This is a spectacle that is unworthy, embarrassing and grotesque... .

Prison experts are the least surprised by the grotesque reports filtering out of Abu Ghraib.

Given this point, the Irish decision is especially grotesque, because it rejected exactly what it called for.

At the same time, however, he has failed to close the grotesque US prison at Guantánamo Bay.

When someone steals the life of another comrade in such a brutal and grotesque way, I will grieve.

Far from disappearing, the repressed are returning from underground in grotesque forms to haunt the world they grew up in.

The slogan war for Muslim hearts and minds is a grotesque yet revealing attempt to link both sets of tools.

On the contrary, by protesting against the grotesque manipulation of the modern game, they are trying to take it back.

KB Victor Bravo talks of Venezuelan literary tradition as defined by the absurd, the grotesque, the fantastical, and a fascination with evil.

Indeed, the idea of warfare on the Korean peninsula should be unthinkable, given the grotesque levels of deaths that it would likely cause.

If the public had seen the similarly grotesque tumors that grow on untreated rats, officials most likely would not have acted so hastily.

Failing to address problems affecting supply and demand amounts to grotesque mismanagement and a crime against the world s poor, the planet s other species, and future generations.

The grotesque idea of embalming Chávez s body was finally discarded precisely because of the damage suffered by the corpse during its display to the masses in a chaotic exercise in political manipulation.

We are encountering, not without irony, a kind of grotesque reverse of the national pride seen when cultural and sporting stars are appropriated by the state and presented as part of the collective patrimony.

NEW YORK Nobody would care much about North Korea a small and isolated country of 24 million people, ruled by a grotesque dynasty that calls itself communist if it were not for its nuclear weapons.

Now the public is increasingly disenchanted with the DPJ, which it expected to jump start Japanese politics. But instead of that happening, the country faces the grotesque revival of a domestic variant of the Cold War structure.

Some will find it grotesque to become a mother at an age when most women are grandmothers, but the more significant question is what kind of care such children will have if their parents die or become incapable of rearing them.

In the reservation that I was obliged to express on behalf of the delegation of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela at the fifty ninth session, I indicated that the procedure followed was so grotesque that it did not even allow us an opportunity to express an opinion in favour of the aspects of the draft document with which we agreed.