So, we've reached a truly remarkable situation, a grotesque mismatch between the American intelligentsia and the American electorate.

They haven t fallen out of love with football. On the contrary, by protesting against the grotesque manipulation of the modern game, they are trying to take it back.

He also explicitly condemned Democrats on the committee, calling the allegations against him a grotesque and coordinated character assassination organized by liberals angry that Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election.

The earth is capable of feeding everyone. 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.

At the same time, however, he has failed to close the grotesque US prison at Guantánamo Bay. Those who leak news of domestic and foreign surveillance are arrested, and the use of lethal drones has increased.

The same is true for the democratization of the EU and thus for its greater proximity to, and acceptance by, ordinary citizens. Given this point, the Irish decision is especially grotesque, because it rejected exactly what it called for.

Indeed, the idea of warfare on the Korean peninsula should be unthinkable, given the grotesque levels of deaths that it would likely cause. Even to contemplate such a possibility is proof of diplomatic failure, not a triumph of real leadership.

In many places, torture chambers are the rules of the game, not the grotesque and shameful mistakes of ill supervised troops. Any attempt in such places to go behave the European way and negotiate without the military power needed to back up diplomacy would be pathetic.

The Court goes on to state that the reparation sought is rarely obtained other than for the most blatant of errors or particularly grotesque aberrations and the solution adopted by the European Court of Human Rights, in its rulings of November 2000 and September 2001, in effect contradicts its own case law.

For Marx, the class struggle in France created the circumstances in which a grotesque mediocrity that is, Napoleon was morphed into a hero. As far as Tolstoy was concerned, Napoleon was not a particularly good general, and was carried to victory by the courage and commitment of all of the individual French soldiers who won the Battle of Borodino.

Some Italians responded violently some Italian and Romanian politicians, eager to offer quick and tough solutions, made scandalous statements that echoed the xenophobic and totalitarian slogans of the past. 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.

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.

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. Its current ruler, Kim Jong un, the 30 year old grandson of North Korea s founder and Great Leader, is now threatening to turn Seoul, the rich and bustling capital of South Korea, into a sea of fire.

Chávez excelled in ridiculing his political enemies, but he was too much of a narcissist to approach the end with the kind of humor that, according to Suetonius, inspired Emperor Vespasian s deathbed quip Oh dear, I must be turning into a God. 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.

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. Like many people in rural India, Devi lives in an extended family with other relatives, so she is confident that there would be others to bring up her child if necessary.