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Sentence Examples I think it's so exaggerated that it's comical, like a caricature of a hipster. The characters in this novel are representational, especially since they are given to us in larger-than-life Rabelaisian caricature. Mug shots of prisoners in the Terrace Gaol are featured along with a caricature of Wellywood movie mogul Sir Peter Jackson. As an observer, I can testify that the comments made by these powerful and successful people were in flat contradiction to the caricature. These set boundaries of a sort, but the blocks could, at least in this caricature, be assembled and reassembled in fluctuating patterns. Unfortunately, this young cast steers it further into caricature, playing the sexual repression and racism for light laughs. It's the knee-jerk caricature of American generals as intolerant anachronisms. The depiction of rural life generally is crass and seldom rises above the level of caricature. It's yet another way to caricature the right as knee-jerk sexists and foaming-at-the-mouth religious zealots. But it is not the huge caricature the townies would take it for at first glance. If you took a caricature of the average teenager and reversed almost every attribute, you would get Elizabeth. Monomane takes imitation through mimicry and beyond to caricature with comic effect. As in East is East, he puts a human face on a potentially distasteful role, avoiding caricature and mining a deeper, richer humour as a result. Although now reduced to a shock-headed caricature, no one could ever dispute the musician's straight-ahead integrity and flair. The caricature was accompanied by doggerel verse which used Mr. Tolley's name and extolled the virtues of the chocolate. The usually reliable actor has a small role as a bail bondsman, but he plays the part as a caricature. Even though the Czech and Slovak languages are closely related and mutually intelligible, many Czechs viewed Slovak as a caricature of Czech. In the four men, this precision borders on caricature, although Abby comes across with strong humanity. I asked for a short sharp bob and ended up looking like a caricature of an anime doll with a boofy 50's bob. It was a caricature of Diedra, in her usual blue and grey shipsuit, but with a white bridal veil flowing behind her onto the floor. Show More Sentences If we can't laugh at a caricature of ourselves, then maybe we have a lot more in common with these self-important buffoons than we think. His imitation was a poor caricature of his boss's brawny presence, his hands lost in the cuffs of a shirt meant for someone broader. One senses the strain by which the vivisectionist is exaggerated almost to the point of caricature. We are left with a caricature of the German doctor as a power crazed, human vivisector. The picture is good at spoofing the hermetic atmosphere of academia without going overboard into parody or caricature. Through his pen, inanity became animate, and the captious craft of caricature was raised to character study. Memin is a cartoon character from a decades-old and much-beloved Mexican comic book, a caricature of a young, black Mexican boy. He plays the role well without every going over the top or becoming a caricature, and is creates an extremely sympathetic character. When Sinclair Lewis wrote Babbitt, he succeeded in creating a caricature of success typifying the mind-set of the twenties. In 1803 Gillray created a prototype caricature of Napoleon which was widely copied by his competitors. While there is certainly an element of caricature in Geikie's works they are never caricatures per se. Glover, who has a penchant for playing strange individuals, uses this opportunity not to inhabit a genuine character, but to create a caricature. The element of cartoonish caricature finds its way into much of this production. On stage, I am a caricature of my normal personality which probably doesn't bode well. Also, in the final strip, there's a fine caricature of a Wily's Overland, rather than the standard Jeep, which would have been easier to draw. I wont say this is a caricature but the emotions and oversensitiveness are strangling our own heroes. The style of both dress and house is that of early 18th-century Hogarthian caricature, and the production has a darker air than most. The children were so busy enjoying themselves at the pool that the caricature, hoopla, wheel of fortune, and other stalls wore a deserted look. Not only does he prove his comedic bona fides, he manages to ground his bizarre portrayal with more than one-note caricature. Heaven knows that black cinema has years of bad caricature to make up for, and I got a good laugh out of the switcheroo. Show More Sentences The wealthy and sadistic landowner is a caricature, complete with a clipped upper-class accent and hysterically pompous manner. For a farce to be effective, it has to caricature some known human foibles. The intense individual characterization he brought to his subjects was sometimes criticized as verging on caricature. The caricature is really a conflation of several separate styles of thought and belief, and they almost never come together. The outcome was a caricature of Western knowledge of the Orient, driven by an overtly political agenda. This was known as the ' Jim Crow ' system, named after earlier caricature portrayals of blacks. A portrayal of modern American history as one vast and unending reactionary saga would be caricature of reality. Paddy is a truly amusing caricature of the blustering paranoid right in full cry. From this standpoint, the city's monstrous caricature of futurism is simply shrewd marketing. In his next play, After the Fall, he would caricature her as a daffy, needy addict. But Johnson is not quite the easy-breezy surfer dude caricature that you might imagine him to be. Robbins should have deep-sixed the sentimental scenes and given us more caricature. He had some good songs early on, then became a caricature of himself, complete with grody flip-flops, bad margaritas, and an zinc-oxided nose. Indeed, the history of caricature has often been entwined with the history of censorship. The author does not exactly caricature her characters, but she paints them in without much subtlety. It's extremely difficult to imagine a realistic dystopia because we're so tempted to create a caricature. Apart from the house, only the doleful eyes of the writer are visible to the public in the caricature. I was troubled at first by the gay stereotype played by Neil Napier, but then I remembered that everyone on stage is a caricature to some degree. Tessa is a contradictory creature, almost a caricature of the modern ladette with her mobile telephone, pierced navel, and career talk. Has some modernist thinker sat in a college, chuckling as he invents this ludicrous caricature in order to discredit postmodernism once and for all? Show More Sentences Finally, America will have to accept Bill Cosby as a many-sided man, rather than a much-loved pop-culture caricature. The ensemble playing that provides the story's milieu has an organic feel, but is often fussy and gauche when what's required is brisk, broad caricature. The voters rehabilitated a politician who has become a clown, an orange pancake-faced caricature of a demagogue. He lampooned the teachers and others in caricature sketches and articles which he would circulate among friends during class at school and later at art college. All of this feeds a caricature of Washington as a parasite on the real economy. It is brought down too a caricature, forgetting her eccentricity, her innovative fabrics, even a certain sense of purity. She died before they started shooting season two, and an unflattering caricature was included immediately. From the right's point of view, you couldn't invent a better caricature of a New Age Hollywood zillionaire to be the public face of the anti-war movement. There are a few idle sketches, including a rude caricature of a Roman legionnaire, but as you advance you begin to see signs of pre-historic painting along the walls. According to eyre, the portrayal of the Vidal character in Terre Haute has drifted away from mere caricature. Tall and slim, his neatly-parted silver hair and rimless spectacles sit atop a hawkish nose and ice-blue eyes that are almost a caricature of the Prussian officer. Like all myths, there is a vestige of truth in the caricature. He was not the caricature that cartoonists and comics had created. Well, that's a caricature, but I guess a fair one, within the loose rules of punditry. Instead of disappearing into the caricature of shadows of what they are supposed to be, by tagging, graffiti artists are defiantly re-naming themselves. It has been suggested so far that the more popular or media-centred depiction of the prime minister as an autocrat may be more of a caricature than an accurate portrait. Moving on from his Hogarthian images of the early 1990s, the elements of caricature have disappeared, although he remains preoccupied with brutalisation. In lesser hands, Norma could have easily been a loony caricature, but Farmiga turned her into a multi-layered masterpiece. The Alliance for a Strong America site is like a caricature of what liberals said about Keep America Safe. It was a brilliant send-up, but it was a caricature of our real meetings. Show More Sentences His preoccupations caricature Fedor's preoccupation with infinity by reducing what is for Fedor a kind of otherworldly transcendence to the pragmatism of a perpetuum mobile. He has a face so unusually characterful that it almost defies caricature. It was a head-and-shoulders caricature of Chamberlain looking bloated, ugly and malevolent, wearing a lurid orange tent-like dress patterned in ironic little hearts. Worse, the recurrence of this whiny, unsympathetic caricature in a writer's work makes an unpleasant statement about the writer. Their increased influence in the party permitted the Republican Party to caricature the Democrats as appeasers. I love how blindly optimistic she manages to be, without turning into a caricature. It does push him toward drawing a caricature of his own, one of slathering, bloodsucking right-wingers. No, Anders is not a caricature, and given current attitudes toward wealth, that is a small miracle. The role of the church is, quite properly, examined, but care has been taken not to caricature what happened. The sceptic's caricature that Noah had fish tanks on the ark is wrong. And OPM often comes across more as a caricature of a religious conservative than as a real one. Of course, no one would actually argue with such crudity, but there is a kind of discourse that can come perilously close to adopting that caricature attitude. In her checkered uniform and starched white hat, and with her bubbly good spirits, Betty at first appears to be a familiar caricature of white-bread America. So the macho extreme has become as much of a caricature as the emasculated metrosexual. The funny verse narrative plus distorted animal action portraits goes way beyond funny caricature and will leave enraptured gigglers in its wake. But the caricature of GM as a dysfunctional jobs exporter is off-base. His performance in the film was a caricature of a hard-boiled detective. The interview made her into a caricature of a struggling artist. At universities like Oxford, middle-class students hold 'chav bops' where they dress up as this working-class caricature. I enjoyed her as purely a villain, even if she was somewhat of caricature. Show More Sentences The character of Hank Bully, the coach driver, is a caricature of actor Wallace Berry. He was this Kraftwerkian techno-creature, sort of a caricature of the future. The caricature of the period is also reflected in some more specific notions. A caricature of Mother Shipton was used in early pantomime and is believed by historians to be the forerunner of the Panto dame. Oscar Wilde generally disparaged his depiction of character, while admiring his gift for caricature. Disraeli left an unfinished novel in which the priggish central character, Falconet, is unmistakably a caricature of Gladstone. His genius is to fuse opposites with an imperceptible sleight of hand, to blend the surreal with the real, and the caricature with the natural. Today, the uniforms of many traditional Carnival clubs still imitate and caricature the uniforms of the French and Prussian troops of the past. The caricature depicts an evident hierarchy of the fascist squads before the nation and Mussolini. Smith, as the doddery neurotic, is in imperious form, giving a performance saved from caricature by moments of pure, heartbreaking pathos. Coulter was particularly nasty and hilarious in her caricature of liberal soccer moms. At the risk of caricature, we will call them quants and managers. It may be painful to remember that the latter day Elvis, he of the Las Vegas leer, became a besequined Jabba the Hutt, a virtual caricature of himself. While there was always a touch of the caricature about the Sandhurst cadet as the nice-but-dim public schoolboy, there was also a significant measure of truth. It isn't easy to write a story that navigates the murky mire that can be teen territory without tripping over the potholes of caricature, overkill and cheesiness. MacArthur's tearful video diaries recording the sailing adversities she faced inspired the caricature of her on the BBC satirical comedy show Dead Ringers. Chesterton, and George Orwell praised his realism, comic voice, prose fluency, and satiric caricature, as well as his passionate advocacy on behalf of children and the poor. Mount your caricature, with even margins, on colored construction paper. Satire, flourishing in his gift for caricature, is his forte. They turned and ran dogward while I, motivated by their scorn, moved off lethargically through the vines, thorns, and creepers, a caricature of lethal determination. Show More Sentences In campus legend, the grind, the non-athletic boy, the unattractive girl, are popularly associated with Phi Beta Kappa, but the caricature cannot be justified. Yet for all the implicit references to Hitchcock, detective fiction, and comic books, Baseman does not fall into caricature but preserves an auteurist sleight of hand. Examples from Classical Literature It is no wonder that their phraseology was a caricature of civilised language. In the caricature of Aristophanes there is also a witness to the common sentiment. I am not going to caricature a bluestocking, but to point out one or two real dangers. This caricature of me had just appeared, and had been the delight of idle folks. I may not dally on my way, turning to the right and the left for beauty and caricature. Out of Cruikshank's caricature he comes to us with a tail capable of delineating a whole alphabet of humour. The caricature has the double fault of not being like and not being amusing. Could any caricature of mine exceed in grotesqueness your sketch of yourself? If we attempted to harmonize or to combine them, we should make out of them, not a system, but the caricature of a system. The ambitious carpenter first hews out a distorted caricature of a man, which he passes over to the painters to be embellished. His black body, lumped and like some mad caricature of itself, gleamed in the light. They put a caricature of him among the rest on the walls of their trattoria, where he once dined with them. The actors saw their way to pointing a caricature, undesigned by me, by shifting the rle of Don Adone from one player to another. His portrayal of Mr. Warwick to his wife and his friends was fine caricature. They had sent this monstrous caricature of the most beautiful thing in the world. Pollux, I repeat it, did not perpetrate the caricature, but a sculptor from Rome. Here the pompous antithesis is evidently meant to caricature the peculiar euphuistic sentence of court parlance. It was a repellent caricature, but could still be very funny. Tom partly uncovered a dismal caricature of a house with two gable ends to it and a corkscrew of smoke issuing from the chimney. But Lever is not chargeable either with caricature or concealment. Show More Sentences Above all things, beware of occultism, that caricature of science. The Italian Fortuna does not in the least lend herself to caricature. Nick, who claims to be disgusted with everyone, is an unfortunate caricature of boyishness. Indeed, in the wild school of caricature then current, Mr Max Beerbohm had represented him as a proposition in the fourth book of Euclid. They tend to partake of the methods of pictorial caricature. His line of acting is a broad-farce caricature of that of liston. It is something, Eve, though it end in wishes, or even in caricature. If a politician were not a caricature by nature, I made him one. Elijah's whiskered face was matted with ice, as were his eyebrows, so that, what of his fur garb, he looked like a New England caricature of Father Christmas. And then, as the idea came home to him, he resorted to caricature. If you criticise a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and instead of the poet, are censuring your own caricature of him. The result, though, is unpoetic and often borders on caricature. The little matter of the caricature we will settle on a future occasion. Bosko first resembled characters like Oswald the Rabbit, the first Mickey Mouse, and Felix, later emerged as a definite Black pickaninny caricature. Find more words! 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