| 单词 | clownish |
| 例句 | Seth became an hourglass with a wide head, a tiny waist, and clownish feet. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The pigeon banana-peeling off the comic book stack in a clownish flop. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Modern-day scholar-workers, indulging in clownish display, adopted ghetto accents and assumed costumes of the rural poor. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I needed to laugh at the clownish display. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Long ago, at the age of ten, she decided that lipstick made her seem clownish. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Gat bowed, foolishly, clownishly, and presented me with the book at the bottom of the pile: it was a novel by Jaclyn Moriarty. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z They tried Polish on Billy Pilgrim first, since he was dressed so clownishly, since the wretched Poles were the involuntary clowns of the Second World War. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He made a clownish face, and I knew he was trying to get Maribel to laugh, trying to extract the tiniest hint of the girl she used to be. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Carlos asked, a clownish smile spreading across his face. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He flashed the same silly, clownish grin he always sported right after he and her mother had been fighting. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z JB ’s eyes are ocean wide, his mouth swimming on the floor, his clownish grin, embarrassing. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z Her face was sad now, droopy; but it wasn’t real, it was pretend, clownish. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Her face had been hastily made up into a mask of almost clownish flamboyance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On the balcony Goebbels, dressed in a light-colored trench coat and a fedora, applauded theatrically, almost clownishly, as each German boat crossed the line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The nurse—short with curly hair and a clownish face—reaches to the hooks behind her and unfurls a blood pressure gauge. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Once he got onstage, the nose looked too circular and clownish. Douglas Hodge gets nosy in 'Cyrano' on Broadway 2012-10-10T12:37:08Z His nickname is Circus — a reference to his clownish behavior when drunk — and even though he's been sober two years, seven months and a few days, the name lingers. Ondine Review: A Fish-Out-of-Water Fairytale 2010-06-03T22:50:00Z Women sport outlandish, brightly colored flamenco dresses that would look clownish elsewhere but are somehow brilliant here. Sevilla’s April Fair: Spain’s sparkling spring spectacle 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z “While the gilded rooms and satin clothes look sumptuous if often suitably absurd, almost clownish, the people in them breathe,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times in July. New on DVD: ‘Ashanti’ and ‘Wake in Fright’ 2013-01-12T20:00:00Z The parallels were clear: Alvin and Lance as Vladimir and Estragon, the outsiders wandering in search of some higher direction, with the clownish trucker and his supernatural girlfriend as Pozzo and Lucky. Sundance film festival 2013: Prince Avalanche – first look review 2013-01-24T16:55:49Z Mr. Black, with a vivacious sense of play, transformed himself into a sad, clownish character as if he were the star of a nightclub act. Dance Review: Monstah Black?s ?Black Moon,? at Dance New Amsterdam - Review 2011-09-19T22:35:22Z MTV showed eight episodes but canceled the show after the Gandhi character — a kindhearted if clownish partyer — incited a daylong hunger strike in India. Lord and Miller, Directors With a Golden Touch 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z He is, in this clownish approximation of an American Indian, attempting to speak to an actual American Indian, Robert Roche, a Chiricahua Apache and executive director of the American Indian Education Center in Cleveland. My life as a Cleveland Indian: The enduring disgrace of racist sports mascots 2014-04-13T15:30:00Z You might say that Bernie and Joan are around to supply clownish distraction from the travails of their pals, but “About Last Night” might actually work the other way around. Movie Review: In ‘About Last Night,’ Couples Map Differing Paths to Love 2014-02-13T23:23:40Z Mr. Hanks, in his best clownish mode, scrunches his features into all manner of amusing grimaces. Review: ‘A Hologram for the King’ Is Elevated by Tom Hanks’s Portrayal of an American Everyman 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The company began life almost 10 years ago, and spent their first years creating the kind of fun, clownish shows that do well at the Edinburgh fringe. Theatre and youth unemployment: Tangled Feet call for revolution 2013-06-24T17:41:19Z Best known as a stand-up comic, Mr. Gaffigan is perhaps a shade too understated as the clownish mayor. | 'That Championship Season': The Champs Reunite, Bearing the Nation?s Scars 2011-03-07T03:01:04Z She goes to bed that night dreaming of walking “hand-in-hand with this little creature with the big ears and clownish gait and the eyes that said, Here I am, come and get me.” Review | T.C. Boyle captures the intersection of folly and progress. This time, it’s the ill-fated Project Nim. 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Many of the performances are over the top, especially the enjoyably absurd bravado of the warring emperors and the clownishly bizarre behavior of “the brilliant but underappreciated” general, Han Xin. ‘Under Siege’ Review: A Heady Mix of Dance and Martial Arts 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z He's fleshy and clownish — qualities that intensify the violent threat. Clive Owen and Sam Rockwell hit Broadway in 'Old Times' and 'Fool for Love' with different results 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z She let go of my arm to stand aside and put on a pleading face that was also intentionally clownish. Paul Theroux’s Mexican Journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Those cops were generally portrayed as clownish bullies, and their violence, divorced from any racial context, played as a kind of shtick. How Richard Pryor Changed the Way Comedy Sees Police Brutality 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z His mom, a first-grade teacher in Beverly Hills, enrolled him in the tony district until his penchant for clownish behavior and desk drawing got him booted. Is this the face of L.A.’s next major artist? 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Perhaps the biggest problem is that too many of its characters seem overly familiar: the dull hubby, the clownish son, the matriarch making a bid for freedom. TV highlights 12/06/2013 2013-06-12T06:00:03Z It’s hard not to giggle at the clumsy, clownish walk of a brown pelican. Brown pelicans can inspire awe, laughs and concern for their environment 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Of course, there is less poetry — and subplots, and clownish humor, and expository dialogue — than usual in Mr. O’Rowe’s streamlined version of the texts. Review: ‘DruidShakespeare: The History Plays’ Is Complete With a Crown Fit for Many Kings 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z As is often true in Shakespeare’s comedies, the principal theme is reflected in distorted form by the activities of a parallel set of clownish types. | 'Love?s Labor?s Lost': ?Love?s Labor?s Lost? at Public Theater - Review 2011-11-01T02:01:01Z He seems to be the clownish life of the party until somebody says the wrong thing. | 'Conviction': Her Brother?s Keeper, No Matter the Cost 2010-10-14T23:03:00Z The birds looked curiously at the strange creatures, who were equally clumsy and clownish. In the Falkland Islands, a quest to see as many penguins as possible 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z They are monstrous and clownish, but more than just figures of fright or mockery. Review: In ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ Spike Lee Journeys Into White America’s Heart of Darkness 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z In his new show, “Walled In,” Mr. Fine is Charles Rucklemore III, “a sort of clownish version of myself,” he said, who seeks to recreate Thoreau’s cabin on Walden Pond, to ridiculous ends. At Green-Wood Cemetery, Dancers Celebrate Life 2011-10-20T20:25:04Z His clownish, abstract, cartoonish and grotesque works reflected his bent for provocation. M.T. Liggett, 86, Folk Artist and Provocateur, Is Dead 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z But maybe the years — and fatherhood — have made Seinfeld a little more clownish, more physical. Seinfeld in Seattle: shined shoes, laser focus 2011-10-02T20:42:03Z In The New York Times, Roberta Smith called it “direct, irreverent and also clownish.” Obsessions and Compulsions at the Park Avenue Armory 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z This clownish behavior was my misguided attempt at patriotism. I was born in Iran, and misogyny pushed me away from my culture. Now I have hope for Iranian girls 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z The show is thus a noir-ish satire about greed and acquisitiveness, adorned with stylishly clownish costumes and bafflingly contradictory dialogue delivered on the fly as the 10 actors concentrate on their slick, tightly controlled movement. Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z There are historical accounts of clownish performances in ancient Egypt and China, and classical Greek and Roman theater never missed the chance to indulge in bawdy guff. A Brief History of Slapstick Humor 2010-10-18T08:00:00Z Yet Mr. Park also slips in little jokes, comic line readings and clownish faces that ease the tension, lighten the mood and suggest there’s freedom in laughing into the void. Review: ‘The Handmaiden’ Explores Confinement in Rich, Erotic Textures 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Once Twyford played Crab, a dog belonging to Norris’s clownish character in Shakespeare’s “Two Gentlemen of Verona.” From the melancholy prince to a pair of queens, Norris and Twyford have played it all at the Folger. 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Early in the film, as Eric is sipping a drink at a dusty makeshift cantina, a pickup full of clownish thugs spins out of control on the road. ‘The Rover,’ a Drama With Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Irizarry, who also directed, pushes himself and the others to extremes by donning clownish clothes and dangling from bars above the set, and their wild energy blasts through any indecipherable moments. 'Teach, Teacher, Teachest,' Inspired by Ionesco 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z For example, the small-scale intimacy works brilliantly in such moments as the duet in which the heroine Pamina and the clownish bird catcher Papageno discuss the joys of matrimony. Peter Brook reduces Mozart to bare essentials 2011-07-07T06:31:08Z Mr. Jacquot shot much of it at Versailles, which deepens the period verisimilitude, yet while the gilded rooms and satin clothes look sumptuous if often suitably absurd, almost clownish, the people in them breathe. Movie Review: ‘Farewell, My Queen,’ Set at Versailles 2012-07-12T21:53:22Z Everything is sharply defined, in sleek monochrome, relieved only by Krapp's red socks – a clownish touch – and the banana he swallows in ritualised movements. Krapp's Last Tape – review 2012-08-26T17:00:01Z They all line up, reacting clownishly to a scratch tape of their names being called, as if their whole bodies were sound receptors. Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet – review 2012-10-12T11:23:48Z And while Ray is hapless and almost heroically stupid, Connie is a more complicated, less clownish figure. Review: A ‘Good Time’ Was Not Had by This Critic 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Stein, one of Europe’s most renowned stage directors, walked straight into the column, bumping his head, and then shook it in an exaggeratedly clownish motion. The Battle Behind the 12-Hour ?Demons? 2010-06-26T02:41:00Z By the time junior high school rolled around, my facial features were dwarfed by a clownishly large natural Afro, or Jew-fro in Long Island Hebraic cliché speak. My horrible toupee nightmare: I needed self-confidence, and got a head full of roadkill instead 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The film received some boos at its press screening, apparently because some in the audience took offence at the portrayal of a Sicilian police detective as an insensitive, somewhat clownish figure. Tilda Swinton: my Bigger Splash character doesn't speak because I had nothing to say 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z This dazzling production by Rimas Tuminas is in a wholly different tradition: that of the Russian director Meyerhold, who evolved a system of acting based on sports, acrobatics and clownish grotesquerie. Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-06T17:51:55Z Tom Riis Farrell brings a robustly clownish enthusiasm to his characters, at one point amiably urging the audience to join in a couple of activities to "help make Bertolt Brecht proud." Review: 'Caucasian Chalk Circle' jabs at injustice 2013-05-31T00:10:08Z She also uses Perfect365, a makeup simulation app, though the artist’s garish eye shadow and clownish blushes are surely not what its marketing team has in mind. Cindy Sherman Takes Selfies (as Only She Could) on Instagram 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z The twisted, blasting noises he made did not help the general atmosphere of clownish sonic vandalism. Paul Morley Showing Off ... Wild Beasts 2010-09-03T16:03:00Z At first I thought their bizarrely clownish grins were some comment on falsity or cultural assimilation; then I decided they were actually a misguided effort to play to the children. Illstyle and Peace’s ‘IMpossible IZZpossible’ at BAM Fisher 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Yes, Calloway was clownish, but he was a legendary musician with one of the swing era’s best bands. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Scattered throughout the garden are elegant primulas, not the clownish potted primrose of early spring but slender candelabra types rising from the grassy floor of the forest and then presenting a dainty circle of blooms. A bonnie glimpse of the exotic 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z The role of the Globes is to be a bellwether for a film's Oscar prospects, and to be be an entertaining, drunken live awards show that challenges network sensors and ticks off corrupt, clownish politicians. Friendly reminder: The Golden Globes know nothing about good TV 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Upon the black glazed surface appears the familiar image of the hooded torture victim at Abu Ghraib, enveloped within a larger, clownish ghost, whose speech bubble reads, "War is a racket." Resistance in clay: Ceramic artists speak out against Trump, war and more in 'We the People' 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Veep has already proved how unintentionally clownish deputy leaders can be, and surely the opportunity to show a grey-faced, friendless second-in-command sullenly lurking on the peripheries would be too good to pass. Why I can't wait for the new series of The Thick of It 2012-07-12T10:16:00Z How else could he account for a white performer who, along with his bandmates Mike "Mike D" Diamond and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz, coupled the carefree character of punk with the clownish one-upmanship of hip-hop? 2012 review: notable deaths in music 2012-12-24T09:00:08Z The multiple stripes and squares tumbled together in a not entirely successful mix of clownish proportions. Runway vs. Red Carpet 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Hidden beneath Olive's abrasive, angry and at times clownish nature lies a woman reeling from the loss of her father to suicide. Frances McDormand's face does the talking in 'Olive Kitteridge' 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Take Archie and the Blossom twins’ hair — so red that it’s clownish, like dyed cotton candy. Review: In ‘Riverdale,’ Archie Is Hot and Haunted 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z I went through a lot of makeup remover and still thought I looked slightly clownish in photos from the night. How to Do a Makeup Look in 5 Minutes. Tops. 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Hurt adds a clownish fillip of his own here, as Krapp playfully moves in and out of the square of bright light dividing him from the surrounding darkness. | 'Krapp?s Last Tape': ?Krapp?s Last Tape,? With John Hurt, at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T03:01:00Z Dancers suddenly walk heavily on their heels with a clownish emphasis, or stand flourishing clenched fists. Review: Pennsylvania Ballet, at the Merriam Theater, Shows Exuberance and Panache 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z As you'd expect from a performer who started in theatre, with the clownish outfit Population 3, Montgomery appears as a collection of broadly drawn characters. Lucy Montgomery 2010-09-21T21:01:00Z The former was extraordinary; an extended moment of clownish, life-changing stupidity wrapped around a kernel of true nastiness. It's just not Woking: Prince Andrew has already ruined The Crown 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Bob returns often, and sometimes clownishly, to talk of redeeming himself, but the show is not simply ridiculing his narcissism or his vilifying as a patriarchal tool. The Provocative, Preposterous Power of “Insatiable” 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z The first thing that stood out was her singularly silly physicality, herky-jerky, gesticulating clownishly, a parade of buffoonish confidence. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z It’s telling that the resounding wisdom of the film – that “anger only begets more anger” – is imparted by the physically abusive Charlie, who is quoting his clownish 19-year-old girlfriend Penelope. Why Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Those who don’t call him a buffoon, clownish, arrogant and pompous. Boris Johnson, London’s lively mayor, writes about Churchill and muses about his future There, she remains as clownish and self-deprecating as ever, a droll observer of human folly and every viewer’s best friend. Television: Ellen DeGeneres, ?American Idol? and the Power of Niceness 2010-04-04T02:34:00Z All of Hutchings's talent for clownish serenity were on show here, and it seemed like a star-making performance as the play transferred to the West End. Geoffrey Hutchings obituary 2010-07-11T17:25:00Z "Home" evokes comfort or claustrophobia, connection or entanglement, while "bodies" is variously carnal, mundane, clownish and transcendent. Home is where the toaster, couch and gymnastic tussles are, in UMAMI performance's 'home | bodies' 2010-08-05T21:58:00Z Many nonreligious people find this prohibition alienating if not offensive, but in presenting himself clownishly struggling to remain polite, his self-deprecating joke tries to normalize it. What’s So Funny About Orthodox Judaism? This Comic Has One Answer 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z The pointy-capped jester of a doll by the bedhead is less frightening than the Spirit of the Dead, but nonetheless vaguely malign – the clownish plaything that is also the impresario of her dreams or nightmares. Gauguin: Into the mystic 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z Once there, she crosses paths with two clownish compatriots looking to purchase a Washington safe house for the king of Morocco. ‘Force of Circumstance’: Casablanca in the East Village 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z If there is something clownish about the way her paintings mimic their demise, they are also often near-balletic. Angela de la Cruz's brush with death 2010-04-05T21:00:00Z Only Alan Tudyk, as the clownishly dowdy Georgetown interviewer, produces the one thing "Premature" strives so furiously yet fruitlessly to achieve: laughter. 'Premature' thinks crudeness is a teen's path to success 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z He bathed and shaved irregularly; his suits, stained with chemicals, were clownishly baggy because he feared that tight clothing caused internal bleeding. An Inventor’s Life That Was Incandescent Any Way You Look at It 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z “She was clownish and shrill last night. Just awful.” For grateful NBC, Savannah Guthrie changes the subject 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z He becomes much more mannered, clownish and precisely broad. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Steve Martin: The Television Stuff’: A Comedian’s Evolution 2012-09-17T21:49:26Z In a similar vein, department stores and retailers specializing in beauty products have halted the sometimes transformative, sometimes clownish, experience of playing with makeup. To sample is human. But our beloved lipstick testers and cheese cubes aren’t coming back anytime soon. 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z The show fares less well with Sganarelle, Don Juan’s clownish valet, who’s fearful of heaven’s wrath and horrified by his unbelieving master’s recklessness. Review: A Molière-Born Cad for the Ages in ‘Don Juan’ 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z The doves are edgy, cute and a little clownish; the cardinals are confident but wary; the flycatchers are manic aeronauts; the warblers are always on the move. One of a gardener’s greatest joys: The return of birds during nesting season 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z And the movie’s framing device, presenting Hart as a half-suave, half-clownish James Bond–style hero, is wobbly and strained. Kevin Hart's Live Concert Movie Makes an Entire City Laugh At Once 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z She fails to cry, again and again and again, a close-up on her face projected on the wall showcases her clownish expressions. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z It's a wildly uneven film, ranging from the monotonously ceremonial to the absurd, with the acrobatic star proving giddy to the point of clownish. How Robin Hood became a socialist 2010-05-11T21:01:00Z As she saw it, the on-screen outfits looked “clownish,” like things you would see at a “costume party in Venice.” Noticed: ?Hunger Games? Fashion Fails to Impress Experts 2012-04-06T20:51:25Z They are dressed in clownish fashion, with brightly painted faces and wigs, and they add a fanciful element that sits oddly with the somewhat sardonic tone of the rest of the ballet. Dance Review: ‘Cinderella’ at Edinburgh International Festival 2012-08-31T22:50:44Z “King of the Hill” was an animated show full of clownish characters. Texas TV: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z The 5th Circuit judges combine their clownish approach to the law with a clownish confusion over the federal rules of procedure they are bound to apply. Column: Right-wing judges are on a mission to stop the FDA from warning consumers about snake oil 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Atlantic puffins — clownish seabirds with colorful bills and waddling gaits — had their second consecutive rebound year for fledging chicks after suffering a catastrophic 2021, said scientists who monitor the birds. Maine’s puffin colonies recovering in the face of climate change 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z But his often clownish personality and repeated plastic surgery hid a keen political mind and an almost uncanny talent for tapping into the fears and concerns of ordinary Italians. Billionaire Berlusconi brought burlesque to Italian politics 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z But also, Trump's clownish behavior has only grown worse since he left office in disgrace. Stop pretending anyone but Trump will be the 2024 GOP nominee. 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z "I think they're defeating Mad, because they're going beyond anything we can think of doing to show the clownish nature of their claims," he said. Al Jaffee: Record-breaking US cartoonist dies at 102 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z The man is dangerous and clownish, boorish and fascinating, as crude as a dirty joke and as garish as a casino. Trump’s stranger-than-fiction moment | Horsey cartoon 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z In the images, the singer and movie star can be seen wearing clownish makeup, a red blazer, a black-and-white blouse, a black miniskirt and patterned black tights. Lady Gaga spotted filming 'Joker 2' in New York. Is she the new Harley Quinn? 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z Johnson avoided his usual colorful metaphors, his Latin quotes, his clownish shtick. Boris Johnson says ‘hand on heart’ he didn’t lie to Parliament about Partygate 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z And the loud claims of patriotism asserted by the clownish Greene and Gaetz do not hide the fact that they are sycophantic apologists for an enemy of America. Anti-Ukraine Republicans enable tyranny over democracy 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Some Twitter users called the inclusion of Chappelle “disappointing,” “embarrassing” and “clownish,” while others were excited to see him perform. Ms. Lauryn Hill, Diddy, Dave Chappelle, Lil Uzi Vert lead 2023 Roots Picnic lineup 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z The state, an emergent presidential battleground, has become a political fun house, a carnival of continuing election denialism where clownish politicians and grifters proudly parade. Column: In Arizona, a crackpot gets promoted and underscores the danger to democracy 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z “Hogan’s Heroes,” in which Allied soldiers in a POW camp bested their clownish German army captors with espionage schemes, played the war strictly for laughs during its 1965-71 run. Robert Clary, last of the ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ stars, dies at 96 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Trump's clownish conduct only makes total submission to him more humiliating, and therefore more irresistible, to the Republican leadership. Trump's announcement proves it, again: Republicans aren't tough — they're a bunch of weenies 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z And not just the Rams’ final desperate play Sunday, a series of passes, laterals and clownish moves designed to perhaps generate another miracle against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium. Rams' offense and defense fail down stretch as Tom Brady lifts Tampa on final drive 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Still, he dismissed the event as a “clownish” stunt, Italy’s right-wing government slammed for anti-rave decree 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Indeed it was, but the clownish Tuberville, who once claimed that the three branches of government were the “the House, the Senate and the executive,” is not the only one making such assertions. Opinion | It’s just murder living in a red state 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z “His very light modifications … transform an iconic and respectable work into something clownish and subversive,” wrote Kruger and Storr. Column: Is it a Warhol, or stolen property? 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z How else to explain what looks more like a clownish and vindictive political stunt than a corruption probe? Column: Is sheriff search of Supervisor Sheila Kuehl's home just a vindictive political stunt? 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z A clownish chattering man, his punctured belly a see-through hole, attempts a comfortable conversation with his own bloody red innards, piled up in the other seat. Review: At MOCA, painter Tala Madani playfully smashes the patriarchy with pie 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The circus master, in this case, was the clownish former president who announced the search. Opinion | George Will too quickly blamed the FBI 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Mark Brnovich reported that, of the 282 deceased voters alleged by Cyber Ninjas, the clownish firm Republicans enlisted to do an election “audit,” only one was actually dead on Election Day. Opinion | In the GOP, the paranoid fringe is becoming the establishment 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z He also described how Trump and his criminally clownish lawyers, Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, repeatedly pressured him to set in motion a process to award Arizona’s electoral votes to Trump, not Biden. Column: The Jan. 6 hearings are sorting real heroes from the fakes 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z The tone of twee amusement set by the jaunty score, which portends a silly, perhaps even clownishly derisive caricature, one that looks down on its protagonist with an air of superiority? Review | ‘The Phantom of the Open’: A slyly beguiling portrait of a golf legend 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Did they take jumbo tokes of clownishly large doobies along they way? Cypress Hill celebrates 4/20 with a career-spanning documentary. And weed. Lots of weed 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z The typical minstrel show featured clownish plantation characters such as Bones and Tambo, whose songs and jokes made fun of Mr. Interlocutor, a pompous straight man. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The clownish performances by Mr. Graham and others continue them on that trajectory. Opinion | Republicans boast they have not pulled a Kavanaugh. In fact, they’ve treated Jackson worse. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z The scandal, inevitably called "Partygate," would be deeply embarrassing to Johnson — if he were less clownish and more capable of embarrassment. Opinion | The circus music is winding down for BoJo the Clown 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z For all of the public clownish antics by Giuliani and company, the plotting that was going on behind closed doors was even worse. Trumpworld's delusions and the real world threat 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Interviews with more than 40 current and former members of his group, critics and other associates portray a charismatic figure whose frequently clownish acts belie a sharp intellect and keen media savvy. Curtis Sliwa Has New York’s Attention Again. Was That Always the Point? 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z It would be hard to invent a more clownish and ridiculous use of the filibuster if you tried. Mitch McConnell makes a mockery of Sinema and Manchin's defense of the filibuster 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Yet the conspiratorial and at times clownish attempts to overturn the election — especially by Trump's legal team — don't make an unprecedented effort to destroy America's democratic traditions any less mendacious. Will the mainstream media ever face its failure to tell the truth about Jan. 6? 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z The cast of challengers included clownish pretenders and tired retreads. Column: The recall was a colossal waste. But don't expect California's GOP to learn from it 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z With clownish red lips, ears pointing straight out, eyes fixed in a dazed stare and hands outstretched, the figurines were grotesque caricatures of Black men. Why finding mammy dolls at the Rose Bowl Flea Market was an unwanted reminder of racism 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z In addition, the clownish antics work to reinforce the illusion that GOP activists are trying to create: that this is a "grassroots" movement, instead of the carefully constructed astroturf campaign it is. Don't be fooled by parents' "critical race theory" tantrums — they're a part of the GOP's strategy 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z The video forever changed the way color was used in hair: It was no longer clownish but something that conveyed style and character. The Joy of Black Hair 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z He’s a Trump-style populist, content with a clownish part in the Republican Party’s circus. Opinion | Marco Rubio Deserves Ivanka Trump 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Juxtapose that with Monica Hesse’s Jan. 13 Style column about the clownish nature of some of the participants, “A horrifying, ridiculous display of masculinity,” comparing their descent on D.C. to a field trip. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Capturing the content and context of the Capitol riot 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Trump’s inept legal challenges amounted to a clownish coup attempt. Opinion | President Trump has committed treason 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z It is fortunate for the country that Trump is a clownish figure. Opinion | Let the anti-constitutional Republicans reveal themselves 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z He’s now lashing out at Republican leaders who have finally opted to follow the constitutional order rather than continuing to indulge his clownish attempt at a coup. Opinion | Trump, in his final days, goes full King Lear 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z With his bad suits, stupid hair and clownish lies, Trump is a living illustration of why authoritarians worship power so much — because only power can imbue a buffoon as ridiculous as Donald Trump with importance. Trump's outrageous lies used to be terrifying — now they're just pathetic 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z On Sunday, it felt like we should add another word to the alliteration, one that offers a stern warning: clownish. Perspective | The coronavirus has turned the NFL into a joke, and nobody should be laughing 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z The clownish servants known as “Black Pete” are usually played by white people in black face paint, frizzy wigs and red lipstick. Drive-ins let Dutch kids have socially distanced meeting with St. Nicholas 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z The comments ranged from jocular “Who is going to tell him?” reminders that Reagan is ineligible to outright condemnations of Hogan’s choice as “clownish,” childish or an act of cowardice. Trump critics who embraced Hogan are baffled by his vote for long-dead Reagan 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z But to focus on Trump’s clownish performance is to miss what was truly disturbing about what he said — and didn’t. Opinion | Trump used his rally to air his personal grievances. He could learn from another event. 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Their accusations against political figures are so ridiculous, and their press conferences so clownish and cheekily scripted, that it seems like reality TV already. Jacob Wohl and the women: The tale of a right-wing scam artist's downward trajectory 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z He was quoted by one official as saying: “Shame on Europe. Stop this clownish show!” What you need to know about the coronavirus right now 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z These weak laggards seem to be working to hide the gross incompetence of a president who is clueless and clownish as the virus suffocates the nation and the world. Opinion | Americans must take care of their health-care heroes 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z These are not healthy days for satire, no matter how clownish. Review: ‘The Hunt’ is a clunky swipe at a divided America 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z When that became a debacle, they switched midstream back to the clownish allegations that everyone they didn’t like was a Russian spy, operative or troll. Blaming Trump for the ‘Wuhan Virus’ 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z With its clownish platform heels and lurid alien colour scheme, the Vaporfly is not a shoe for blending into the crowd. Running reaches crossroads as Nike-led footwear arms race infects mainstream | Jonathan Liew 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z I cannot use this clownish, ludicrous behaviour by these ridiculous politicians who are beyond parody. William Gibson: ‘I was losing a sense of how weird the real world was' 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z This behavior from Republicans is worse than clownish antics. Impeachment: There goes Trump's "hearsay" defense; GOP tries to out whistleblower 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Okonma flickers between thoughtful and clownish in the blink of an eye. Tyler, the Creator: ‘Theresa May’s gone, so I’m back in the UK’ 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Instead, “Joker” is a mesmerizing, misjudged attempt to marry the madness of a disturbed individual to today’s violent and clownish times. Review: Funny how? In ‘Joker’ a villain turns ‘70s anti-hero 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Most conservatives who voted for Mr. Trump are under no illusion about him, his economic views or his often clownish, sometimes crude, behavior. Opinion | The rise of ‘national conservatism’ 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z In contrast, Derbez’s slapsticky style is practically vaudevillian, or even rodeo clownish, as he pulls faces and subjects his body to humiliation. Review: ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’ gives us the Latinx heroine we need right now 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Under the clownish charlatan due to succeed her – drunk on rightwing populism, English nationalism, messianic delusion and Conservative existential angst – it is now a tangible possibility. No deal would be disastrous. Labour must lead a national campaign to stop it | Owen Jones 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z “The Irony of the Negro Policeman,” a crazy-quilt jumble of passages in varied techniques, is clownish. Basquiat’s Memorial to a Young Artist Killed by Police 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Mostly, it's being ignored by both the media and the White House, drowned out by more dramatic stories and, of course, Trump's clownish antics. Trump loves drama: Now Democrats need to use that addiction against him 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z A leadership contest is already under way, with Boris Johnson—the clownish former mayor of London and former Foreign Minister—the most likely candidate. The Brexit Party Arrives in the European Parliament 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z But however clownish or sinister, these parties are not easy to dislodge; it’s not clear that voters will punish either the far right or Kurz in the next election. What the Green Party Surge Means for Europe’s Tenuous Future 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z “It’s nothing but an astronomical gimmick! It’s over the top! It’s so over the top, it’s clownish!” Trump's budget to land with a thud on Monday 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z A clownish interlude in the republic’s decline, not the Rubicon itself. Opinion | The Limp Caudillo 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z The restaurant was notable for its logo featuring a clownish, grinning, black cartoon character, and for its 12-foot-high entrance in the shape of that grinning minstrel-inspired face. The Virginia blackface scandal opens a window into Seattle’s own troubles with race 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Overall, if just half of Stein’s votes in Michigan, as well as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, had gone to Clinton instead, Trump would still be a clownish reality show host today, rather than president. Howard Schultz and Steve Schmidt: Agents of Trump, whether they admit it or not 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z This culture has oozed from entertainment to government; in the case of clownish Stone, it may be laughable. Opinion | The knocking of FBI agents must have been music to Roger Stone’s ears 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z For decades, Stone has alternately played a clownish buffoon and serious political insider. Robert Mueller Got Roger Stone 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Blue-footed boobies, birds known for their bright feet and clownish waddle, line the shores here. As Seas Warm, Galápagos Islands Face a Giant Evolutionary Test 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The actress described another dressing room incident when Rush danced “totally naked” in front of her in a “playful, clownish manner” while she was removing her makeup. Geoffrey Rush accused of inappropriate behavior by ‘Orange Is the New Black’ actress Yael Stone 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z It’s a harrowing cautionary tale showing that democracy can be sabotaged even more diabolically by a trusted insider, respected by most of the press, than by a clownish outsider, disdained by most of the press. Opinion | Who’s the Real American Psycho? 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z “I was told to keep my hands at my sides; it was considered shameful, clownish, to be seen signing in public. Today people pay to see my sign.” Bernard Bragg, pioneering deaf actor who brought sign language to the stage, dies at 90 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z China’s state-run media tends to characterize Trump as a clownish buffoon. Trump insists China respects his 'very, very large brain' 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z First, a clownish intervention in the last days of a presidential election that might have helped elect Donald Trump. Opinion | The Senate has become a factory of suspicion and contempt 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Ideally, this bird, with its tuxedo-like black-and-white plumage and clownish orange beak, would have voided its bowels into a stainless steel bowl she calls the “puffin toilet.” Why Are Puffins Vanishing? The Hunt for Clues Goes Deep (Into Their Burrows) 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Volle’s impersonation is especially convincing: he captures the antic, almost clownish personality that many of Wagner’s contemporaries recalled. Wagner On Trial at the Bayreuth Festival 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z We mostly laughed and pointed at the silliness of his clownish pitchman gibberish. Donald Trump may be the worst liar in political history: And it’s getting worse 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z It must have been elegant, sitting on what was once one of the tallest buildings in New York City, but now, sitting on the ground, it is a tall clownish cap among the trees. A Hamptons Question: Do Good Hedgerows Make Good Neighbors? 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z That brings us back to the subject of the 14th Amendment itself, the battle over its meaning and significance, and the clownish but potentially deadly turn it has just taken in our public life. Right’s attack on birthright citizenship: A new front in the battle for the Constitution 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Then, during class, the only question he was asked, usually by a clownish kid in the back row, was whether he could please repeat something. “Omakase” 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z This crowd is too clownish to be Stalinist. Opinion | The Banana States of America 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z I recently asked a senior congressional Republican why Congress is so willing to defer to Trump’s clownish foreign policy antics. John Bolton is a hawk itching for war – and few there to stop him | Walter Shapiro 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Italy was often called the "Pulcinella" country, a reference to a clownish figure common in early representation and Carnival. 5 Years Ago Luigi Di Maio Was Living at Home. Now He May Lead Italy. 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z The parents said that “Annie’s death, her murder, has never been seriously investigated by the Baltimore Police Department — not in the initial homicide investigation, and not in the clownish cold-case investigation in 2013.” Parents of Annie McCann, found dead in Baltimore of ‘Bactine poisoning,’ press Gov. Hogan to intervene 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z It accurately forecast the Trump we would see in 2017: eccentric, uncouth, clownish and vicious. Opinion | 2017 was bad. It may have been Trump’s high point. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z So what could possibly be the motive for alarming voters and looking clownish at the same time? Trump’s dancing monkeys break bipartisan hearts 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Throughout his tenure in the Senate Mr Franken tried to shed his clownish persona and establish himself as a serious policymaker. The rise and fall of Al Franken 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z As far as clownish Trump is concerned this reckless and inexperienced prince can't do wrong! Yemen’s War Is a Tragedy. Is It Also a Crime? 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z A year in to this clownish but toxic presidency, with no imminent end in sight, Bannon's predicted victory may well unfold. Trump Pitches ‘America First’ Trade Policy at Asia-Pacific Gathering 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Once a leader of the pack, his clownish, prankster approach on NBC’s “The Tonight Show” is apparently no longer the best medicine for an agitated public. Robin Thede joins the late-night fray to speak to viewers historically excluded from the demographic 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Without high definition or color, Hollywood’s early makeup artists didn’t need to worry whether their work might appear clownish offscreen. We’re Living in the Golden Age of Contouring 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z While they don’t have the clownish psychopathy of Trump’s tweets or the hysteria of some liberal media-hall monitors, they are almost charmingly disingenuous. Intersectional-what? Feminism's problem with jargon is that any idiot can pick it up and have a go 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z A war won’t obscure the fact that the administration’s inconsistency, hypocrisy and clownish lack of discipline undermines U.S. strength and stature in Asia. Beyond threatening tweets, President Trump needs a cohesive Asia strategy 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z His supporters do not care about the Affordable Care Act except as an example of incompetent federal overreach, failed and impervious to correction by a clownish legislature. Opinion | Repeal-and-replace must confront health-care reality 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Yes, I’m sure it’s quite a blessing to be in charge of scooping the rhetorical feces from the cage of a clownish supervillain who needed four tries to correctly spell “hereby.” Donald Trump in Wonderland: Literally everything our president says and does reflects the opposite of reality 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z He stars as a clueless talent manager who does absolutely nothing right and makes tons of bad decisions yet still has a stable of awful, delusional, clownish performers who depend upon him. ‘Fate of the Furious,’ ‘Sandy Wexler’ and other films to watch with your kids 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Trump’s snap decision to attack will force Chinese officials to reappraise a figure whom they had come to see as clownish and manageable. When China’s Dinner Partner Went To War 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z The chairman’s contradictory and clownish grandstanding makes that a certainty. Opinion | Shut down Nunes’s investigation — and investigate him for leaking 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, to take the most recent example, he complained, via Twitter, about a music video in which the rapper Snoop Dogg points a toy gun at a clownish Trump look-alike. Opinion | Admit it: We love grousing about the other side’s double standards 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Seen from sophisticated aeries such as New York or London, their politics have often seemed clownish and tinhorn. Watching President Trump with Horror Around the World 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z If Trump’s opponents behave as clownishly as he does — like the congressmen who are narcissistically boycotting the inaugural — the whole government will get further delegitimized. The internal invasion 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z “I found clowns aren’t needed as much now since the world’s become so clownish.” Put all your TV viewing eggs into 'Baskets,' the dark comedy returning to FX 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, has irritated his counterparts with clownish comments. The “WTO option” for Brexit is far from straightforward 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The pastime harks back to the days when Newfoundlanders supplemented meager winter diets with fresh meat on the wing, eating everything from clownish puffins to the great northern gannet. Hunting ‘Turr’ in Newfoundland’s Frigid Waters 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z I think they’re defeating Mad, because they’re going beyond anything we can think of doing to show the clownish nature of their claims. 95-year-old Mad cartoonist Al Jaffee: 'The world is full of bloviators' 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z If Trump’s opponents behave as clownishly as he does, the whole government will get further delegitimized. The internal invasion 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z It was a pretty clownish piece of goalkeeping, incompetence on a grand scale. Premier League should learn from Pep Guardiola, not pour scorn on him | Jacob Steinberg 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z A new biography portrays Adolf Hitler as a clownish, deceitful narcissist who took control of a powerful nation thanks to slick propaganda and a dysfunctional elite that failed to block his rise. Hoboken, Wells Fargo, F.C.C.: Your Thursday Evening Briefing 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z But he now wants nothing to do with the clownish candidate. Editorials from around New England 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z With their elaborate yellow eyebrows, crested penguins are both unmistakable and slightly clownish. Why Crested Penguins Always Lay Doomed Eggs Some young male Trump supporters seem attracted to the candidate’s clownish behavior, to the fact that he’s a kind of anti-establishment performer who says whatever he wants. Dump That Donald Trump Supporter 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z What’s strange is that this clownish demeanor is pretty much the exact opposite of his disposition when he pitches. Mets’ Closer Jeurys Familia Is an Attack Dog and Barks Like One Too 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z If these concerns about Palin’s clownish antics sound familiar, it’s probably because so many of the identical complaints describe Palin’s presidential candidate. Sarah Palin takes aim at 'RAT' (or 'Republicans Against Trump') 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The barriers to entry for the best journals in the sciences and humanities mean that – at least in theory – it is impossible to publish clownish, evidence-free hypotheses. Why bad ideas refuse to die | Steven Poole 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Furthermore, news broke on Friday that GOP delegates are planning to defect from Trump during the convention in favor of another less clownish nominee. Crisis within his campaign: Canning Corey Lewandowski won’t stop Trump from sinking further 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Though others weren’t quite so clownish, Trump wasn’t alone. The debate over 'Islamic terrorism' goes off the rails 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z And as we survey the two parties it’s clear that the Republicans have more problems than just their dangerous and clownish nominee or their out-of-control Tea Party base. Obama, Warren, Biden: They’re with her — Hillary’s all-star surrogates give her a massive edge over Trump 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z The clownish Herrera was an emotional “players’ manager” who kept his hair uncombed, his heart on his sleeve and his strategy an unchanging open book. Streaking Mexico changes coaches, not results 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z At the root of the problem is a deliberate distortion of black history, in which Africans are depicted as subhuman and African Americans as brutish, clownish and mentally dullard. Obama tells Howard students there’s no time like the present. But a look to the past couldn’t hurt. 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z He’s a death’s-head jester cackling on the edge of the void, the clownish host of one last celebration of America’s bombast, bigotry and spectacular ignorance. Appetite for destruction: White America’s death wish is the source of Trump’s hidden support 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z As Dionne put it, the “instinct that Americans would never choose as their president a clownish peddler of racial and religious stereotypes who made everything up as he went along was right from the start.” The voters have spoken: Never Trump 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z First, he was a clownish figure in a freak show. Say It Ain't Ted, Wisconsin 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z The instinct that Americans would never choose as their president a clownish peddler of racial and religious stereotypes who made everything up as he went along was right from the start. This time it really is the end of Trump. Really. 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z It is hard to watch the desperate, dignified families huddling around the phone-charging stations in the government shelter in this Balkan village as the clownish spectacle of a presidential campaign unfolds at home. As Europe falls apart, America clowns around 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z It’s easy to understand why some Democrats are so eager to face Trump: he’s Donald Trump, a clownish reality TV star with shady business practices who quite deliberately says racist, sexist, and creepy stuff. Is President Trump possible? The obvious answer is “no,” but it’d be silly to underestimate him again if he faces Hillary or Bernie 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Bernie repeats the pieties of the 1960s New Left with a straight face, as deadpan as Trump is clownish. Viewpoint: Are Donald Trump and his rivals a big joke? - BBC News 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z An optimistic interpretation is that Kim, giving the lie to his clownish, bon-viveur image, is actually being rather Machiavellian by setting the stage for a new opening to the west. Kim Jong-un goes for nuclear option in familiar brinkmanship 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z But these are special times and harrowing circumstances given the clownish status of the GOP and, in particular, its would-be nominee Trump. CNN has a dangerous case of Donald Trump denial: How they’re pretending this is business as usual—and letting the country go off the rails 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The trick is to express exuberance in your attire without crossing over to clownish. Miami’s Arty and Stylish In-Crowd 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z He would sometimes publish melancholy or depressing posts on Facebook, Ramirez said, even though his page was otherwise littered with pictures of him smiling or making clownish faces while wearing a bicycle helmet. Enrique Marquez: Why is the FBI questioning a friend of the San Bernardino shooter? 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z But Trump is also clearly tormented by the clownish way he’s often portrayed and the delight that the media seem to take in his struggles. ‘I. Will. Never. Leave. This. Race.’ 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The clownish grin of a bridled parrotfish reveals its power tools: grinding teeth used to scrape away algae, a mostly beneficial move. 2 Countries Reveal How Divided the World Is on Climate Change 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Bright-red lipstick extended almost clownishly beyond the contours of her lips. An Activist in the Sex-Trafficking Underworld of Iraq 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Trump’s clownish facial expressions of mockery and protest, caught on split screen while others spoke, did not help him convey gravitas. The beginning of the end of Donald Trump? 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z He is known far and wide for his booming voice and clownish persona just as he's known for interviewing political leaders and reuniting families. Don Francisco prepares for last 'Sábado Gigante': 'I don't think I'll cry' 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Trump is a clownish figure far removed from the sort of seriousness they strive to cultivate. The media made this f**king monster: How phony objectivity helped create Donald Trump 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z When you hear the word “kangaroo,” you probably think about those big, clownish marsupials that hop around Australia and carry their young in pouches on their bellies. Poop Could Help Save Rare Tree Kangaroo from Extinction 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Sure, that’s to be expected by a White House candidate who’s dominating the race, but given Trump’s clownish reputation, it’s nevertheless striking to see the dynamic unfold before our eyes. In the race to the bottom on immigration, Walker makes his move 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z I was 10 and I thought Lucy looked funny; the bright shock of orange hair, the clownish big eyes, painted-on lips and husky-voiced shouting. Sarah Kendall on Lucille Ball, slapstick queen of a comedy revolution 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z The company’s latest clownish behavior compounds this troubling situation. Hanergy Sends in the Clowns to Hong Kong 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z When some are genuinely curious whether a candidate is a clownish performance artist, that says quite a bit about the presidential hopeful. Miami congressman sees Trump as a Democratic plant 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z By now, and due mostly to his total lack of self-control, everyone knows what he said about Mexicans, and they’re verbally and deservedly smacking him in the back of his clownish head. Donald Trump is already doomed: Why his campaign is a bigger disaster than his hair 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z But none of them displayed the clownish, disgraceful antics on the course that Horschel did on Sunday. Spieth's Grand Slam hype, DJ's latest tragedy, Fox's rough start, and a new LPGA star is born (sort of): The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z He went on to star in 30 Rock as the self-centered and clownish, yet lovable, Tracy Jordan, a role that won him an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Tracy Morgan Promises A Lucrative Return To Comedy 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The only problem with this plan is that it doesn’t solve the core problem with what transpired during the 2012 cycle’s clownish debate season: the content of those debates. GOP’s nagging “clown show” problem: How does it trim down the debate roster? 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z By mid-day, the clownish former mayor was seemed eager to embarrass himself, insisting, “President Obama didn’t live through September 11, I did” Giuliani falls in ditch, keeps digging 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Sure, it's a little eye-popping that someone from the most respected magazine in the country is joining the most clownish startup in the tech boom. The New Yorker's music critic just quit to work for Rap Genius 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z But, after 2004, I no longer enjoyed the game, mainly because the Rumsfeldian contumely, the shenanigans of ideologues, and the short-term memories of clownish officials were all getting people killed in a mindless war. In and Out of Time in Iraq 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z In the course of his week at a Polish charnel house he encounters clownish American hippies, one angry German and even develops a crush on a nun. Our Favorite Books of 2014: Newsweek Staff Picks Putin’s clownish behavior should not mask the grave danger that he represents to the West, to the world, even to his own country. We're in a Cold War With Vladimir Putin, Not Russia 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z But when it comes to Kissinger, Adams and Goodman turn him into a clownish villain. 'Death of Klinghoffer': Private Grief Turned Into Public Entertainment 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z All of this was more than enough training for Hart to recognize the clownish stakeout that had all but taken over his street. How Gary Hart’s Downfall Forever Changed American Politics 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Instead, the gaijin tarento were chosen for their ability to appear friendly, even clownish — and to add to the overall style of rollicking, slapstick humor found on Japanese television. American’s Star Power Unrivaled in Japan 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Like Stockman, her clownish antics are hardly worth getting excited about. Why Bachmann (sometimes) matters 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z It’s something else for this clownish duo to argue that the president is “determined” to undermine the United States. Cheneys reach the bottom of the barrel, drill deeper 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Just after his entrance, with his owner, Launce, a clownish servant, he is insulted. In ‘Two Gentlemen,’ Shakespeare’s One Dog 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z In one episode, Mr. Youssef appeared in a clownish black-and-gold hat to parody one that Mr. Morsi wore to receive an honorary degree from a Pakistani university, and he spoofed the president’s meandering, conspiratorial speeches. Citing Pressure and Threats, Egypt’s Answer to Jon Stewart Calls It Quits 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z My investigation, as described in my book, Black Klansman, detailed the seriousness of these types of individuals, but it also detailed the clownish nature that is all too often an inherent part of their nature. The "Black Klansman" answered your questions 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Illiterate artisans who made woodblocks for books in medieval times were bedeviled by the same problem, and their misprinted letters added a clownish levity to dry Latin manuscripts. True Stories of Trauma and Madness—and Why Portrait Sitters Tend to Face Left [Excerpt] 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z US foreign relations come across as "clownish" because they're never informed by history and are therefore riddled with mistakes. Putin knows history, Kerry does not 2014-04-04T18:18:43Z Now you know why Kerry, Obama, Victoria Nuland and all the others in on the Ukraine caper come over to me as clownish. Someone teach John Kerry about history! 2014-04-03T22:59:00Z Gox was its “clownish and incompetent management from the top that has persisted for three years.” Bitcoin Mass Hysteria: The Disaster that Brought Down Mt. Gox 2014-02-28T23:24:00Z The version of events jibes well with media accounts that portray Kim Jong Un as a Dr. Evil-esque figure, a clownish, brutal young despot that finds amusement in wielding his terrible power. Don't Believe North Korea's Horrible Dog Tale 2014-01-03T18:35:25Z Opinions ran from portentous credulity to merry mockery, with lots of clownish commentary and anguished hand-wringing. Harold Camping, Radio Entrepreneur Who Predicted World’s End, Dies at 92 2013-12-17T21:39:17Z On an average-sized male wrist it is a little inelegant but not clownish. Should You Buy A Pebble Watch At Best Buy Today? 2013-07-07T16:02:00Z He was fatally undermined by his failure to shake a conviction among the talkative urban elites that he was the clownish pawn of a secret society of religious zealots. Hounded from office, Mursi finds he and Egypt 'don't mix' 2013-07-03T20:14:32Z Comments on the petition described the new badge as "amateurish", "poorly designed", "ridiculous", "clownish" and "not fitting a club of Everton's rich history and stature". Everton 'sorry' over club badge row 2013-05-28T19:07:32Z “Without Omar clowning around on stage, how is Scotland Yard going to monitor the less clownish people who sit in his audience?” The Lede: British Attack Suspect Followed Fringe Preacher Once Considered a Laughing Stock 2013-05-24T00:16:37Z Even as Indian politicians and officials continue to be clownish, the new demonstrators and the television news media have become natural and potent allies who believe they can change things around here. Letter from India: Indian Government Unable to Deal With Public Rage 2013-04-24T11:41:10Z Here’s the thing, though: neither West nor Walsh was defeated because of their clownish behavior. Allen West Concedes Defeat, but Tea Party Isn't Over 2012-11-20T19:05:22Z His appeal is clownish: fine for a fun job like City Hall, but a liability for anyone aspiring to lead the country, in charge of the military and the NHS. It's a long shot. But don't bet against Boris Johnson going for gold 2012-08-03T20:00:06Z So how can they be so tone deaf when giving managerial jobs to loose cannons, who at best are high-stakes gambles and at worst clownish embarrassments? Ozzie Guillen should have been stopped long before now 2012-04-10T22:14:23Z How rude, uncouth, clownish, even vulgar, looked the big, brawny, ungainly trooper whom people had to salute as King. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z I can only say, that it is not different in essence from the moral effect of Richardson's book just described, though the tone is more clownish. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z As a clownish Fellow was driving his cart along a deep miry lane, the wheels stuck so fast in the clay, that the horses could not draw them out. ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z Its more than 40-year history is a tale of technical brilliance and blown chances, clownish marketing stunts and high-stakes legal dramas. After Battles With Intel, AMD Plots New Course 2012-02-22T22:10:21Z So again— "As one mountain-bred, Rugged, and clownish, if some city's walls He chance to enter, round him stares agape." Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z They who incited her very brothers, clownish hobbledehoys, and her mawkish sister to rise up against her and against him? The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z Daniel Crossley does a superb turn as the clownish Cosmo, and his “Make ‘em Laugh” number is packed with clever sight gags. ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ Splashes Up Storm of Dance: London Stage 2012-02-17T07:47:23Z His clownish features, his high cheek-bones, and queer bulbous nose are familiar to us; for, something exaggerated by the caricaturist, they form week by week the trailing mask which mars the cover of "Punch." Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z But this clownish jollity grows rougher and rougher, and the crack and sting from a coachman's whip tempt a reply with the pilgrim's staff. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z The legitimate is scoffed at, the stage is defiled by the ribald jest, the clownish low-comedy star, the dancing and singing comedian, and vaudeville—ah, me! that we should have fallen into such evil ways. Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star 2012-01-20T03:00:15.013Z To all demands the clownish borrower smilingly cried “long live the queen,” until at last his existence as court fool was in danger of being ended. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z The Nobility and Gentry at Cologne are as polite as they are elsewhere; but the Vulgar are extremely clownish. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-07T03:00:17.127Z I never in my whole Life, saw People more indolent and clownish than those of Blanckenbourg, and the neighbouring Towns. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-06T03:00:25.023Z These ancestors of Roman prelates were poor proletaries, dirty, alike clownish, clothed in filthy gabardines, having the bad breath of people who live badly. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z Farcical, clownish, if you will, the story resembles those clowns who carry daggers under their motley. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z The zany at the circus can go through no more clownish tricks than the chat. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z His clownish crudity had softened, in all its raw lines. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Chichester turned his head away, as from a jest too clownish to be worthy of attention. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z A few laughed, but the majority were silent, not liking the clownish exhibition of bad taste. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z The lines that seemed so uncouth and clownish are discovered to be the refinement of time. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Adored by supporters in poor areas, he is viewed as a clownish but dangerous dictator by foes who say Chavez wants to install an unwanted Cuban-style communism in Venezuela. Venezuela's Chavez declares himself free of cancer 2011-10-20T19:18:23Z So now how to secure her? how to charm her away from any clownish sweetheart she may chance to have? Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z I was almost terrified at such sweet politeness, I, who was accustomed to German clownish digs in the ribs without apology. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z It took Nyjer Morgan over a year in Washington to transform himself from a refreshingly offbeat clubhouse character to an outrageous whack-job whose clownish act was wearing thin with teammates and opponents alike. Nyjer Morgan helping Brewers, but brawl with St. Louis Cardinals shows Tony Plush could doom them 2011-09-08T16:52:00Z If it is Jewish, when mixed with mead or wine it will boil; if clownish, being torpid and heavy, it will sink. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z Tell me, my friend, I pray, and put to shame This most unpolish'd clownish fortune. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z He found the Comic Art a club, a means of inflicting punishment without downright slaying: was he to thrash only the crass fool and the clownish knave, or strike at malpractice that affects the State? The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Patrick Henry, the "rustic and clownish youth of the terrible tongue," introduced a series of resolutions which boldly challenged the British government. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z If you are English, chances are you are only too well aware of some clownish behavior by that country’s goalkeepers in some key competitions. Goal: England's Goalies: The Bad Hands People 2011-06-23T15:55:49Z Now and then a clownish hobble-de-hoy colt, with long fetlocks and disordered mane, and a thousand burs in his tail, stalks through this company. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z Sure this is real luxury and life, But we are slaves to a most clownish fortune. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things. Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) 2011-05-20T02:00:26.573Z The Saxon, clown as he was, took in the situation at once, and tried, by affecting even greater silliness than his clownish looks betokened, to evade the question. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z See," said he, "there stand thy dew-drops gloriously re-set--a glittering jewelry--in the heavens; and the clownish foot tramples on them no more. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z The mayor was widely denigrated as a bully who favored business and promoted himself with clownish gimmicks. William Schaefer, Baltimore Mayor, Dies at 89 2011-04-19T01:20:22Z And Philetærus says— Don't let your gown fall down too low, Nor pull it up too high to show Your legs in clownish fashion. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z In his own words, Height with a certain grace doth bend, But low things clownishly ascend. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z The poet felt a great compassion for the horse he saw in the field, bent low under the blows of his clownish master, and with wings dragging and tattered. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z Horse-play, clownish tricks, songs, practical jokes—all were taken as a part of the fun. The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry 2011-03-28T02:00:23.133Z Emerson was eccentric and indeed clownish, but he possessed remarkable independence of character and intellectual energy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Shortly before, a young man, tall and powerful, but clownish in appearance, had arrived at the Faerie Court and had prayed to be sent on the first adventure that should arise. Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene 2011-02-06T03:00:52.580Z Hickenlooper has long had a knack for promoting himself, but in ways too clownish and just plain good-natured enough to come across as conventionally scheming. The John Hickenlooper Exception 2011-01-06T14:59:03Z "No reverence for women—after all I have done for you—clownish behaviour," etc. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z The promotion was either inspired theater or clownish stagecraft. Twins that Look Alike, and Work Alike 2010-12-09T01:50:00Z And then the other interesting thing to me is that all these people who seemed so clownish and crazy to me and still kinda do, don't see themselves as that in any way. How Do You Solve Middle East Peace From Your Apartment? 2010-10-01T08:05:00Z Now, the armour which Una had was that of a Christian knight; and when it was tried on, lo! the clownish youth changed into the noblest of all the company. Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene 2011-02-06T03:00:52.580Z "That doesn't mean a show in the clownish sense," he said. Closing Arguments to Start in Blagojevich Trial 2010-07-26T08:40:00Z These displays had nothing to do with the clownish caricatures of Italians that you sometimes see on American TV. Golf Italian Style: The Gift Of Appreciation 2010-05-04T04:00:00Z On it was a cartoon of the president as Batman's arch villain, the Joker, in white make-up with a creepy, clownish, slash of scarlet for a mouth. Fever pitch 2010-03-13T11:21:00Z He was still sporting the clownish TV makeup later in the evening when he entered a nearby restaurant called Taboon. Eliot Spitzer Comeback: Ex-Governor Plots After Downfall 2010-03-04T22:20:00Z The heavy eyes, and clownishly defined lips were inspired by McQueen's theatrical side. 2010-02-12T00:33:00Z Hush!" cried the princess, with asperity, "and offend not our royal ears with such clownish sentiments. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I "From below Ninety-Six, and on our road to Fort Granby," replied a clownish voice. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency To make remarks intended to be overheard, especially remarks meant to be funny, is clownish,—and to be a society clown is a very low ambition. Lessons on Manners For School and Home Use Their faces were pale from the long interment in the ship, and bright spots of sunburn on cheekbones and forehead gave them a clownish, made-up appearance. The Test Colony For all this, he took pleasure in certain kinds of men after his taste, such as Menighella, a commonplace and clownish painter of Valdarno, who was a most diverting person. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol. IX (of 10) Michelagnolo to the Flemings He had also a most ravenous appetite, and afforded the other guests much amusement by the clownish manner in which he devoured his food, as well as by his brutal stupidity and broad peasant's brogue. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I That chubby, clownish young man, heir to the Atomic Power Corporation millions, had garbed himself in what he fondly believed to be a typical space-man's outfit. The World with a Thousand Moons Even the clownish peasant stumbles down the ladder, and lifts out her box. An American Girl Abroad Must we take it for granted, because you are clownish, you are less cunning on that account? Priests, Women, and Families "This appellation of parson," says Judge Blackstone, "however depreciated by clownish and familiar use, is the most legal, most beneficial, and most honorable title, which a parish priest can enjoy." Coelebs In Search of a Wife The very devil himself seemed to have set his picked imps after me; for it was my habit, ordinarily, to be neither dirty as I was then, nor clownish as I must have appeared. My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia She will dream when twilight pleasant Colors all the sky with rose; When by brooks some clownish peasant Sweetly on his sheep's pipe blows. Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine You may as well stand naked before company, as to use such familiarities; and to be careless of what you say, is the most clownish way of being undressed. The Tatler, Volume 3 They speak out loudly, with energy and assurance; educated persons would be more reserved, and less proper to fascinate the weak; they would not dare to attempt so audaciously a clownish Mesmerism in spiritual things. Priests, Women, and Families Cowper has drawn a capital picture of the ease and perfection with which the clownish chrysalis may be metamorphosed into the scarlet moth of war. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 A clownish way of speaking does more to refine mine than the most elegant. Talkers With Illustrations Sir William Temple, in his “Observations,” published three years after Rembrandt's death, calls the Hollanders “clownish and blunt,” and this typifies them in their attitude towards intellectual foreign people. Rembrandt's Amsterdam A new giant was going in, a giant that did not yet know its own strength, a somewhat clownish giant, singing as it came. Aces Up It is fragile; handling it in your clownish hands you may break it. Priests, Women, and Families On Agellius answering in the negative, he said in a clownish way, “He who does not sacrifice to Bacchus does not sacrifice goats.” Callista : a Tale of the Third Century With the exception of one peculiar and superfastidious man, nobody had the smallest objection to seeing her distort her fine mouth in comic grimaces, or lend her fine figure to clownish acts. Aurora the Magnificent The raffish young gentleman in gloves must measure his scholarship with the plain, clownish laddie from the parish school. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 Larkin began a clownish Highland fling that eloquently spoke his thoughts. Aces Up He turned to the court with a clownish gesture of the hands, expressive of his utter inability to stop this thing. The Bondboy It would be very foolish for Sylvie to commit a mésalliance with this young man, who was no doubt good enough in his way,—a rather rough, awkward, clownish fellow, with a coarsely generous heart. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart “He is no clown who drives the plough, but he that does clownish things.” Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series The king, on perceiving the clownish boy, with his stockings tied about his legs by scarlet garters, inquired about him, and specially desired that he might be continued in his service. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches A remarkable species about 9 inches long; often called "Fool Quail" because of its eccentric and clownish markings, streaks and spots of black, white, buff, gray and chestnut. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The sheriff’s clownish behavior nettled Joe, for he was at a loss to understand what he meant. The Bondboy A clownish kind of person, sir,—a countryman, I believe. The Politician Out-Witted Alas, the girls chattered and giggled and were nervous, they were dressed up and frizzed, the men looked mean and clownish. The Rainbow I know very little about the young man, except that he is industrious and fond of out-of-door pursuits, and farms his own estate; but I hear he is a little clownish in appearance. Our Bessie But so it is that, notwithstanding our author's great merits, he was but little regarded in the University, being observed to be more clownish than courteous, and always to go in an old antiquated dress. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance ‘Chacun a son gout:’ Poor Ellis is not very brilliant, certainly: I remember we used to call him clownish and uncultivated. Not Like Other Girls The passages interpolated by Mr Horne's own pen are as bad as possible—clownish and anti-Chaucerian to the last degree. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 The "Jolly Scourer" was extremely comical and clownish, evidently without trying to be so, while the circus clown's effort at comical acts and sayings detracts from the amusing effect of the acts themselves. Under Fire A Tale of New England Village Life Bessie was obliged to confess that Edna had been right in her description; there was something clownish about his appearance, and yet he looked a gentleman. Our Bessie 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 All the clodhoppers and grass-combers I had met before, who were mostly her relations, were asked to the wedding, and among the rest her clownish admirer, who, I understood, was her cousin. A Sailor of King George A certain clownish cowardice that still Would stay at home and dares not venture Into foreign countries, though better than Its own. A History of Elizabethan Literature Very well, I am amused at your clownish terror even more than I was amused at your burlesque ecstasies. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath There is nothing clownish and furtive about it. Waiting for Daylight But when this episode occurred the boy was still an innocent country lad in his fifteenth year, a lad perhaps somewhat rude and clownish, at least such is an unfounded tradition. Stories of Authors, British and American Hereat the bonny King grew blith, To hear the clownish Jest; How silly sots, as custom is, Do discant at the best. Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 This young brute, said our conductor, is animated by the soul of the late matter Rustick, of clownish memory. Vice in its Proper Shape Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemble In Disposition. They philander clownishly with this mirage of my thought. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath He was both child and poet to her, and as she watched him trying to make friends with the men, her indignation rose against their clownish offishness. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range An awkward unseamanlike fellow; from a northern word implying a clownish dolt. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Their demeanor in these country parts is invariably morose, sullen, clownish, and repulsive. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete He feigned disgust, and this action mixed with amusement in a contorted, clownish countenance until the odd smile finally flattened for there was a peculiar sensation within that at first he did not readily acknowledge. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais Doubtless you think me rude and clownish, and perhaps you are right, but I hope I have nothing but true feelings at heart. The Day of Judgment For a while his heart failed him utterly, and all his faculties were scattered in clownish confusion. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest And do not the clownish and gutter-blood admirers of Mr. Flamson like him all the more because they are conscious that he is a knave? The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' His physiognomy would be clownish in expression, if his eyes did not redeem his other features. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Even in the placid repose of near death there was something clownish about his appearance. Operation Haystack His person was strong and robust: his manners rustic, not clownish; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity, which received part of its effect perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) If England is right, then how clownishly wrong must have been his own previous circles! The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 His clownish ways pleased the judge, the jury and the spectators. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Everywhere was a prospect of raw faces and figures, which Charity had deliberately made as uncomely as possible by clownish garb and simple toilet. Nights in London The Duke of Newcastle replied in his usual awkward and bungling fashion, with the uneasy attitudes and clownish gestures which were characteristic of him. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II Their environment of clownish, narrow-minded conventional divines—for as such they saw them—neither acknowledged nor encouraged them. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation And here lay the ludicrous—the clownish little mainspring of tragedy and drama. Erik Dorn The men were mere clowns, but the exhibition was anything but clownish. Despair's Last Journey What a relief it would have been even to have had a clownish footman spill soup over one's dress, or ice-cream down one's back, or anything to break the monotony of the entertainment! Kate Coventry An Autobiography His estimate of himself, offered as simple fact, has been accepted in the same spirit, and one abyss of ineptitude still yawns for the heroic folly, or the clownish courage, of the New Criticism. Milton As a clownish fellow was driving his cart along a deep miry lane, the wheels stuck so fast in the clay, that the horses could not draw them out. Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse With fiddle, clarionet, fife and drum, a substantial contribution from the townspeople was acknowledged with music and dancing, and a variety of clownish tricks of Mad Moll and her Husband. Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Under the pressure of toil and the entire want of society, Burns might have grown up the rude and clownish and unpopular lad that he has been pictured in his early teens. Robert Burns Toryism of a stolid clownish type still held the thrones of collegiate power. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 A clown will carry a king's dress clownishly; and a true king will carry a clown's dress kingishly. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. In the practical jokes, the melodrama, the ranting bombast, and Bottom's ambition to play "a tyrant's vein," they recognise a satire on the amateur theatricals of the trades-guilds, the clownish horseplay of the "moralities" so-called. Shakespeare's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess His dark visage, small, peering black eyes, and low-bred, clownish aspect, contrasted strangely with the brilliant creature at his side. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems To live on a farm, it is neither necessary to be vulgar, nor clownish, nor to affect ignorance. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Not a breath of the broad humor of Teniers and Van Ostade in these masters; scarcely a hint of the robust animality and clownish jollity with which the clear-sighted Dutchmen endowed their rural revellers. Essays on Scandinavian Literature His person was robust, his manners rustic, not clownish. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The only variation in this was that the leaders were often more clownish in their performances, and upon several occasions only four men representing women appeared. Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and Mythical Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians We procured the aid of a clownish bumpkin to carry our carpet bag, and left Warminster on foot. Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath The Vice was given a place, low clownish fellows were admitted to relieve the harrowed feelings, and our old acquaintance, Herod, was summoned from the Miracles to lend his aid. The Growth of English Drama Saint-Ouen, who came after Saint-Romain, found the people clownish, superstitious, and idolatrous, in consequence of the negligence of some bishops, his predecessors. Rouen, It's History and Monuments A Guide to Strangers It was when manners were softened that the language also was softened: before François Ier summoned women to his court, it was as clownish as we were. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary Away with cowardly reluctances and clownish scruples, and let me hasten this moment to her dwelling. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 His person was strong and robust; his manners rustic, not clownish; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity, which received part of its effect perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents.... Robert Burns How To Know Him Whatever we hold about the insight and imagination of Browning, no one can doubt that he often chose to be uncouth, crabbed, grotesque, and even clownish, when the humour was on him. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Mr. Atwater was silent; he looked down and caught a clownish garnet gleam out of a blackness neighbouring his knee. Gentle Julia The uniformed man who had tried to hold her came plunging after her; his face was creased in clownish and cruel smiles. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories I was seized with certain misgivings and flutterings which a clownish education may account for. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 He might have known that a fellow like Lawrence would see through his remark and would resent it; he might have known that his silly, clownish wink could not escape Lawrence’s keen eyes. The Jester of St. Timothy's I shall go to the inn on terra firma, and leave you in charge of what you seem so able to manage in your own clownish, pantomimic way. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life Serious one moment, clownish the next, he frequently punctuates his remarks with loud belly laughter. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s Sometimes I am thoroughly disgusted with the clownish tricks the world plays upon us, and I feel an approach to English spleen. Atlantis He caught his reflection in the bulletproof glass windows that faced out over the Rideau Canal, and felt a flush of embarrassment when he saw how clownish his costume looked in the practical environs. Super Man and the Bug Out They have the clownish dress and boorish gait of the regular 'chaws,' with a good deal of the quick, suspicious, sour sauciness of the low London resident. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Rex and Nero acrobatically locked forepaws and rolled over and over in a clownish excess of congeniality. Diane of the Green Van But the squire, though a little clownish, had some home-bred sense. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) I sat down, rather clownishly I felt, beside an aged and simpering chancellor that once had seemed wise, but now seemed innocent, nibbling a biscuit crisp as scandal. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Many persons grasp the fork as if it were a dagger, and stab it into the meat; but such a display of force is unnecessary and clownish. Carving and Serving First, a tall, clownish youth falls before the queen and desires a boon, which she might not refuse, viz. the achievement of any adventure which might present itself. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Let me not say too lavishly they prais'd; But sure their judgment was full cheaply pleas'd, If you or I with taste are haply blest, To know a clownish from a courtly jest. Essays on Wit No. 2 He was more civil than the Bartram people usually were, for he plucked off his shapeless cap of rabbit-skin with a clownish respect. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh For instance, it may be shown that the merriment the clownish scene provides balances the dignity of the ducal scene. Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies In a clownish, lubberly sort of way, he seemed to be taking good, kind care of her. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy He, for a while, would not consent, But vow'd his money all was spent: Was ever such a clownish reason! The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 The solitary white woman attracted their clownish humour, and they danced in front of her balcony, shouting out rude witticisms that caused much amusement to the lookers-on. The Jungle Girl You seem not to have been bred at Court, but in a Cow-stall; you behave yourself so clownishly. Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. I was struck with the simplicity, kindness, and dignity of his deportment, so different from the clownish manners with which it was then customary to invest him. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him He wittily calls her "the widow of sound learning," and again, "a constellation of pedantic, obstinate ignorance and presumption, mixed with a clownish incivility that would tax the patience of Job." Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 I was game to be sure, for I was a gentleman; but he had the clownish advantages of bone and muscle. Tales of a Traveller "That's the way we are taught to do," he said carelessly, with a clownish grin. Best Russian Short Stories There are indeed some Persons that are such Churls, and of so clownish a Disposition, that if you salute them, they will scarcely salute you again. Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. As to Country breeding, which is opposed to the Courts, to the Cities, or to Travelling: when it is merely such, it is a clownish one. English Travellers of the Renaissance But, cousin, what if we assay'd to steal The clownish Fool out of your father's Court? Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England I learnt that my cousin had grown up ignorant, self-willed, and clownish. Tales of a Traveller As might have been expected, the connection turned out unhappily, his wife being a scold, and, according to Anthony Wood, "a silly, clownish woman." A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature These are fine Phrases of clownish Fellows that have a peculiar Way of speaking to themselves. Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. Nevertheless Wood calls her "a clownish, silly woman, and withal a mere Xanthippe." Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 Pasquale was a shallow-brained, clownish fellow, and after saddling up, as he led the coyote into the open to mount, he imitated a drunken vaquero. A Texas Matchmaker After a climax of the clownish mood we return to the Intermezzo melodies. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies Outside a flake floated down out of the dark pocket of packed clouds, then another and yet another, like timid kisses blown down upon the clownish brow of Broadway. Every Soul Hath Its Song That's an idle, clownish Play indeed, fitter for them that are sitting in a Chimney Corner, than those that are ranging in the Field. Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. They appointed as high-priest one Phanias, a coarse and clownish rustic, utterly ignorant of the sacerdotal duties, who when decked in the robes of office caused great derision. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History A face sinking down a little, with crosses in it, inclining to leanness, denotes a person to be very laborious, but envious, deceitful, false, quarrelsome, vain and silly, and of a dull and clownish behaviour. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy His report of me was, that I was a poor-spirited creature, narrow, ignorant, and clownish, and that the career of village priest was the best that could be hoped for. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters A few sharp notes were struck, at random it seemed, followed by a few bars of a quavering song and then a burst of clownish laughter. Kimono But any London visitor who might imagine that he was about to find himself in a company of clownish provincials would be much mistaken. The Long White Cloud Each one was elaborately addressed and furnished with a rhymed or unrhymed tag that often hid a sting beneath its clownish exterior. The Soul of a Child A little and round face, shows a person to be simple, very fearful, of a bad memory, and a clownish disposition. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy His person was strong and robust; his manners rustic, not clownish; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity, which received part of its effect, perhaps, from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters What a thing this Brother is! yet I'le vouchsafe him the new Italian shrug— How clownishly the Book-worm does return it! The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother What men are so clownish as not, when they have once beheld them, to think that they have reaped the greatest enjoyment that life can give? The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 At first they were, or seemed to be, mere plays of fancy--shadowy repetitions of daylight experiences in clownish distortion. The Soul of a Child He whose eyebrows are folded, and the hair thick and bending downwards, is one that is clownish and unlearned, heavy, suspicious, miserable, envious, and one that will cheat and cozen you if he can. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy And shall I then expect a smile From Daphne on my love, When every word and look the while My clownish weakness prove? The Sylphs of the Season with Other Poems What a thing this brother is! yet Ile vouchsafe him The new Italian shrug— How clownishly The book-worme does return it! The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother A carnival when masks are used, or when incongruous or clownish figures are seen, implies discord in the home; business will be unsatisfactory and love unrequited. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition "Yea, but," answered the Disinherited Knight, "thou hast ever kept me in anxiety lest thy clownish bearing should discover thee." Ivanhoe All other men are of use; he alone is clownish like a peasant. The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion The rustic who follows the plow through furrowed fields, unkempt, clownish, toil-stained, weary and overworked, may brawl raucous roundelay at even-tide and enjoy the fullness of earthly bliss. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 He had been convinced the boy would be a clownish fellow if he were brought up in America. Little Lord Fauntleroy "To prefer some clownish Merse laird to the gallant young nobleman, and to the secure possession of Ravenswood upon terms of easy compromise—it would be the act of a madwoman!" The Bride of Lammermoor They believe that primitive men attributed phenomena to a god in human form in order to explain them, because his mind in its sullen limitation could not reach any further than his own clownish existence. Heretics In his clumsy, clownish way he was making advances to her. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise The raffish young gentleman in gloves must measure his scholarship with the plain, clownish laddie from the parish school. Memories and Portraits Resembling or having the quality of a bozo; that is, clownish, ludicrously wrong, unintentionally humorous. The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 In early life he was a clownish sort of boy among the boys—an expert mimic and impersonator. Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains Young Silvia beats her breast, and cries aloud For succor from the clownish neighborhood: The churls assemble; for the fiend, who lay In the close woody covert, urg'd their way. The Aeneid English These people were to her, certainly clownish—in short, the working classes. Sons and Lovers I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish, so totally without air. Emma The very innocence of Lapham's life in the direction in which he had erred wrought against him in the young man's mood: it contained the insult of clownish inexperience. The Rise of Silas Lapham They also were ignorant, clownishly ignorant: the difference was that they were doomed by native incapacity to go on all their lives without ever finding it out. The Damnation of Theron Ware Indeed, when twelve men, of nominal size, sit squarely on the seats and do not clownishly cross their legs, one may ride in an omnibus with comfort. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 06, May 7, 1870 Still more could she have beaten Hubert for his clownish and hurried departure. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I It appears to him as ill-bred to say stupid or silly things to her, as to say what he does say clownishly. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Innocent as a clownish symbol, he is simply disgusting as an ideal of art. Among My Books Second Series His merriment was just as likely to find issue in a nervous, metallic, sonorous outburst as in a muffled, clownish guffaw. The Quest London, for instance, I have found, is childish in its inscriptions and somewhat clownish. Cæsar or Nothing To me it is decidedly clownish; and is suggestive of a man crunching a sour apple, or struck with amazement at some unpleasant spectacle. Shakespeare's Bones His followers were all young, wild, clownish people, as hornified as so many kids and as fell as so many tigers, naked, and perpetually singing and dancing country-dances. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Clown we call him, because a noble and generous prince hath never a penny, and that to hoard up treasure is but a clownish trick. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Ironical, and gifted with a certain clownish humor, they had not much natural wit: but they were clever enough, and they manufactured their goods in imitation of Paris. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House However, since you have begun on the subject yourself, I must tell you that six days ago I too received a clownish anonymous letter. The Possessed (The Devils) See, for instance, the clownish ballad of Tom Thumbe, with its confused Arthurian echoes. Ballad Book Honest Glover took the string of pearls, and kissed with clownish gesture, but with sincere kindness, the fair hand which had found such a delicate mode of remunerating his own labours and peril. Quentin Durward When she came forth like a lily from the mould, Abel staggered backwards, partly in clownish mirth, partly in astonishment. Gone to Earth Padre Camorra, who had already forgotten about Paulita, saw what was meant and laughing his clownish laugh, asked in turn, “Whom does this other figure resemble, Ben-Zayb?” The Reign of Greed Dignity of behavior yields to clownish silliness, and the person lately respected is now an object of pity and loathing. A Practical Physiology These clownish tars were deeply coloured, and some quite black. Travels in Morocco, Volume 1. Shall we, I say, have no recreation? or must our recreations be ever clownish, or childish, consisting merely in rustical efforts, or in petty sleights of bodily strength and activity? Sermons on Evil-Speaking He made his clownish obeisances with a double portion of reverence, and then awaited the opening of the awful scene. Old Mortality, Volume 2. I think my lord and the colonel do you too much honour in offering to represent such a set of clownish, dirty, beggarly animals—Ah! The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes Volume 12 Where lay the witchcraft in their clownish words, To shake my heart? Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems The latter, who had a clownish countenance, threw himself into an attitude of contrition, caricaturing Padre Salvi. The Social Cancer His attitude was easy and bold, but neither clownish nor uncourtly. Waverley Novels — Volume 12 The monk motioned away from him the untasted cup, which Wilkin pressed him to with clownish civility. The Betrothed Ralph, who was a thickset clownish figure, arrived at his full strength, and conscious of the most complete personal superiority, laughed contemptuously at the threats of the slight-made stripling. The Abbot "Thinkest thou," said Halbert, "thou seest in me aught that can raise me from this base, low, despised state, into one where I may rank with those proud men, who now despise my clownish poverty?" The Monastery He would go through a great trapeze performance of clownish and absurd gymnastics, and often end it with three or four loud smacks of his big black feet against the wall. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations His companion, a magnificent-looking man in form, and so far resembling the young barbarian, but more clownish and peasant-like in the expression of his features, was Stephanos the wrestler, well known in the Palestra. Waverley Novels — Volume 12 They live too close to the source of things to recognise their clownish reflections in the distorted mirrors of the week-day level. A Prisoner in Fairyland |
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