Sentences with phrase «rather than caricaturing»

As Tommy, he is the strange, unknowable presence at the center of both «The Disaster Artist» and «The Room,» and audiences need to believe this is a real person rather than a caricature.

This is, in embryo, what human control begins to look like in practice, rather than the caricature you offer.

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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.

He has preferred to take time for a careful analysis in a document that can serve as a text of reference, rather than posting a brief and partial intervention limited to the taking of a position «for» or «against»; thus he hopes to avoid being exposed to dismissive caricatures, which, alas, are all too common where subjects such as this are concerned.

What we are being provided with is a general caricature of this social class which is a statistical fact rather than an inviolable law On the whole the actions of this class exemplify modes of behavior determined by their social environment.

If you're interested in digging deeper, you might like knowing that Wake Forest University has published a short, objective Q&A primer on the current law (rather than history) of separation of church and state — as applied by the courts rather than as caricatured in the blogosphere.

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.

«Long - term projections of the type presented here are always crude caricatures but I like this study because it does take a more mechanistic approach based on the known habitat requirements of the species rather than using a more traditional and simplistic thermal envelope model,» he said.

His veiled misogyny and totally unguarded homophobia are unconvincing, and when he resorts to chestnuts like comparing how black and white people walk, he comes off as a Pryor caricature, rather than as a devotee.

I disagree with the assessment that they are caricatures rather than characters; if the film took the time to develop each soldier into fully fleshed - out three - dimensional characters, we'd end up with Band of Brothers, and at slightly under three hours the filmmakers just didn't have the time for that.

At first, thanks to a cleverly deceptive storyline, Black Panther may lead you to believe the big battle will involve defeating the caricature - like evil white guy, Ulysses Klaue, played by Andy Serkis, appearing in his human form rather than through motion capture, with a good dash of Eurotrash.

He uses feminism as a plot device, depicting the women as braying harridans and broad caricatures rather than exploring feminism itself.

Although Ruby Sparks begins as a caricature of a the «manic pixie dream girl,» having literally been constructed out of the mind of a depressed male - writer, this dream woman quickly becomes a nightmare as her writer, Calvin, must contend with the realities of having a girlfriend with quirks and insecurities, rather than just being a simplistic idealization.

Stories about families are usually like, «There's the crazy mom and there's the weird aunt» and everything is sort of a caricature of the characters rather than real people.

Simon Pegg manages the impossible as Scotty, becoming less annoying as the series continues rather than — as the first movie suggested — lazily making Scotty into an overblown caricature of himself.

But as an adult, I am thrilled to see the stories go back to the original major players with stories about a league rather than a gallery of cheesy secondary roles or a caricature show with overly simplified heroes.

Here, the art direction, rather than looking like some horribly - drawn caricature or overly - analyzed dissertation, knows when and where to draw the line between reference and parody.

The paintings were composed of thick, fluid brushstrokes, the individuals appearing more as caricatures rather than traditional realist portraits.

As Saar has said about her work, «It was really about evolution rather than revolution, about evolving the consciousness in another way and seeing black people as human beings instead of the caricatures or the derogatory images.»

Instead, he strives to highlight each immigrant as an individual rather than the «collective caricature of foreignness» they are so often relegated to.

Far from giving a voice to sceptics» arguments, then, these shows offered only a caricature of their personalities: to set them up as fools, rather than engage them in debate, to make statements about «denial» in general.

I also had postcards printed with caricatures of me, rather than photos, to convey a more laid - back image.