Sentence examples for exaggerating characters from inspiring English sources

Often Ms. Brownstein, wide-eyed and sincere, gets the best of Mr. Armisen, who's been exaggerating characters for so long on "Saturday Night Live" that it's tough for him to capture the understatement of these caricatures.

David Hinkley of the New York Daily News rated it four stars out of five, stating it is "a little cartoonish in the same way Seagal or Arnold Schwarzenegger action movies were cartoonish, exaggerating characters and action.

Her method of creating suspense in Godchild included adding "lots" of black screentone, "exaggerating" the characters' expressions, having an elaborate setting, and opening the chapter with an everyday scene to contrast with the "scary scenes".

This can be developed by exaggerating your character's feelings and beliefs.

The danger with self-exaggerating characters is exaggerated writing, but O'Neill knows how to sign rather than autograph.

Though Mr. Hanson turns in a suitably suave, measured performance as the middle-aged lawyer hoping to reclaim his youth, many of the other cast members exaggerate their characters' defining traits to the bursting point.

The adaptation comically exaggerates the characters of Mrs. Bennet, Miss Bingley and Mr. Collins, even showing Mrs. Bennet on the verge of hysteria in many of the early scenes.

So one should read the Book of Esther with a bit of light-heartedness, like reading a child-like fairy tale, understanding that all the roles are exaggerated, stereotyped characters intended to convey a folk message handed on from generation to generation.

And it is Wilson's purpose to reflect on the role of these faculties in ordinary life by exaggerating them in characters who then depend on them to make their way.

He flattens his minor characters, exaggerating their flaws and playing them for laughs.

Still, he also knew how to exaggerate a character's behavior in order to turn the heat up on a scene; after all, his father, James O'Neill, was one of the more popular melodramatic actors of his day.