Mencken often espoused views of politics, religion, and metaphysics that stressed their grotesqueness and absurdity; in this context, escape from the supposed fraud of such somber subjects was welcome to him.
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Although Lady Macbeth may not express violence toward her child with that same degree of grotesqueness, she certainly expresses a sense of brutality when she states that she would smash the babe's head.
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Ms . Martin is terrific, however, in a disarmingly warm, wonderfully timed performance that respects the line between comic exaggeration and grotesqueness . ( She really deserves a starring vehicle of her own .)
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Either this book nails the essence of Washington and Hollywood today _ the two-faced, casting-couch, power-grabbing, electorate-pandering grotesqueness of it all _ or it does not.
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Dov Hikind, a state assemblyman from Brooklyn and one of the organizers of Sunday's protest, said he planned more " to highlight the grotesqueness of the Jewish Museum doing this ."
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Ubu, a monster and everyman, a puppet and a tyrant, a fool and a hero, is an instantly recognizable figure in a city that has come to know the grotesqueness of the world with great intimacy.
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Both the adjective grotesque and its noun ( grotesquerie, the French form, preferred by Gingrich to grotesqueness ) spring readily to the speaker's lips, and its popularization is a fine contribution to the American political vocabulary.
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But now on the shaped ski, rather than drive ( with counter-intuitive grotesqueness ) the knee down to pressure the inside edge to initiate a turn, a rather moderate pressure sends the skier into a controlled arc.
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On the other hand, a Brummie accent is a thing of grotesqueness beyond all imagining . ( It is, to be fair, easier to understand than Geordie )-- Dweller 15 : 38, 14 August 2006 ( UTC)
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There was a reason Zola set much of his novel in the " dark, low, shallow " building in which the Raquins live and tend shop; it intensifies to the point of grotesqueness the claustrophobia that envelopes the characters.
