Sentences with phrase «than a caricature on»

Brolin explores both the comedic and human aspects of Bigfoot and breathes life into a character that otherwise might have ended up little more than a caricature on screen.

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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.

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.

This subject deserves better than the court of political correctness, whose authority, advocates of homosexual marriage hope, will prevail until the law is voted on — a tribunal they defend by means of disqualifying caricatures against anyone who dares to question their project and their motives.

And do they think that believing that an invisible magic man (who will torture you if you don't believe in him) is really better answer to universe origins than their caricature of scientific conjecture on the subject.

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.

Even some of the journalists who portrayed him as the bullying caricature or interviewed him on the assumption that there was no more to him than the one dimensional stereotype pay homage now he is a TV star.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Each of the four main characters gets his or her moment to shine, and the actors make the best of it, giving depth to roles that could have been nothing more than the caricatures depicted on the film's poster.

In a visual device that may have worked better on the page than on the screen, Sfar has him imagining an anti-Semitic face with a huge hatchet nose, atop a small body in the form of a caricature.

But when it comes to the satirical portrait of American suburban life and the hypocrisy of adults more concerned with the appearance of morality than the real thing, Ball resorts to shrill caricatures of human behavior so exaggerated that you can't miss the rampant hypocrisy on parade.

Beyond this, NGSS calls for radically different classes than the caricatured version of traditional instruction built mostly on direct instruction of vocabulary and the concepts underlying the new terms.

Unfortunately, using the most blatant stereotypes and caricatures I have ever seen — even worse than those in Waiting for Superman — the film affixes blame on the wrong culprit: America's teachers unions.

The headlights and taillights come across as caricatures of the lights on the 370Z and the Maxima, and the side profile recalls Acura and Infiniti more than anything else.

It's this preemptive announcement - making approach that Dyer dug into, caricaturing Fried's tone, and ending by saying, bitingly, that someday Fried «will cross the border from criticism to the creation of a real work of art... called Kiss Marks on the Mirror: Why Michael Fried Matters as a Writer Even More Than He Did Before.»

«Contrary to logic, it has been proven that a caricature of a familiar face is more easily recognized than a realistic drawing of the same face,» according to the press release of this on - trend group show at artist - run Chelsea gallery American Medium.

His tendency to hit the nail on the head in his depiction of those close to him suggests a cold streak of cruelty, his relentless caricatures of biographer Jaumes Sabartés no less chilling than his derisive, Cubist portrait of Olga of 1935.

The list is weighty because it includes successful artists from all backgrounds, like Marina Abramovic, who has herself been accused of exploitation more than once — flashpoint artists like Kara Walker, who's been both celebrated and denounced for her nuanced caricatures of slavery — and establishment white guys like Ed Ruscha who paints tasteful ephemeral phrases on gradients.

Real and fictional clinicians on TV and in the movies are regularly portrayed as jargon - spouting caricatures, or are often shown to break ethical codes without blinking, displaying more personal problems than their clients.