All 5 Uses of
grotesque
in
Interview with the Vampire
- But you must have all the things you never had of life and make of immortality a junk shop in which both of us become grotesque.†
Part 1 *
- And why have you propped her here in some grotesque manner, as if tempting the gods to strike you down for your blasphemy?†
Part 1
- My mind went in three directions: that last night in the Hotel Saint-Gabriel, which seemed a year ago, when she talked of love with rancor; my reverberating shock at Armand's revelations or lack of them; and a quiet absorption of the vampires around me, who whispered in the dark beneath the grotesque murals.†
Part 3
- There was something grotesque about him, sharpened by his grace and the imperturbable calm of his white face.†
Part 3
- I think he is dying as clumsily and grotesquely as humans often die in this century ....of old age.'†
Part 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(grotesque) distorted and unnatural in shape or size -- especially in a disturbing way
or:
ugly, gross, or very wrong -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) 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.