Bad Moms deserves credit for mixing things up in the genre, but its reliance
on caricatures prevents it from being as memorable as it could have been.
His performance singlehandedly shames the great Tobe Hooper and Wes Craven, whose backwoods horror films relied so completely
on caricatures for villains.
The show prided
itself on caricatures and silly, sex - forward dialogue that helped it last for six big seasons.
But this is based
on a caricature of the open view.
But this narrative is based
on a caricature of evangelicals and other voters of faith.
His position in this respect is entirely mainstream, consistent with all of the following liberal thinkers: Mill, Green, Hobhouse, Hobson, Rawls, Dworkin, Ackerman, Galston, Nussbaum, Sen.... The «communitarian critique» of liberalism in the 1980s was always an attack on something of a strawperson,
on a caricature of liberalism rather than the liberalism actually espoused by such as Rawls.
The single criticism is that the two cousins are at times made to be more oafish than they need to be, and verge
on caricature.
It's an updating of the classic, and quite serious, television show from the 1950s (also a radio show prior to that), starring Jack Webb, of whom Dan Aykroyd (Ghostbusters, Trading Places) is doing a spot -
on caricature of throughout.
David (Gosling) finds potential salvation in Katie (Kirsten Dunst), a free spirit so saintlike that she verges
on caricature.
A few characters can border
on caricature, however; by and large the cast grounds them into enough realism.
And Mark's army buddy Jason is painted with such broad strokes he borders
on caricature, the stereotypical trigger - happy, «Murica - lovin» xenophobe.
«Foul Perfection: Thoughts
on Caricature.»
To lure us into that zone, Burckhardt fills his paintings with biomorphic shapes that border
on caricature, faintly and sometimes strongly evoking the iconography of Pacific Northwest Native American tribes, the Tlingit in particular.
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 culture».
Art Issues, January 1989, p. 21 Jones, Amelia, «The Contingency of the Nonrepresentational: Liz Larner's Objects,» Visions Art Quarterly, Spring 1989 Kelley, Mike, «Foul Perfection: (Thoughts
on Caricature),» Artforum, January 1989, pp. 92 - 99, illus.
Not exact matches
The 12
caricatures, published by the Jyllands - Posten daily
on September 30, 2005, included portrayals of the prophet wearing a bomb inside a turban and as a knife - wielding nomad flanked by shrouded women.
Danish media are
on Wednesday expected to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Jyllands - Posten cartoons, but few expect them to do so by publishing new
caricatures.
Colbert, who previously played a
caricature of the kind of right - wing blowhard Sanders would really irritate
on his Comedy Central show «The Colbert Report,» will launch his version of the show
on Sept. 8.
A protester carries a
caricature of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel during a march
on Michigan Ave., calling for Emanuel and Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez to resign in the wake of a police scandal, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, in Chicago.
Motivational speaker and water ski champion Hank Longo uses his artistic talents to draw a
caricature Santa
on water skis
on all his holiday cards.
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.
One of the most visible is those who promise to draw your
caricature profile
on the spot.
Read Miles Goslett
on the death of David Kelly — not Aaronovitch's
caricature
The show portrays
caricatures that are only semi-fleshed out (but who get more fleshed out as the show goes
on).
Lest you think I overstate, lest you think I
caricature those with whom I disagree
on this issue, check out this opinion article in the Winnipeg Free Press from a bioethicist named Arthur Schafer in support of forcing Samuel Golobchuk off of life support.
Its as if our conversation
on the subject is reduced to sloppy and extreme
caricatures.
There is no reason why Jacobs should not lampoon a book after a brief glance rather than dignifying it with a review, but it is a bit much to accompany the
caricature with advice to the author
on the virtues of close reading.
This is not based
on some outdated
caricature but
on what Genesis reveals about the nature and inter-personality of the first human couple.
Mark Noll's reliance
on a reductive
caricature of Protestant political theology causes him to give a false impression of how most colonial American Protestants deployed sacred and secular sources in their political thought.
On the Crusades — «not the proudest moment in Christian history but nor were they the childish
caricature of modern Western guilt and certainly not that of contemporary Muslim paranoia» — he goes into some detail to describe not only the background and the geopolitical state of things, but also the realities of human behaviour, both good and bad.
Something of the difference may be seen in the
caricature that Holiness churches emphasize the «graces» or «fruits» of the Spirit while Pentecostal churches place greater weight
on the «gifts» of the Spirit, especially «divine healing» and glossolalia.
The tone of these remarks so far may appear to be realistic almost to the point of cynicism and exaggerated almost to the point of
caricature; and I freely admit,
on points like this, a certain initial predilection for excess.
The dialogues related above are only somewhat
caricatured examples of the «advice» psychological and theological writings offer
on the issue.
Large sections portray contemporary anti-Semitism as a phenomenon of the right, with a full chapter given to a vicious
caricature of «the religious right,» when in fact anti-Israel and overtly anti-Jewish passions today are more than equally
on the left.
When talking about the Christians who cherrypick their theology so they ignore the poor while focusing
on «hot - button» issues, he
caricatures his own «fundamentalism» when it comes to justice and jubilee.
If you drew a cartoon about homosexual bigotry by using a
caricature that actually exists in many anti-homosexual heads and then lots of homosexuals criticized you
on it, saying it reinforced the bigotry — would you consider their points.
It's good to see an article
on CNN that breaks away from the
caricature of American Christians as ultra-conservative, rabid nationalists.
The Pope and Cardinal Ratzinger are attempting to impose «ideological conformity»
on the whole Church — and so the tediously familiar
caricature goes
on.
This idea has been robbed of it's force by the silly
caricatures like Peter as comical gatekeeper and people floating
on clouds holding harps, and God as an old bearded fellow sitting
on a big chair..
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.»
Moltmann's
caricature of certain traditional models of pastoral care makes plain the advance demonstrated in Hunter's practice: the pastor visits from house to house, and from hospital room to hospital room, with Bible and prayer book in hand, reading a few verses from each to his parishioners, before moving
on.
Prevailing social forces, a generation or two of «progressive» leadership, and a desire
on the part of many to avoid identification with the
caricatures of the movement have effected profound changes.
The Bolshevik regime thus tried to build a
caricature of modernity through forced industrialization and a frontal assault
on the traditional foundations of the Russian way of life: the peasantry, an independent intelligentsia, and the Orthodox Church.
David Dark, author of The Sacredness of Questioning Everything, seems to appreciate Colbert as well, for he begins his chapter
on «Questioning Our Offendedness» with a «tip of the hat» to the comic genius of the
caricature that is Stephen Colbert — a
caricature that highlights how «we develop a built - in resistance to any information that refuses to fall in line with our preconceived notions.»
Twain overheard and recorded his interpretation of the contest
on Mt. Carmel (I Kings 18), which, though perhaps a
caricature, illustrates well the shortcomings of this approach.
The disastrous role the author attributes to St. Thomas, for example, while not altogether unfair to later Thomism, depends
on unbalanced
caricatures of what Aquinas himself thought.
Given that the Church places no moral obligation
on couples to have as many children as they possibly can, the insinuation contained in this statement is a crude
caricature of Catholic teaching.
He said: «Let churches resolve to face down the
caricature of being an institution, focussed
on simply surviving and being against things.
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.»