caricature
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Willis had mixed feelings about the group’s caricature image, recording but shelving a 1979 solo album, “Solo Man,” until 2015.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
“We have to separate Berkeley from the caricature of Berkeley that some people had in their mind 60 years ago,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
With her bright-eyed inquisitiveness bordering on tactlessness, and Harry Potter T-shirt, Cheryl-Ann comes close to being a caricature of a crass tourist, and is treated as such with cool disdain by Orla.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Like all of those after-school specials, there’s a distinct element of gratitude that helps the film transcend accusations of corniness or caricature.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
The Marine in the mirror was almost a caricature of the slim, youthful pilot who stood beside his Corsair in a photograph on Lillian’s dresser.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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Their testimonials on our website demonstrate that they are real, complex human beings, not caricatures.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2026
There’s a tension between the update’s good intentions and the tendency of musical comedy to traffic in amusing caricatures.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Though the web series centres around women, Shah says they took care to ensure men in Chiraiya are not frothing-at-the-mouth villainous caricatures.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
The exhibition includes examples of his illustrations for the journal Oxford Left, as well as some amusing caricatures of his aristocratic classmates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
I would hope that at a school like Amsterdam Heights, these roles would be studied and exposed, that we'd create scripts that dismantle these caricatures.
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
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"Magyar will want, as he did during the campaign, not to be caricatured as being a pawn of Brussels; do not expect him to say yes to everything," said an EU diplomat.
From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026
Hegseth’s bravado has also been caricatured on “Saturday Night Live,” which opened two weeks in a row with a satirical portrayal of him as angry, dimwitted and hyped up on the violence of war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026
These giant, caricatured figures danced and moved through the ceremony alongside dancers and performers, offering a surreal, almost carnival-like nod to classical music’s place in Italian culture.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2026
One worrisome trend, they said, is the production of highly caricatured “War of Resistance god-tier dramas” that feature ludicrously unrealistic story lines and scenes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2025
The way American newspapers caricatured his portly build and bald head, portraying him like some stubby supervillain sprung from the pages of one of their ludicrous comic books.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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Proxmire became addicted to the fawning press attention he got from caricaturing serious scientific research as ludicrous.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025
By 2017, Saturday Night Live was caricaturing Ms Trump in a mock advertisement for a perfume called "Complicit."
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
“But I promise you that dismissing or caricaturing these kinds of voters — our fellow citizens — is not the way to win them back. And there’s no path to victory without winning them back.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
He captures her coquettish coyness without caricaturing it.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
Pasquino was a mutilated statue, so called from a cobbler who had his shop near it, and was always quizzing and caricaturing passers-by.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul
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