You see the interest in all this lies in the figures that went before the eyes of the writer. They were all grotesques. All of the men and women the writer had ever known had become grotesques.英文原著 · 《Winesburg,Ohio》
For an hour the procession of grotesques passed before the eyes of the old man, and then, although it was a painful thing to do, he crept out of bed and began to write. Some one of the grotesques had made a deep impression on his mind and he wanted to describe it.英文原著 · 《Winesburg,Ohio》
When she came into Miss Minchin's sitting room in answer to her summons, her face was white and her eyes had dark rings around them. Her mouth was set as if she did not wish it to reveal what she had suffered and was suffering. She did not look in the least like the rose-colored butterfly child who had flown about from one of her treasures to the other in the decorated schoolroom. She looked instead a strange, desolate, almost grotesque little figure.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
His rough face looked a little more unat- tractive than usual. His evening clothes were almost grotesque. His face wore a look of solitude, of hunger.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
She read the mental question. "What need is there? Is not the whole world full of lovely children? Why should I want selfish possessions?"
An extraordinary creature flew past, uttering a plaintive cry of five distinct notes. It was not a bird, but had a balloon - shaped body, paddled by five webbed feet. It disappeared among the trees. Joiwind pointed to it, as it went by. "I love that beast, grotesque as it is - perhaps all the more for its grotesqueness.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
The elders of the group were a lady and gentleman, sitting together on the sand. The lady had a guitar in her lap. and was playing a simple dance melody. Close at her side a young child was rolling on the beach in high glee; in front of her a little girl was dancing to the music, with a very extraordinary partner in the shape of a dog, who was capering on his hind legs in the most grotesque manner. The merry laughter of the girl, and the lively notes of the guitar were heard distinctly across the still water.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
Despite your grotesquerie, you are correct on this one.美剧 · 《Billions》