There was something almost grotesque in the idea which made Stoddard smile a little at her earnestness.

The visions were more grotesque than ever, but less agreeable; and there was a painful tension throughout my nervous systemthe effect of over-stimulus.

At one time the Whole has been conceived as the unity of a mere aggregateof a heap of stones; at another, as a mere sand-storm of fortuitous atoms; there has been the egg-theory, and the tortoise-theory, and many others, no less grotesque to our seeming.

But in the grand grotesque of farce, Munden stands out as single and unaccompanied as Hogarth.

No writer has ever so successfully as Hood combined the grotesque with the terrible.

In a rocky gorge, called the Rajol, a spot as inhumanly grotesque as a nightmare of Gustave Doré's, with the heat of a pit in Tophet, he laboured for hours.

In S. transept note (1) vigorous grotesques on capitals, (2) font, perhaps pre-Norm.

He painted for the church of la Scala in Trastevere a picture of the Death of the Virgin, wonderful for the intense natural expression, and in the same degree grotesque from its impropriety.

Again, we find the grotesque through Hood's writings in union with the fantastic and the fanciful.

What he saw was a form grotesque beyond belief.

The carved grotesques under the eaves of the roof are worthy of notice.

She was ugly and grotesque like all the very rich images; sumptuous and wealthy piety had decked her out with their treasures.

He took two expensive rooms at a downtown hotel, and there was something more tear-compelling than grotesque about the way he gloated over the luxury of a separate ice-water tap in the bathroom.

The inscription over the door, "This is the house of God and the gate of heaven," written in Latin, seems somewhat grotesque for such a building, although the dome is painted to represent the sky in all the "intensity" of a starlight night.