Just the flat-out most bizarre -- though grotesquery is not neccesarily out of the question. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: January 11, 2004 - January 17, 2004 Archives] Reference
It is also, strangely, a time when grotesquery abounds. From Wordnik.com. [Yatterings » Scrooga Booga -Elizabeth Hand’s Chip Crockett’s Christmas carol] Reference
The great grotesquery was if you actually got one, it was because it was a slow bug. From Wordnik.com. [Edward J. Murray: The Bednet Bottle] Reference
The environmental kills are fun, too, without ever entering Manhunt-area grotesquery. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
His style could alternate between, or combine, lush romanticism and humorous grotesquery. From Wordnik.com. [Antiquarian Weird Tales: Rare Hanes Bok Illustrations] Reference
Since white board members are free to disagree in any and all ways, this merely compounds the grotesquery. From Wordnik.com. [The Embedded and The Revealed] Reference
Does the European exoticism of his bicycle make up for the American grotesquery of his backward-hattedness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Indignity of Summer: It's Always Dorkiest Before the Fall] Reference
The next poem, IN THE GUINEA PIG CAVE, is a painting, a grotesquery, an assemblage of meat and viscous fluids. From Wordnik.com. [WITH DEER by AASE BERG, Trans. by JOHANNES GORANSSON (1)] Reference
One thing that set his grotesquery apart from others was a profusion of jokes unconnected to the main action of the panels. From Wordnik.com. [Physicist Didn't Profit From Wet Suit,] Reference
Most of his stories the supernatural element tends to have a logical explanation, or he deals in Decadent-style grotesquery. From Wordnik.com. [Back from Vancouver Island…Book Haul!] Reference
Too often it's a terrible place, fraught with hidey-holes of grotesquery, and we all get caught up in them from time to time. From Wordnik.com. [An interesting interview] Reference
Transgressive horror, then, repurposed to focus on the monsters and grotesquery but not the “scare,” forms the beating heart of the New Weird. From Wordnik.com. [The New Weird Anthology – Notes and Introduction] Reference
But after reading the bigoted grotesquery of the CHRC, and their calls for "dangerous" "action", I realize that I cannot stop until they are dismantled. From Wordnik.com. [Edmonton and Vancouver - Ezra Levant] Reference
As far as I can tell, there's nothing here but a respectably New Weird-esque aesthetic, a Miéville-ian piling of weirdness upon grotesquery upon weirdness. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Reading Roundup 13] Reference
What follows might strike some readers as grotesquery. From Wordnik.com. [Public Address] Reference
The jester-obi Habibrah has indeed the caricature-grotesquery of. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
Such grotesquery has a long lineage in hip-hop, from the Geto Boys to. From Wordnik.com. [latimes.com - News] Reference
Trouble is, such grotesquery often comes at the expense of plausibility. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters: Watch]
In his maturer work, Mark Twain showed a finer and gentler touch, grotesquery yielding to grace. From Wordnik.com. [Twain, Mark: Selected Obituaries] Reference
In other words, Guillermo del Toro has company, not just in his signature grotesquery mourning the loss of innocence that he shares with (among others) Picasso. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Picasso deliberately chose grotesquery as the way to portray what was happening in Spain at that time, even in obscene cartoons that he drew of Francisco Franco. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Shapes of vegetation that startle even while the sun shines upon them assume, after his setting, a grimness, -- a grotesquery, -- a suggestiveness for which there is no name. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference
12: 08 East of Bucharest is in another category of grotesquery: hypocrisy. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
The second stimulus came from the unsettling grotesquery of such seminal 1980s work as Clive Barker’s Books of Blood. From Wordnik.com. [The New Weird Anthology – Notes and Introduction] Reference
These 19 short animations place a lower premium on grotesquery than the usual "Spike &. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Fitting the landscape's drab grotesquery. From Wordnik.com. [Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country] Reference
His grotesquery of appearance was terrific. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountebank] Reference
Iranians have not digested this grotesquery. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Kos] Reference
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