caricature
கேலிச்சித்திர
definition
verb
he was caricatured on the cover of TV Guide
make or give a comically or grotesquely exaggerated representation of (someone or something).
noun
a caricature of Jimmy Durante
a picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.
translation of 'caricature'
கேலிச்சித்திரம்
example
Has some modernist thinker sat in a college, chuckling as he invents this ludicrous 'caricature' in order to discredit postmodernism once and for all?
he looked like a 'caricature' of his normal self
Moving on from his Hogarthian images of the early 1990s, the elements of 'caricature' have disappeared, although he remains preoccupied with brutalisation.
While there is certainly an element of 'caricature' in Geikie's works they are never caricatures per se.
Usually I find him insufferable, but here he had a quieter, naïve quality that made him more real, rather than a 'caricature' or mere comic foil.
One of the four pictures was an old-fashioned 'caricature' of a bomb - round and black with a burning fuse.
This is the Cornwall of myth, a clichéd 'caricature' version of the county complete with exaggerated eccentrics, loony local lore and mystical happenings.
‘It's just fun, almost a 'caricature' version of rockabilly,’ adds the Gutter Demon's bassist Flipper.
there are elements of 'caricature' in the portrayal of the hero
he looked a 'caricature' of his normal self
a crude 'caricature' of the Prime Minister
Glover, who has a penchant for playing strange individuals, uses this opportunity not to inhabit a genuine character, but to create a 'caricature' .
a 'caricature' of Jimmy Durante
The element of cartoonish 'caricature' finds its way into much of this production.
He plays the role well without every going over the top or becoming a 'caricature' , and is creates an extremely sympathetic character.
In 1803 Gillray created a prototype 'caricature' of Napoleon which was widely copied by his competitors.
When Sinclair Lewis wrote Babbitt, he succeeded in creating a 'caricature' of success typifying the mind-set of the twenties.
Memin is a cartoon character from a decades-old and much-beloved Mexican comic book, a 'caricature' of a young, black Mexican boy.
On stage, I am a 'caricature' of my normal personality which probably doesn't bode well.
there are elements of 'caricature' in the portrayal of the hero
Many other sketches featured similar hard-men, many of them 'caricaturing' the sort of psychopathic gangsters who would become prevalent in British films of the late 1990s.
Never one to shy away from polemics, Gould was often criticized by other scientists for his penchant for staking debates in rather extreme terms, and sometimes 'caricaturing' his opponents' positions.
I have never seen farce more keenly orchestrated and sanguinely enacted, the blatantly laughable always tinged with the bitingly 'caricatural' , the fantastic, and the outrageous, without the slightest loss in basic humanity.
It was then that cartoonists began 'caricaturing' him as a cockatoo.
The aim is to avoid the straw man fallacy - rejecting positions not on the basis of their true characteristics but on the basis of crude or otherwise erroneous 'caricatures' of them.
One remarkable characteristic of this work is that the author does not reduce his subjects to ludicrous 'caricatures' .
The expressions of the actors are extremely vigorous and exaggerated - close to 'caricatures' .
The style and drafting of the Constitution also are unfairly 'caricatured' .
The first can easily be 'caricatured' as bull-headed aggression: the second as social work masquerading as security.
Each side 'caricatured' the other in this way - and continues to do so.
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