And the grotesqueness of an individual has essentially the same nature.
Hugo, like the grand Goth that he is, liked the horrible, the grotesqueness of tragic mediaevalism.
Nothing in the world can compare in queerness and all manner of grotesqueness to Finnish tradition and characteristic superstition.
But if we keep in mind that he stands here, not for himself, but for his nation, the difficulty and the grotesqueness disappear.
Williams, Landells, Gray, and Vasey) Browne hardly did himself justice, their exaggerated grotesqueness tending to deprive these little pictorial compositions of much of their artistic value.
I have never dreamed of any sort of monster foreign to my knowledge, or even of any grotesque thing made up of elements familiar to it; thegrotesqueness has always been in the motive or circumstance of the dream.
Please to put yourself in my place and contemplate the grisly grotesqueness of the situation.
Colossal it certainly is, as Howells and Stedman agreed: colossal in its grotesqueness as in its sublimity.
In the hope also of further confusing him, he emitted several frenzied whoops, which added such grotesqueness to the scene that Terry Clark threw back his head and made the woods ring with laughter.
Even in that exciting moment Terry saw the grotesqueness of the situation.
While speaking, he had raised himself into an upright attitude, and the moonlight falling upon him showed his shape in all its grotesqueness of outline.
The grotesqueness of the performance, though seen only in the dim light--for he kept under the shadow--set his listeners to laughing.
She was suddenly struck by the grotesqueness of the situation.
It might be his was the comedian's fascination, but the flashes of grotesquenessrather pleased the eye than hurt the taste of Pontiac.
I am afraid Felicia and I find the grotesqueness of his attack painful rather than pretty or pathetic;" and with the relieved sense of respite, of free breathing, he humorously enlarged upon this grotesque side of the situation.
And in explaining your hesitation to the lieutenant, when you said it was due to your utter amazement at the grotesqueness of the situation, I am certain you there also spoke the truth.
They looked down on the performance, and, to my thinking, seemed to heighten the grotesqueness of it all.
Then I laughed at the grotesqueness of the affair, and the laughter mixed itself up with the choke--and the Major said that we both wanted drinks.
The whole scene is eminently characteristic of the grotesqueness of Chinese taste.
Perhaps the grotesqueness of that former scene was in his mind.
He looked up at her with a merry flash in his gray eyes, and her old face brightened visibly as she realized afresh that in spite of the grotesqueness of his cropped hair, her guest was a most attractive creature.
The primitivist on the contrary is inclined to see a proof of superior amplitude of spirit in mere grotesqueness and disproportion.
He possesses none of the terrible grotesqueness of Iago, or of the deliberate immorality of Schiller's Hassan, the Moor.
Would you believe that even while following his coffin, I realised keenly the grotesqueness of the ceremony?
I felt the injustice of all the talk about the beginnings of grotesqueness in Michael Angelo's style.
His pupil then caught a glimpse himself of the grotesqueness of wishing to endure for millions of centuries, which time even then was nothing in comparison with eternity.
At another time it might have been interesting to watch the hideous grotesqueness of that awful war-dance, but other thoughts were in their minds at present--they were looking everywhere for Diana.
Their grotesquenessis apparent anyhow," he replied.
Comedy is always combined with tragedy, and the medieval tradition and the popular taste for an emotional contrast receive artistic vindication in the grotesqueness of "Hamlet" and "Lear.
The incongruity then of the tradition disappears; its grotesqueness remains.
In the grotesqueness and wildness of this theory we detect a true idea.
Many of the manifestations of spiritualism possess a grotesquenesswhich we see in no other class of natural phenomena.
Even the grotesqueness is in this case artistically led up to.
Such an adventure could not fail to gain in spectacular grotesqueness as it took its place in the memory and imagination of Dufour.
