25 Verbs to Use for the Word caricatures

He drew the most profane but irresistibly funny caricatures of Eulogius and Eucherius, and the rest of the host of heaven.

And there is also this striking contrast between the novelist and the poets,that while the whole tendency of the age was toward realism, away from the extremes of the romanticists and from the oddities and absurdities of the early novel writers, it was precisely by emphasizing oddities and absurdities, by making caricatures rather than characters, that Dickens first achieved his popularity.

How the father and daughter laughed as they trudged home together after the evening party, and how Miss Pinkerton would have raged had she seen the caricature of herself which the little mimic, Rebecca, managed to make out of the doll.

If Lady Maulevrier looked like a picture in the Escurial, Lady Kirkbank resembled a caricature in La Vie Parisienne.

If after three centuries and a half the artist has been able to produce only a caricature, stupid indeed he must be!"

It contained, or was supposed to contain, a broadly ludicrous caricature of one well-known local physician; and an allusion, brief, indeed, and covert, but highly scandalous, to a certain "droll foible" attributed to another personage of much wider celebrity in the scientific world.

Some of the Jurymen were in the habit of taking caricatures of the prisoners while they condemned them.

I possessed all the rarer qualities, but not that primary power without which all is valueless;I mean the talent of the boy who can knock off a clever caricature of his schoolmaster or make a life-like sketch of his favourite horse on the barn door with a piece of chalk.

So great was the World's success in this particular line, that at once there sprang up a host of imitators, and the Celebrities were again tempted to make themselves still more celebrated by having good-natured caricatures of themselves made by "Age" and "Spy."

And Mellasys held up a highly colored caricature, covering one whole side of my friend's sheet.

Admirable as he was in all parts of his art, we most admire him for this, that, while he has left us a greater number of striking portraits than all other dramatists put together, he has scarcely left us a single caricature.

He pervades all the caricature of that time.

Silk hat, ruffled shirt, silver-buckled shoes, kid gloves, cane, velvet suit, with one two-inch pocket which is an insult to his sex,how I pity the pathetic little caricature!

The jack-boots they wear sometimes fit very tight to the legs, in which case poor Sambo has to roll up his pants till they assume the appearance of small bolsters tied round the knee, presenting a most ludicrous caricature.

For you make no more images, you are always saying, 'No, we will let that wait a bit,' and you do not even quicken the ten caricatures of the image-makers which you have already modeled.

If Warburton had really wished Sterne to abstain from caricaturing him, he would be as anxiousand for much the same reasonsto conceal the fact as to suppress the caricature.

There is too much facile misrepresentation, too ready a disposition on either side to accept caricatures as portraits and charges as facts.

And thus, instead of unmeaning caricatures, he presents portraits which cannot be mistaken, however unfavourable ideas they may convey of the originals.

Garibaldi is preeminently a man of sense, and he would never have thought of moving against Francis II., if Francis Joseph had been at liberty to assist that scandalous caricature of kings.

Verily, Oliver possessed positive genius for disguises, and troubled as she was Kitty could not restrain a smile as she recognized in the rubicund countenance and somewhat portly form of the gentleman bowing before her an admirable caricature of no less a person than her respected uncle, Cornelius Lansing, an antiquated Albany beau.

About the same time, Thomas Shadwell, who is represented in the satire as likewise an Irishman, brought Sir Robert on the stage in his "Sullen Lovers," in the character of Sir Positive At-all, a caricature replete with absurd self-conceit and impudent dogmatism.

Nothing really can describe that ghastly caricature, that parody, masquerading there in the firelight as Défago.

THE TURKEY He does better than execute caricatures!

[Here follow rough caricatures of Charles and his sister, and] "I can't draw no better.

Mr. Winsor observes that the back line of the creature's body forms a profile caricature of Gerry's face, with the nose at Middleton.]

25 Verbs to Use for the Word  caricatures