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How to use the word caricatures in a Sentence?

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And, then, the old man preached about the daily indignities of the old south— insulting stereotypes and caricatures that portrayed us as buffoons, butlers, and beasts; lies about our morality and worth, some told by preachers who said we had no souls, that we wore the Curse of Ham; backbreaking toil, often forced by law, the fruit of our labor on another man’s plate; poverty that warped, crippled, and everywhere premature death; our voices silenced by poll taxes and literacy tests; schooling in raggedy shacks with tattered books because education would spoil us for work in the fields; cuffed, chained, and caged, for crimes both real and imagined; our soldiers killed in their uniforms, their medals stripped; our businesses, churches, schools, and homes burned to the ground when we progressed too much; our women and children raped; everywhere the barbarism of color discrimination followed us, enveloped us, and when all else failed, there were sadistic cowards with ropes and pyres to kill us, kill our bodies, to try and end us. But, we did not end.

– David Pilgrim

added by anonymous
3 years ago

MARK RUFFALO, DANNY DEVITO AMONG STARS PRESSING HOLLYWOOD TO CAST MORE ACTORS WITH DISABILITIES Perhaps the most alarming aspect of the UCLA report is its analysis of 11 major and mid-major studios. The numbers revealed that91 percentof C-level( CEO, CMO, etc.) positions are held by white people and 82 percentaremen. In senior executive positions, white people hold93 percentpercent of the jobs and 80 percentare held by men. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP While we are slowly seeing more representation of diverse groups onscreen, the lack of diversity behind the camera is still ever-present, we feel that absence most when directors, producers and writers try to tell stories that are not their own, which results in inauthentic storylines, unflattering angles and caricatures of marginalized groups.

– Myasia Burns

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

When someone meets with Kim, they often come back sort of in awe -- realizing that he is not the crazy guy in the basement -- and with the conclusion that the US can deal with him, but due to the fact that they often go into the meeting with a misconception of Kim based on caricatures from outside intelligence community, the perceptions often shifts from one extreme to another.

– Secretary Pompeo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I shot animals, but I am also telling a story about human beings, i wanted to create caricatures.

– Ronan Yver

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Muslim masses are protesting over the blasphemous caricatures, but not the Muslim rulers and Muslim armies. They all should raise their voices over this act.

– Munawar Hasan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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