Sentences with phrase «other than a caricature»

Not exact matches

The temptation though is to turn each other into caricatures or demonize the place we have shifted FROM or people who think differently than us.

Btw — he made more forward passes than any other CDM in the premiership last year — so you need to watch more closely before throwing in your causal and inaccurate caricatures.

Of course, reality is a lot more complicated than this rough caricature — biology is NOT destiny for animals with a complex brain, and human instincts are filtered through layer upon layer of culture and other learned behavior.

Rampling, on the other hand, breathes real life and character into what could have been a mere caricature — as she did with Mitchum, she more than holds her own with Newman in their scenes together and as a result, her final scenes with him are undeniably powerful and affecting.

Of the other two key characters in this film, Mr. Washington is more caricature than character (although ultimately a pretty good baddie, thanks to Purefoy having some fun with the role), and the Senator is far too much a mystery to be believable (and a waste of Freeman's talents).

If critics have a function anymore besides carving their own gravestones on the marble of modern cinema, it's to point a finger at films like Junebug, which sounds like a thousand other pictures but is actually something all its own: a Southern Gothic in the tradition of Flannery O'Connor that treats its characters as more than plot - movers or cardboard caricatures.

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.

Finding Your Feet also shoehorns itself into outdated clichés, including the caricature husband, who doesn't ask for his wife's forgiveness, the adult daughter who roots for her parents to reunite for no reason other than to make her life easier, and labelling the woman Sandra's husband had an affair with as a «homewrecker» and a «bitch».

«What makes this standout from other Anderson films (besides having a plot) is that the characters — particularly the dogs — are much more well - rounded than the caricatures who you usually parade through his movies.»

The characters become more than just talking portraits during cutscenes or caricatures to woo in any other dating sim.