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  • Within a minute he was a smoking caricature of charred flesh, the body reduced to the ancient dwarf-boxer posture of burning victims everywhere.†   (source)
  • Dickens caricatures this Malthusianthinking in Scrooge's insistence that he wants nothing to do with the destitute and that if they would rather starve than live in the poorhouse or in debtors' prison, then, by golly, "they had best hurry up and do it and decrease the excess population."†   (source)
  • …all these opposing elements and courses through me like an uncooked stew, mixing and confusing the paradoxes, because now this man I once admired, if not revered, I once feared, if not hated, stands here, a fragment of the race, drunk, agonized, crushed, and I can't hate him any more; I can't see him as the manifestation of craziness and power he once possessed; he's a caricature, an apparition, but also more like me, capable of so much ache beneath the exterior of so much strength.†   (source)
  • Nasality, sarcasm, self-caricature and so on.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel took to drawing on the walls and ceiling of their apartment, and did amazingly dead-on caricatures of teachers and classmates and scribbled musical references and racial epithets, turning their apartment into a mad tapestry of race-tinged, twenty-year-old angst.†   (source)
  • Now he is scowling, thrusting his chest toward me, a caricature of a young sailor ready to brawl.†   (source)
  • In the flickering light she looked to Clary like a sort of Edward Gorey caricature, all sharp angles and pulled-back hair and eyes like black pits scraped out of her face.†   (source)
  • His face drew down into a caricature of a frowning mask.†   (source)
  • Mobutu soon became the caricature of a violent, dictatorial kleptocrat.†   (source)
  • She turned to confirm its closing— and saw Miro's face, grotesque in the mask as usual but almost a caricature, his eyes and mouth forming ovals of astonishment.†   (source)
  • After seventy-eight days of primal struggle at altitude on K2, he felt like a faint, shriveled caricature of himself.†   (source)
  • He smiled, but his expression was off somehow, a grotesque and demented caricature of what it was supposed to be.†   (source)
  • My gestures were the caricature of human gestures compared to his.†   (source)
  • Since he did not hesitate to explain his position in public every time he had the chance, for everyone but his own co-religionists he soon became a caricature of the picturesque, reactionary oligarch.†   (source)
  • I walked into Latin class one morning to find on the blackboard a picture of my parents in a kettle over a fire with horrid caricatures of Africans dancing around the fire.†   (source)
  • She might have been I a caricature except for the large eyes beneath the bangs of gray hair imperfectly dyed red-eyes alive and knowing and filled with humor.†   (source)
  • He looks smaller, too, more vulnerable, a caricature of himself.†   (source)
  • I had clearly gotten the best of her, so I sobered to an elaborate caricature of humility.†   (source)
  • Even the vice president's nose and ears appear proportionally larger—like how a political cartoonist might draw him in caricature.†   (source)
  • "What's the matter with you?" gasped Mouch, catching a glimpse of Taggart's face while a current was twisting Galt's body: Taggart was staring at it intently, yet his eyes seemed glazed and dead, but around that inanimate stare the muscles of his face were pulled into an obscene caricature of enjoyment.†   (source)
  • In the margin of the book she drew a perfectly recognizable caricature of Hunter with a dagger through his heart.†   (source)
  • So that New South is sort of escaping some of those caricatures of the Old South.†   (source)
  • But his clothes were so proper, almost a caricature of properness (he had corrected the wayward lapel by now), and his eyes had a disenchanted droop at the outside corners.†   (source)
  • Its name was Biggrin, a cunning and immensely strong giant whose upper lip had been torn away by the ripping maw of a huge wolf, leaving the grotesque caricature of a smile forever stamped upon its face.†   (source)
  • She's a caricature, right out of Amos 'n' Andy.†   (source)
  • ANNIE studies her, still in bonnet and smoked glasses like a caricature of herself, and addresses her humorously.†   (source)
  • They are colorful small-town citizens, but not caricatured rubes.†   (source)
  • Unrepentant and amused by my ability to caricature Herb's walk, I did it one day for my mother's benefit.†   (source)
  • With rolled-up sleeves and the Brylcreem look of the period, the mob soon became a ludicrous caricature of an entire society.†   (source)
  • …looking at the floor and smiling as if ruefully, almost evilly, one might have thought (mistakenly), their jaws slung forward, their two large backs identically hunched below their shaggy, balding domes, shaggy eyebrows identically lowered, each man a caricature of the other, both humbler versions of the white-haired, militarily erect and awesomely fat United States Congressman who had tyrannized what was in effect the same room in another part of town before Will Hodge Jr was born.†   (source)
  • Ah, it was at Christmastime, and I had set out to shoot that caricature of vulgarity when I had that talk in this very room, lit only by a candle, with Pasha, who was still a boy, and Yura, whose body they are taking leave of now, had not yet come into my life.†   (source)
  • "He said he was deeply sorry, Andrew savagely caricatured the inflection, "but it was simply a rule of the Church.†   (source)
  • (He pulls to the front an enormous cross until then hanging at his back on a length of string-a caricature of the ebony cross worn by CHAPUYS) CHAPUYS Good, simple man.†   (source)
  • The image of Barbara D'Courtney appeared, now a caricature of the sexual siren.†   (source)
  • He's a handsome man, usually, but he's beginning to look like a caricature, a possessed clown doll.†   (source)
  • Short, squat, his pudgy face a clever caricature of a Buddha, Mike was a god to me then.†   (source)
  • He glanced at her open notebook, spotting the meticulously drawn caricature.†   (source)
  • He pursed his lips in a caricature of a mouth drawn and puckered with tension, muttered "Verwunscht!†   (source)
  • However, he looked a caricature of the romantic figure gone to seed.†   (source)
  • How could she have liked the other Misery novels and not like this? it was so Misery-esque it was nearly a caricature, what with motherly old Mrs Ramage dipping snuff in the pantry, Ian and Misery pawing each other like a couple of horny kids just home from the Friday-night high-school dance, and , Now she was the one who looked bewildered.†   (source)
  • "I am Liet-Kynes," he said, addressing himself to the empty horizon, and his voice was a hoarse caricature of the strength it had known.†   (source)
  • Her face peered out of the hood like a witch caricature — sunken cheeks and eyes, an overlong nose, skin mottled and with protruding veins.†   (source)
  • He looked, from behind, like a fleshless stick figure in overlarge black clothing, a caricature poised for stringy movement at the direction of a puppet master.†   (source)
  • When Brenda had told her that he was a sheriff, she'd immediately pictured a caricature of southern law enforcement: overweight, pants hanging too low, small mirrored sunglasses, a mouth full of chewing tobacco.†   (source)
  • She was a caricature.†   (source)
  • Now, at a rail-thin six foot four, with a bearded chin and a nose only a caricaturist could love, Lincoln's unmistakable silhouette makes him an easy target, should spies once again lurk nearby.†   (source)
  • (carrie don't don't don't hurts me) Now girls throwing sanitary napkins, chanting, laughing, Sue's face mirrored in her own mind: ugly, caricatured, all mouth, cruelly beautiful.†   (source)
  • She caught just a glimpse of the Saint Bernard's features, twisted and crazy, a mad caricature of a friendly Saint Bernard's face.†   (source)
  • Her face had become a caricature of crazed terror, and she stabbed the sign of the Eye at him with pronged fingers.†   (source)
  • Because Bailey did somehow look like a genius or at least a caricature of the mad scientists in old movies.†   (source)
  • So the sort of Beverly Hillbillies caricature had faded, I think, just by acquaintance with what some people in fact refer to as a New South.†   (source)
  • The television series Dallas will one day be seen as a caricature of this fixation on garish wealth, but the real Dallas is not that different.†   (source)
  • They didn't seem real—they were almost a caricature of the way eyes look, like the eyes of a mannequin in a department store window.†   (source)
  • So that aspect of Southern speech has done a lot to, not do away with the character-—there's still very strong negative caricatures—but that's done away with it a bit.†   (source)
  • Imposs— Yes, Ben Reich and the caricature of Barbara, linked side to side like Siamese twins, brother and sister from the waist upward, their legs turning and twisting separately in a sea of complexity below.†   (source)
  • There was her picture of herself, pathetically caricatured, the blonde hair in strings, the dark eyes like blotches, the lovely figure drawn into flat, ungracious planes… It faded, and abruptly the image of Powell-Powerful-Protective-Paternal rushed at him, torrentially destructive.†   (source)
  • As if such an altruistic sentiment could have the vaguest effect on this caricature of a Nazi, who was already being besieged by knocks at the door and an irruptive jangle of the telephone.†   (source)
  • …not by the Maple Court regulars but by the transient trade which managed to scribble up the walls of any place, no matter how unlikely, where males unlimbered their joints) and with delight gazed once again at the smoke-stained but still vivid caricature on the wall: companion-piece to the mural outside, it was a masterpiece of 1930s innocent ribaldry, displaying Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in contortionist Peeping Tom postures, gleefully asquint through the interstices of a garden…†   (source)
  • They were caricatures; they were very simple; they were immensely alive.†   (source)
  • One more caricature comes into my mind; though pity entered into this one.†   (source)
  • And to see that same face, but without any meaning, like a dead caricature—don't you think one would hate the woman for that?†   (source)
  • By comparison with Anna and her brother he appeared small, but he was really a good size himself, sturdy, and bald in a clean sweep of all his hair, his features also big, rounded and flattened, puffy at the eyes which were given to blinking just about to the point of caricature.†   (source)
  • He didn't even look at her, at her face, at the stiff movement of one half lifted hand in stiff caricature of the softest movement which human hand can make.†   (source)
  • …where, of an undergraduate body still numbered in two figures, the law school probably consisted of six others beside Henry—yes, he corrupted Henry to the law also; Henry changed in midterm—and himself) while Henry aped his clothing and speech, caricatured rather, perhaps, and Bon, though he had now seen Judith, very likely the same lazy and catlike man and it Henry who foisted upon him now the role of his sister's intended as during the fall term Henry and his companions had foisted…†   (source)
  • He looms tall above us as we squat; he looks like a figure carved clumsily from tough wood by a drunken caricaturist.†   (source)
  • "Dare not?" shouted Sir Lancelot, and he went into the darkness staggering, laughing like a caricature, and calling for his horse.†   (source)
  • Convulsed by a momentary rush of hatred, she would caricature the pout of his lips, the droop of his head, his bounding kangaroo walk.†   (source)
  • Rutherford had once been a famous caricaturist, whose brutal cartoons had helped to inflame popular opinion before and during the Revolution.†   (source)
  • He himself presided over the social revolution that destroyed the simple equalitarian order of the 1840's, corrupted what remained of its values, and caricatured its ideals.†   (source)
  • … The eight hard hopeless years seemed to him to be only a caricature of service: a few communions, a few confessions, and an endless bad example.†   (source)
  • …horizontality of everything else (the Museum of Science and Industry, with its dome stripped to its steel frame, as if for an autopsy; the modern Chamber of Commerce Building, its tower as cold, rigid, and unassailable after the blow as before; the huge, low-lying, camouflaged city hall; the row of dowdy banks, caricaturing a shaken economic system); and in the streets a macabre traffic — hundreds of crumpled bicycles, shells of street cars and automobiles, all halted in mid-motion.†   (source)
  • The background she had wished was set so perfectly that it became its own caricature, not a specific society wedding, but an impersonal prototype of lavish, exquisite vulgarity.†   (source)
  • But suddenly, as he looked down into the knowing leer, the perfect and preposterous injustice of the thing—like a caricature—overcame him: he burst into an explosive laugh of rage and amusement which the teacher, no doubt, accepted as confession.†   (source)
  • It is as though upon a face carved by a savage caricaturist a monstrous "burlesque of all bereavement flowed.†   (source)
  • Many bright colours; many distinct sounds; some human beings, caricatures; comic; several violent moments of being, always including a circle of the scene which they cut out : and all surrounded by a vast space—that is a rough visual description of childhood.†   (source)
  • The mask fell off the city, and she saw it for what it really is—a caricature of infinity.†   (source)
  • And then, as the idea came home to him, he resorted to caricature.†   (source)
  • And for this I had become a wrapped-up mystery, a swathed and bandaged caricature of a man!†   (source)
  • The Bible is full of interesting caricatures.†   (source)
  • From time to time he threw his arm in the air as if doing a caricature of someone.†   (source)
  • The ludicrous caricatures of the animals occupy my mind to the exclusion of the moral.†   (source)
  • It would be a mistake to think that this is ironic—a caricature of the historical accounts.†   (source)
  • In his lectures he espied subjects for ballads, and in his professors occasions for caricature.†   (source)
  • Miss Sharp's accounts of his employment at Queen's Crawley were not caricatures.†   (source)
  • There is a portrait of Mrs. Higgins as she was when she defied fashion in her youth in one of the beautiful Rossettian costumes which, when caricatured by people who did not understand, led to the absurdities of popular estheticism in the eighteen-seventies.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the natural corruptness of her speech overcoming her implacable republicanism, she still said instinctively "the de La Tremoilles," or, rather (by an abbreviation sanctified by the usage of music-hall singers and the writers of the 'captions' beneath caricatures, who elide the 'de'), "the d'La Tremoilles," but she corrected herself at once to "Madame La Tremoille.†   (source)
  • Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture.†   (source)
  • His prophecy, I remember, appeared in November or December, 1893, in a long-defunct publication, the Pall Mall Budget, and I recall a caricature of it in a pre-Martian periodical called Punch.†   (source)
  • The couple in question were engaged in the same kind of romance in which Lily figured, and the latter felt a certain annoyance in contemplating what seemed to her a caricature of her own situation.†   (source)
  • After hearing this caricature of Clare's opinion poor Tess was glad that she had not said a word in a weak moment about her family—even though it was so unusually old almost to have gone round the circle and become a new one.†   (source)
  • He held out a newspaper clipping in which, above a pen-and-ink caricature portraying him with large mustached head on a tiny body, was the headline: DOC PICKERBAUGH BANNER BOOSTER OF EVANGELINE COUNTY LEADS BIG GO-TO-CHURCH DEMONSTRATION HERE Pickerbaugh looked it over, reflecting, "That was a dandy meeting!†   (source)
  • For what characterized it was not so much "groping" as the imitation of "groping," the self-caricature of a writer who feels driven back upon an earlier self that is, alas, no longer available.†   (source)
  • It comes from an era of superstitious contrition, when the idea of humanity was demeaned and distorted into a caricature, a fearful era, when harmony and health were considered suspicious and devilish, whereas infirmity in those days was as good as a passport to heaven.†   (source)
  • Shrines are fascinating, especially when rarely opened, and it amused him to note the ritual of the English club, and to caricature it afterwards to his friends.†   (source)
  • Imagine yourself surrounded by all the most horrible cripples and maniacs it is possible to conceive, and you may understand a little of my feelings with these grotesque caricatures of humanity about me.†   (source)
  • Tom partly uncovered a dismal caricature of a house with two gable ends to it and a corkscrew of smoke issuing from the chimney.†   (source)
  • An ugly caricature.†   (source)
  • I feel a genuine interest in the animals themselves, because they are real animals and not caricatures of men.†   (source)
  • My one idea was to get away from these horrible caricatures of my Maker's image, back to the sweet and wholesome intercourse of men.†   (source)
  • The Gormer MILIEU represented a social out-skirt which Lily had always fastidiously avoided; but it struck her, now that she was in it, as only a flamboyant copy of her own world, a caricature approximating the real thing as the "society play" approaches the manners of the drawing-room.†   (source)
  • He was worn with indignation and suffering, and she wished she could comfort him; but intimacy seemed to caricature itself, and the more they spoke the more wretched and self-conscious they became.†   (source)
  • She afterwards published a work of fiction in which she was understood to have given a representation—something in the nature of a caricature, as you might say—of my unworthy self.†   (source)
  • Thus, with beer-drinking, pipe-smoking, song-roaring, and infinite caricaturing of woe, the disorderly procession went its way, recruiting at every step, and all the shops shutting up before it.†   (source)
  • Her teachers complained that instead of doing her sums she covered her slate with animals, the blank pages of her atlas were used to copy maps on, and caricatures of the most ludicrous description came fluttering out of all her books at unlucky moments.†   (source)
  • Fred has sense and knowledge enough to make him respectable, if he likes, in some good worldly business, but I can never imagine him preaching and exhorting, and pronouncing blessings, and praying by the sick, without feeling as if I were looking at a caricature.†   (source)
  • He pictured his Seryozha with a huge cigar, a yard long, in the midst of clouds of tobacco smoke, and this caricature made him smile; at the same time, the grave, troubled face of the governess called up memories of the long past, half-forgotten time when smoking aroused in his teachers and parents a strange, not quite intelligible horror.†   (source)
  • There are no caricatures, now, of effeminate exquisites so arrayed, swooning in opera boxes with excess of delight and being revived by other dainty creatures poking long-necked scent-bottles at their noses.†   (source)
  • At the top of an extra page (quite a treasure, probably, when first lighted on) I was greatly amused to behold an excellent caricature of my friend Joseph, — rudely, yet powerfully sketched.†   (source)
  • Rather do they protest, not altogether unjustly, against a few relapses into staginess and caricature which betray the young playwright and the old playgoer in this early work of mine.†   (source)
  • I conclude these remarks by copying the following portrait of the religion of the south, (which is, by communion and fellowship, the religion of the north,) which I soberly affirm is "true to the life," and without caricature or the slightest exaggeration.†   (source)
  • Andrea Cavalcanti found his tilbury waiting at the door; the groom, in every respect a caricature of the English fashion, was standing on tiptoe to hold a large iron-gray horse.†   (source)
  • How greatly this most exquisite portraiture harassed me, (for it could not justly be termed a caricature,) I will not now venture to describe.†   (source)
  • Caricature has sought again to spoil the quaint beauty of the music, and has filled the air with many debased melodies which vulgar ears scarce know from the real.†   (source)
  • He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animate abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarise it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.†   (source)
  • 'I am sure,' giggled Flora, tossing her head with a caricature of her girlish manner, such as a mummer might have presented at her own funeral, if she had lived and died in classical antiquity, 'I am ashamed to see Mr Clennam, I am a mere fright, I know he'll find me fearfully changed, I am actually an old woman, it's shocking to be found out, it's really shocking!'†   (source)
  • I must say, I might have known that people who were so fond of architecture generally, would not be backward in ornamenting themselves; all the more as the shape of their raiment, apart from its colour, was both beautiful and reasonable—veiling the form, without either muffling or caricaturing it.†   (source)
  • If he struggles to take a different view of the same class of subjects, he speedily discovers that what is obvious, graceful, and natural, has been exhausted; and, in order to obtain the indispensable charm of novelty, he is forced upon caricature, and, to avoid being trite, must become extravagant.†   (source)
  • He drew a caricature of her in which she was represented as a very pretty young woman dressed, on the lines of the prevailing fashion, in the folds of the national banner.†   (source)
  • Some, like "Near the lake where drooped the willow," passed into current airs and their source was forgotten; others were caricatured on the "minstrel" stage and their memory died away.†   (source)
  • When he was gone, Mrs. Becky made a caricature of his figure, which she showed to Lord Steyne when he arrived.†   (source)
  • He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes songs on superstitions, he takes the wind out of exaggerations, he twits mysteries, he thrusts out his tongue at ghosts, he takes the poetry out of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas.†   (source)
  • That exaggeration in the manner of the man which has been noticed as appertaining to him and to every such man, whatever his original breeding, as certainly as the sun belongs to this system, was acceptable to Gowan as a caricature, which he found it a humorous resource to have at hand for the ridiculing of numbers of people who necessarily did more or less of what Blandois overdid.†   (source)
  • This much-enduring man had succeeded in banishing chewing gum after a long and stormy war, had made a bonfire of the confiscated novels and newspapers, had suppressed a private post office, had forbidden distortions of the face, nicknames, and caricatures, and done all that one man could do to keep half a hundred rebellious girls in order.†   (source)
  • He certainly had very large hands and feet, which the two George Osbornes used to caricature and laugh at; and their jeers and laughter perhaps led poor little Emmy astray as to his worth.†   (source)
  • It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.†   (source)
  • How the father and daughter laughed as they trudged home together after the evening party (it was on the occasion of the speeches, when all the professors were invited) and how Miss Pinkerton would have raged had she seen the caricature of herself which the little mimic, Rebecca, managed to make out of her doll.†   (source)
  • "I have no taste for bread and butter," she would say, when caricaturing Lady Jane and her ways to my Lord Steyne.†   (source)
  • The Secretary of his Chancery was little Grignac, a young fellow, as malicious as Satan, and who made caricatures of Tapeworm in all the-albums of the place.†   (source)
  • Old Sir Huddleston wheezed a great deal at dinner; Sir Giles Wapshot had a particularly noisy manner of imbibing his soup, and her ladyship a wink of the left eye; all of which Becky caricatured to admiration; as well as the particulars of the night's conversation; the politics; the war; the quarter-sessions; the famous run with the H.H., and those heavy and dreary themes, about which country gentlemen converse.†   (source)
  • But Mrs. John Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself;— more narrow-minded and selfish.†   (source)
  • In her rambling and her idleness she might only be a caricature of herself; but in her silence and sadness she was the very reverse of all that she had been before.†   (source)
  • And so, forsooth, the youth are said to be taught them by Socrates, when there are not unfrequently exhibitions of them at the theatre (Probably in allusion to Aristophanes who caricatured, and to Euripides who borrowed the notions of Anaxagoras, as well as to other dramatic poets.†   (source)
  • They could have joined the company of carved gnomic heads that edged the huge fireplace, and I wondered how many of those caricatured figures had in fact been drawn from the patronizing features of earlier MacKenzie lairds—perhaps by a carver with a sense of humor …. or a strong family connection.†   (source)
  • …first time Jason laid his knife and fork down and he and his mother appeared to wait across the table from one another inidentical attitudes; the one cold and shrewd, with close-thatched brown hair curled into two stubborn hooks, one on either side of his forehead like a bartender in caricature, and hazel eyes with black-ringed irises like marbles, the other cold and querulous, with perfectly white hair and eyes pouched and baffled and so darkas to appear to be all pupil or all iris.†   (source)
  • He began to mazurka in swift caricature across the floor on sliding feet past the fireplace to J. J. O'Molloy who placed the tissues in his receiving hands.†   (source)
  • Cissy came up along the strand with the two twins and their ball with her hat anyhow on her to one side after her run and she did look a streel tugging the two kids along with the flimsy blouse she bought only a fortnight before like a rag on her back and a bit of her petticoat hanging like a caricature.†   (source)
  • His laughter at his own methods grows more unmistakable at the last, when he caricatures them by casually assembling six fallen monarchs in an inn at Venice.†   (source)
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