Travesty of a sort

Usage examples of caricature.

Eli Camperdown, who not long since had seemed the embodiment of strength and power, was now emaciated, wan and fragile-a caricature of his former self.

Farmers were far from being the knuckle-cracking, clodhopping, parvenu philistines that the stage caricature of Turcaret suggested.

Quickly, and with an admirable economy of strokes, he was doodling a caricature of Bartram on the back of his menu card.

The tardive dyskinesia had ceased with unconsciousness, and, relaxed, her face went from some caricature of madness to normalcy.

The fisheye glass made an avian caricature of the man standing alone under the light mounted over the door.

Con it and thank your own special gods that you have no Thony or Gulbranssen in this country to caricature your Gladstonian features.

Coroner and the jury took on a Hogarthian quality, and those witnesses whom she knew resembled brilliantly cruel caricatures of themselves.

Especially they produced in her confessor, Father Lacombe, such a ruling admiration, reverence, and tenderness, that he was subdued into a caricature of her.

Father Looney and our down-market salvation stall have a quality of impressionistic caricature about them, but I have written what I find in my memory.

He was a lopsided caricature of a man, one side of his body stunted, muscles atrophied with disuse, the other side overdeveloped to make up for the paralysis that forced him to depend on it so heavily.

Asiatic, religious, primitive, soul, but is a technological caricature of Petrinism, and the possibility is inherent in this relationship that one day this regime will go the way of the Romanov.

He was overdoing it so thoroughlythe oldest, rustiest of the trucks, the conspicuous absence of basic courte,sy-that she felt sure he was deliberately caricaturing the city impression of rustic redneck manners, even to his clothing-plaid shirt, clean but faded jeans, and the cap, which he did not remove.

Once strong and free in the plays of Aeschylus and his compeers, hampered and constantly under guidance but still dignified and noble in the Senecan drama, Tragedy now found herself debased and almost caricatured in the English Interlude stage.

Anakin pushed his way through the rain-slickered portround crowd, through vendors and street performers, past long rows of cantinas and tapcafs and souvenir shops full of mostly fake lacy shellwork and grossly caricatured statuettes of Grand Moff Tarkin.

Sitting in an old wooden armchair before a battered table, almost a caricature of the English butler, Virkan looked like Anna had supposed, pudgy, but not fat, with deep-set weasellike eyes that shifted from one side of the small lower room to the other.