Example Sentences

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But there is more to her stories than cold disquisitions or horrific self-caricature.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2020

It has, however, long since become a byword for academic self-caricature, where students protest, among many microaggressions, the food service’s insensitive cultural appropriation of banh mi sandwiches, sushi and General Tso’s chicken.

From Washington Post • Jun. 19, 2019

According to Jonathan Yardley's Misfit, Exley didn't become rich, just somewhat famous, though this was enough to turn his alienation into an act, a tiresome self-caricature.

From Slate • Aug. 10, 2015

That's not my description – it is Rich Ricci's own self-caricature.

From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2013

It is a piece of self-caricature, a series of echoes from all the earlier plays, an exaggeration of manner to the pitch of mannerism.

From When We Dead Awaken by Archer, William