comes equipped with a grappling hook, allowing you to leap between rooftops.
Imagine an episode of Fear Factor so grotesque and limit-pushing that the least gross part of it is the cacophony of shit on-screen.
I know this because my job requires me to check horrible and grotesque websites, to understand how bad people use the internet to manipulate others.
But his long, grotesque scenes in a New Jersey slaughterhouse look like something you've seen only in the worst grindhouse slasher film on the shelf.
But it's important to note that it works because of everything that comes before it: It's astoundingly grotesque, but it's also well-earned and cathartic.
In his testimony before the Judiciary Committee, Kavanaugh will call the allegations part of a "grotesque and obvious character assassination," according to his prepared remarks.
Despite a law passed in 2011 that allows police to arrest members of jirgas suspected of "anti-women" practices, grotesque abuses continue unabated, activists say.
The show diverges from its usual animation style to do a grotesque, Ren & Stimpy-esque close-up of her more shocking qualities (namely body hair).
In the case of Soviet-era Russian faith healer Alan Chumak, it usually manifested as a grown man stroking an invisible and particularly grotesque cat.
Video games have always depicted all manner of violence, but it's traditionally grotesque and over-the-top, eschewing nuance in favor of fetishized aesthetic hyperbole.
Maybe they started out as a grotesque [piece of sculpture], became a sexual instruction book, then they became taboo, and now they're seen as art.
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There are the grotesque, shrieking Revenants, the hideous but oddly cute Pinkies, and the malevolent, twisted Cyberdemon that towers over everything else on the board.
Partygoers are being warned not to wear a brand of grotesque false teeth after a retailer discovered the product may be extremely hard to remove.
One villain, the Ghastly Grinner, is a comic book monster who infects the protagonist's teachers, friends, and family with a grotesque distortion of juvenile humor.
The latest grotesque revelations are coming to light just as general election voters across the country are tuning into their choices for president and Congress.
But without the framing of this dramatic dinner, and the sort of grotesque impropriety of that taking place in that scene, it hadn't all clicked.
Sarkozy, who served as president from 2007 to 2012, has always denied receiving any illicit campaign funding and has dismissed the Libyan allegations as "grotesque".
You don't have to look very far in nature to find the most beautifully grotesque facial forms, with which these bats are particularly blessed. 5.
The artist's tendency to include strange, often grotesque imagery is nothing to dismiss, as he employs an impeccable study of painterly detail in each work.
Kavanaugh has staunchly denied the accusations, calling them a "grotesque and obvious character assassination" and "a coordinated effort" to drive him out on the nomination.
When kids are affected like that, as they often are, this system of jailing people who can't pay fines is grotesque as well as Kafkaesque.
These grotesque expenditures represent a remarkable culture of corruption, which is only made more remarkable by the fact that they all really just got here.
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Legal experts and supporters of four defendants denounced the hearings, held on consecutive days in Tianjin, a port city near Beijing, as grotesque show trials.
On the drive they bicker and chafe at the way they are made to feel strange and grotesque when seen through ­hetero-normative Midwestern eyes.
The third book in Lock's American Novels series takes a scalpel to Edgar Allan Poe and his fetish for the grotesque underworld of occult phenomena.
Again and again he blocks any sympathy for his characters, drawing attention to their fictional status, making their suffering grotesque and comic rather than endearing.
Further, could Israel, a state literally constructed upon the ashes of its own murdered people, possibly be encouraged by any such grotesque American policy goal?
He was signaling to me in that grotesque, animated fashion adults use to convey something unspoken through improvised sign language, pointing to our little veranda.
As she dances, she edges towards the grotesque, contorting herself into sharp heart monitor peaks on the stage floor before eventually exhausting herself and flatlining.
It's in those early Drop Dead designs that look almost like the grotesque animals in the popular internet cartoon of the era, Happy Tree Friends.
Honestly, when I first started watching, it was out of sheer curiosity: the sort of grotesque urge you get to stare at a car crash.
They also suffer from ailments such as fibropapillomatosis, a mysterious disease that causes grotesque tumors possibly caused by pollution, and parasitic barnacles on their carapaces.
I'll never forget the first time I saw the Pale Man, a grotesque, gluttonous, child-eating monster with eyes in the palms of its hands.
As I wrote in another piece, the language has had to develop a grotesque vocabulary with words like "autocannibalism" and "rerape" to describe the brutality.
Mysterious murders start happening there, providing an increasingly over-the-top foundation on which Argento and the cinematographer Luciano Tovoli build images of grotesque surreality.
Poland's grotesque "Death Camp" law, signed this month by President Duda, must therefore be seen as of a piece with a broader assault on truth.
Many critics found it grotesque and facile, but I have always loved it for its pure abjection, and its ability to communicate interiority through inventory.
The grotesque and mesmerizing lips spread thick, revealing bloched veins as they push down on glass dividing the mouth from the camera and the viewer.
A great many liberal women were forever changed when they saw the grotesque beauty pageant impresario defeat the first female major-party candidate for president.
According to Foley artist Jay Peck, the grotesque sound of his breathing all came courtesy of a big, wet slice of dead animal skin. Delightful!
There's something both grotesque and bracing about the confrontation between Clinton, with her disciplined professionalism, and Trump, with his increasingly frenzied assertions of male prerogative.
The term for fat people who take steps to be perceived as more acceptable (or somehow less grotesque) by the general masses is 'good fatty'.
So Limbaugh's award, while on a certain level grotesque, is on another level deeply fitting — a capstone for the movement that made Trump possible. —ZB
Corey Scott-Gilbert's dance in the video clip, with its handsome and grotesque facial and physical contortions, is just one way to envision the music.
These Bosch-like accounts are grotesque and whimsical, painting landscapes of destruction from the basic vocabularies of both contemporary culture and ages-old apocalyptic imagery.
Far from making the transformative "deals" he promised voters, his only talent appears to be creating grotesque media frenzies — just as all his critics said.
" Biden's campaign immediately issued a strong rebuke of the president's remarks, saying they represented "a grotesque choice of lies over truth and self over country.
Mr. Oliver's grotesque remark reminds us yet again that the era of racial terror that spawned these memorials still casts a shadow over American life.
" Miller slammed the book during his CNN interview, calling it a "grotesque work of fiction" and a "pile of trash" written by a "garbage author.
" Zeid labelled Wilders' March 2017 election platform, which calls for no Muslim immigrants, the closing of mosques and the banning of the Koran, as "grotesque.
The question we may be left asking at the end of the grisly episode is which of the three acted with the most grotesque hypocrisy?
It said Gabyshev "should be free to express his political views and exercise his religion just like anyone else", and that his detention was "grotesque".
"I told them to think of a black family walking into the opera, and seeing themselves shown onstage in this grotesque fashion," Mr. Millepied said.
It's a disturbing, grotesque image, a violent distortion of the woman Picasso had painted in another armchair just a decade earlier to celebrate their engagement.
And then comes the awful last step: You are forced to scribble your name in some grotesque cursive that'd make your first grade teacher wince.
And it's hard to imagine him losing to Emanuel, who is only ever one grotesque scandal away from sliding back towards single-digit approval ratings.
Munoz has an AWESOMELY grotesque pinky from his playing days (it still points sideways) -- and says he appreciates Carr's toughness for playing through Sunday's injury.
The grotesque folly of Brexit will be enough to persuade many wealthy Britons to ditch the Tories, even if it means electing a far-left chancellor.
In it, an older English couple come into possession of a grotesque keepsake (the titular paw) that grants three wishes in the most perverse possible way.
Previous administrations allowed the Human Rights Commission at the United Nations to be occupied by some of the most grotesque human rights abusers in the world.
The women on the show are all grotesque stereotypes of women: desperate, loathing, cruel, selfish, needy, image-obsessed, and stuffed to the gills with "preventative" botox.
Just as the various accusations against Bill Clinton would be even more damaging today, so would all Trump's grotesque ranting about wanting to fuck Princess Diana.
But the sad fact of journalism's dependence on profit-making becomes far more grotesque and dangerous when the profiteers in question are financial sector wheeler-dealers.
Moreover, Trump's ambition to push for a deal that favored the United States but not Canada and Mexico was "grotesque and unacceptable", he told Mexican radio.
It's relatively light on CGI, with the exception of some blue lightning effects used to demonstrate ship malfunctions, and a grotesque sequence in the virus episode.
He's an interactive, life-size sculpture with a grotesque human look who's part of a road safety campaign for the Transport Accident Commission of Victoria, Australia.
"I hope that he and anyone else who had any involvement in these grotesque attacks is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," she said.
But even if the Sacklers might be unique in their contemporary, arguably grotesque greed, they have not been that original in their attempts to obscure it.
I served as deputy convenor of the Her Majesty's Government's working group on tackling radicalization and extremism, set up in the wake of that grotesque attack.
De Rugy, 45, a former Green party member and environmental activist married to a gossip magazine journalist, initially offered no apology and called the aspersions "grotesque".
She dismissed as "grotesque and absurd" a claim by Russia, which joined the war in 2015 to back Assad, that Britain had staged the Douma attack.
" She added that "silencing behavior ranges from security w/in the firm creating files on women, to potential violations of revenge porn laws, to grotesque threats.
Trump's implication that Central American asylum seekers are all dangerous gang members is a grotesque blood libel, and it's sad for America how mainstream it's become.
Jenny Hval, "Female Vampire" I loved Jenny Hval's 2015 breakthrough Apocalypse, girl, a collection of experimental pop that fused pure melodies to powerful, occasionally grotesque imagery.
Unapologetic melodrama is the best fit for shooters like Deus Ex, because subtlety looks grotesque when your avatar is personally capable of causing so much destruction.
"I wish we could say that she's prettier in person," he captioned a shot of a grotesque-looking "crying" baby doll posted shortly before Monroe's birth.
The best known of the Bolshevik higher-ups were subjected to grotesque public trials, the transcripts of which were duly translated and circulated around the world.
They come to beg for alms, wearing grotesque outfits: oversize veils for the women, even little girls; cotton djellabas for the men; prayer beads ostentatiously displayed.
"Sometimes people ask me why there's a lot of dark and grotesque things in my work, but I don't think of it like that," she says.
Garland's newest film is a heady mind-trip that explores humanity's self-destructive impulses, but it's also a walking tour of the gorgeous and the grotesque.
Later on we see four small grotesque gilded heads, mouths agape, baying in mockery, mounted on the reconstructed frame of the roof of a carriage. Whose?
London (CNN)It will come as no surprise that milkshakes loaded with sweets, chocolate bars, cream and cake, known as freakshakes, contain "grotesque levels" of sugar.
"As a consequence of Jeffrey Reinking's gross negligence and grotesque recklessness, Mr. DaSilva was brutally and senselessly murdered," reads a court filing obtained by the Tennessean.
""He [Prince Andrew] has defended that grotesque interview, something he should not have been allowed to do," said Fitzwilliams, former editor of "The International Who's Who.
Indeed, Facebook is so accustomed to grotesque content appearing on the site, it offers content moderators counseling to help them deal with the horrors they've seen.
Sara David, culture editor I spend all day feeling pulled by a magnetically grotesque other, like I'm tip-toeing around the Dead Marshes of Middle-earth.
The guy is so handsome that he took a photo with Canadian Prime Hunk Justin Trudeau and made him look like a grotesque troll by comparison.
Why do we voluntarily visit haunted houses, where actors dressed in grotesque costumes lurk behind every corner and wait to jump out and make us scream?
Grotesque Tables II, itself an anagram of Oblique Strategies, are now available through a website created by New York based artist and conceptual musician Noah Wall.
Radioactive miasma infected the air, the soil, and residents, causing birth defects and thyroid cancer in infants, and inflicting future generations of livestock with grotesque mutations.
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" She tells The Creators Project, "I believe my paintings bring grotesque and traditional painting together, and deliver the feeling of the unknown – the feeling of danger.
You must know by now that your fans are basically rabid dogs, chomping with frothing mouths at the perfectly grotesque severed leg of your dulcet tones.
It is possible to sit through it all without feeling completely miserable, and to remember a time when these comic-grotesque shenanigans might have seemed fresh.
It is equally respectful, and properly outraged, about the grotesque class inequities that help enable the murderer to operate with impunity, or even under outright protection.
More grotesque still, he was suspected of loaning girls out to his friends, hosting sex parties at his homes in the Caribbean, Manhattan, and New Mexico.
The grotesque saw blade, hovering inches away from tearing off Ryu's chest like gift paper, is one thing, but what in the world is this room?
By contrast, Laura Bernstein, whose recently closed show at Nurture Art was also part of "Sculpture 56," portrays mythological creatures whose grotesque features have evolutionary purposes.
Both also borrow extensively from the German Expressionist Max Beckmann: Ms. Culprit uses his expedient black outlines, mildly grotesque figuration and distinctive palette of saturated colors.
The detail is absolutely incredible, from the grotesque Skeksis to the menagerie of strange critters that make Thra feel as fully realized as Pandora from Avatar.
Kadare's lifelong theme and the context for much of his work is the four-decade dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, whose grotesque, paranoid, Stalinist regime slaughtered thousands.
Maybe you need to leave America for more than a vacation to a protected beach resort in order to begin to understand how grotesque it is.
As Abouzeid mentions in passing and others have confirmed independently, the United States "rendition" program turned over several suspects to the grotesque ministrations of Syria's interrogators.
She doesn't think Trump can deliver on his promises, and once he fails his base our ugly and fractious political situation could become even more grotesque.
"President Duterte is a grotesque man," Preet Bharara, the former United States attorney in Manhattan who was fired by Mr. Trump this year, wrote on Twitter.
One of them is named lead detective on two long-unsolved murders that seem to have inspired a new round of grotesque and seemingly random killings.
Ties How vulnerably nontoxic should my son make himself in a world that preys on the undefended — but whose opposite is the grotesque alpha-male caricature?
Trying to deal with this atrocity in visual terms had seemed almost beyond imagining, and "Open Casket" is a very dark picture—but it's not grotesque.
In men, the disease can make the scrotum swell to grotesque proportions, so that when they walk they must carry their scrotum on a homemade wheelbarrow.
" Facebook said that it doesn't allow users to promote close-ups of ears, nostrils, and feet or "excessive or grotesque food consumption" like "eating live animals.
"As we speak, the entire 'Deadpool' team is engaged in a grotesque, early morning tickle-fight," Ryan Reynolds, the star of that film, wrote on Twitter.
Critics were comforted, when they might have been disturbed, that these poems with their sympathy for the hybrid, inverted and grotesque were written by a woman.
Very few of the policymakers who enabled the grotesque, systematic torture of terror suspects in the aftermath of 9/11 have faced consequences for their actions.
This is a grotesque abuse of power, and seemingly an ongoing one, with potential implications for the integrity of an election to be held next year.
Op-Ed Contributor SYDNEY, Australia — In the United States, painting yourself black to impersonate a person of color is considered a particularly grotesque form of racism.
The most promising and brutal looking vacation to the twisted netherworld is Scorn, a grotesque Serbian horror game with no shortage of authentically Giger-y dread.
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim have established a following with their grotesque comedy and deliberately low production values, inspired by the aesthetic of public-access television.
In the book's opening encounter, Maggie takes grotesque action on a flawed premise — but that first action is never revisited or questioned once Maggie learns better.
In "Throat Cut," now on display as part of the Giacometti retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the artist depicts with poignancy what is grotesque.
In dissent, Justice Breyer, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, wrote that Mr. Bucklew may face an "excruciating and grotesque" punishment.
The lesson here, I think, is to not synonymize material beauty with piety and the grotesque with irreverence, but rather to treasure all things as equal.
Russia's spy chief Wednesday accused the U.S. and Britain of carrying out the Salisbury nerve agent attack, calling it a "grotesque provocation" by Western intelligence agencies.
We need to believe in Cheney's world, grotesque and absurd as it may be, and these performances are essential grounding for the disturbing world McKay shows us.

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