Sentences with phrase «grotesque caricatures»

Liberals and environmentalists mostly exist as grotesque caricatures on the conservative media that dominate the airwaves.

All of the characters are grotesque caricatures.

He paints in broad strokes and at times offers grotesque caricatures of American - led efforts to promote liberal values.

Indeed, no one has done more than Wisse, with her translation of and writing about Yiddish literature, to overcome that grotesque caricature of prewar European Jewry.

If you wanted caricatures, why isn't your 2 - d paragraph purposal an equally grotesque caricature and instead a realistic position?

Facing off challenges not just from the ferocious undead but also from the living, will Edward find an exit to the grotesque caricature of what humanity has become?

It Needs: A more rounded, less saintly heroine; less grotesque caricaturing of its middle class characters (a regular feature in Leighs films); and a little less tea - drinking (it is hard on the bladder by the second hour).

The Room may be a non-native's laughable, even grotesque caricature of modern American life, but it's an incredibly sincere one.

Proper drop - top supercar or a grotesque caricature that seems a bit confused?

For BOS it's sharing its diverse world of wild animal collage, leather fetish painting, classical portraiture, grotesque caricature, and immersive sound installation.

This is without considering the artists who do not utilise specific characters but have invoked the aesthetics of traditional animation (Peter Wächtler and Mathias Poledna) or who borrow the tropes of grotesque caricature and anthropomorphisation from the toons (George Condo and Armen Eloyan).

I'm thinking of a spoof poster, along the strapline «Prices may change due to the Fairy Tax» and featuring a grotesque caricature of a red headed Tinkerbell with a bigger behind and a nose borrowed from Pinocchio.

The only acknowledgment of the existence of anything but straight humans comes in the form of a ham - fisted and grotesque caricature of two gay men.

Not exact matches

In Lee's Bamboozled, he's invoked (alongside many other silent and early - sound - era performers) as a grotesque specter of racist Hollywood representation — the ghost of minstrelsy past — but writers like Mel Watkins and Champ Clark have complicated the issue by suggesting that there was an element of subversion in Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masquerade.

Such types would have fit in easily among the broad caricatures and grotesques that populated such Coens comedies as Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski (to say nothing of weaker efforts such as Intolerable Cruelty and their atrocious remake of The Ladykillers).

The Advertising Gallery also includes quite a mix of campaign art, and amid the formal colour and black & white posters is a tongue - in - cheek poster with a dagger - pointing Welles smirking like a scoundrel; and a caricature poster of the entire cast & crew, led by a completely grotesque, pointy - eared image of longtime Mercury Theatre alumnus Everett Sloan.

Peopled by flapper - era caricatures partaking in white - collar social orgies fuelled by selfish hedonism, Luhrmann's interpretation of Fitzgerald's oft - debated novel emerges as grotesque melodrama that plays more like a Mexican telenovela than a respectful reinterpretation of 1920's New York high society.

The next president of the United States is already a caricature of himself, and has a talent for occupying the media space with his outrageous and grotesque posturing.

Eschewing any conventional notions of beauty, or in many cases even taste, these works privilege instead a form of the grotesque, where identity often approximates a kind of caricature or mask: an exaggeration and amplification of reality.

Studies from the early 1990s make pointed caricatures of characters depicted through art history, with Sherman appearing as a grotesque creature in period costume.

Regarding caricature, I love Mike Kelly's essay Foul Perfection: Thoughts on Caricature, in which he examines modernism's negatively coded position about the grotesque body and «low cultucaricature, I love Mike Kelly's essay Foul Perfection: Thoughts on Caricature, in which he examines modernism's negatively coded position about the grotesque body and «low cultuCaricature, in which he examines modernism's negatively coded position about the grotesque body and «low culture».