All 5 Uses of
grotesque
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- It would be impolite, grotesque, and above all, irrelevant.†
Chpt 7
- A creature crawling on hands and knees, unspeakably grotesque!†
Chpt 7
- "I find no fault in him," he said, and grotesquely rolled up his eyes.†
Chpt 11 *
- We cannot live together—a grotesque mismatch of slightly paranoid personalities.†
Chpt 19
- The Sunlight Man clapped with a grotesque parody of delight, twirled away from them and out to the kitchen, then emerged not more than a second later, as it seemed to her, in a black and red cape, with a high silk hat balanced on his ratiocination-colored hair.†
Chpt 20
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.