caricatures

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Caricatures are a shorthand for the physical traits that make stars distinctive: Angela Lansbury’s immense Tweety Bird eyes, for example, or Bernadette Peters’s Cupid’s bow mouth.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2021

Caricatures of Darwin as a monkey appeared almost as soon as the Descent of Man was published.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Caricatures filled prints and illustrated books, poetry took wild turns, and comic fiction flourished.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2018

Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Caricatures are not forbidden by the Catholic church.

From The Guardian • Jun. 30, 2015

Caricatures of the time wrongly place the duel on the high ground near the windmill.

From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland