But for now your grotesque and fabulous burlesque show is a full-on mainstream commodity.
The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal is grotesque, but it is not unprecedented in Washington history.
Her characters are sometimes as grotesque as those of some other novelists of the Southern School.
For the moment, it is still being assumed that the Dando murder was a grotesque one-off.
We get a lot of requests that may be grotesque in nature or they may be obscene.
The grotesque comedy features a social climber who buys dead serfs from the nobles who owned them.
The Venezuelan government called the photo "grotesque", and said it would take legal action against El Pais.
The movie's leisurely, elegant setup makes its action payoff seem, by contrast, particularly mechanical, cynical and grotesque.
After a few seconds, he noticed that some of the faces began to appear highly deformed and grotesque.
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Or fame can caricature a star, exaggerating his original characteristics into something cartoony, grotesque, and sometimes unrecognizable as human.
And, as we said, the caller in Ohio was complaining about the grotesque pizza that they sometimes have there.
The skin's normal 30-day shedding cycle speeds up to 3 days, and grotesque plaques of dead skin begin to form.
It also has come with perhaps its most grotesque masterstroke: Bertie Carvel as the fearsome cross-dressing school headmistress Miss Trunchbull.
Tucci is jolting in the role, honestly unsettling as he maintains an exterior of mildness that masks a grotesque interior.
The grimness is alleviated by absurdist humour, grotesque situations and snappy rejoinders reminiscent of Saul Bellow or, rather, Woody Allen.
Ahmed Alsoudani, another Iraqi, showed strangely beautiful paintings that on close inspection revealed twisted and grotesque bodies mutilated by war.
But this time, he engages with death and the afterlife in a way that is uplifting rather than terrifying or grotesque.
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During their dance (Pierluigi Vanelli's delightfully grotesque choreography of writhing and grimacing), they ripped off the wallpaper to reveal a padded cell.
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The fact that the club only had one door was described by the investigators compiling the report as a "grotesque safety failure".
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.
Placing his hands in front of his face, like goggles, he pursues Ofelia with a shuffling gait, his outstretched fingers like grotesque eyelashes.
Others become entangled in fishing rope, a particularly grotesque phenomenon since the thick ropes can rub through a whale's skin and hit bone.
We are used to seeing a sort of steampunk grotesque in movies, digitally created, but here the inventions are real stitched, nailed and glued.
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Were the superb work the Guardian did to expose phone hacking to result in state supervised regulation of newspapers, the injustice would be grotesque.
So, my first 15 minutes of fame portrayed a grotesque version of me as newspaper-slayer, a very unlikely and ill-fitting role for me indeed.
It is not a grotesque caricature to describe Deutsche these days as an investment bank, with a German commercial and retail bank tacked on.
White Walkers carve a grotesque artwork of dead horses in the snow, while men in the sunny south sing songs of bears and maidens fair.
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His early cartoons, used to illustrate his books of acerbic whimsy, were James Thurberesque caricatures of humanity elongated figures, often grotesque, usually absurd and ungainly looking.
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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.
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