I couldn't believe they'd really make such a grotesque mistake, but here it is.

Ferrara admits that Berlusconi made "a grotesque mistake" with Ruby, "when he called the police because one of his favorite girlfriends was arrested."

We cannot afford to ignore the painful lessons of the past if we are to prevent the repetition of our grotesque mistakes in the future.

The North Koreans, who had needed a victory, were eliminated after doing what they had to do: shorten the field, pack the defenders, and hope for some grotesque mistake by the Yanks.

Assimilating will go easier if you abandon vanity, as in good haircuts and fancy European haberdashery, and any worldly success as anything but a grotesque mistake.

If it is not then the grotesque mistakes of the past decade - which mistook debts for assets and borrowing for growth - will be repeated over and over again.

He would be wondering if he had not made some grotesque mistake.

Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic leader, described the war "as a grotesque mistake."

Yet it may be that I have made a grotesque mistake.

He had hoped he would be interrogated and released in due course, but it became apparent that surrendering to the Americans had been a grotesque mistake.