Sentences with phrase «figure than the caricature»

But he is a more subtle figure than the caricature suggests.

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But McDonnell is proving to be more multi-layered than his caricature, seeking late in his career to match expediency with belief, gripped by the need to prove economic competence (he reads the findings of focus groups as avidly as New Labour's leading figures used to do), knows the importance of narrative and how George Osborne impressively framed one about how Labour crashed the car and should never be given the keys again.

It can not, therefore, be held accountable for gaping plot holes, implausible set - ups, Iraqi terrorists who speak to each other in accented English, presidential figures who are more lobotomized than caricatured, and truly dreadful American Idol pop song parodies.

Stiles, who won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for The First Tycoon, his 2009 biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, offers a deeply personal portrait of George Armstrong Custer, the enigmatic and controversial figure who has long been more caricature than man.