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- noun Plural form of
caricature .
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Examples
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There's a particularly nice moment of an audience critique where our penchant for gritty working-class caricatures is confronted along with the first plot revelation.
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I was just sketching briefly the timeline of the backlash theory — which of course deals in caricatures and stereotypes.
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The production of these caricatures is not a gesture to reinstate turn-of-the-century Chinese exclusion, legal discrimination or even the emasculation of Chinese men, as much as it is a dismissal of these histories as meaningful in the present.
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Readers shouldn’t expect caricatures from the ethnically diverse characters.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Tom’s Review Forum 2009
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Aiding and abetting the whole concept are co-creator/artist Daniel Baxter’s incisive drawings; all the shorts benefit from his clean-yet-sketchy style, and his ability to reduce familiar stars to caricatures is fantastic, rendering them with just enough detail to make them readily apparent, but cartoony enough to add to the silliness at hand.
Fan Film Review: HowItShouldHaveEnded.Com | Fan Cinema Today 2007
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The caricatures were a disservice to both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama - but it was Damn Funny!!!
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And, some of the protests among Muslims over the caricatures are about wounded nationalism, and not about religion at all.
Dr. Juan Cole on "Muslim Protests Against Anti-Muhammad Caricatures" JDsg 2006
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They are all caricatures, which is not bad, in itself, if the film is solely intended as a satire.
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And, some of the protests among Muslims over the caricatures are about wounded nationalism, and not about religion at all.
Archive 2006-02-01 JDsg 2006
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One of the reasons I so enjoyed watching Chip and Richen on The Amazing Race was seeing them interact as a couple and realizing that behind the label of being gay, there existed two individuals, not caricatures, which is what a lot of shows seem to present us with.
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