All 27 Uses
grotesque
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Winesburg, Ohio - by Sherwood Anderson
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- Gripped by these stories and sketches of Sherwood Anderson's small-town "grotesques," I felt that he was opening for me new depths of experience, touching upon half-buried truths which nothing in my young life had prepared me for.†
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- This vision has its truth, and at its best it is a terrible if narrow truth—but it is itself also grotesque, with the tone of the authorial voice and the mode of composition forming muted signals of the book's content.†
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- In the economy of Winesburg these grotesques matter less in their own right than as agents or symptoms of that "indefinable hunger" for meaning which is Anderson's preoccupation.†
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- Nor are these people, the grotesques, simply to be pitied and dismissed; at some point in their lives they have known desire, have dreamt of ambition, have hoped for friendship.†
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- They want, these Winesburg grotesques, to unpack their hearts, to release emotions buried and festering.†
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- After a time the attentive reader will notice in these stories a recurrent pattern of theme and incident: the grotesques, gathering up a little courage, venture out into the streets of Winesburg, often in the dark, there to establish some initiatory relationship with George Willard, the young reporter who hasn't yet lived long enough to become a grotesque.†
Chpt Intr.
- After a time the attentive reader will notice in these stories a recurrent pattern of theme and incident: the grotesques, gathering up a little courage, venture out into the streets of Winesburg, often in the dark, there to establish some initiatory relationship with George Willard, the young reporter who hasn't yet lived long enough to become a grotesque.†
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- What the grotesques really need is each other, but their estrangement is so extreme they cannot establish direct ties—they can only hope for connection through George Willard.†
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- The grotesques turn to him because he seems "different"—younger, more open, not yet hardened—but it is precisely this "difference" that keeps him from responding as warmly as they want.†
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- For George Willard, the grotesques form a moment in his education; for the grotesques, their encounters with George Willard come to seem like a stamp of hopelessness.†
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- For George Willard, the grotesques form a moment in his education; for the grotesques, their encounters with George Willard come to seem like a stamp of hopelessness.†
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- THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE The writer, an old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed.†
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- They were all grotesques.†
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- All of the men and women the writer had ever known had become grotesques.†
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- The grotesques were not all horrible.†
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- Some were amusing, some almost beautiful, and one, a woman all drawn out of shape, hurt the old man by her grotesqueness.†
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- For an hour the procession of grotesques passed before the eyes of the old man, and then, although it was a painful thing to do, he crept out of bed and began to write.†
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- Some one of the grotesques had made a deep impression on his mind and he wanted to describe it.†
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- In the end he wrote a book which he called "The Book of the Grotesque."†
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- It was the truths that made the people grotesques.†
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- It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.†
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- The subject would become so big in his mind that he himself would be in danger of becoming a grotesque.†
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- Concerning the old carpenter who fixed the bed for the writer, I only mentioned him because he, like many of what are called very common people, became the nearest thing to what is understandable and lovable of all the grotesques in the writer's book.†
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- Also they made more grotesque an already grotesque and elusive individuality.†
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- Also they made more grotesque an already grotesque and elusive individuality.†
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- RESPECTABILITY If you have lived in cities and have walked in the park on a summer afternoon, you have perhaps seen, blinking in a corner of his iron cage, a huge, grotesque kind of monkey, a creature with ugly, sagging, hairless skin below his eyes and a bright purple underbody.†
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- On the summer afternoon in the office when he was on the point of becoming her lover a half grotesque little incident brought his love-making quickly to an end.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(grotesque) distorted and unnatural in shape or size -- especially in a disturbing way
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ugly, gross, or very wrong -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, grotesque can refer to a style of art or instances of it that combines or distorts in a fanciful way natural forms into something that is often ugly or disturbing. Grotesque can also be used specifically to reference a gargoyle-like sculpture without a waterspout.