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Definition of grotesquerie in English: grotesquerienounPlural grotesqueries ɡrəʊˈtɛskəriɡrōˈteskərē mass noun1Grotesque quality or grotesque things collectively. 怪异,怪诞; 总称奇形怪状的东西 current tastes for horror and grotesquerie Example sentencesExamples - ‘There are more than a couple of moments in this film that get his sense of grotesque tragedy and tragic grotesquerie just right,’ it said.
- Her work for children is a curious mixture of Victorian grotesquerie and post-modern knowingness: a cast of eccentrics with an equally garrulous and intrusive narrator.
- What sorts of people were attracted to an impoverished life on the road, a ‘career’ that emphasized one's alienation from upward mobility, a commitment to brutal comedy, grotesquerie, rootlessness?
- The show should be popular not just because people are always curious about the grotesque, but because our own situation today cries out for a master of grotesquerie.
- Must every report be concluded with such smug grotesquerie?
- Did it conquer new territory for female expression, or did it somehow incorporate the misogynistic grotesquerie it cited?
- Misdirection is one of the prestidigitator's tools, after all, and Welles' flair for grotesquerie and offbeat humour are as much a part of the entertainment as the tortuous plot.
- The participants fumbled around with the primary grotesquerie of speaking about evil at a well-fed and well-managed conference; this was well before we got to the unspeakability of evil itself.
- The title suggests Lynchian grotesquerie, but the horrors in this Calcutta-set drama are far more straightforward: hunger, poverty, and desperation.
- His disenchantment is wan, taking the form of desiccated sentiment, not grotesquerie.
- It comes close, at times, to grotesquerie and many scenes are hard to watch.
- The overall effect is one of both grotesquerie and glittering beauty.
- It's worth a look if only for its very British, near-Dickensian combo of squalor, social comment and comic grotesquerie.
- Fish is a close second in this roster of edible grotesquerie.
- His style is remarkable for its grotesquerie, its implicit use of European philosophy, and its pastiches of different languages and dialects.
- But over time, the horror genre has gone largely from realism and warning to grotesquerie and farce.
- They stayed away from the Wednesday's grotesquerie, with one explaining the decision thus: ‘Why should we interfere?’
- I used to watch this show when I was a little tacker and it combined precisely the right amounts of grotesquerie, intrigue, schlock and sci-fi.
- On a typical day when the Coliseum was playing to a full house, the place was crowded with men, women and children - yes, the Romans thought nothing wrong with exposing children to this kind of grotesquerie.
- However, this adaptation promises to be a far more rompingly gorgeous grotesquerie, complete with plenty of rotten teeth, cackling mockneys, tight corsets and a sadistic toff.
- 1.1count noun A grotesque thing or action.
怪诞的图形(或物体、行为) the grotesqueries of the island's landscape Example sentencesExamples - When Brenda reads to Tony from the morning papers, her disengaged chatter runs together nightmarish grotesqueries and social gossip.
- It's like a scene out of Anthony Powell or Evelyn Waugh, a bit of macabre comedy that seems innocent compared with the grotesqueries of the bloodshed ahead.
- As his adventures progress, Martin grows stronger and more confident, but also frightened at the grotesqueries of his appearance.
- But each one also has their highpoints of hysterical heinousness, a reason to celebrate groovy grotesqueries.
- Max has grand ideas about modernity - popular images and kitsch, grotesqueries, and performance.
- It's pretty oblique, and free of some of the grotesqueries that characterize almost everything else he's done.
- People know that a huge network of necessarily anonymous readers send in those church bulletin typos and linguistic grotesqueries that other readers enjoy.
- Antiliberal, antiscientific, a foreign absolutist authority dictating to its half-educated adherents, Rome was given to such grotesqueries as the 1864 Syllabus of Errors and the 1870 declaration of papal infallibility.
- It is time to leave Ashley and Zach, along with their quiet little hometown, along with the beauty and the grotesqueries that lay hidden beneath it.
- This seemed an area potentially rife with grotesqueries.
- The drawing style is painstakingly precise, and every page comes with a decorative border of grotesqueries.
- This one is without arms, that one has had his shoulder pulled down out of shape in order that his grotesqueries may excite laughter…
- These images may take some readers aback, but because today's youth have little or no conception of the grotesqueries of modern war teachers may want to consider seriously using these in the classroom.
- This is not quite the disaster it might be, because in some ways the house style - lots of expansive gestures repeated very, very slowly by lots of performers in tableaux - is well-suited to the grotesqueries of Gogol's story.
- In the painting the revolution's populist crowd is transformed by the painter into a common herd, a mob of grotesqueries, to be manipulated by the speaker to do his bidding.
- It is impossible, however, not to be amused, disgusted, and even awed by the book's ingenious observations, its satiric bite, its rich and vivid catalogue of human grotesqueries.
- Here, Mahler plays down the grotesqueries of the song so that the movement comes across as suave, with a slightly uneasy thread running through.
- The artist's early scratch-board, pen-and-ink, pastel, and acrylic grotesqueries vie for wall space with his more recent oils, the newest of which stand frame to frame on the floor around the area's perimeter.
- The parade of grotesqueries viewed and heard at breakneck tempo induces a hypnotic state that some audience members may mistake for an enriching experience.
- It also defines why she had proved so adept at slipping into a rich variety of guises, gowns and grotesqueries.
OriginLate 17th century: French (see grotesque). Definition of grotesquerie in US English: grotesquerie(also grotesquery) nounɡrōˈteskərē 1Grotesque quality or grotesque things collectively. 怪异,怪诞; 总称奇形怪状的东西 living in a world of grotesquerie and make-believe 生活在怪诞、幻想的世界里。 Example sentencesExamples - His disenchantment is wan, taking the form of desiccated sentiment, not grotesquerie.
- It comes close, at times, to grotesquerie and many scenes are hard to watch.
- The show should be popular not just because people are always curious about the grotesque, but because our own situation today cries out for a master of grotesquerie.
- The title suggests Lynchian grotesquerie, but the horrors in this Calcutta-set drama are far more straightforward: hunger, poverty, and desperation.
- I used to watch this show when I was a little tacker and it combined precisely the right amounts of grotesquerie, intrigue, schlock and sci-fi.
- His style is remarkable for its grotesquerie, its implicit use of European philosophy, and its pastiches of different languages and dialects.
- The participants fumbled around with the primary grotesquerie of speaking about evil at a well-fed and well-managed conference; this was well before we got to the unspeakability of evil itself.
- Must every report be concluded with such smug grotesquerie?
- Her work for children is a curious mixture of Victorian grotesquerie and post-modern knowingness: a cast of eccentrics with an equally garrulous and intrusive narrator.
- But over time, the horror genre has gone largely from realism and warning to grotesquerie and farce.
- ‘There are more than a couple of moments in this film that get his sense of grotesque tragedy and tragic grotesquerie just right,’ it said.
- However, this adaptation promises to be a far more rompingly gorgeous grotesquerie, complete with plenty of rotten teeth, cackling mockneys, tight corsets and a sadistic toff.
- It's worth a look if only for its very British, near-Dickensian combo of squalor, social comment and comic grotesquerie.
- Did it conquer new territory for female expression, or did it somehow incorporate the misogynistic grotesquerie it cited?
- What sorts of people were attracted to an impoverished life on the road, a ‘career’ that emphasized one's alienation from upward mobility, a commitment to brutal comedy, grotesquerie, rootlessness?
- The overall effect is one of both grotesquerie and glittering beauty.
- Misdirection is one of the prestidigitator's tools, after all, and Welles' flair for grotesquerie and offbeat humour are as much a part of the entertainment as the tortuous plot.
- On a typical day when the Coliseum was playing to a full house, the place was crowded with men, women and children - yes, the Romans thought nothing wrong with exposing children to this kind of grotesquerie.
- Fish is a close second in this roster of edible grotesquerie.
- They stayed away from the Wednesday's grotesquerie, with one explaining the decision thus: ‘Why should we interfere?’
- 1.1 A grotesque figure, object, or action.
怪诞的图形(或物体、行为) Example sentencesExamples - Here, Mahler plays down the grotesqueries of the song so that the movement comes across as suave, with a slightly uneasy thread running through.
- This seemed an area potentially rife with grotesqueries.
- It's pretty oblique, and free of some of the grotesqueries that characterize almost everything else he's done.
- The parade of grotesqueries viewed and heard at breakneck tempo induces a hypnotic state that some audience members may mistake for an enriching experience.
- People know that a huge network of necessarily anonymous readers send in those church bulletin typos and linguistic grotesqueries that other readers enjoy.
- Antiliberal, antiscientific, a foreign absolutist authority dictating to its half-educated adherents, Rome was given to such grotesqueries as the 1864 Syllabus of Errors and the 1870 declaration of papal infallibility.
- It also defines why she had proved so adept at slipping into a rich variety of guises, gowns and grotesqueries.
- The drawing style is painstakingly precise, and every page comes with a decorative border of grotesqueries.
- This one is without arms, that one has had his shoulder pulled down out of shape in order that his grotesqueries may excite laughter…
- The artist's early scratch-board, pen-and-ink, pastel, and acrylic grotesqueries vie for wall space with his more recent oils, the newest of which stand frame to frame on the floor around the area's perimeter.
- But each one also has their highpoints of hysterical heinousness, a reason to celebrate groovy grotesqueries.
- Max has grand ideas about modernity - popular images and kitsch, grotesqueries, and performance.
- When Brenda reads to Tony from the morning papers, her disengaged chatter runs together nightmarish grotesqueries and social gossip.
- As his adventures progress, Martin grows stronger and more confident, but also frightened at the grotesqueries of his appearance.
- It is impossible, however, not to be amused, disgusted, and even awed by the book's ingenious observations, its satiric bite, its rich and vivid catalogue of human grotesqueries.
- This is not quite the disaster it might be, because in some ways the house style - lots of expansive gestures repeated very, very slowly by lots of performers in tableaux - is well-suited to the grotesqueries of Gogol's story.
- It is time to leave Ashley and Zach, along with their quiet little hometown, along with the beauty and the grotesqueries that lay hidden beneath it.
- It's like a scene out of Anthony Powell or Evelyn Waugh, a bit of macabre comedy that seems innocent compared with the grotesqueries of the bloodshed ahead.
- In the painting the revolution's populist crowd is transformed by the painter into a common herd, a mob of grotesqueries, to be manipulated by the speaker to do his bidding.
- These images may take some readers aback, but because today's youth have little or no conception of the grotesqueries of modern war teachers may want to consider seriously using these in the classroom.
OriginLate 17th century: French (see grotesque). |