| 单词 | buffoonery |
| 例句 | For better or worse, this is the brand: a combination of inchoate fury and utter buffoonery, feeding on one another as they become more angry, and more preposterous, and finally, more dangerous. Perspective | Trumpist masculinity reaches its high water mark 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Coming Out by Christmas Card Holiday cards that really catch my eye, either for their brilliance or buffoonery, tend to be trying too hard. Motherlode Blog: Coming Out by Christmas Card 2012-11-18T13:30:32Z Playing the bosses in masks is a neat idea, but the agitprop buffoonery and lack of characterisation doesn't help either the drama or the argument. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 2010-06-24T20:30:00Z Led by Tory Dobrin, the troupe’s artistic director, the company specializes in twists on the classics, instilled with equal measures of buffoonery and technical aptitude. Dance Review: Part Goofy, Part Glorious, All Man 2010-12-19T23:12:41Z What keeps men and women at war is male laziness, stupidity, buffoonery, disorganization, bad taste and fantasy baseball. | 'Perfect Couples': Tribes Meet: The Female and Male 2011-01-20T00:32:24Z Her fumbling towards success became portrayed less as Michael Scott-style buffoonery and more as the product of an admirably cheerful vision of the world. A warm welcome for Parks and Recreation on BBC4 2012-11-22T11:18:16Z Instead: a burly figure with a lurching gait, some casual buffoonery, unexpected violent flare-ups, a voice more often surprised than snarling. Richard III; The Doctor's Dilemma; The Fire Garden – reviews 2012-07-28T23:06:10Z Spike Lee has been after Perry for years now, calling his work "coonery buffoonery" and claiming that his characters invoke racial stereotypes to get laughs. Tyler Perry vs. Spike Lee: Let's bring the Jews into this! 2011-04-20T20:06:00Z It took a few scenes, at least at a recent performance, to rev up the Borscht Belt buffoonery and repartee that should get the comic pistons firing quicker. Village Theatre's 'Producers' is full of pizazz 2012-05-16T22:01:11Z You can’t effectively say that Donald Trump is vulgar, sensational, and buffoonish when it’s exactly vulgar sensationalism and buffoonery that his audience is buying. The Plot Against America: Donald Trump’s Rhetoric 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Yes, there is a gloopy spiritualism that threatens to overwhelm the film towards the climax, but it remains one of the best vehicles for Carrey’s buffoonery. Jim Carrey's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The rapper adamantly promises "no buffoonery" on his show. Rapper T.I. turns novelist with "Power & Beauty" 2011-10-19T23:04:07Z Much of the story involves the ripples of outrage, confusion and buffoonery that the billboards inspire and that soon envelop almost everyone Mildred knows. Review: On Violence and the Pain of Others in ‘Three Billboards’ 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z All he cares about is blind admiration, which is all the more grating when this concerns acts of complete buffoonery on his part. Donald Trump, the compulsive misogynist 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Surplus buffoonery and a new ending add nothing to the original, leaving us with a movie that obsesses over death while showing all too few signs of life. ‘Blithe Spirit’ Review: Dead, but Not Loving It 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Mr Franco mugs shamelessly to make sure we understand that he's being funny, which he's not, and the script as a whole turns a satirical - or at least farcical - premise into sour buffoonery. What is The Interview really like? 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Jimmy initially says that such buffoonery is beneath him, but he spills right on cue and Mike ends up swiping the detective’s pad of paper. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: I Broke My Boy 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The “edgy host”, the flubbed pre-written banter and the drunken buffoonery of usually controlled movie stars turned the Golden Globes from a little-seen Oscar precursor to a cultural attraction in its own right. Golden Globes: thank you, famous people, for embarrassment, insincerity … and Mel 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Goldberg was the first woman to solo-host the awards in 1994, and her mixture of buffoonery, costume changes and self-deprecating humour got her invited back three more times. The many lives of James Franco 2011-02-20T21:29:01Z The buffoonery and boorishness of masculinity was a recurring theme. Franz West: generous sculptural jester 2012-07-26T16:05:02Z Will Ferrell is doing a variation on his tried-and-true film persona: the overly earnest guy who's totally confident and oblivious to his buffoonery. 'The Other Guys': Ferrell and Wahlberg's shot at buddy-cop genre works 2010-08-05T18:13:00Z Instead of buffoonery, he trades in a kind of dry sarcasm, although his humour seems ultimately good-natured rather than nasty. This week's new comedy 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Holstein designs Carrey's role to capitalize upon what we know best about him, especially his sanguine smiles and rubberized buffoonery. Smart Watch: “The Deuce” returns with more strut in its street tales 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Ebert applies a freewheeling buffoonery to Mister and, later, an opposite dimension of cruel menace to his other role, a policeman who under stress will undergo a dramatic conversion. Review | ‘Pass Over’ opens — the first Broadway play in what feels like forever. And it’s funny and poignant. 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z All this confounding of expectations is admirable, but that doesn’t necessarily equal enjoyable; in some authors’ hands, subversion can be buffoonery, and admirable can be didactic and tedious. Nordic Noir, in the Horn of Africa 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Spike Lee has dismissed Perry’s films as humiliating, racially stereotyping “coonery and buffoonery”. Tyler Perry: the creator of a racial stereotype or the greatest indie film-maker of all time? 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Lowthorpe spends a wearying amount of time on the comedy of male buffoonery. ‘Misbehaviour’ Review: Pretty Women, Some Pretty Angry 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z His tragic lack of awareness is laughable, and the audience is supposed to revel in his buffoonery. Watch "Succession" to understand why media companies reward the worst people 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z I was struck by the contrast between the sublimity of his music and the vulgar buffoonery of his letters. How we made: Peter Shaffer and Felicity Kendal on Amadeus 2013-01-14T18:59:01Z McKellen’s willingness to allow his natural authority to lurch into buffoonery, so irritating when deployed in a Twitpic with Patrick Stewart, is particularly well-used here — he’s constantly being brought low for his egotism. Ian McKellen’s “Vicious” is the most realistic gay comedy we’ve seen in a long time 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z His show turned TV’s own tools and language against it to spotlight buffoonery, bad faith, hot air, and hypocrisy. Jon Stewart, the Fake Newsman Who Made a Real Difference 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Beneath all the buffoonery, the novel moonlights as a chronicle of women fed up with the imperious but weak and self-absorbed men all around them. Just Another Nutty June Weekend in the Rockaways 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z I would take them to task legally if I felt they were worth my time or that anyone with a brain in their head could actually fall for such irresponsible buffoonery. Jim Carrey hit as eBay users sell memorabilia for gun money 2013-04-02T12:07:48Z Behind the buffoonery, Williams is always making a serious point, as the Guardian's Adrian Searle pointed out when selecting him as one of Britain's most promising artists in 2004. Bedwyr Williams: why I'm taking a space observatory to Venice 2013-04-14T17:00:01Z But Paul seems to probe and question and flaunt and do a lot more buffoonery to get at Amanda. Paul Gross Joins Kim Cattrall in ?Private Lives? 2011-11-04T03:30:21Z Much of the buffoonery in “The Campaign” involves the courting of religious believers by Democrat and Republican alike. ‘The Campaign,’ a Bipartisan Film Comedy 2012-05-30T22:33:06Z When I suggested that their buffoonery might feel particularly timely in the Trump era, she strenuously disagreed. The Charming, Disgusting Paintings of Tala Madani 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Once again Mr. Ives freely indulges in contemporary allusion, adding a vivifying seasoning of freshness to a farcical plot that combines elements of classic French comedy with more robust Italianate buffoonery. Critic?s Notebook: Madoff, Macbeth and Other Crooks, Onstage in Washington 2011-09-28T22:45:26Z Beauty, youth, heightened vivacity or even buffoonery overwhelm us, and the figures do indeed seem alive. Review | The first major Hans Holbein exhibition in the U.S. shows us the sobering reality of raw power 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Actually, a lot of people were bothered by Perry – Lee dismissed him as “coonery buffoonery” – but the assumption, particularly outside the African-American community, was that the battles had all been won. Black films matter – how African American cinema fought back against Hollywood 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z For any network comedy to be exploring this is refreshing, let alone a comedy powered by phrasing, sight gags and general buffoonery. The good cops of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" are a scathing critique of destructive policing 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z He did so with quite unbelievable fluency, improvising most of the time, digressing all of the time, extravagantly pouring out first-class buffoonery and wit. Cambridge Footlights celebrate 100 years of comedy: from the archive, 3 June 1983 2013-06-03T06:00:00Z That bracing moment allows us to re-enter the world beyond the theater, where the stakes are high for political buffoonery, which suddenly seems less amusing than disgusting. Review: In ‘The Government Inspector,’ Dumb and Dumber, Deliciously 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z These artier elements are meant to be leavened by the antics of Stephano and Trinculo, though out-and-out buffoonery is not one of “The Tempest’s” strong suits. Ethan McSweeny’s “Tempest” casts a bright, uplifting spell 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z I don’t have to endure any such buffoonery anymore. Shirley Manson has outlived the haters: “The business got very fat and lazy and was full of people who didn’t even care about music” 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Rather than use this melancholy to deepen the narrative, the filmmakers soon yank us back to the buffoonery. Review: ‘What We Did on Our Holiday’ Transfers Sitcom Formula to the Big Screen 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Atkinson’s buffoonery is sly and subtle, centered on his endlessly elastic face, especially his wide brown eyes and elevator brows that do comedic jigs. | 'Johnny English Reborn': ?Johnny English Reborn? Stars Rowan Atkinson - Review 2011-10-20T20:52:35Z Strangely enough, Four Lions reminded me of Dad's Army, with its blend of buffoonery and cantankerousness, petty power struggles and blurring of the lines between home and combat life. Four Lions | Review 2010-03-25T19:45:00Z Sontag wanted a serious film, but I don’t see how anyone could miss, under all the buffoonery and juvenile joking, a furious sense of outrage. The Half-Century Anniversary of 'Dr. Strangelove' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z "Party Down South" returns for a second season of booze-fueled buffoonery. TV This Week June 1 -7: 'Enough Said' on HBO 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z “Anchorman” mocks the misogynistic buffoonery of an insecure newscaster desperate to preserve his privileged status. Adam McKay went from Ron Burgundy to Dick Cheney, and it actually makes perfect sense 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Your tolerance for Annie the character — an obnoxious American troll — will depend on your tolerance for Hardy herself; I enjoyed her buffoonery and hated her character’s selfish politics. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z “While his translation does full justice to the adventure, lyricism and buffoonery of ‘The Journey to the West,’ ” he added, “it is completely sensitive to the spiritual content of the text as well.” Anthony C. Yu, Translator of the Saga of a Chinese Pilgrimage, Dies at 76 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z To some people, Borisimus might appear to be a narcissistic megalomaniac who tries to disguise his ambition and opportunism in bumbling buffoonery. The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson, edited by Harry Mount – review 2013-06-02T17:00:01Z My initial reaction to the buffoonery, by the time I was old enough to know what it was, was often disgust, and I can remember slinking away from the table as quickly as I could. I f*cked a Republican on Thanksgiving 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Riding into the movie on a horse after another of his victories, a severed enemy head stashed in a sack, Fabious enters and remains triumphant through battles, flat gags and throwaway buffoonery. | 'Your Highness': They Huffed and Puffed and Waited to Exhale 2011-04-07T22:55:33Z A few years ago, Colbert would have sneakily dismantled O’Reilly and left him for scraps, by sidling up to him with his buffoonery. The old “Stephen Colbert” is gone for good: “The Late Show” crosses over firmly as host claims his new ground 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Laugh at buffoonery, yes, and cry over cruelty as well. The uneasy farce of "Jojo Rabbit": Is there ever a good time for "wacky Nazi" satire? 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The Newark episode includes a brief recapitulation of his own story of falling into drug addiction during his tenure on “The Wire,” which he refers to as “spending all my money on buffoonery.” Review: In Viceland’s ‘Black Market,’ Michael K. Williams Delves Into Illicit Sales 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z The Iowa senator named the Pelosi Building the winner of her “Squeal Award,” a designation she doles out every month to an example of the government’s bungling buffoonery. Senator demands Pelosi building in San Fran be shut down after it turns into open-air drug market 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z The capsule was not lost through cartoonish buffoonery, but through an almost cinematic series of events. Australians Scour Desert for Dangerous Radioactive Capsule Smaller Than a Penny 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z He successfully concealed plans to end Obamacare, for instance, with his loud racism and relentless Twitter buffoonery. DeSantis' White House plans have a big problem: The rest of the country doesn't look like Florida 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z To his great discredit, he enshrouded this transition in bigotry, buffoonery and corruption. The fever is breaking 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z “I made sure I sat in on the auditions, so when those actors came in and saw me, they knew they were safe and wouldn’t be asked to do any buffoonery,” Yashere says. Commentary: L.A.-based British creatives need a new queen -- Gina Yashere deserves the throne 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z “Nothing that he writes seems real to me,” Usher sings, “just simple-minded hack buffoonery.” Review | ‘A Strange Loop’ is Broadway’s best new musical 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Supreme Court — Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee has resorted to nonstop buffoonery while playing the culture war card. Marsha Blackburn mistook the Constitution for the Declaration of Independence 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Here is a grim round-up of some of their quite unbelievable--and frequently bigoted--buffoonery: A hearing overtaken by cranks: a dispiriting round-up of Republican criticisms of KBJ 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z “Those early images of Blacks in film, a lot of them were buffoonery,” says Jenkins over a cup of coffee in his Inglewood studio. Art godfather Ulysses Jenkins finally gets his close-up with a Hammer show of his video art 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Fisher took to Twitter on Monday to hit back at the director's latest comments, describing them as "lies and buffoonery". Joss Whedon: Buffy and Justice League director denies misconduct claims 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z McAfee, whose frat-house buffoonery belies the gravitas he had to possess to become an all-pro punter before creating a formidable media empire in retirement, doesn’t want the smoke he claims he wants from his detractors. Perspective | Bradley Beal’s greatest act of leadership came from a syringe 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Not for the first time, we are reminded that American democracy was saved by Team Trump’s buffoonery. Opinion | Trump’s PowerPoint coup plotters were crackpots. We may not be so lucky next time. 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z One example: During the scathing song “Tyler Perry Writes Real Life,” the protagonist refers to Perry’s productions as “simple-minded hack buffoonery.” The musical ‘A Strange Loop’ is boundary-pushing — even for Woolly Mammoth 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Democrat Eric Adams and Republican Curtis Sliwa also sparred over personal and character issues, with Adams lambasting Sliwa for having admitted in the past to making up crimes and for “buffoonery.” Eric Adams, Curtis Sliwa spar in 1st NYC mayoral debate 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z He did note the art and tradition of lampooning administrators — “sports administration in India is a very much-maligned thing” — figures almost mythical for reputed buffoonery. With 1.3 billion people and 33 medals ever, India remains an Olympic mystery 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the mainstream media seems to be treating some groups as worthy of humanizing contextualization, while implying that the others are motivated by rank buffoonery. What the media gets wrong about red-state vaccine hesitancy 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z And Trump’s buffoonery does not disprove the point. Opinion | Trumpism is American fascism 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z While Hitler comes across as pure evil, Mussolini is often indicted on the lesser charge of buffoonery. Review | World War II’s less-famous fascist 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z “I’m speaking to New Yorkers. I’m not speaking to buffoonery,” he said. Eric Adams, Curtis Sliwa spar in 1st NYC mayoral debate 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Two, Trump dearly needed an attorney with the stature of a James Baker, the former secretary of state who represented George W. Bush in 2000, rather than the buffoonery of Rudy Giuliani. Recent Missouri editorials 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Otherwise, the content is typical sitcom fare: buffoonery and learning from disastrous mistakes. What to watch with your kids: ‘The Croods: A New Age,’ ‘Black Beauty’ and more 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z They chose decency, humility and grace over bluster, lies and buffoonery. Column: Good riddance, President Trump 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z “My job is to tell accurate history about the United States Navy. Much of it is glorious. But there’s also tragedy, defeats, buffoonery. It’s all there.” Navy announces plans for new flagship museum in Washington 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z “I don’t think the ads have been particularly effective because it has been so over the top on both sides,” Flanagan said, adding that Rose will get a boost from Trump’s recent “buffoonery.” Candidates in NYC’s only swing district trade shots at mayor 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Trump lacked compassion, made science up as he went along and at times engaged in outright buffoonery. The U.S. presidential election: 2020 is not 2016 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Can we put aside for the moment Trump's corruption, ignorance, incompetence, arrogance, racism, stupidity, criminality, greed and buffoonery, and just deal with the fact that he's a pig? Let's remember that along with everything else, Donald Trump's a total pig 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z “Today, it’s the same buffoonery, except it is killing people.” Trump’s “I alone can fix it” campaign collides with a changed public mood 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z I have no earthly idea how he’s ever going to be able to recruit again, after his 3-4 days of absolute buffoonery. In college football, it's power to the player amid calls for social justice 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z A tragic comedy of lawlessness mixed with buffoonery nears its epilogue. Midwesterners were already doubting Trump. Covid could seal his political fate 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Milano continues to massage her hypocritical buffoonery by explaining that while Ms. Reade’s accusations concern her deeply, Mr. Biden is someone “who I can’t picture doing any of the things of which he’s accused.” Joe Biden exposes the fraud of the #MeToo movement 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z She insisted forcing everyone to stay home amounts to “buffoonery,” particularly as poor people in Brazil often live in close quarters under the same roof. Brazilians start defying isolation, egged on by Bolsonaro 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z His buffoonery is effortless because it reflects the true self. Trump is a brilliant performance artist: We can't defeat him without understanding that 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z “There was a lot of buffoonery,” elaborates one departed employee. Bird’s wildly short ride 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Those "debates" are political theater, sophistry bordering on and often crossing over into outright buffoonery. I spent MLK Day reading Stephen Miller's racist emails. Here's why 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Politics as a spectacle saturates the senses with noise, cheap melodrama, lies and buffoonery. Impeachment and the politics of organized forgetting: This attack on Trump isn't nearly enough 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Boris Johnson, the third Tory premier in as many years, has a slight physical resemblance to Trump, comparable regard for women, and a governing style that combines buffoonery and demagoguery. From Little Englanders to Brexiteers 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z “It’s no surprise that @realDonaldTrump brought his insulting, ignorant buffoonery to Chicago,” the mayor tweeted. Trump calls Chicago 'embarrassing to nation' during first visit as president 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a Democrat, responded to Trump on Twitter, saying it was no surprise that Trump “brought his insulting, ignorant buffoonery to Chicago.” Trump rips Chicago as more dangerous than Afghanistan 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z But, for all the buffoonery of “Servant of the People,” it contained a barely hidden civic manifesto. How Trump’s Emissaries Put Pressure on Ukraine’s New President 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The bilateral buffoonery of Trump and Boris Johnson suggests that things are going to get much worse before there is much chance they will get better. Yes, capitalism is broken. To recover, liberals must eat humble pie 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Even after all the buffoonery and missed practices, he came to a new team and made an impact last week even though he had just started learning the Patriots’ playbook. Perspective | The NFL is complicit in Antonio Brown’s self-sabotage 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z We might be on the cusp of fixing what’s wrong with food, farming and perhaps the planet thanks to his buffoonery. Trump may have already lost Iowa to the 2020 Democratic candidates – over corn | Art Cullen 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z What saves the book from tabloid buffoonery is Zada’s skeptical eye and conversational style. Review | A hopeful skeptic joins the search for the sasquatch 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z He also warned onlookers not to “fall for his buffoonery”. Boris Johnson's first day in office met with protests in London 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z “The Saudis appreciated his buffoonery, they understand his kind of humor,” said one of the officials. Genius or joker? British PM favorite Johnson set to face the world 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z The buffoonery even extended to the ill-fitting white-tie suit he donned for the state banquet, which made him look like a waiter in a silent comedy. Europe and America Seventy-Five Years After D Day 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Drake’s front-row buffoonery seems way more understandable once you consider that he’s essentially emoting for two people – himself and Leonard – at the same time. Drake's Toronto superfandom: annoying, ludicrous and completely understandable 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z They’ve brought nuance and subtlety to losing – and, at times, pratfalls and buffoonery. Bad with a purpose: Are the ‘step-back’ Mariners among the worst teams in franchise history? 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Calling men out for their romantic buffoonery doesn’t automatically make one terribly enlightened about those they’re chasing. Review: Evaluating Oscar winner ‘Get Out Your Handkerchiefs’ 40 years later 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z At the University of the District of Columbia last week, a panel of experts looked beneath the shoe-polished skin and minstrel buffoonery to reveal a mix of ignorance and racism. Perspective | Figuring out what’s behind the use of blackface could depend on who you ask 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z A letter to the editor in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 1946 called a blackface performance “grotesque” and said it attacked “by ridicule and cheap buffoonery the self-respect of every American Negro.” AP Explains: Racist history of blackface began in the 1830s 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Faced with such cartoonish buffoonery, the response from the Trump White House was implausibly vacuous. Like Trump's favorite steaks, Roger Stone is well and truly done | Richard Wolffe 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z What if we could weaponize Trump’s slapstick buffoonery? Opinion | Trump is a slapstick genius for the comically disastrous way he runs the country 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Sadly, Mr. Acosta’s buffoonery was merely a blatant example of the sad, slanted coverage found in most of the mainstream media over the past several weeks. Existing border barriers work — and we need more of them 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z “Hypocrisy, lying, and buffoonery in the public sphere should just be called out.” ‘Family Guy’ producers taking LGBT jokes off the table: ‘The show has to shift and evolve’ 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Vereen, who at the time was one of the nation’s top black actors, faced an immediate backlash from African-American fans for what they saw as buffoonery. AP Explains: Racist history of blackface began in the 1830s 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The day of ceremony was a welcome respite from the mean-spirited buffoonery found at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Opinion | Speaker Pelosi will show Trump he’s not the only one with power in Washington 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z After two years of President Trump’s grandiose bluster, bluffing and buffoonery, Americans elected candidates who ran as optimistic, progressive problem-solvers focused on results central to families: health care, work, education and taxes. Opinion | To beat Trump, Democrats must counter his lies with realistic solutions 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z They would laugh at my buffoonery...but they got it. Opinion | I Got Rejected 101 Times 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Yet Barkley, for all his buffoonery, provided the most astute observation following two terrible approach shots into the par-4 ninth hole. Untitled / John Strege / November 23, 2018 4:32 PM - Golf Digest 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Thank heavens for Google translate, which prevented more buffoonery like that and became my best friend. World Cup 2018: Guardian writers pick their highs and lows 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Their latest film, “Damsel,” is their most ambitious yet, a satiric deconstruction of both the Western genre and masculine buffoonery. Indie Focus: Finding new paths in 'Damsel,' 'Half the Picture' and 'Eating Animals' 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Years later, I realized that the apotheosis of the baby boom buffoonery was the so-called “Renaissance Weekends,” an invention of boomers, by boomers, for boomers. Don't blame yourselves millennials (like you would), boomers created Donald Trump 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Don’t be distracted by Trump’s showmanship and buffoonery. Opinion | His Majesty Czar Donald I claims imperium 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Democracy is indeed under threat – from a tyranny of buffoonery. Opinion | The Banana States of America 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z He continued to publish nonfiction books well into his 80s, with critics noting that he often skewered the absurdities of the left but never the buffoonery of the right. Tom Wolfe, apostle of ‘New Journalism’ who captured extravagance of his times, dies at 88 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z The video insists the duo’s “buffoonery” helped “awaken a sleeping giant’’ in the Timbers and their supporters. Mocking the Sounders in a video? Nothing unusual in rivalry with Timbers that’s seen bizarre antics by both sides 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z Once that happens, presumably, Trump will be revealed as a master of 12-dimensional chess who successfully distracted smirking elites with his buffoonery while he was quietly saving the world. The conspiracy theory that says Trump is a genius 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z It highlights the unabashed buffoonery of a president who subsists on fast food, is still obsessed with his electoral win and can't seem to hold one thought for more than 30 seconds without interrupting himself. Stephen Colbert's 'Our Cartoon President' hits the mark sporadically, but when it does, it hits hard 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z It would be easy to laugh them off as Trump’s usual buffoonery, but he should be held to a presidential standard. It's not okay how clueless Donald Trump is about climate change | Dana Nuccitelli 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z In fact, the more that Trump antagonises these folks the better, because the sooner it will end his reign of buffoonery. F.B.I. Director Wants to Move Forward, but the President Is Making His Job Harder 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z By joining Stephen K. Bannon’s buffoonery on Moore’s behalf, the 45th president planted an exclamation point punctuating a year of hitherto unplumbed presidential depths. Opinion | Trump’s Moore endorsement sunk the presidency to unplumbed depths 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Virginia has been trending blue for a while, and Christie's buffoonery and incompetence probably doomed any Republican in NJ this time around. With Virginia, Voters Give Democrats First Big Wins of the Trump Era 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z But Cain met the same fate Monday afternoon; his buffoonery, self-aggrandizement and foul mouth caused him to be sacked after just 10 days on the job. Opinion | The Mooch takes a fall of biblical proportions 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z It is now incumbent upon the electorate to responsibly remake the composition of the House and Senate, and to eventually elect a chief executive capable of more than gross buffoonery. Health-care reform: civilized medicine 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z By putting Charles on what most would consider the right side of the question, and suggesting that the voice of the people is not always a principled one, Bartlett protects his hero from buffoonery. Mike Bartlett's 'King Charles III' puts Britain's royal family in a smart, dark Shakespearean frame 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z In any kind of standoff with a rogue nuclear power, it’s helpful to avoid this kind of buffoonery. Donald Trump's North Korea 'armada' gaffe was dangerous buffoonery | Richard Wolffe 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z His barrister Nick Cartmell said: "It was an act of complete buffoonery. He is a big man sitting in a car and he played up to it." Man who drove car while standing told to 'grow up' - BBC News 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z His buffoonery and boorishness were and are good for advertising revenues. Donald Trump, pseudo-president: Media embraces his latest “pivot” like the proverbial drunks under a streetlight 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z “There is a very narrow edge between dangerous buffoonery and freedom of expression.” Church, state seeing eye to eye in Putin's Orthodox Russia 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z We laugh at big noses or flat noses, at vulgarity and buffoonery, at politics antithetical to our own. Mental Illness Is Not a Horror Show 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z In other African countries, many declared Clinton to be the debate winner, unimpressed by Trump’s “buffoonery,” and his “childish anger and disruption.” What people around the world thought of the first U.S. presidential debate 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The good news is that for millions of us Trump's buffoonery is obvious. Donald Trump, Wavering on Immigration, Finds Anger in All Corners 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z “What I once regarded as harmless buffoonery is in fact dangerously symptomatic,” the left-leaning Pulitzer winner says of Trump today. ‘Doonesbury’ cartoonist Garry Trudeau: ‘If Trump wins, I’ll miss civilization as we know it.’ 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z In the case of “One Man, Two Guvnors,” English playwright Richard Bean has cleverly reworked Carlo Goldoni’s 18th-century Italian farce “The Servant of Two Masters” into a shrewdly satirical chunk of buffoonery set in 1963. ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ equals delightful music, slapstick fun 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Mr Johnson was seen as good copy, always ready with an amusing quip or a fresh piece of buffoonery, but any hopes of climbing higher up the political ladder seemed to be over. Boris Johnson: His rise, fall, rise, fall and rise - BBC News 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Along with his political appeal and ability to deliver rousing speeches, Johnson has long radiated a certain buffoonery. Meet Boris Johnson, the man who could be Britain's next prime minister 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z “All this buffoonery serves one goal: to keep Ukraine in the centre of attention with its western partners at any cost,” Kosachyov said. Russia derides Ukraine's hiring of ex-Nato chief 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z What I once regarded as harmless buffoonery is in fact dangerously symptomatic. ‘Doonesbury’ cartoonist Garry Trudeau: ‘If Trump wins, I’ll miss civilization as we know it.’ 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Yet Andrus, a registered Republican from Delaware, Ohio, sees "buffoonery" in the presumptive Republican nominee and says "I am not on the Trump train." In swing state suburbs, white women are skeptical of Trump 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The king of political comedy, London’s conservative former mayor with a trademark shock of straw-colored hair is known for blending his blind ambition with buffoonery. Meet the Donald Trumps of Europe 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z From the beginning of his run, Trump has been protected by his buffoonery – it’s hidden him from genuine media scrutiny and prompted many to simply shrug him off. Donald Trump's kryptonite: millions of active – and furious – Latino voters | Sabrina Vourvoulias 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Mortensen said, “All of these things Camus is saying about politicians, buffoonery—it’s like this respect for Trump. He’s winning, he’s the strongest, so that makes it good.” Viggo Mortensen as Camus 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The week was overflowing with right-wing assholery mixed with a generous dollop of buffoonery. 5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Carly Fiorina makes America’s collective skin crawl 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z At one point this sort of behaviour would have been glorified as rock’n’roll, its buffoonery sniggered at. Sasha: 'There were thousands of people in front of me and I was losing the plot' 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z For all of his buffoonery about “telling it like it is,” Donald Trump is the most politically correct and cowardly candidate in the presidential race. Who are these idiot Donald Trump supporters? Trump loves the poorly educated — and they love him right back 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z “This person who’s gone across the country and practiced buffoonery, we’re all saying ‘Oh my God,’” she said. What does Palm Beach really think of Donald Trump? He's 'vulgar,' but they still might vote for him 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z He is “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” rich — all gilded and buffoonery; the door to the diamond hot tub is always wide open, the books are always closed. Bloomberg’s Presidential Dreams, and Past Realities 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z But after Tuesday, when the former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, endorsed Trump, we wonder if we will ever climb our way out of this bottomless well of irrationality and buffoonery. Editorials from around New England 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z "You can have comedy without buffoonery," Rolle says in the film, which blends archival footage and old interviews with recent material and artistic re-enactments, with a young boy playing Lear. Norman Lear's life, work shines in opening Sundance film 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z One MP suggested that Trump’s actions were “buffoonery” and should be met “not with a ban, but with the great British response of ridicule.” U.K. Parliament Debates Whether to Ban Donald Trump 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Laugh all you want about Trump’s buffoonery, and scoff all you want about Cruz’s Goldwater-like extremism, but both of them are brutal and unpredictable on the attack. How a Sanders surge may help Hillary Clinton — if it doesn’t bring her down first 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z And while it was his on-the-court buffoonery that made him a star, his genuine basketball skills were never in question. Meadowlark Lemon dead at 83: Ex-Globetrotter opened up world of basketball 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z "It adds all the comedy and the edge of buffoonery without the dangerous stuff, so it's safe." Hollywood appears still wary of gay black actors' marketability 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Sternberg first saw Dietrich that September, in a musical, and was struck by her “cold disdain” for the buffoonery around her. Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl’s Divided World 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z While the drinking, shopping and general buffoonery are what typically bring people to the races, Tom Pharris of Reno said he brought his brother to see something else. Annual Outhouse Races are a Virginia City tradition 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Far from being an apocalyptic harbinger of the end-times, it’s possible that his buffoonery poses no lasting danger. The Outsider? 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The judge called their actions “beyond despicable,” but, referring to the ringleader, she said that the bureau had manufactured a terrorist out of a former Walmart employee whose “buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in its scope.” The Imam’s Curse 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z He described the reality TV star’s candidacy as “buffoonery” and promised to continue leading the anti-Trump charge “until he fades away.” Rand Paul: a humanitarian in Haiti, a pit bull in 2016 race 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z He described the reality TV star's candidacy as "buffoonery" and promised to continue leading the anti-Trump charge "until he fades away." Rand Paul: a humanitarian in Haiti, a pit bull in Republican presidential race 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z He described the reality star’s candidacy as “buffoonery” and promised to continue leading the anti-Trump charge “until he fades away.” Rand Paul: a humanitarian in Haiti, a pit bull in 2016 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z And it’s certainly possible that, this time, Trump really has gone too far, and criticizing a Fox News host is qualitatively different for Republican primary voters than racism, misogyny, and all-around buffoonery. Donald Trump at the cringe-worthy crossroads 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z When each candidate has been called on their buffoonery, they have only made more appealing as candidates who are out of step with the ruling media elite. When Canada looks at Donald Trump, all we can see is Rob Ford | Matthew Hays 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z All of which brings us to the broader point: for all the hand-wringing about Trump’s buffoonery, it’s a mistake to see him as some kind of ridiculous outlier in the Republicans’ massive presidential field. Huckabee reaches new low with ugly Holocaust rhetoric 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The loudest complaint from people going to NFL games is that the drunken buffoonery has become simply to much to handle. Redskins’ upgrades at FedEx Field don’t feel like upgrades 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z In 20 years in Loudoun, she said, “I have never seen the buffoonery that I have seen in the past three months.” Loudoun’s politics produce turmoil: ‘It’s got everybody’s head spinning’ 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z It’s less a contest for power hitters than a grueling endurance challenge for viewers to see how long they can withstand Chris Berman’s buffoonery. Will Mike Trout improve at 42? Why Bartolo Colon may be MLB's best athlete 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z A less violent and more comic portrayal of conscription was the inept buffoonery of the servicemen in Carry on Sergeant, a 1959 film that lampooned National Service. The last man to do National Service - BBC News 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z After all the buffoonery, the incompetence, the chicanery and the corruption, finally there's a real chacnce this clown may be tossed out of office. On Duty for the Chris Christie Hug Watch 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Though out-and-out buffoonery is not one of “The Tempest’s” strong suits, Craig and Quay, in concert with Duncan, take the jokes just far enough. - The Washington Post 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Seeing an intelligent, well-spoken black character, with no hint of subservience or buffoonery, was statement enough. On Bill Cosby, hard to keep the faith In the harsh light of 2014, their juvenile buffoonery looks embarrassing and lazy. Review: ‘Dumb and Dumber To’ lives up to its title 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Still, a Republican win in the Senate means an end to the hapless buffoonery, obstruction and corruption of Reid’s tenure at the helm of the nation’s most august legislative body. Why Obama Doesn't Care About Tuesday 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z "I'm not going to allow buffoonery," Douglas said. Narbonne's coach and quarterback have lively exchanges 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z But if his sale was punctuated by outbursts of buffoonery, Mr Rowley was no fool. The Victorian pig singing competition 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z When Homer wins and is met with support for others at the plant, Grimes becomes unhinged, and impersonating his nemesis' buffoonery, grabs onto high voltage wires, electrocuting himself to death. 'The Simpsons' jumped the shark in one of its best episodes 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z In the Newburgh case, the federal judge said the government “made them terrorists” and said the “buffoonery” of one of the defendants was “positively Shakespearean in scope.” In New York counterterrorism sting, a setback for federal law enforcement Even the gossip blog Gawker, usually concerned with Justin Bieber’s latest buffoonery, has taken note, publishing a piece earlier this week titled “It Is Time We Treat Police Brutality as a National Crisis.” It's Bad Cop, Worse Cop in 'Police Power: Police Abuses in New York City' The Rev. D. J. Criner, the pastor of St. Rest Baptist Church in Fresno, who has worked with the homeless for more than a decade, called the video “pure buffoonery for publicity.” G.O.P. Candidate for California Governor Spends Week Being Homeless 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z In keeping with this slow skid towards buffoonery, Rove wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal this morning attacking President Obama for attending fundraisers during moments of international crisis. Karl Rove’s ridiculous, hypocritical attack on Obama’s fundraising 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z American audiences automatically discount the buffoonery of “Veep” or the implausible scenarios of “Scandal.” An infatuation with ‘House of Cards’ The mix of buffoonery and greed that created the financial meltdown in 2008 dispelled the image of businesspeople as heroes. The Media Equation: Foreign Buyers Eyeing Forbes Magazine, a Chronicler of the World’s Wealthiest 2014-03-03T01:33:47Z As Baty told it, everything was nonstop buffoonery in the early years. Type Faster! My Month Inside A Writers' Colony Of 308,000 2013-12-02T12:06:00Z Anything would be better than the excruciating 60 seconds of grade-A buffoonery we had to endure before England's game against Brazil. Wayne Rooney has a great record but where did that explosive spark go? 2013-02-09T22:00:04Z It appears Boeing is in alignment with the global Corporate buffoonery so prevalent today. Is the Dreamliner a Financial Nightmare for Boeing? 2013-01-17T17:20:24Z And right now, the Jets are at the height of their buffoonery. A Case for the Bumbling New York Jets 2012-12-20T10:50:00Z She soon discovered that for years he had been taking drugs and that nothing but drugs had brought him to his present state of abject buffoonery. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Baxter affronted me with his buffoonery and I had to cross out his lines. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Gilbert's wit is so neat and so beautifully phrased that it would be utterly spoilt by buffoonery. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z The frequent change from seriousness to buffoonery, from the beautiful to the burlesque, has a similar origin in the tastes of our ancestors for the actualities of ordinary life, where these transitions are habitual. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Yet I know that the journal which indulged in this vapid and vulgar buffoonery is written for by scholars and men of ability. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z He is, that is to say, an artiste to his finger-tips, and no real artiste, even when he is a humorist, has any place for buffoonery. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z As to the “hysterical buffoonery,” I have yet to learn that there is anything hysterical in a jolly burst of Rabelaisian laughter. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z This way of dealing with the question may seem to many readers nothing better than downright buffoonery. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z His humour is unctuous, but never coarse; he bubbles over with fun, but never descends to buffoonery; great in old comedies, to the manner born, and, perhaps because of that, a little out of date. Miser Farebrother, Volume I (of 3) A Novel 2012-03-13T02:00:28.227Z Just do a Google search for the terms “Tayshaun Prince and buffoonery” for a taste. Off the Dribble: Pistons, Kuester Make Peace with Past 2012-03-06T19:48:58Z But the ideal must be rooted in the real, else the poet's life degenerates into buffoonery or vice. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z It would be easy to produce, I think, mockeries far more insulting, buffooneries far more bitter and malignant, lavished upon Paganism, Socinianism, Atheism, and many another ism, in the works of the most saintly divines. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z His attempts at playfulness always degenerated into buffoonery, and his habitual bearing towards women, in whatever relation they stood to him, was unmistakable evidence of his utter want of nicety of perception on this point. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z The Lord Mayor's Day of the old style of buffoonery is dead. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z Marred as a whole by buffoonery and excess, the play is still among the two or three best tragedies of the Restoration. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z This he held and flourished before my eyes, seeking like a child to terrify me with his antics, until Father Spaur, following in upon his heels, bade him desist from his buffoonery. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z The comedy in places is a trifle boisterous, but that was to be expected, and it does not descend to mere buffoonery. Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star 2012-01-20T03:00:15.013Z To believe "the servant of God" is God himself,—that is, the servant of himself,—and that God and his "image" are the same, is to descend within one step of buffoonery. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z A people accustomed to the buffoonery of the indigenous mimic dances required strong and broad effects. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Horse-play and buffoonery or racy comedy often contrasted incongruously with events of momentous importance. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z One officer with experience at the Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain said the Revolutionary Guards navy shows “a high probability for buffoonery.” U.S. Warns Top Iran Leader Not to Shut Strait of Hormuz 2012-01-13T03:16:56Z I'm a sensitive man, and if there's anything on earth I hate it's cheap and easy joking and punning on a name or a personal peculiarity which lays itself open obviously to stupid buffoonery. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z "But I cannot have any buffoonery here, you know," said Miss Senter. The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z What did they want with stupid buffooneries, rancid relics of antiquity, unseemly in this enlightened age? The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Arabic, Persian and Turkish literature feature a Sufi sage, known as Juha or Mullah Nasreddin, notable for buffoonery, wit and wisdom. Islam and comedy: Two mullahs went into a bar? 2011-11-23T20:32:57Z For humour, therefore, we naturally turn to buffoonery and burlesque, as a reaction against the strain and tension of life. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z At which they drew back awe-struck, yet fascinated by the grotesque buffoonery inseparable from the insane. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z As a critic, Gottsched insisted on German literature being subordinated to the laws of French classicism; he enunciated rules by which the playwright must be bound, and abolished bombast and buffoonery from the serious stage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Originality of humour then yielded to conventional buffoonery. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z In an instant the tune is changed, all their buffoonery vanishes, and loud and incessant screams proclaim their disaster. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z The charge of the Boston editor is a mere buffoonery. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z At different intervals during the time of dinner, there entered certain Indians, humpbacked, very deformed, and ugly, who played tricks of buffoonery; and others who, they said, were jesters. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z Clothed in his kilt and his tartan, he is grotesque and yet not grotesque, but whimsical, droll, a strange mixture of dignity and buffoonery. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z A scene of excellent buffoonery followed between these highly comical personages, both of them fitting on corslets, helmets, and huge long swords, with burlesque military ardour. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Gaddafi, in all his thuggishness and buffoonery, was an inheritor of this faded legacy, and aped its rhetoric to his last day. Gaddafi Now Dead, Has Third World Solidarity Died with Him? 2011-10-27T04:36:00Z It had been in order to avoid asking herself that question, among others, that she had amused herself with Kitty Windus and welcomed the buffooneries of Mr. Mackie. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z It consists partly of a defence of its nominal subject, partly of satirical polemics on the Protestant side, and is filled almost equally with erudition and with the buffoonery and fatrasie of the time. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z To detractors, it was buffoonery unbefitting of a president. Re-energized Chavez floods Venezuela's airwaves 2011-10-13T14:00:36Z The climax of all this buffoonery is a panegyric of some famous pills, which lasts an hour or two, and leaves the charlatan wrangling over cents and farthings with his swiftly dwindling audience. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z The wild and savage character of Caliban is also sunk into low and vulgar buffoonery. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z A striking satirical sketch by Hadol, entitled "La Parade," sums up all the buffooneries of the Second Empire. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z He may claim also to have invented the novel without a purpose, which aims simply at amusement, and at the same time does not seek to attain that end by buffoonery or by satire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z His writings "abound in sprightly quips, often far from dignified in tone; and his controversial opponents complained, with some justice, of his buffoonery." Gammer Gurton's Needle 2011-09-24T02:00:15.643Z The carnival amusements are still kept up to some extent, but with little of the taste and wit which formerly characterised them, and without which they degenerate into mere buffoonery. The Spaniards in Florida Comprising the notable settlement of the Huguenots in 1564, and the History and Antiquities of St. Augustine, Founded A.D. 1565 2011-09-24T02:00:14.187Z From afar, Lauzun is very amusing under this aspect; he excelled in buffoonery. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z "I have little stomach for their follies and buffooneries—albeit my son be one of them," the innkeeper answered, in sharp tone. A Maid of Many Moods 2011-08-23T02:00:27.517Z It is instructive for us to realise that such things are stigmatised as "buffoonery" by the Italians, whose own elaborate ritual often appears to suggest that description to the Protestant. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z And you were first to change buffoonery for wit, and filth for cleanly sense. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Come, come, leave buffoonery, and to your duty. The Castle of Andalusia A Comic Opera, in Three Acts 2011-07-09T02:00:12.740Z Ran� smiled maliciously as he filled his master's goblet, and endeavoured, by some buffooneries, to restore mirthfulness; but the king left the wine untouched, and fell into deep thought. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z How, slave," said the friar, "art thou at buffoonery, now thou hast done me this great injury? Amusing Prose Chap Books 2011-06-27T02:01:05.043Z The Mephistopheles of Marlowe, as of the old Faust-books, for all his brave buffoonery, is a melancholy devil, with a soul above the unsavoury hell in which he is forced to pass a hopeless existence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z But, lest he should derange the gravity of the German to whom he was writing, Erasmus cautiously qualifies the disparaging delineation—“though as far as possible removed from folly or buffoonery.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z We are shocked in the very chamber of death by the intrusion of egotism, vanity, buffoonery, and inhumanity. The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z The author of Plutus, the Wasps, and the Clouds, has doubtless an imagination, an explosive buffoonery, a creative power, above all comparison. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Rabelais, as if to break the blow and to appear unconscious of what he has done, writes a chapter or two of pure buffoonery.” French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Nor is this to be wondered at, since mimicry borders so closely on buffoonery, as generally to end in absolute vulgarity. Martine's Hand-book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness 2011-05-08T02:00:05.770Z A season of buffoonery is one step closer to a merciful end for the Detroit Pistons. Off the Dribble: Pistons Closing With More Fireworks 2011-04-12T16:56:54Z If they began in joke, they ended in earnest; and Lorenzo de' Medici, who had a taste for buffoonery, enjoyed the scuffle of his Court-fools. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The Greek Mimes, of which Sophron of Syracuse was the chief writer, represented a single adventure taken from ordinary life, and exhibited characters without any gross caricature or buffoonery. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The coarse buffoonery of this work is often relieved by touches of genuine poetry, as well as by graphic descriptions and acute criticisms of men and manners. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Blackwood’s, on the other hand, had too much, for whenever one of the so-called Cockneys was mentioned, its contributors wallowed in the mire of coarse buffoonery and cruel satire, disgusting scandal and vulgar parody. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z English humor is meant to entertain a public lost in the cynical buffooneries of materialism; American humor is meant to amuse a public lost in the mazes of extravagant pleasures and provincial inanities. Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z It was his old friend the Marquis of St. Esteve, that intolerable would-be conspirator, whom the most serious moment could not check in his buffoonery. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z The Atellane Fables consisted of detached scenes following each other, without much dramatic connection, but replete with jocularity and buffoonery. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Gaddafi's flare for eccentric buffoonery sometimes masks the darkness of his power, and his oil reserves blunted the inclination of the free world to ask difficult questions. Lingering dread 2011-03-05T12:03:02Z The conversation—if one can dare to call it such—is a wild chaos of turf-talk, politics, scandal, literature, buffoonery, and the ballet. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z They exemplify every variety of sentiment and taste, from lofty pathos and dignified eulogy to coarse buffoonery and the vilest scurrility. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z And is it thus that you pretend to save him, by interrupting our deliberations with your buffoonery? The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z In general, the French captains have more rodomontade and solemnity, with less buffoonery, than their Italian prototypes. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Before the “flood of outlanders,” says the “Colloquy of the Sages,” written probably before 850, “every art will be buffoonery, and every falsehood will be chosen.” The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z What, sir, have you the face to put this question to me,—to H.M.'s Minister at this court,—the subject of this knavish buffoonery? Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service 2011-02-04T03:00:18.850Z So one of those encounters was crude buffoonery. Sky sacking: when privacy becomes a Gray area 2011-01-30T00:06:44Z Those who awaited the procession at the bridge over the Athenian river Cephisson exchanged all kinds of chaff and buffoonery with those who were in the procession, indulging in what was termed "bridge fooling." The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites 2011-01-28T03:00:23.447Z How many sights those ancient peaks have seen on this same square!—markets and military, battles and buffoonery. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z The people might enjoy the rivalry of rustic buffoonery, pipes, fiddles, chainmen, bonemen, and tube players, a crowd of babbling painted masks—all in their due place. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z Therefore, all the laws of monks and of men concerning food, clothing and places and all things that are external, are not only blasphemy of God and lying and deceiving, but the buffoonery of apes. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z They were periodical exhibitions of everything the people esteemed—democracy, aristocracy, king-craft, literature, tradition, art, commerce, law, sport, religion, display, even rustic buffoonery. Irish Nationality 2011-01-11T03:00:30.560Z No, says Voltaire, in his edition of Corneille, this mixture of buffoonery and solemnity is intolerable.—Voltaire is a genius—but not of Shakespeare’s magnitude. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z His histrionics tended to border on the edge of buffoonery, but Piniella, who was ejected 76 times as a player or manager, was just trying to put on a show. Goodbye, Lou Piniella ? for now | Larry Stone 2010-08-29T00:33:00Z There is a thin line between confidence, and loud humor and buffoonery. Sports of The Times: Jets? Ryan Is Leaner but Knows He?s a Lot to Learn 2010-08-03T02:00:00Z A lot of Mac's buffoonery is merely "colour", I suspect, although there were those at Cheltenham who took a harsher view. Martin Kelner: McCririck's colour is anything but Green 2010-03-22T00:10:00Z In his oration to the Alexandrians,1859 Dion Chrysostom speaks with unwonted asperity of the Cynics, haranguing with coarse buffoonery a gaping crowd in the squares and alleys or in the porches of the temples. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius No one can doubt that its mingled character of simplicity, nature, and buffoonery, was copied from real life. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 We shook with laughter, but he himself fared very well by it, for his buffoonery brought him many silver and even gold pieces. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster It was afterwards seriously maintained by the marksmen that in this buffoonery those with the highest pretensions did not come off better than the rest. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. On the other hand, the farce had become almost restricted to the stock masked characters, Pantaloon, the Dottore, Arlecchino, and the rest, with a narrow range of childish buffoonery in the action. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 It consists of music, dancing, love-making, joking, and buffoonery; you will see what a trifle it is all about. The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance Later specimens of this kind of literature tend to develop into grotesque buffoonery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Forgetting that it had been appreciated and enjoyed by people of good birth and culture, they called it a mere buffoonery to catch the vulgar. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Homeless, shiftless, thriftless, they knew no other names save those which chance or the coarse buffoonery of their friends had endowed them with. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel I could have wished something comic, but I was not fond of buffoonery, and there were no good comedies; I therefore gave the preference to tragedy. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 The fantastic buffoonery and the indiscriminate prodigality of learning, which were to the outward eye the distinguishing characteristics of Pantagruel, found however more imitators than the poetical sentiment of the Heptameron. A Short History of French Literature Search, then, till that noun, that verb, that adjective are discovered; never be content with 'very nearly,' never have recourse to tricks, however happy; or to buffooneries of language; to avoid a difficulty. The Style Book of The Detroit News They relied on splendid decorations, transformation scenes, and frigid buffooneries. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second "Thank you, sir," said Daddy, with a dignity more comical than the other's buffoonery. International Short Stories English Then the public, following a corrupt court, grew tired of classical poetry and virtue on the stage, and clamored for its old diet of buffoonery and immorality. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) It probably had a chorus, and, dealing as it did in a mixture of philosophical discourse, antithetical rhetoric and wild buffoonery, necessarily varied in style. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Then followed the buffoonery; and this was at least genuine rough and tumble if there was little wit in it. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses In comedy, nothing was so sure to please as mean buffoonery, vile ribaldry, and unmannerly jests of fools and clowns. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 To think, for example, of the great poet of the Oreste declaimed before a vile mob, impatient for some buffoonery, eager for the moment when the jugglery would begin!' Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier It needed more buffoonery of a lighter vein. Molly Brown's Sophomore Days The end of Roman dramatic literature was dilettantism and criticism; the end of the Roman drama was spectacle and show, buffoonery and sensual allurement. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" "See this Roman," he says; "he descends from his chariot, he pirouettes, he recites buffooneries and jokes and vile stories, then sings or declaims Greek verses, and then resumes his pirouettes." Roman Women Hence coarseness and buffoonery, as elements of comic effect, are continually availed of, and Aristophanes considered that he was witty in maligning the female sex. Greek Women And there is Rabelais, with his huge buffoonery, and the earnest eyes intent on freedom, which look out at us in the midst of the zany's tumblings and indecencies. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Progress from broad lines approaching buffoonery to delicacy, from the obvious and the apparent to the elusive, is observable in all humorists who hold their public. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 It may be doubted whether what seems the highest of these is Religious drama. actually such; for the religious element in the Chinese drama is often sheer buffoonery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Thus the arbitrary hand of power, in one night, smote and swept away the sciences; to which succeeded the low vulgar buffoonery of a showman. Wanderings in South America Tradition has changed this lively piece of buffoonery into an act of stately and romantic courtesy. Logic, Inductive and Deductive "Are you satiated with the buffoonery?" asked the fierce man of the youth after some time. The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. II. That which seems rational to you is little else than buffoonery to me. Cynthia's Chauffeur The Prince of Wales, with more good sense than usual, dismissed Carey for this offensive buffoonery. Old and New London Volume I On such terms even fun and high spirits soon degenerate to buffoonery and romps. Pot-Boilers He never transgressed the narrow line that separates wit from buffoonery, pandered to sensuality, glorified vice or raised a laugh at the expense of decency. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Sir: At a party last night one of my sex read the recent buffoonery, “Heliogabalus,” by the Smart Set editors. The So-called Human Race He prided himself on his acumen, and was not to be taken in with such worn buffoonery. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 It is remarkable that his comic scenes, although crammed with fun, never run down into farce; nor does he find it necessary to eke out his wit with buffoonery. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 As to his anathemas and warnings, I treated them as so much buffoonery on the wrong side of the grotesque. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. Altogether, with all his roughness and buffoonery, a more pleasant, clever fellow you may seldom see. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Only in his buffoonery, but she, again, was unsure why either Rip had been so named. The Land of Look Behind They have not the faintest glimmering of the truth, and they turn what should be the greatest of the sciences into buffoonery. The Moving Finger Never be content with very nearly; never have recourse to tricks, however happy, or to buffoonery of language to avoid a difficulty. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories The writers, too, condescended to intersperse the cant dialect of the populace, with which the cobblers doubtless assisted these learned men, when busied in their buffoonery. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The tambourine performer affects a ludicrous air of pompous sentiment, while the castanet sable hero indulges in all kinds of buffoonery and antics. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign He knew him only as a fixture at the piano, but could well accommodate the idea of a species of buffoonery to that boldly jutting nose of his. Aurora the Magnificent After witnessing this spectacle of degradation for some time, we retired, somewhat disgusted at the buffooneries perpetrated in this country, as elsewhere, in the name of religion. Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia There are, for instance, a very great many worse jests in poetry than, Oh, had he learnt to make the wig he wears! —which Jeffrey pronounces a misplaced piece of buffoonery. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 He would degenerate into buffoonery on solemn occasions. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Swift loved practical jokes, and sometimes yielded to a license that bordered on buffoonery. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) The one decided failure amongst the subsidiary characters is Lucian Grey, the professional parasite, who earns his dinners by his witty buffoonery. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Later in life he was promoted to the rectory of Diss in Norfolk, but was severely censured by his bishop for his buffooneries in the pulpit and his satirical ballads against the mendicants. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer The qualities of these articles appear equally in the miscellaneous essays, in the speeches, and even in the sermons, though Sydney Smith, unlike Sterne, never condescended to buffoonery or theatrical tricks in the pulpit. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The author, it is true, has thrown the most advantageous of these circumstances into the back ground, as it were, and has brought nothing out of the canvass but his follies and buffoonery. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare Mixed up with capital fooling, there is an abundance of wisdom, and shrewd thrusts are delivered at every species of imposture; nay, religion itself is treated with derision, under the pretence of buffoonery. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) The simple buffoonery of exuberant animal spirits is not in Disraeli's line. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) No, buffoonery, Sirrah! you have chosen ill your time for jesting. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. And even if he require of the drama only buffoonery, or a digestive for his dinner, why not be able to discern good buffoonery from bad, and the pure digestive from the drug? Another Sheaf As he began he was interrupted by hoots and cat-calls but he waited calmly for silence and seeing that they couldn't ruffle him by buffoonery they desisted after a moment. The Vagrant Duke The Circuit Court was the scene of a good deal of buffoonery. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Particularly unchristian is every kind of such buffoonery in the church when men are gathered to hear and learn the Word of God. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost Believe me, Krassotkin, that sort of buffoonery is sometimes tragic in the extreme. The Brothers Karamazov Another member, less timid, was induced to father the cruel buffoonery; and the real author enjoyed in security the dismay and vexation of Robespierre. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) Music, songs, dancing, buffoonery, feats of agility, or games of chance, were generally introduced; and they welcomed them with all the luxuries which the cellar and the table could afford. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Talmudic literature has preserved several examples of the buffooneries launched against Judaism. Jewish Literature and Other Essays When making an attempt to sparkle in small talk, dinner-guests should remember that the line of demarcation between light talk and buffoonery may become dangerously delicate. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it “Speak without buffoonery, and don't begin by insulting the members of your family,” answered the elder, in a faint, exhausted voice. The Brothers Karamazov Holidays, being times of amusement, are occasions used by the people for the satisfaction of all appetites: there is eating and drinking, buffoonery, disregard of current conventions, unbounded liberty to do whatever exuberant animalism prompts. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV From the pages of Gerard Leigh and Dugdale, the reader can obtain a sufficiently minute account of the pompous ceremonials and heavy buffooneries of the season. A Book About Lawyers He was brimming over with amusing stories and buffoonery, rich in the possession of the richest of all repertories of house-painter's nonsense. Germinie Lacerteux One can talk lightly, but nicely; while buffoonery is just what the lexicographers define it to be: "Amusing others by clownish tricks and by commonplace pleasantries." Conversation What to Say and How to Say it He had gone back to his original tone of resentful buffoonery. The Brothers Karamazov Raleigh was noticed to smile at this, and we can imagine that his irony would be roused by such buffoonery on an occasion so serious. Raleigh From this time he deliberately set himself to raise the people to open resistance against their oppressors, while he disarmed the suspicions of the nobles by intentional buffoonery and extravagance of conduct. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 He was regarded with great aversion by the Presbyterians, and by the numerous persons of other sects to whom buffoonery in the pulpit was distasteful. State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) Shakespeare has burlesqued this idea in his exquisite buffoonery, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. sc. Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes But at this point another almost incredible scene of grotesque buffoonery gave the finishing touch to the episode. The Brothers Karamazov There are no such actors, at the principal theatres, as Matthews, or Liston, or Bannister, or Munden, or Emery, whose principal merit lies in mimicry and buffoonery. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. And he was either a man claiming the most towering spiritual privileges of a man, or he was the mere buffoonery and blasphemy of a monkey in a mitre. What I Saw in America The custom of introducing humorous epilogue, farce, and buffoonery, after the mind has been agitated, softened, or sublimed by tragic scenes, has been often objected to. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 As to Florian, though obviously intended for the hero of the tale, he is a strange nondescript, in whose language the author has given buffoonery by way of wit, and bombast by way of dignity. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 So that such buffoonery amazed and bewildered the spectators, or at least some of them. The Brothers Karamazov If I did not know, sir," said the Doctor, now effectually roused, "that this was ill-timed buffoonery, and not an intentional insult, I should be seriously angry. Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers That sort of thing is the bad side of American appetite and ambition; and we are perfectly right to see it not only as a deliberate blasphemy but as an unconscious buffoonery. What I Saw in America Abandoning the monstrous extravagancies and uncouth buffoonery of his predecessors, he took Homer for his guide, and composed pieces which for boldness and terrible sublimity have never been surpassed. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 They defiled the sacred vessels of the churches, imitated with buffoonery the ceremonies of the mass, which she herself performed, and stoned to death the priests whom they caught. Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History “I protest against the insult of your buffoonery!” The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan If you insult me again by this brazen buffoonery, I will! Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers We can understand the ribald buffoonery of Lucian, who first invented this species of burlesque. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Jests, light laughter, and buffoonery would fill the air. John the Baptist The statements of the heartless buffoonery, and the daring violence of Cromwell, at the time of signing the warrant, must be received with some suspicion. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 Amid the serious matters which present themselves so abundantly in the history of Russia, buffooneries of the coarsest character at times find place. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Then followed all those strange scenes of levity and blood, buffoonery and heroism, which the history of Parisian revolutions has familiarized to the imagination, but which, nevertheless, have an inexhaustible interest. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 In its wrapping of brown paper and twine it suspiciously resembled a child's toy, and Prince Michael's grandiloquent manner added a touch of buffoonery to a farewell scene made poignant by a woman's tears. A Son of the Immortals What an admirable piece of buffoonery! these curés going in turn to shrive the writers of the eighteenth century, and having flung at their heads epigrams composed for the occasion, perhaps, ten years before. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 But under Corneille's influence the French stage developed from a state of buffoonery and wooden imitation of the ancients to a state where a greater artist than Corneille gave it really world-wide prominence. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 Such comedy was occasionally not without grace—a passage of pastoral, a song, a na�ve piece of gaiety; but buffoonery or vulgar riot was more to the taste of the populace. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. There was a movement among the ladies, which meant that they thought both the man and the costume charming, and then the buffoonery began. Renée Mauperin With all his impotent stammering, slobbering, weeping, buffoonery, and pedagoguism, James had an indistinct idea that it was as necessary to hear the voice of the people as the voice of the king. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 But the inevitable element of caricature and buffoonery soon necessitated an "outside show." The Story of Rouen For what is all of Schoppe's eloquent and matchless buffoonery, compared with his wise oracles, in the mad conflicts with his other 'I,' whom he saw in the mirror of his diseased brain? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The effort to be popular often resulted in pulpit buffoonery. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. The moving picture hall was turned into a theater and the play, in queer Spanish, a strange mixture of miracle-play and buffoonery, delighted the hombres and astounded the whites. Still Jim Butler in his "Hudibras" poured insult on the past with a pedantic buffoonery for which the general hatred, far more than its humour, secured a hearing. History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 Jests and buffoonery have been tolerated for the occasion. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Though I love fun, eternal jesting, buffoonery, punning absolutely kills me. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 "Enough of this buffoonery!" said a decisive voice, and the dwarf drew back, not without a grimace, to make room for a person of soldierly mien, who now pushed his way to the front. Under the Rose Neither of these pieces of gross buffoonery bore any author's name. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III But he soon began to tire of this deliberate imprisonment, and to reduce buffoonery to a modern science. The Folly Of Eustace 1896 With us popular amusement is found in the circus, negro minstrels, the variety show, opera bouffe, the spectacle, and ballet, and it attaches to parody and burlesque, "knock-down business," buffoonery, and broad 573allusion. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals It is a mixture of tragedy and farce: the former occasionally good, the latter poor buffoonery. Notes and Queries, Number 197, August 6, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. The wonderful success of his lecture at Sepulchre's caused it to be asserted by his enemies, that his enthusiastic style of preaching was but stage buffoonery. Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. It is impossible to discern any difference of character in the three speakers, or to introduce logical sequence into their buffoonery. Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Presently, the interpreter proposed an exhibition of legerdemain, and in this I found considerable amusement to make up for the preceding buffoonery. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver From his boyhood he has loved joking, so that he might seem born for this, but in his jokes he has never descended to buffoonery, and has never loved the biting jest. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation The buffooneries of this man, the stories of the abbé Galiani, the extravagances of Rabelais, have sometimes thrown me into profound reveries. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. As late as 1783 the buffoonery of this kind of exhibition continued. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Finally he is replaced by the fool, and the affair becomes a mere matter of buffoonery without special significance. Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland We are giving of our time and intelligence to C. R., and we are rather sorry than otherwise to find him indulging in this small buffoonery. My Contemporaries In Fiction Comedy runs broader than it does at home and some of the most excellent artists have learned a touch of buffoonery. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile The book is a series of stories, rather than Sterne’s subtle amalgam of pathos, gentle irony, and frank buffoonery; and the stories themselves are for the most part either insipid or obscene. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. The buffoonery and profanity of the early exhibitions, however, gradually wore away when the Church assumed the monopoly of them and forbade secular performances. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers O'Mally, for all his buffoonery, was a keen one to read a face. The Lure of the Mask Ever and anon I heard a snicker, sometimes a downright laugh: there was a coarse buffoonery in the ranks. A Book of Burlesques In the mad buffoonery of that cutting wind he scarce could stand upright. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance In the Middle Ages people melted at this, they were moved, they wept; and all at once they were in a mood to enjoy the most enormous buffooneries. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance These representations were entirely dramatic in character, and their subjects, though always sacred, were often grotesquely treated, and sometimes verged on buffoonery. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Their comedies are offensive by the grossness of their buffooneries. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Perhaps, Mr Singh, you can explain Colonel Severn’s allusion without turning my words into a subject for buffoonery.” Glyn Severn's Schooldays It consisted of nothing but a succession of buffooneries and fire-works. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 The better and finer the nature that displayed itself in Randall, the more painful was the sight of his buffooneries to his nephew, and at the first leap, Ambrose had hurried away in confusion. The Armourer's Prentices Sterne's great achievement, however, was not in the mere buffoonery but in the passages where he continued the Addison tradition. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century The malignant buffoonery of Aristophanes treats him much worse; but he, as Jortin says, was a great wit, but a great rascal. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 If you get offended after this, the more fool you, for I tell you straight there will be no ill-feeling in my mind, nothing but simple, pure buffoonery.” Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story One of the eye-witnesses said to us: 'We thought that this was part of the buffoonery.' Napoleon the Little One excuse is, that Shelley and Dr. Trench only took parts of these plays, not caring surely—who can?—for the underplot and buffoonery which stands most in the way of the tragic Dramas. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II The old ideal of chivalry merely suggests the sneers of Cervantes, or even the buffoonery of Butler's wit, and has not undergone restoration at the hands of modern romanticists. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) In buffoonery, keenness, and boldness, having been frequently imprisoned, he was not inferior, nor was he at times less an adventurer. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Sly means to say, he was "fourteen pence on the score for ale alone:" just as one speaks of "sheer nonsense," i. e. nothing but nonsense, "sheer buffoonery," "sheer malice," &c. Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Interest in the actual performance of the hula ki'i was stimulated by a resort to byplay and buffoonery. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula However, this soon wore off; our set played extremely well—like persons of good sense without extravagance or buffoonery, and yet with sufficient spirit. Art in England Notes and Studies "You need not," he says, "send The Blues, which is a mere buffoonery not meant for publication." The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 These led the festive throng, and diverted the crowd with their droll antic buffoonery. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide "That will be a relief from this buffoonery," remarked the actor. The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays A change, indeed, had come over him; be became more restless than ever, his looks savage, his buffoonery coarser and more boisterous. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 We often witness and perhaps are tempted to envy the applause which many public speakers get by buffoonery, by rough wit, by coarse personality, by appeal to the vulgar passions. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 I send you a thing which I scribbled off yesterday, a mere buffoonery, to quiz 'The Blues.' The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 She was looking down on the unconscious Amidon, and wondering how any one could think of making him the instrument of buffoonery. Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Such a book as "Old Fogy," for all its buffoonery, is conceivable only as the work of a sound musician. A Book of Prefaces Familiar even to buffoonery with the meanest sentinel, he never lost his authority: transported to a degree of madness with religious ecstasies, he never forgot the political purposes to which they might serve. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell He used to get up some scene of quarrel or buffoonery nearly every morning session. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 He goes on to say that false humour is given to little apish tricks, and buffooneries. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 Gordon was thus encouraged to continue on his road to buffoonery, and when the summer term came, he found no reason to pursue any other course. The Loom of Youth Just as the French fabliaux inspired Chaucer's coarser tales, so the French farce stimulated the natural inclination of the English taste to broad humour and rough-and-tumble buffoonery on the stage. The Growth of English Drama What with eccentricities, buffooneries, pranks, prodigalities, he ended by achieving a sort of celebrity. Life of St. Francis of Assisi The numerous additions, for which the distinguished coadjutors are responsible, reek with mawkish sentimentality, inane vapidity, or vulgar buffoonery. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Most readers will agree with the sentiments expressed by the reviewer, who succeeded in making his article interesting without descending to the depths of buffoonery. Early Reviews of English Poets There was a kind of solemn buffoonery in choosing these two as responsible opponents in preference to the irresponsible G.K. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Instead of a plot we find an increasing admixture of buffoonery, without which no Interlude could be regarded as complete. The Growth of English Drama They called the adorable rhapsodies of the Clown "absurd" and "unintelligible"; "O Mistress mine" was in their ears "meaningless"; "When that I was" appeared to them "degraded buffoonery." Some Diversions of a Man of Letters In attempting to understand his character it is necessary for you to bear within your own mind the idea that he was always, within his own bosom, encountering melancholy with buffoonery, and meanness with satire. Thackeray Stewart stood blinking at him until he had finished, then turned beseechingly to the judge; when the decision was against him he struck out into some other line of buffoonery equally grotesque. The Story of Cooperstown We had, however, at sunset, a visit from a Hazna dancer,—a perfect specimen of African buffoonery and jingling. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government His other long speech is elevated above buffoonery by a brief, cogent, and earnest passage on the same theme, but it was a frank piece of clowning on a licensed occasion. Abraham Lincoln This early connection of comedy with abuse and buffoonery was probably one cause of professional actors being held in contempt in Rome. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour They willingly produce and perform the most pitiful buffooneries, but then it is under a better sounding title. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Beauty was not in his possession; good nature, a more popular quality, he had in abundance: 'His wit to scandal never stooping, His mirth ne'er to buffoonery drooping.' The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 He is just the man for a negro commander, full of cunning and address, very active if necessary, and on familiar terms with his men, pleasing them by low fun and buffoonery. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government In this regard the humour of our transatlantic cousins cannot wholly escape a charge of debasing the moral currency by buffoonery. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin She never had witnessed a genuine case of hypnotism; those examples she had seen were miserable buffooneries, travesties, hoodwinking not even the newsboys in the upper gallery. The Adventures of Kathlyn Many stories are told of his buffooneries at the court of Rome, but unquestionably the majority were entirely untrue. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business I was too sick at heart to pay attention to his buffoonery. Jacqueline of Golden River Now this man was a passionate fellow and well favoured in strength of heart and body, but not a very serious man, but one who generally took delight in wine and buffoonery. History of the Wars, Books III and IV The Vandalic War I trust you will forgive this and all my other buffooneries, and believe me to be, with great respect, "Your Lordship's obliged and "Sincere servant, "BYRON." Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals Upon the throne sat Colonel Hare, gorgeously attired, but cold and stern of visage, prepared to play his part in this unutterable buffoonery. The Adventures of Kathlyn It is asserted that Rabelais offended the pope by his buffooneries, but the assertion can scarcely be believed. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business For with them, all the wit and drollery were retained, while they helped, by their example, to banish the buffoonery that used to characterise the "Stage Irishman." The Life Story of an Old Rebel I had written to you again, but burnt the letter, because I began to think you seriously hurt at my indolence, and did not know how the buffoonery it contained might be taken. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals These performances were originally intended for instruction, pictorial representations of scenes from the Bible and Church History, but often degenerating into coarse buffoonery and horseplay. Old St. Paul's Cathedral We were this day much diverted, at the beach, by the buffooneries of one of the natives. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 Many buffooneries are ascribed to him unjustly, and he was a greater man than certain modern writers make him out to be. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business They were printed weekly in one sheet, and sometimes in more, in 4to, and contain, says Wood, a great deal of wit and buffoonery. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II You know I must be serious all the rest of my life, and this is a parting piece of buffoonery, which I write with tears in my eyes, expecting to be agitated. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals How difficult is it to restrain one's contempt and indignation from a buffoonery so mean, or a practice so diabolical!—This folly may possibly find its way into England—I should be very sorry. Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I Strange it is to observe at the altar the rites of religion burlesqued, and all its offices performed with the utmost buffoonery. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 In the Greek Mysteries we have the Greek guise,—solemn, wistful, hopeful, holy, and pure, yet not uncontaminated with archaic buffoonery,—of notions and rites, hopes and fears, common to all mankind. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological His manner was theatrical, his style eccentric, and his topics varied between extravagance and buffoonery. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 "Tall, is she?" continued Miss Burgoyne, as they were looking on at Mr. Fred Collier's buffooneries out there on the stage. Prince Fortunatus We have no low buffoonery in the former, such as disgraces Enobarbus, and is hardly redeemed by his affecting catastrophe. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 The Italian Pantomime had two peculiar features; a species of buffoonery technically termed Lazzi, and one of a more extraordinary nature, the extempore dialogue of its comedy. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Scenes from this tale were, no doubt, enacted at the Mysteries, with interludes of buffoonery, such as relieved most ancient and all savage Mysteries. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological This buffoonery was highly appreciated by the audience which witnessed it; and the banqueting-room must have been full of the noise of riotous mirth. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology The germ of Roman satire is undoubtedly to be found in the rude Fescennine verses, the rough and licentious jests and buffoonery of the harvest-home and the vintage thrown into quasi-lyrical form. English Satires Now, my good fellow, no more of this buffoonery. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Who could believe, that while half the ceremonies of religion consisted in the grossest buffoonery, a prince preferred death rather than cure himself by a remedy which offended his chastity! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 The childishness and devout buffoonery of an old miracle play are imitated here, as in Swinburne's "Masque of Queen Bersabe." A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century But more usually the merry mood of the Egyptians asserted itself, as it so often does at the present day, in a demand for something approaching nearer to buffoonery. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology He is little to be envied who reads Don Quixote's assault upon the windmills as a chapter of mad buffoonery. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Excuse me, Miss Gourlay, I was utterly unconscious of any buffoonery. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One These Lazzi are in great danger of degenerating into puerile mimicry or gross buffoonery, unless fancifully conceived and vividly gesticulated. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Among the objects of this insolent buffoonery was a person supposed to represent the King of Prussia. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) Had she really hurt herself, or was she merely indulging some hereditary streak of buffoonery at his expense? One Man in His Time Bad buffoonery as much of it is and full to the throttle of the warm-watery optimism induced by whisky, yet as fighting literature it is incalculably better than its modern substitute in Blackwood. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Such a sentiment is utterly incompatible with the heartless tirade of buffoonery in which you have indulged. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One The humour of this piece, though not particularly refined, seemed to be appreciated by the audience generally, as well as by the monarch, who laughed heartily at its coarse buffoonery. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest James I. gave all manner of liberty and encouragement to the exercise of buffoonery, and took great delight in it himself. The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection If buffoonery should be made to please him, he may lose the dignity of his mind. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 Besides the very free and easy balls, masques and banquets, there were what were called "quaint conceits" of more than doubtful decency, and there was much buffoonery of a very low type. The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck A Scandal of the XVIIth Century I would bear, I would even play my part in, any innocent buffooneries, to divert them. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) Not for worlds would he have subjected himself to such buffoonery had he known. The Honorable Percival Cromwell, perhaps, rather despised the stage than condemned it seriously on religious grounds; the while he did not object to indulge in buffoonery and horseplay, even in the gallery of Whitehall. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Would that the sons of men were as intent upon these better studies as they are on idle talking, on vain and base buffoonery! Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities The main plot is sentimental, the secondary plot is sheer buffoonery; while the story; of Titania's jealousy and Oberon's method of curing it can scarcely be dignified by the title of plot at all. The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' But even so the play would not be long enough had I not padded a good deal of buffoonery into the scene where the five corpses are brought back to life. A Christmas Garland Do you not know that this is no fitting time for buffoonery?' Muslin An arch dull rogue, who lets the business cool, To show how nicely he can play the fool, Who with buffoonery his dulness clokes, Deserves a cat-o'-nine-tails for his jokes. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character He liked to laugh at the theatre, but mistrusted a daily point of view which savored of buffoonery. Unleavened Bread Christianity is what it has come to be," it has been said, "only through its alliance with antiquity, while with the Copts and Ethiopians it is but a kind of buffoonery. Tragic Sense Of Life But what is death to him is fun to you, and my buffooneries wont offend any of you. A Christmas Garland The seriousness was in the speech which, amid the delighted applause of the Tories, Mr. Chamberlain denounced as buffoonery. Sketches in the House (1893) "The Critic" is not very often played nowadays; but every occasion of its revival is disfigured by the freedoms and buffoonery of its representatives. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character There was no drunkenness, no noisy buffoonery, no unseemly behaviour. Ulster's Stand For Union The four scenes of rough and rank buffoonery which deface this act and the two following have given very reasonable offence to critics from whom they have provoked very unreasonable reflections. The Age of Shakespeare How much of the assault, the jeers, the buffoonery, the downright evil of initiation, he was saved by this assumption he never knew. Through stained glass The buffoonery—in the sense of shallowness and emptiness—was really in the speech that everybody took to be grave. Sketches in the House (1893) And their satire is generally more distinguished for personality and buffoonery than wit. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 If this is buffoonery it is singularly out of place. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index |
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