All 12 Uses
grotesque
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The Lords of Discipline
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- To walk in the spire-proud shade of Church Street is to experience the chronicle of a mythology that is particular to this city and this city alone, a trinitarian mythology with equal parts of the sublime, the mysterious, and the grotesque.†
Chpt Prol.
- This was the story he would tell: At the Institute the making of men was a kind of grotesque artistry.†
Chpt Prol. *
- My body was broken and fitted into the grotesque shape of the coffin, and there were maggots swarming beneath the lids of my decomposing eyeballs as an artist made a preliminary sketch for my portrait that would hang in the Institute's library.†
Chpt 1.10
- I wondered if the grotesque phantoms of their damaged spirits haunted the alcoves of the barracks for all times, recruiting others into their defiled tormented ranks with howls of gratitude as they watched the others come apart at the soul.†
Chpt 1.14
- Panic blossomed in grotesque and lurid forms among the freshmen in the sinking half-light of a luminous and mysterious dusk.†
Chpt 2.16
- The freshmen kept falling like grotesque fruit to the quadrangle.†
Chpt 2.16
- Yet as the pressure on Bentley became more agonizing and grotesque, something also began to happen to the attitude of the R Company freshmen in general.†
Chpt 2.17
- I still retained the Catholic boy's belief that sex was some grotesque and beastly urge of men that women endured as part of the misery of their station.†
Chpt 4.31
- They were Halloween masks, grotesque and out of season, that fitted over the entire head.†
Chpt 4.36
- From the human shadows moving grotesquely on the lawn in front of me, I knew that whatever the activity taking place in the house it was occurring in the multiwindowed room on the far western wing.†
Chpt 4.38
- All of us gathered around that number and studied it as though it were one of those grotesque totems nailed to trees along perilous frontiers to warn visitors that they were entering a country where none of the natives were friendly.†
Chpt 4.41
- We did not walk; we staggered out of Durrell Hall and watched as the regiment divided into two parts, like a huge cell in the process of a grotesque, unnatural mitosis.†
Chpt 4.41
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) 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.