But seldom is grotesquerie the sole point of a joke.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wild And Crazy Guy] Reference

He began to laugh with the grotesquerie of his kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Fool]

The New York Times captures the grotesquerie in an elegant manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can You Feel The Guilt? | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

The full grotesquerie was captured elegantly by the New York Times.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Didn’t Think They Could Hate You Now, Didja? | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

The mouth gaped in a grimace, seeming to mock the head's grotesquerie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Murder Room]

Not the perverse grotesquerie we were supposedly fighting to preserve.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forever War]

Or, as I prefer, some species of lizard-brained sub-human grotesquerie.    From Wordnik.com.  [No, you're the liar Joe Wilson, and HR 3200 Sec 246] Reference

Such grotesquerie, such hideousness, is not to be tolerated in public view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinnamon Roll] Reference

There will always be a need for uber reality in all its ghastly grotesquerie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bethlehem's Musikfest and The Singularity] Reference

A discussion of grotesquerie and "Southern gothic" led from O'Connor to Faulkner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

With horrid grotesquerie it flapped toward another candle, bent on putting it out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference

The safety wall was partly crumbled, the main radio mast bent into a grotesquerie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Worlds To Conquer]

This is not the grotesquerie of slavery and it would be wrong to conflate the two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Geldof on Liberty 4th July 2008 - Hull] Reference

The third picture was only a redundancy, and relatively modest as grotesquerie goes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Shill] Reference

Then Miro remembered a detail that had been lost in the grotesquerie of Libo's death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speaker for the Dead]

Same principle as the balding guy who shaves his head: take pride in the grotesquerie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hey, doggies!] Reference

There is a dark grotesquerie to the mixed crowd of goths and gimps, tuxedos and fedoras.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nowhere Town: Act TWO Scene I] Reference

Especially for a proposal–the grotesquerie which I love, but is getting a little in the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hereville] Reference

But the rancid BBC is quite happy to present this grotesquerie as if it were really all quite reasonable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-23] Reference

The figures were simplified and conventionalized to the point of grotesquerie, but usually comprehensible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfarers]

We were only recently reminded, with the death of the great sportscaster Marty Glickman, of the grotesquerie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Olympic Scandal Brewing?] Reference

You are appalled, you know it is wrong to gawk, but something in you wants to see the grotesquerie for yourself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cowboys Ride in on a Rented Mule] Reference

Rather, this casting choice provokes in me a perception of capitalist grotesquerie, or even creative cannibalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gregory Weinkauf: Freddie's Dead, Long Live Freddie: Dreading the Queen Movie] Reference

The production sometimes veers oddly between visualizing Dickens' grotesques and stripping the grotesquerie away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bleak House 1-29] Reference

True to form comes "Sluggo", where a grotesquerie finds peace (and loneliness) in an amusement park's haunted hose.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Jim Baen's Universe #11] Reference

What used to be a mainstay of American circuses and county fairs — the sideshow grotesquerie — is on its last legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shooting the Freaks - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Leaving her a helpless grotesquerie cared for by nurses and her devoted evangeline companions, Mary, Cyndee and Georgine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

Part of what Titus is about, as has been said, is the making of everything he tells into clownish and unappealing grotesquerie.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Althouse blog fund-raiser.] Reference

Rosemary listened with distaste to this rigmarole; to appreciate its grotesquerie required a more robust sense of humor than hers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tender is the Night] Reference

It does have some of that familiar Akutagawa grotesquerie, which allows the characters to go a bit beyond normal polite conversation.    From Wordnik.com.  [井の中の蛙 » Akutagawa the Pacifist » Print] Reference

For a moment Beth saw nothing but a mad grotesquerie of horse and man, almost ludicrously unnatural, and crazed with eccentric motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Furnace of Gold] Reference

Swimming frantically with a distinctly non-pinniped stroke, we quickly realized who the oil-sodden grotesquerie paddling to shore was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ned Goldreyer: Slick Trick] Reference

The scene itself remained clear, with the grinning grotesquerie of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation] Reference

And his head-on, wide-angle grotesquerie looks ahead to the Coen brothers.    From Wordnik.com.  [feeling listless] Reference

And this extravagance and grotesquerie have marked his writing from the start.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Plays and Playwrights] Reference

His tendency, in fact, is to inflate his cockiness to the point of grotesquerie, to type it out in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference