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However, the way Alexander weaves together the grotesque, shameful history of the institution of slavery and shows that through systems both perpetuated and accepted by society, its worst effects were not only allowed to continue—but were thriving.

Grotesque profiteering aside, life release ceremonies can devastate the eco-system.

Why is the sight—or mere thought—of other adults having sex thought of as grotesque, bad, or forbidden in the year 2014?

Except in cases with the highest body count, or the most grotesque cruelty, white victims were the only ones that mattered.

At least Jake Gyllenhaal shaved off his grotesque face scarf this year.

The killing of aid worker David Haines is another grotesque spectacle by a group determined to outrage the West.

The costumes were exceedingly grotesque and suggestive of the New rather than of the Old World.

Above, great standard electric lamps shed their white glare upon the eddying throng casting a myriad of grotesque shadows.

The shadows lengthened and crept out like stealthy, grotesque monsters across the grass.

The educated world repeated to itself these grotesque fallacies till it lost sight of plain and simple truths.

He found himself trying to frame the words, but they broke into incoherent prayers, still to the same grotesque tune.