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Letter "C" » caricatures
«I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers..»
Author: Jamie Lee Curtis
(Actress)
| Keywords:
caricature, caricatured, caricatures, faced, grotesque, grotesques, hatchet, knocker, knockers
«Caricature is rough truth.»
«I've got to take under my wing, / Tra la, / A most unattractive old thing, / Tra la, / With a caricature of a face.»
Author: William S. Gilbert
(Lyricist)
| Keywords:
caricature, caricatures, most unattractive, tra-la, tra
«GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, commonly fashioned into a grotesque caricature of some personal enemy of the architect or owner of the building. This was especially the case in churches and ecclesiastical structures generally, in which the gargoyles presented a perfect rogues' gallery of local heretics and controversialists. Sometimes when a new dean and chapter were installed the old gargoyles were removed and others substituted having a closer relation to the private animosities of the new incumbents.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
caricatures, criticisms, Parodies, parody, penetrating
«Every society has a tendency to reduce its opponents to caricatures.»
«Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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caricatured, caricatures, cousins, grotesque, grotesques, relatives
«A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
caricatures
«Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
| Keywords:
animation, caricature, caricatured, caricatures, human anatomy, natural language
«All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
| Keywords:
caricatured, caricatures, cartoon, cartoons, cartoon characters, exaggeration, fable, fables, fantasy
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