Speaking of politics and comics I also recently saw Philip Guston's Nixon
caricatures at Hauser & Wirth.
People like Starr and Claire almost seem like
caricatures at times.
It seems like
caricature at first, but he sustains the flailing, the stamping, the «Holy Ghost Power» - ing, that even this crusty atheist couldn't help but be moved at Sonny's last hurrah.
Not exact matches
At the risk of reducing one of the most influential visionaries of our generation to a caricature, I can imagine that Jobs was all of those things, at least to a degre
At the risk of reducing one of the most influential visionaries of our generation to a
caricature, I can imagine that Jobs was all of those things,
at least to a degre
at least to a degree.
This
caricature of a system that doles out unique scores to 1.4 billion people could not work technically nor politically, says Rogier Creemers, a scholar of Chinese law
at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies in the Netherlands.
The ad, which was posted on YouTube, depicted a
caricature version of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un screaming
at underlings as they tried and failed to hack AML Bitcoin's product.
Just one year off an annual meeting
at which unaffiliated investors delivered a stunningly sharp rebuke of the entire board, near - autocrat and unrequited Buffet acolyte Sardar Biglari has nevertheless elected to press on with his personal crusade to erect an insipid
caricature of Berkshire Hathaway.
Perhaps, as some argue, Trump channels the anxieties of a class whose economic and social standing is in demonstrable decline as a cynical ploy to win popularity — this is a man who once called the poor «morons» — while winking
at the «establishment,» who can take comfort in knowing that this reality - television
caricature of themselves actually shares their political opportunism, if not their economic values.
In previous eras sexual prohibition was decreed for «maiden lades,»
at least for proper maiden ladies, and they endured it frequently by becoming the paradigms of rigid virtue with ramrod backbones and judgmental airs, in many instances, enough to create a recognizable
caricature.
When I face arguments which confidently tell me that all must (metaphysically must) be for the best and then look
at the incidence of evil in the world, my sympathies are with Voltaire in
caricaturing the Leibnizian Dr. Pangloss.
Bill's own story
at the beginning of our Big Book is neither timeless nor a perfect
caricature of the alcoholic as far as I am concerned.
He paints in broad strokes and
at times offers grotesque
caricatures of American - led efforts to promote liberal values.
The wilderness - shooter video game series has long been a sort of self -
caricature, an unapologetic shoot - em - up that winks and nods
at the genre itself, and for its newest iteration, Far Cry turns an eye toward Christian culture — barely.
In any case, the neoconservatives believed that justice and freedom as defined by the young and their middle - aged camp followers were
at best
caricatures and
at worst outright perversions of those terms, properly understood.
Looking back on a similar story in the Organization of Southwest Communities, von Hoffman laid this result squarely
at the door of the clergy — who, he complained, were «practically a
caricature, a cartoon, of the sins of omission and commission.»
Of course, Hedges is drawing
caricatures of evangelical spirituality, even
at its worst.
This claim is frequently presented, whether implicitly or explicitly, as a correlative to the idea that Christianity often as personified by Jesus or less frequently by Paul - was «goad» for women, paid them particular attention, or
at least offered them opportunities not otherwise available, to
caricature, the ideal of «the Feminist Jesus».60 In an admirable and scholarly article Leonard Swidler has marshaled historical evidences to show convincingly that Jesus was a Feminist.61 The politics of such a view is self - evident, for much study of the subject has developed within a context where women were struggling to establish a proper role for themselves within the contemporary church; to this end they have sought an egalitarian past to act as model for present polity.62
His first point is to argue that phyletic gradualism — understood in the sense that evolution proceeds
at a single uniform rate of speed, called «constant speedism» by Dawkins — is a «
caricature of Darwinism» [46] and «does not really exist.»
He did not want Absolute pragmatism to lapse into the usual
caricature of idealism, which made ideas into nothing more than objects of idle contemplation; ideas always contain,
at their core, an intention to act.
What you will find, in a variant on the regnant
caricature, is an angry old man, «left to rail
at the new world he had helped bring about.»
The dissenting opinions would have exposed Blackmun's opinion, in the plainest way, as a
caricature composed of half - truths and untruths, including a «history» of abortion that was recognized even
at the time as thoroughly false.
Such
caricatures are resilient, and no doubt some might wish to reject my arguments
at the outset on the grounds that a rabbi should never leave his religious sphere or that there is nothing I could add to the observation that the Bible forbids homosexuality.
If that is recognizably a
caricature of fundamentalism, it is
at least recognizable — and it is the way, I'm sure, that many fundamentalists and nonfundamentalists alike would describe it.
A
caricature of an Italian chairman, he wears sunglasses
at all times, has a conviction for tax evasion (on the purchase of a yacht, no less) and has a very attractive son straight out of Rich Kids of Instagram.
For Terry has become a pantomime villain: a dastardly
caricature of evil to be booed as he enters, hissed as he exits, and jeered
at all points in between.
May 21, 2013 — Garcia ignites a firestorm when, in response to a query from the emcee
at a European Tour awards dinner, he lamely jokes he would have Woods over every night during the U.S. Open and serve him fried chicken — code for one of the most offensive
caricatures of African Americans.
Concerns will be raised that Mourinho is already beginning to revert to type as the arch-nemesis of youth
at Old Trafford, fitting the
caricature of the manager that has built up during his career with Chelsea, Inter and Real Madrid.
In no time
at all, the
caricature I had heard and read about morphed into something quite different: a real person with real emotions.
- you are
at risk of unfairly
caricaturing voices of criticism here - but of trying earnestly to learn from mistakes.
By contrast with New Labour, which created the sharpest of breaks with the party's history in its
caricature of «Old Labour», the ProgCons have had no account of their recent history
at all.
And there's always the possibility that Silver — whose lengthy tenure, Ent - ish demeanor and top - down reign over his house made him into a
caricature of a corrupt state politician — could be acquitted
at a new trial.
«Spitzer, for all his drama and its fallout, ended up just a tinpot Clinton, but Madoff — in his Jewish George Washington looks (the hair sort of long but not unkempt and just flaring
at the ears, also the melancholy nose and p.o.'d mouth), the way he so plainly resembled a
caricature straight out of the Protocols of Zion — Madoff not only forever changed how the world looks
at Wall Street, he also personified Jewish fears about our worst enemies» view of us.
Only Michael Sheen, who played Tony Blair in the Queen, a film that bears some comparison with what's on offer here, comes anywhere near this level of skill
at conveying a historical personality without falling into
caricature.
Hidden away in Room 23
at the National Portrait Gallery is a collection of comic
caricatures of important diplomatic figures from overseas.
At one time the
caricature of the local council was of taking a «jobs worth» approach.
Sure, they've had to compromise in government: «Poor old David Cameron is governing with one hand tied behind his back,» laments Peter Bone, the comedy
caricature Tory MP, but his party can credibly pitch to the voters
at the next election what an unshackled Tory government would do.
He marred a mostly sensible speech on political reform last week with the cynical insertion of a swipe
at Brussels, still
caricatured as the distant enemy of our native democracy.
Artist Paul Morgan with the Queers For Racial Justice organization brought along his larger than life
caricature drawing to the rally
at Martin Luther King Park.
Critics don't doubt his intellect or steel but the other bad part of the Balls
caricature is that he is tribal Labour, a pugilist too aggressive for the public's liking, who would put Labour
at the head of every anti-cuts march.
and
caricatured Roberts as a frog
at his feet.
Some of the party's most senior donors are — according to senior sources — getting increasingly restless and impatient
at the way in which the Tories seem unable to escape the elitist
caricature.
Laughing apparently could expel demons, too, which is why, Jansen presumes, Romans colored a
caricature of Jesus as a fish
at another site.
This self -
caricature of Michelangelo may serve as a tool for analysing the artist's probable bodily dimensions and even his state of health
at the time.
They had a
caricature artist
at the reception which I thought was really neat.
In all seriousness, though, the real US presidents are actually far more cooler than their cinematic
caricatures, so let's take a look
at our history and deliberate what the world of online dating would be like under four great US presidents.
But though Beatriz
At Dinner goes for its share of low blows against the vapidly white and well - to - do — represented by a couple of upwardly mobile guests played by Chloë Sevigny and Jay Duplass — its small pleasures lie in the way it sidesteps cheap
caricature.
The roles the actors are asked to play are not characters, they are
caricatures, thinly draw yet
at times comically over exaggerated.
An excruciating slog that seems made only to mock those who see art in something made by a monkey throwing feces
at a blank canvas, since J. M. W. Turner is portrayed as a repulsive, vulgar and contemptible hog and played by Spall as a ridiculous growling
caricature.
At times, I, Tonya comes close to caricaturing Harding in exactly the same way that the media did at the time of the Nancy Kerrigan scanda
At times, I, Tonya comes close to
caricaturing Harding in exactly the same way that the media did
at the time of the Nancy Kerrigan scanda
at the time of the Nancy Kerrigan scandal.
Franco, a wiry, handsome Hollywood star, seemed like an odd choice for Wiseau, who is muscular and unconventional - looking, but Franco always seems to like a challenge, and he crafted his own mostly - faithful take on Wiseau's voice and through hair, prosthetics, clothes and posture, reasonably simulates the real person,
at least to the point where it doesn't feel much like a
caricature and, after a short adjustment period, doesn't distract too much.