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Legends circulated about him, too - ambiguous and sometimes grotesque.
The edifice has a central plan and has two niches with decorations, grotesques and ancient statues.
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Their art was notable for its surrealism and cartoon-influenced grotesques.
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The latter are used for grotesque or absurd ends.
The local delicacies appear to be grotesque creations when compared with the lost delights of home.
One of the most notable features is an oak doorway with an ogee arch flanked above by ornamental grotesques.
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Others may prefer his slightly sardonic, action-packed grotesques of circus clowns or of merely comical people.
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Above the arches is a plain frieze with carved grotesques at the corners, topped with machicolated corbelling.
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Light scrolling grotesques could be ordered by confining them within the framing of a pilaster to give them more structure.
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The first includes ornaments adopted from antiquity: grotesques, architectural ornaments such as the orders, foliage scrolls and self-contained elements such as trophies, terms and vases.
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The pinnacles, faced with gable and finial devices, are crocketed with grotesques.
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In his serenade, for example, the rhymes are obvious and stilted; more grotesque still are the violations of metre and the misplaced accents.
To the earlier-noted grotesque pattern of separated body parts, these pairings add a further element of the fear evoked by cosmological power-beings.
If the understanding is still weaker, he hits upon the grotesque - meaningful dreams, presentiments, and miraculous portents.
There are human heads, no two alike, and some pulling faces; angels; animals and grotesques.
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Why is such morally detached language considered offensive and grotesque only with regard to the human victims?
Although both the 'comic and grotesque genres broadly were given over to caricature' (109), the latter distinguished itself by extreme postures and tumbling.
Though it may not be immediately perceived as functional, the grotesque plays a structural premonitory part in association with the macabre.
We can understand his "creations" as participating in the tradition of the grotesque.
When, in the second act of the play, she emerges into the public discourse surrounding the 1890s anti-nautch movement, it is as a limping grotesque.
To representations that "freeze" life in a snapshot of eternal youth, grotesque satire responds with an image of life and death intertwined.
The grotesques on each corner are not functional, there are small holes in the mouths to let water escape and not freeze in the terracotta.
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Critics frequently complain that all of the people in the novel are grotesque and inhuman.
By the fourth face-lift (or third ?) we begin to look grotesque, no longer human.
The facade is decorated with terra cotta grotesques.
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Last but not least, its rather grotesque gestures definitely help it to survive in the jungle of city life.
Both are grotesque, satiric, and bitter but not cynical.
He transforms inside into outside, below into above, the sublime into the grotesque.
The priestly pretense to maternity is a grotesque parody - self-aggrandizing patriarchal power tricked out in the robes of female love and nurturance.
Grotesques hiding in suitcases are present above the exit doors from baggage claim.
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A heaving anguish had come to a grotesque end.
A grotesque detail from this book is that on the trail his glass eye froze over, and had to be taken out.
The front face of the roof is decorated with grotesques.
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The ribs and the splays of the two arched windows are decorated with similar grotesques.
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Cases could be decorated with paintings of grotesques, classical scenes, or marquetry, but soundboards were rarely painted.
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The columns feature terra cotta capitals carved with film and theater themed grotesques.
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Houses of the 15th century with decorated mullioned windows with fantastic animals and grotesques are still visible.
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The fear was not one of being outrageous or different - this they had embraced - but of becoming monstrous or grotesque.
Two grotesques, one human head, one animal found elsewhere in the church were placed in the external western wall level with the gable ends.
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The bodies - often twisted together into grotesque positions - were tossed into mass graves.
The balconies, a feature of the palazzo, are notable for the differing corbels which support them, ranging from putti to musicians and grotesques.
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He achieved this less through the use of comic servants than through an exaggerated plot and characterisations that border on the grotesque.
Nobody would have to be a star performer in this alternative aesthetic: he is grotesque because he is anti-mimetic. 29.
Is the work a tragedy, a grotesque comedy or a social satire?
The cost of having to copy a whole array, of arbitrary size, at every update seems grotesque and unacceptable.
Two grotesques and antique lampposts at the base of the grand staircase inside were removed in 1947 and sold.
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There are two arched windows on the two adjacent walls with splays decorated with grotesques.
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Nuances of behavior are not necessary, because in the cubicle world every personality trait is magnified, and the captives stagger forth like grotesques.
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Unnaturally realistic figures of wax and grotesque manifestations of proverbial language, they are mimetic as well as linguistic exaggerations.
On the cornice beneath are a number of grotesques to carry off the roof water: two at each side.
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The ribs and the splays of the two arched windows were decorated with grotesques but only the right-hand window is preserved (the other one was later walled up).
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Grotesques are often confused with gargoyles, but the distinction is that gargoyles are figures that contain a water spout through the mouth, while grotesques do not.
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The hayforks make up a small machine with high-energy radiation, while the barrels comprise a grotesque machine which - at least when not amplified - transmit relatively little energy.
Their fascination, which is sometimes sinister, sometimes linked to their grotesque form and sometimes to their eroticism, is in what they claim to reveal about the nature of the unconscious.
Through ragtime and early jazz and theatrical music, these provided the stereotypic representations of the grotesque, bizarre and unconstrained through which the carnivalesque aspects of improvisatory performance would be expressed.
Food with roughage, as that grotesque metaphor of eating as manual work with a shovel suggests, was a return to virile rough labor from the inside out.
Most are human, with a few grotesques.
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While the siege is on, the princes and the public watch it as spectators or onlookers and treat it as a picnic pastime-a grotesque but authentic scenario.
The classical statue was elevated, static, monumental, and distant, whereas the festive, grotesque body was multiple, teeming, part of a throng, a subject of sensory pleasures and physical mobility.
What a grotesque confusing of motion and progress!
He specialized in frescos decorative painting grotesques.
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In the arch, five orders of shafts support seven orders of moulded arches with zig zag, billet, beak heads, grotesques, crenellations and all manner of leaves, animals and motifs.
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The inner world matches the outer world, with the only difference being that the latter seems more grotesque than it appears to be in the dream.
The margins of many pages are heavily decorated with abstract designs that constantly sprout into plant shapes, and contain many small marginal grotesques of no obvious religious relevance.
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When the colonial powers took cultural property from their colonial territory, curators and the public generally considered them to be grotesque, primitive works of little value.
In addition to the fact that two items are at once strange to each other and similar, grotesque identification of two items also implicates human beings' categorial boundaries and dissolution.
The people should never be mere grotesques.
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There is a grotesque education crisis in the capital.
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The idea of propounding the scheme and then setting up this ridiculous machinery is most grotesque.
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I have seen some most grotesque and almost indecent publications representing what is taught to children in some parts of the country.
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There has been, for example, application for payment for tax for not bearing children, as brutal as it is grotesque.
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We have the continuation of a practice of deliberate and grotesque cruelty.
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The formula, if applied, would give rise to the most grotesque differences in the grants to the various necessitous areas.
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The sentences imposed on the two men were grotesque.
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Was there ever a more grotesque objection to anything?
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If they think my sugges- tions are ludicrous, impossible, grotesque, or fantastic, let them by all means find some plan of their own.
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At any rate, we hope that this almost grotesque language will be regarded as scarcely representing the situation as it really exists.
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I think that is a grotesque policy with regard to any of the fundamental laws of the kingdom.
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We employed another man, and his report was that the other report was a perfectly grotesque valuation.
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The revenue of that budget is decided not on ability to pay, fairness or equity, but on three bizarre and grotesque taxes.
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I am pleased to say that there are distinct possibilities that, despite their grotesque injuries, some of them will earn a living in open employment.
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I urge that something shall be done to prevent that grotesque monstrosity going up.
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I very much agree with him that the grotesque over-valuation of dot.
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The two grotesques, in their shared isolation, have found some comfort.
The geometrical patterning and grotesques in the margins of holy books disappear in favour of conventional realism, birds, hunting scenes, agricultural activities.
The apples themselves could be considered grotesques, having all their sweetness concentrated on one side.
What they had in common was their status as grotesques, the laughter directed at them ranging from indulgent to savage depending upon their degree of militancy.
Ruskin uses two terms, "grotesque idealism" and the "pathetic fallacy," to convey this concept.
However, the most grotesque and bizarre feature of communism is the systematic use of political terror.
No doubt it will seem grotesque enough to you - and wildly incredible !
His notebooks are filled with profiles, both natural and grotesque.
Now it sounded grotesque, terrifying, this violation, this battering of music.
The user is treated to the carnival tents and exhibitions, each more grotesque and absurd than the last.
Polipheme is by any definition a 'grotesque' - but he is also the most celebrated unrequited lover in pastoral mythology.
In the next scene we find this quaint and otherwise forgettable metaphor developed to grotesque effect.
The creature is confronted with his ambiguity more readily than other men because of his grotesque appearance.
Substitutions often involve grotesque imagery of bodily disintegration, and they focus on strange margins close to humans' positions.
They shared with the curiosity cabinets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a fascination with the anomalous, the hybrid, and the grotesque.
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