Every night Iraqi television ran grotesque pictures of young men with missing ears, blood running down their necks.
So we get the grotesque picture above.
It described "a grotesque picture of a society steeped in violence" and called for complete registration and licensing of all firearms.
It's a grotesque picture of New York, but it's funny because there's a certain emotional truth to it.
It all came together in a terrifying, grotesque picture, and now it had the intended effect: Everyone stopped dead.
When taken together, the statements the five defendants gave detectives on their arrest, while full of finger-pointing, paint a grotesque picture of an extended assault.
The book is a grotesque picture of the totalitarian system in the former Czechoslovakia.
And Big Toby painted strong and grotesque pictures.
But these walls were covered with a thick coating of filth on to which obscene words and grotesque pictures had been drawn or roughly carved.
Years after the initial scare, horrifying news stories continued to appear, complete with grotesque pictures of victims.