The grotesque comedy features a social climber who buys dead serfs from the nobles who owned them.
And, as we said, the caller in Ohio was complaining about the grotesque pizza that they sometimes have there.
He also played the role of a chef in the BBC's adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, in 2000 as the grotesque Swelter.
Such forgetfulness can be partly blamed on a dominant national press that tends to report the grotesque exceptions not the blander rule.
Filming with an unflinching biomorphic intimacy, as if looking at the body, inside and out, through a microscope, Carruth quickly leapfrogs over the grotesque and into the transcendent.
So there we are, the grotesque grabbing on to beauty, beauty embraced by the grotesque, the light surrounded by the shadow, our lives rounded by a little sleep.
What made this scandal special was the grotesque detail.
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To a fresh observer, it was the very opposite of what you might expect a Nigerian election to be - an escape from the grotesque abuses of ballot stuffing and vote rigging of the past.
Dahl's books are full of the grotesque, from Mrs Twit substituting worms for her husband's spaghetti, to child-eating giants in the BFG, and the hero of Danny the Champion of the World drugging pheasants so that they're easier to poach.
Trog, aka Wally Fawkes, has her as a jolly knockabout figure with tombstone teeth pulling pints in the bar of the TV soap "EastEnders, " but the angry brigade, Martin Rowson and Steve Bell of the Guardian and Dave Brown of the Independent, emphasize the grotesque.
Staring at the photos of male stars caught with pot bellies, or female stars without makeup, in bikinis when they should be in a one-piece, with baby weight gains, experiencing the inevitable ravages aging, or the grotesque effects of having been fully Botoxed, I felt I would be supporting tabloid-ism in its basest form.
Shackled and crammed into the ships' holds in the most grotesque and insanitary conditions, the slaves would then have to endure the so-called "Middle Passage" across the Atlantic between Africa and the Americas, a journey that could last anything from five weeks to three months.
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He channel-hops through art history, picking out the most grotesque moments.
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Aping the increasingly grotesque genre of reality television shows, local celebrities and washed-out headline-starved failed former security brass got together with Yediot Aharonot and put on a reality TV stunt for the public to mark the anniversary.
The consequences can be grotesque: in the city of Dzerzhinsk, in Russia, decades of slapdash handling of chemical waste has reduced male life expectancy to just 42 years.
The Venezuelan government called the photo "grotesque", and said it would take legal action against El Pais.
Robert Whelan, director of the pressure group Family and Youth Concern, said it was "grotesque" that the Climbie case was being used to "try to criminalise parents".
Although "apartheid" is now a familiar term in much of the world, a few brief details of its history seem necessary to explain its grotesque impact on the life of Ruth Khumalo as well as on her children and their children, including the boy.
Were the superb work the Guardian did to expose phone hacking to result in state supervised regulation of newspapers, the injustice would be grotesque.
Having burnt out pretty badly on first-person-shooters, the fun and occasionally grotesque game has done a good job at keeping my fleeting attention in check.
The disproportion between the two subjects is grotesque, almost a joke.
Yet here he is steadfastly enchanted, during the run up to disaster, by what he sees in his storyboard sketches, in the camera and on the set -- grotesque giants, a gallant knight, a surreal sandscape beneath a scorching sun.
For the moment, it is still being assumed that the Dando murder was a grotesque one-off.
The fact that the club only had one door was described by the investigators compiling the report as a "grotesque safety failure".
Others become entangled in fishing rope, a particularly grotesque phenomenon since the thick ropes can rub through a whale's skin and hit bone.
The refinement and beauty of the Cleopatra becomes a foil for the swiftly drawn, almost grotesque head on its verso perhaps an allegory of contrasts or an inside joke.
For grotesque subsidies, the direction of change should be obvious.
None was more grotesque than inserting the young Anakin as a ghost in place of the old in Return of the Jedi - a truly laughable, woeful, and quite possibly criminal change.
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