Some words are recognizable — apish, assay, baffle (listed, interestingly, as a noun only; modern usage favors the verb) — while others are more archaic.
The filmmakers have pulled off a stunning paradox: Caesar is much more human than an entirely digitized creation, and much more apish than an actual ape — faster, stronger, more exuberant in his knuckle-dragging, chin-thrusting, lunging glory.
In "Richard II," Shakespeare has the Duke of York complain to the dying John of Gaunt about "proud Italy, / Whose manners still our tardy apish nation / Limps after in base imitation," surely a violation of Galateo's rule against lecturing people to death.
Greater drollery is conveyed by the apish look of the ram-headed god Amon excavated at Djabal Barkal.
Presumably commissioned to be an iconic representation of the ruler as a great warrior and an enlightened scholar, the official portrait gives the powerful sitter the face of an apish buffoon.
All of "Khmeropédies III" is copied from life — and several scenes are played in silence, or with the performers' apish grunts and whoops.
There is, however, a shady back door to his house, out of which the apish, squat figure of Hyde emerges, to act out violent assaults with monstrous malice.
References to "the yellow man", "a big white bulk … but with the needless emphasis of a black face", "the fashionable negro … showing his apish teeth" – even the intrinsic evil of a "Turkey carpet" – leave me feeling that the padre's much-touted broad-mindedness boils down all too often to mere mistrust of any skin-shade other than white.
Such instances lead you to question how much of the orang-utan's make-up is a clumsy, unrestrained form of humanity and how much is something else, something more distinctly apish.
Stephen Jay Gould wrote in 1980, "Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human?" Philosopher David Hume believed that moral sentiments come from "a tender sympathy with others".
Lib recalled cartoons in the popular press depicting them as apish pygmies.
