英语词汇“knockabout”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

Like we was old knockabout friends of the streets. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The 70-minute “Bon Voyage!” is knockabout, I suppose, but it’s never antic. Review | A winsome road to Paris in ‘Bon Voyage! A Happenstance Escapade’ 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

Every moment rings true, the vividly textured locations and knockabout relationships more visited than created. ‘Premature’ Review: Summer Loving 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

The knockabout Punch and Judy show undergoes a grand Hollywood upgrade on Gone Girl, a garish, gripping tale of a warring husband and wife that plays like a Relate counsellor’s worst nightmare. Gone Girl review – a bracing, scalding sketch of a marriage in meltdown 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

But it seems to me if you have this major ceremonial funeral on that day having the knockabout of prime minister's questions at the same time might feel a bit odd. Margaret Thatcher death celebrations were puerile, says Nick Clegg 2013-04-11T09:48:13Z

The ideal seemed to be a classic Charles Mingus roil, knockabout but self-assured. Music Review: Tony Malaby?s Novela at Jazz Gallery - Review 2011-12-19T22:05:11Z

Besides, it’s written that yobs, slobs and snobs are fair game in knockabout comedies. You make me sick! Why film’s fondness for food poisoning takes the biscuit 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

And so was his work on the closer, which began as a knockabout drum battle before plunging into calypso mode. Music Review | Joe Lovano and Us Five: Celebrating 75 Years of Grooves in Village 2010-02-26T22:49:00Z

It’s no surprise that this knockabout dramatic style bleeds into the rehearsal room, but the friends at the heart of the company, who are in their late 20s, don’t just fight. The Amoralists Ready a New Play, ?Amerissiah? 2010-06-05T02:03:00Z

Oozing quality, the action switches seamlessly from surreal dance sequence to hyper-realistic sporting enactment, poignant soliloquy to knockabout comedy. En Route; Fair Trade; Shakespeare: The Man from Stratford; Up 'N' Under; Odyssey; Poland 3 Iran 2; Beautiful Burnout 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

You would be hard-pressed to connect the driven, knockabout Klemperer on these discs with the legendarily monolithic defender of the German classics in his old age. Brahms played brilliantly, with an L.A. back story to boot: Christoph Eschenbach at Disney Hall 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

West Is West is far from the knockabout family comedy of its original. London film festival second week ? review 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z

It helps to recall that good farce is always knockabout, regardless of gender; it’s a pleasure to roar at suffering that is big and fake and somebody else’s. Review: A Fair Fight Makes ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ Lovable Again 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Maybe Ms. Agami is aware of the problem, and is trying to address it in “Calling Glenn” with knockabout humor. Review: ‘Calling Glenn’ Puts a Humorous Spin on Gaga Dancing 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

The closest the movies have come has been the knockabout Darwinism of Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle The Revenant, in which the primal quest for survival looked like a Tough Mudder assault course. Under fire: how cinema's new breed of cowboys are taking aim at the old west 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

But a naughty part of me – perhaps the theatre-critic part of me, perhaps the part of me that wants to see greater public interest in Parliament – quite relishes the weekly knockabout. Is it unparliamentary to call someone a 'muttering idiot'? 2012-05-26T17:19:01Z

He is good at knockabout invective, laying into "fragilista" economists such as Joseph Stiglitz and self-aggrandising journalists such as "the vile and harmful" Thomas Friedman, who was an apologist for the Iraq war. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z

Comic plays on Broadway these days are generally either knockabout farces like “The Play That Goes Wrong” or repurposed stand-up routines like “Latin History for Morons.” Review: Look Up! It’s Amy Schumer in ‘Meteor Shower’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Lost at times in the linguistic shuffle is the wistful ache underpinning a comedy that, as is the Shakespearean norm, unveils grievous emotions on the way to its knockabout finish. A Mexican-Style ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

On Jan. 2 at 9 p.m., he leads his knockabout trio at the Stone, with Chris Tordini on bass and David King on drums. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

And the album has proportionate doses of knockabout groove, scratchy free improvisation and chamber-esque restraint. Playlist: Straightening Out, Rapping and Leading a Band 2010-12-10T20:18:00Z

In the knockabout adventure comedy Every Which Way But Loose, co-starring an orangutan, she plays Lynn, the alluring but duplicitous country singer with whom Eastwood’s character falls in love. Sondra Locke: a charismatic performer defined by a toxic relationship with Clint Eastwood 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

For all the production's knockabout panto spirit, it means this Arnolphe is more complex than the regulation commedia dell'arte oaf. Educating Agnes ? review 2011-04-12T17:29:03Z

For well-needed light relief, a handful of knockabout medical problems are worked into the scenes that depict House's clinic work. House: the science of drama 2010-10-05T05:59:00Z

Now picture what this overactive, knockabout meeting place of stray ideas looks like at one of his crucial moments of creative inspiration. | 'Border Towns': A Little Bit Dylan, a Little Bit Lots of Other Stuff 2010-09-16T03:00:00Z

Doug Carnell, the picker, is an Olympic Peninsula knockabout with a checkered past and an internal atlas of prime mushroom patches from the North Cascades to the Klamath Mountains. ‘The Mushroom Hunters’: foragers in the fungal wild 2013-09-06T14:16:07Z

They share permutations on jokes and a preference for smooth execution over fast knockabout stunts. Pierre Étaix Is Honored at Film Forum 2012-10-14T02:03:03Z

His combination of brutish innocence and inner loneliness belongs wholly to the world of knockabout. Why The Dictator isn't Great 2012-05-16T14:38:23Z

The business with Lou enlisting the other guys to help him fake his way through a possibly career-killing medical exam was just as sharp, and much more broad, in the best knockabout "Rescue Me" tradition. "Rescue Me" recap: Season 7, Episode 2: "Menses" 2011-07-21T14:30:00Z

The intelligentsia of their era embraced the knockabout vaudevillians and basked in their company. The movie Salvador Dali wanted to make with the Marx Brothers didn’t happen – until now (sort of) 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

So if Adams practically perfected comic SF that was neither full of knowing in-jokes for the cognoscenti, nor knockabout parody, then who else has come close? Douglas Adams is still the king of comic science fiction 2013-03-11T12:55:34Z

Mr. Burstein’s knockabout “Buddy’s Blues,” a low vaudeville clown turn, seethes with a genuine exasperated ambivalence that comments wryly on both Buddy’s self-flagellating nature and on the cathartic nastiness of music-hall humor. | 'Follies': Broadway Babies? Glory Days 2011-05-23T02:01:05Z

He draws here from a new album, “In Memory of Things Yet Seen,” featuring a knockabout quartet with Darius Jones on alto saxophone, Bill McHenry on tenor saxophone and Chad Taylor on drums. Jazz Listings for Sept. 26-Oct. 2 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Indeed, as far as the ever-excitable Charles Spencer is concerned, what the audience at the Chichester Festival Theatre have witnessed may be some kind of knockabout masterpiece. What to say about ... Yes, Prime Minister 2010-05-25T10:21:00Z

But, in Britain, I would argue that knockabout rudeness in print is less prevalent than it used to be for a variety of reasons. How rude should theatre critics be? 2011-07-29T14:03:46Z

Wisdom, who has died aged 95, was almost the last in a great tradition of knockabout, slapstick clowns, a performer who relied less on words than on an acrobatic physical dexterity to gain his laughs. Sir Norman Wisdom obituary 2010-10-05T00:01:00Z

The show, presented by Wilson’s Faction of Fools troupe, is basically an excuse for Wilson to run through a bunch of character types from the 16th-century Italian commedia dell’arte, a deceptively knockabout form. Surely, he jests: Matthew R. Wilson’s classic clowning in ‘One-Man Commedia Epic’ 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

If you ignore the fact that both of these characters had plot armour coming out the wazoo, and therefore were, at no point, in any real danger, it was pulpy, knockabout fun. The Walking Dead: season 8, episode 12 recap – The Key 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

Mental is a knockabout black comedy from Australia that starts off exhilaratingly mad and funny, then progressively loses its edge. Mental – review 2012-11-15T22:00:03Z

If the first song is a delicate ballad, the audience will be confused and unhappy when a knockabout farce ensues. ‘The Secret Life of the American Musical’ — from ‘Gypsy’ to ‘Hamilton’ 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Stephen Root, in a single scene as Porter, lifts the grim, forensic business of regicide and its aftermath into the realm of knockabout farce. ‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: The Thane, Insane, Slays Mainly in Dunsinane 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

Even today, most comedy in Germany is generally more physical and knockabout than in Britain, though this is not to say that it is all as crude and basic as a Benny Hill sketch. What's German for funny? 2012-02-12T20:00:13Z

The ballet unfolds as a circus of bold colors, full of knockabout energy. Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Little Humpbacked Horse’ is rowdy fun at Kennedy Center 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

If the cast members at the Old Globe excel more in song than in story, they serve Tresnjak's knockabout approach. Old Globe's 'Kiss Me, Kate' steals a smile if not a heart 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Adam Scott Mazer’s script pulls more punches than his persuasively knockabout fight choreography. | 'Death Valley': The Undead Are Uneasy in the Untamed West 2011-07-03T21:10:27Z

A reformed getaway driver's past catches up with him in this knockabout road comedy. This week's new films 2012-10-12T23:05:33Z

What each is up to now — Mr. Vile with his deceivingly knockabout band the Violators, and Mr. Granduciel as the auteur of grand panoramic moods in the War on Drugs — isn’t the step after roots-rock. Kurt Vile and War on Drugs Share a Middle Ground 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

The actors fling themselves into this knockabout scene with admirable commitment, not to mention well-choreographed precision. Review: ‘Permission’ and Spankings at the Lucille Lortel Theater 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Disney’s problem now is that it fears repeating the failures of the prequel trilogy, which shifted the heart of Star Wars from knockabout space adventure to turgid bureaucratic battles in the Galactic senate. Attack of the clones: can Rogue One save us from a future of identikit cinematic universes? 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

A jacket that may become a skirt — “We’re still playing,” he explains — as something knockabout and “street” gets a brazen, puckish patina of higher style. ‘Oliver!’ shows off Arena artisans’ craft 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

It’s a wrathful show, one that unrepentantly sacrifices the knockabout farce that theatergoers may be expecting from Molière’s famed 17th-century play exposing a religious faker. Taking on a fanatic with zeal in Molière’s ‘Tartuffe’ 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Or perhaps an old one: “Nollywood Dreams” is spirited and casual, with the knockabout rhythms and narrative shortcuts of Hollywood in its early years, before flickers became films. Review: In ‘Nollywood Dreams,’ a Star and an Industry Are Born 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Dumb and Dumber To, sequel to the knockabout comedy released 20 years ago, was at four after making £1.8m. Hobbit retains UK box office command 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

It's the kind of knockabout, kid's-eye-view -horror that hasn't been made for a while, with some nasty, frightening touches, but expertly encased in a distinctive family-movie aesthetic. Film review: The Hole 2010-09-23T22:10:00Z

The directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, create the usual college satire and fill up the holes in the plot with knockabout physical comedy, some of which is funny.—D.D. Movies 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

On Jan. 2 he leads his knockabout trio at the Stone, with Chris Tordini on bass and David King on drums. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

This knockabout farce out of London, where it has been running for more than two years and won the Olivier Award for best comedy, is devoted entirely to destroying itself before your eyes. Review: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ Upends a Whodunit 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

The tone was knockabout bordering on slapstick, and while neither actor is a born comedian, together they made an entertaining double act. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z

This year Mr. Lawrence appeared on an album by the Cookers, a knockabout hard-bop brotherhood; he also made his debut at the Jazz Standard, drawing from his own album. Music Review: Azar Lawrence Quintet at Jazz Standard - Review 2011-12-15T23:04:44Z

Largely dispensing with knockabout farce, this long, blithe, clever film earned Edwards his only Oscar nomination, for adapted screenplay. 10 Pink Panthers at Tiffany's: Farewell to Blake Edwards 2010-12-19T14:10:00Z

Much of the comedy in Dinner for One is slapstick, knockabout stuff: James spills wine, drops food, crashes into furniture and downs the water in the flower vases instead of what's in the port glasses. What's German for funny? 2012-02-12T20:00:13Z

Almodóvar’s films are full of similar moments: anguished human dramas edged with knockabout farce. Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I can no longer hide’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

Repeatedly knocked down throughout this knockabout comedy, Tammy takes a licking and keeps on sticking her foot right back in it. In ‘Tammy,’ Melissa McCarthy Hits the Road 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

When, after years of separation, Gatsby and Daisy meet, their awkwardness is turned into knockabout farce. Gatz; The Witness; You Once Said Yes – review 2012-06-16T23:06:06Z

None of it seemed bleak or depressing at the time; it was just knockabout fun. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

Her paintings and sculptures may be knocked-about as well as knockabout, but there is a great deal of personal abjection in them. Turner prize 2010: Dark nights of the soul 2010-10-04T17:53:00Z

The three bond in a herky-jerky plot of low comedy, knockabout combat and a saccharine song here and there. Review: ‘Monster Hunt’ Features a Baby Beast on the Run With Its Surrogate Parents 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

In his review of the show for The New York Times, Charles Isherwood said Mr. Bleu “brings a lively, knockabout charm to the role of Ted.” Corbin Bleu, on Broadway and Dancing in Fred Astaire’s Footsteps 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Fighting With My Family Now, this is either going to be a knockabout action comedy about hilarious domestic disputes, or a harrowing kitchen-sink drama about the emotional toil caused by a lifetime of familial resentment. What The Rock is cooking: Dwayne Johnson's next 26 films decoded 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Star Wars movies will always be judged on their ability to intelligently balance dark and light motifs, as the saga works best as pulpy, knockabout space adventure rather than brooding sci-fi. The six key questions Rogue One: A Star Wars Story must answer 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Clegg said it would be a "bit odd" to have a knockabout session in the Commons on the same day as Thatcher's funeral. Margaret Thatcher death celebrations were puerile, says Nick Clegg 2013-04-11T09:48:13Z

Gone were tedious trade delegations, midi-chloreans and galactic senates, back were knockabout space romps and realistic looking sets. Would George Lucas's Star Wars sequels have been better than Disney's? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

No. This is far too scary for a knockabout family comedy. Operation Dumbo Drop to Mr Boogedy: the 10 strangest Disney films 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

"We're just metaphorically knocking the boaters off your heads, chaps, all good knockabout fun – don't go taking it to heart!" What's up, you posh boys, can't you take a joke? 2012-08-18T23:06:40Z

To my mind, the funniest one is the knockabout Love at First Bite, starring George Hamilton as Count Dracula in New York. Vampires Suck ? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z

The humour was of the driest variety, not the usual knockabout, and left an indelible impression. Letter: Richard Griffiths was a brilliant Bottom for the RSC 2013-04-14T15:36:26Z

Spike Lee’s fierce knockabout satire BlacKkKlansman won the Grand Prix, and this was a period movie based on the true story of the black police officer who masterminded the infiltration of the KKK in Colorado. Cannes 2018: cheering – if baffling – set of prizes caps a curious year 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z

Crude and knockabout, it nonetheless has — like many a bromance — a sloppy, sentimental heart. Movie Review: ‘That’s What She Said,’ a Comedy Directed by Carrie Preston 2012-10-18T21:33:23Z

The whole thing races along at hilarious breakneck speed, with some nifty knockabout choreography from Mark Smith and excellent playing from musical director Christopher Mundy. Iolanthe; Angela Hewitt/Britten Sinfonia ? review 2011-04-09T23:05:44Z

A knockabout comedy, this “Merry Wives” is also something more. Hot Vax Summer? Falstaff and Shakespeare in the Park Are Ready. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

The test of any Henry IV must be the transition from the knockabout comedy and provincial English violence of Part 1 to the sweet, haunting melancholy of Part 2. Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z

It's a movie I didn't like much on first release, but every time I see it on television, its energy and knockabout humour keeps me watching. Angelina Jolie: Hollywood won't be the same without her 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Horrid Henry is an inexpensive-looking knockabout comedy of a sort perhaps enjoyed by kids who are appreciably younger than those at which the film is apparently aimed. Horrid Henry: The Movie ? review 2011-07-28T21:10:01Z

Maybe the "Facebook for suits" is fine with its new knockabout tone. How LinkedIn is changing and why some are not happy 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

The son of a butcher who had fled Nazi Germany, Mr. Caan grew up in the 1940s and 1950s on the knockabout streets of the outer boroughs of New York. James Caan, who played Sonny Corleone in ‘The Godfather,’ dies at 82 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

But Raiff sends Andrew on what turns out to be an unexpected journey that makes its way to its own version of a happy ending with tenderness, warmth and knockabout wit. Review | ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’: A coming-of-age movie with charm to burn 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

But Albanese, a one-time backroom fixer, renowned early on in his career for his knockabout style, still needs to persuade a sizeable portion of the electorate that he is a prime minister-in-waiting. Australia election: Enter a lacklustre advert for democracy 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

Warne often described himself as just a knockabout bloke, an ordinary Australian who liked a drink and a joke and who happened to discover a talent for spinning a leather ball. Thousands to commemorate Warne, cricket’s ‘box office’ star 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

This could be a lot of knockabout fun. Liverpool v Arsenal: Premier League – live! 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z

“Business journalism is a demanding but knockabout trade,” Flanigan would say, “full of secret clues and red herrings.” James Flanigan, longtime Times business columnist, dies at 85 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z

“The Chair” is entertaining in a knockabout way, if you don’t look too closely, and Oh is wonderful every minute she’s in it. Netflix's new campus comedy is a mess. The marvelous Sandra Oh holds it together 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

The usual knockabout stuff of Harry Redknapp managing a group of middle-aged former footballers, as they prepare to play Germany in a search for “redemption”, has a moving segment in the second episode. Lee Hendrie: 'My wife went through an awful lot. She's seen me on life-support machines' 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z

Now much of this may look like the familiar knockabout you get on social media. China’s new brand of tough-talking diplomats 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

The knockabout banter offered some candid reflections on their glittering careers — both on hold as tennis awaits the end of the pandemic which has claimed more than 150,000 lives globally. Djokovic shares Olympic regrets with Murray in live chat 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

There’s a lovely, knockabout energy to Atim, balanced by a deeply serious side. Sheila Atim: ‘I had impostor syndrome until I picked up my MBE 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

Up until now, the Hitler Youth hasn't exactly been fertile ground for knockabout comedy. Films lookahead: 20 movies not to miss in 2020 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z

“He was a lovable, knockabout Aussie guy, loved his surfing,” Smith told AAP. New Zealand police seek dashcam footage after murder of Sean McKinnon 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

After the printing district burned down, in 1835, he returned to Long Island, working unhappily as a schoolteacher and pursuing a knockabout career in journalism. How to Celebrate Walt Whitman’s Two-Hundredth Birthday 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

When he is in the Speaker’s chair, Bercow, who is short and has a labile, cat-like grin, also enjoys the more traditional, knockabout elements of his job. Is a Parliamentary Official Trying to Stop Brexit? 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

It was a knockabout partisan diversion from the main national issue, which now resumes. It’s now or never for May. Time to compromise on Brexit | Martin Kettle 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

“For all their knockabout farce, these books are remarkably subtle, and in a way display the art of the translator at its best.” Anthea Bell, deft translator of Asterix comics and literary classics, dies at 82 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

"The Epic Adventures of Captain Underpants," born as a series of massively successful books by Dav Pilkey, has become a charmingly subversive, knockabout cartoon series, streaming as of Friday on Netflix. Review: The undies-wearing superhero gets his own Netflix show, 'The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants' 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

He'd written a knockabout comedy but got sloppy with details and seemed to have run short of ideas, especially in segments involving the rough wooing of a brainy, independent woman. Amy Freed helps Shakespeare with a rewrite. The result: 'Shrew!' 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Louis was the delinquent, knockabout son of Italian immigrants in Torrance, Calif., who went on to run for America in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, then joined the Army Air Corps before Pearl Harbor. Billy Graham, the Ecumenical Evangelist 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Similarly themed but more delicately rendered is Amazon's poetical, knockabout "Danger & Eggs." Let's get animated: The cartoons we'll keep watching in 2018 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z

Before beating Murray in the knockabout exhibition match, Federer told the three-time grand slam winner: ”My best advice is just to get fit again. Federer advises Murray not to rush back too quickly 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Seattle Shakespeare Company has just the remedy: a delirious rendering of “The Government Inspector,” Nikolai Gogol’s knockabout lampoon of Russian provincialism in particular and human foibles in general. Review: Seattle Shakespeare’s ‘Government Inspector’ keeps us laughing 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Yet the movie is more than just a knockabout period piece. On sisters and snacks with Jenny Slate and the team behind 'Landline' 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

From a certain perspective, this is knockabout political theatre. Are we entering a golden age of the conspiracy theory? 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

We were told, absurdly, to take him “seriously but not literally”, as if all the talk of a Muslim ban, Mexican rapists, and locking up his opponent was mere knockabout. In Donald Trump’s fantasy world, hints of reality are dawning | Matthew d’Ancona 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Seattle Shakespeare Company presents a delirious rendering of “The Government Inspector,” Nikolai Gogol’s knockabout lampoon of Russian provincialism in particular and human foibles in general. Review: Seattle Shakespeare’s ‘Government Inspector’ keeps us laughing 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

In a knockabout week for English football the news that Santi Cazorla will miss the rest of the season through injury was a note of sadness, and not just for those who follow Arsenal. Absence of Santi Cazorla, Arsenal’s Penfold-ish skill-goblin, adds to sense of loss | Barney Ronay 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Sound Theatre Company has unveiled its vigorous, congenial Seattle premiere of the knockabout romp “One Man, Two Guvnors.” ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ equals delightful music, slapstick fun 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

After a knockabout encounter with a particularly obtuse alien race, the ship heads to Yorktown for routine maintenance. 'Star Trek Beyond' boldly goes kind of where you expect it to, but with style 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

The movie is still something else, part veiled biography, part love story, part musical, part knockabout nightclub comedy, part statement of purpose. Indie Focus: Strange and profound with 'Elvis and Nixon,' 'The Meddler' and 'Purple Rain' 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

And 18th Century London entertainments regularly advertised knockabout "added scenes, in grotesque characters". The Vocabularist: Grotesque wasn't always an insult - BBC News 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Jeremy Corbyn's team are pleased because it was a serious attempt to change the brutal knockabout and present the Commons, and the public, with something different. Jeremy Corbyn's first PMQs: Both sides happy - BBC News 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

The knockabout comedy served as a fine foil for the climactic violence. A Pie-in-the-Face “Pagliacci” 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

After an hour and a half on the water, I might chat to the Captain at the knockabout bar before riding home on a wave of endorphins. My Weekend: Dickie Bannenberg 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

In the Spanish Golden Age, “entremeses” were interludes — short pieces performed during breaks in a longer work — featuring rustic settings, stereotypical characters and knockabout comedy. Iberian Suite at Kennedy Center aims to engage on many levels 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Prime Minister David Cameron is frank about his view of the weekly knockabout. Behind the scenes at Westminster 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

That she might have to rely upon political knockabout at some point in the future. Are Holyrood's ding dong days over? 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Old Trafford was virtually empty and the place was almost in silence as he took a full XI of team-mates’ kids on to the pitch for a little knockabout under the floodlights. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Looks like I picked a bad week to draw inspiration from current affairs for this knockabout comedy column. 2014 is so horrible, nothing can cheer us up. Not even Simon Cowell with a bucket on his head 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

It seemed to jostle with the street-level comedy, the knockabout characterisation, the swagger of the prose. Why we love to hate Martin Amis 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

"It does not always have to be a massive knockabout," he said. Miliband wants 'more serious' PMQs 2014-01-08T17:15:24Z

This is not an unusual sight and although it is just a knockabout it is taken seriously. Queen's baton leaves from Delhi 2013-10-14T00:01:19Z

But I wonder whether this knockabout has actually been a distraction because, on the whole, it seems that people do not live in a demythologised world. When did people stop thinking God lives on a cloud? 2013-05-16T01:21:22Z

The knockabout former props Barrie McDermott and Terry O'Connor, now Sky regulars, seemed central to the latter, along with the amiable coach Andy Kelly. Super League Set of Six: Sonny Bill Williams's return rocks Australia 2013-03-05T10:30:01Z

If that knockabout match provided political commentators with opportunities for cheeky metaphors, Cameron seemed keen to provide City observers with a similar opportunity. Prospect of selling RBS and Lloyds recedes as Hester's innings drags on 2013-02-23T20:27:39Z

Mikengreg's follow-up to Solipskier, one of the strongest games for Apple's platform, takes the knockabout excitement of backyard basketball and combines it with robots and puzzles. The 20 best games you may have missed in 2012 - part one 2012-11-19T11:58:58Z

All good knockabout fun, except the klutz Starostin had bested would grow up to be a very dangerous man indeed: Lavrenty Beria, chief of Soviet security under Joseph Stalin. The Joy of Six: nutmegs 2012-11-16T10:38:09Z

Among the scatological knockabout there are two passable jokes, one about accidentally socking a baby, another about accidentally punching Uggie, the dog in The Artist. The Campaign – review 2012-09-29T23:03:05Z

The US Open champion took part in a knockabout with young tennis hopefuls at his local club where he began his career. In pictures: Murray mania in Dunblane 2012-09-17T06:52:25Z

The tabloids, of course are known for their knockabout proficiency with puns. 12 things in 212 words that every 2012 visitor should know 2012-07-27T00:46:38Z

It's knockabout stuff, but the implementation is smooth and looks to integrate well into the combat mechanic. E3 2012: Injustice Gods Among Us – preview 2012-06-13T11:29:19Z

I mixed myself up once in a delightful knockabout farce near Kabinda, and possibly made the biggest fool of myself I ever did. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z

Mr. Peasley spent a week in the world's metropolis with no clothes except a knockabout travelling outfit and what he called his "Tuxedo," although, over here they say "dinner jacket." In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z

I could manage to make a few degrees of allowance for jazz and the Mack Sennett knockabouts under the circumstances, but the deification of Hearst created an unbridgeable gulf. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z

I was now in a one-cylinder knockabout which in every way lived up to its name. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z

The amusing stuff is all knockabout one-liners and campy cut-throat silliness: imagine a Monty Python sketch about a motley crew of corsairs, set to stop motion animation and you'll be in the right ball park. Pirates conquer Comic-Con for Aardman 2011-07-22T10:58:41Z

Or knockabout comedies like Hangover or Bridesmaids starring comics and small-screen graduates. Has Hollywood's A-list been shown the door? 2011-07-11T21:00:00Z

The one-time pantomime comedian of an English company presenting a knockabout vaudeville act had made himself a multi-millionaire through clowning before a camera. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z

But there was none of the knockabout that has followed Big Willie throughout his colourful career. Hull KR 40-22 Crusaders 2011-03-13T20:41:33Z

The three deals, all signed under the patronage of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, represent a major shift in Russia's energy strategy away from the knockabout oligarchic capitalism born in the 1990s. UPDATE 2-Total joins Arctic gas project, buying stake in Novatek 2011-03-02T22:48:05Z

It's knockabout stuff, but the key element, and questions, are still: is the code from Sun used without permission? Android files row: makers did include them, analysis says 2011-01-24T07:17:34Z

He kept it simple, played the percentages and emerged unscathed after an hour of political knockabout in front of a warm and friendly home crowd. Clarke Carlisle done good: footballer answers Question Time challenge 2011-01-21T12:28:38Z

Beneath the knockabout exterior and old-fashioned physique, Riddell has been a key figure in Wigan's best league season for a decade, and is determined to sign off in next Saturday's Grand Final at Old Trafford. Riddell to face grunts and grudges 2010-09-24T15:07:00Z

It's knockabout fun, it makes a refreshing change from the platitudes, truisms and downright statements of the obvious usually trotted out by managers and journalists love it because it makes their jobs easier. The Fiver 2010-05-21T15:27:00Z

On offroad tracks, meanwhile, the endless scrublands merge with the looming cloudy sky, creating an unexpectedly moody setting for a knockabout weapons-based racer. Blur: hands-on with Activision's rocket-powered racer 2010-05-06T08:00:00Z

Father gave me a knockabout two years ago, and I've had lots of fun in her. The Bachelors A Novel

You are made of far better stuff than to slide into the mere knockabout, harum-scarum adventurer, as some of these up-country going chaps are only too ready to do, especially when they begin young. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley

The trading and knockabout days were over now. A Frontier Mystery

A couple of them would go to make a capital knockabout act. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly

The above are well known on the South Coast as sound, wholesome knockabout boats, with ample cruising accommodation. With The Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the comtemporary magazine in which it appeared)

Her knockabout life had taught her self-control and sound common sense in many respects, and she was old enough to appreciate the expediency of the altered plans. The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life

After all, it was here he had spent his childhood; it was to the knockabouts received here that he owed much. Ted Marsh on an Important Mission

You know, we rough knockabouts haven’t much time for that sort of thing. A Frontier Mystery

As I said when I first came here, I have been a sort of a knockabout, a wanderer. Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer

Whenever possible his play-hours had been spent on a little knockabout sloop that he owned jointly with another man, both of them members of the Corinthian Club. A Man to His Mate

He was followed by two obviously comic men, who might have been costermongers or knockabout brothers from a music hall, and one comic woman. Diversions in Sicily

Frightening rooks, son," he remarked kindly, "or rehearsing as a knockabout comedian? No Man's Land

I suppose a knockabout like myself gets all the taste for the fine arts knocked out of him. A Frontier Mystery

Freshly painted dories were slipped into the water; newly rigged yawls and knockabouts were anchored in the bay; the float was equipped with renovated bumpers, and a general air of anticipation pervaded the community. Walter and the Wireless

The old combination of knockabouts or of swell and clown has for the most part disappeared; the Poluskis, The Terry Twins, and Dale and O'Malley are perhaps the last survivors. Nights in London

There was no knockabout business; nobody entered the room with a somersault, tripped over a pin or hung his hat on the scenery. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914

Twice a week, rain or shine, she was crew of the young gentleman's knockabout. We Three

If all was as I hardly dared to hope, I would give up my present knockabout life, and take a good farm somewhere and settle down. A Frontier Mystery

With uncertain step the boy loitered in the sun, glancing at the expanse of sea and at a knockabout that heeled dangerously in the rising wind. Walter and the Wireless

"Fate's irony!" he himself would sometimes say inwardly, with a sidelong glance at Albert, preoccupied with knockabouts or trained dogs. On the Stairs

So we accepted the offer of a good friend’s knockabout, and sailed around the dreaded Point with our little boat tailing behind at the end of her rope. More Jonathan Papers

At first the set was content with giving a sort of low comedian, knockabout performance. The Loom of Youth

“This man says, sir,” continued the petty officer, “that he saw your friends, sir, going aboard a white knockabout sloop.” The Submarine Boys and the Middies

There were tennis tournaments, golf matches, swimming races, regattas when small fleets of knockabouts maneuvered in the bay. Walter and the Wireless

"This man says, sir," continued the petty officer, "that he saw your friends, sir, going aboard a white knockabout sloop." The Submarine Boys and the Middies The Prize Detail at Annapolis

An hour's knockabout with me will do the child more good than moping in the house, and I ought to have thought of it myself. Poison Island

A little later Blount found himself handling the wheel of a very serviceable knockabout car equipped for hard work on country roads. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush

“Turn the light on the knockabout, now, and keep it there,” directed the submarine boy. The Submarine Boys and the Middies

He wore a long frock coat instead of the usual knockabout suit he affected on the farm. A Little Book for Christmas

I half believe, sir," Eph rattled on, "that my two comrades, Mr. Benson and Mr. Hastings have been tricked, in some way, and carried out to sea on that knockabout. The Submarine Boys and the Middies The Prize Detail at Annapolis

And, I suppose, owing to our knockabout sort of intimacy, she has adopted a protective, motherly attitude towards me. Jaffery

Some day, Yeovil reflected, the rights of the monopoly might expire and new “business” become available for the knockabout profession. When William Came

He was the black-bearded man who shanghaied you in the white knockabout. The Submarine Boys and the Middies

There had been something like vaudeville—say Signor Givens and his funny knockabout act with the stuffed lion. Heart of the West [Annotated]

"Turn the light on the knockabout, now, and keep it there," directed the submarine boy. The Submarine Boys and the Middies The Prize Detail at Annapolis

He took a knockabout watch from the breast pocket of his shirt. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise

His life was a tragedy written in the terms of knockabout farce. Moon and Sixpence

These vulgar knockabouts have, at least, got hold of a social shade and real mental distinction, though they can only express it clumsily. Alarms and Discursions

It was only dull and stale and stupid; the same old sort of knockabouts and serio-comics you can see everywhere down town, only not a quarter so good—just cheap imitations. Under the Skylights

He was the blackbearded man who drugged you and shanghaied you in the white knockabout. The Submarine Boys and the Middies The Prize Detail at Annapolis

The knockabout was forthcoming shortly after she had demonstrated her amphibious qualities by diving from the rocks and performing water feats which dazed her anxious guardians. The Law-Breakers and Other Stories

I suppose none of you merchants can give me any idea when the next knockabout entertainment of this kind is likely to take place?” Mike

This motive is glorified in the quarrel between Brutus and Cassius, degraded in the patter of two "knockabout comedians." Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship

You had fun with the crockery—that knockabout act of yours with the water-jug was alone worth the money—and you had the advantage of listening to the views of a master of his subject. Psmith in the City

In his knockabout life he had met all sorts of people, yet here was certainly a new kind. Richard Dare's Venture

Blake held the knockabout to its course, with the confidence of youth in his prowess, against them. A Fool There Was

Here he secured the "knockabout" horse, always kept saddled and bridled about the station for generally-useful work, and set off at a swinging canter up the paddock after his own steed. Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life

Nothing in the theatre is staler than the situation of husband, wife and lover, or the fun of knockabout farce. How He Lied to Her Husband

He's just an ordinary knockabout like you and me. Dubliners

He dressed himself hurriedly in a neglige shirt with a windsor scad, light-colored, serviceable trousers with a belt, russet shoes, and a tennis hat-a knockabout costume, he considered. Main-Travelled Roads

In the meanwhile, far out on the sound, the little knockabout was heeling far over in the playful breath of the summer breeze. A Fool There Was

Her knockabout act in the restaurant would have satisfied the most jaded critic. Psmith, Journalist

I laugh at the knockabout brothers, I confess, so long as they are on the stage; but they do not convince me. The Angel and the Author, and others

Leonard introduced them to a young fellow named Weathers who was performing at the Tivoli as an acrobat and knockabout artiste. Dubliners

There had been something like vaudeville--say Signor Givens and his funny knockabout act with the stuffed lion. Heart of the West

At length they reached the side of the swamped knockabout…. A Fool There Was

Having settled myself, or my property rather, I put on my knockabout clothes and went out for a walk. The People of the Abyss

I present the idea, for what it may be worth, to the concoctors of knockabout turns. The Angel and the Author, and others

This horse must have been raised, I think, in the knockabout song-and-dance business. Cobb's Anatomy

The knockabouts and those other three chaps won't come it on us for their own sakes. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields

They reached the side of the knockabout as Blake and Kathryn were dragging Jack Schuyler from the water; and they took him into the other boat. A Fool There Was

We'd had a couple of knockabouts to help with the cooking and stockyard work. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields

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例句	knockabout Like we was old knockabout friends of the streets. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z The 70-minute “Bon Voyage!” is knockabout, I suppose, but it’s never antic. Review \| A winsome road to Paris in ‘Bon Voyage! A Happenstance Escapade’ 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Every moment rings true, the vividly textured locations and knockabout relationships more visited than created. ‘Premature’ Review: Summer Loving 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The knockabout Punch and Judy show undergoes a grand Hollywood upgrade on Gone Girl, a garish, gripping tale of a warring husband and wife that plays like a Relate counsellor’s worst nightmare. Gone Girl review – a bracing, scalding sketch of a marriage in meltdown 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z But it seems to me if you have this major ceremonial funeral on that day having the knockabout of prime minister's questions at the same time might feel a bit odd. Margaret Thatcher death celebrations were puerile, says Nick Clegg 2013-04-11T09:48:13Z The ideal seemed to be a classic Charles Mingus roil, knockabout but self-assured. Music Review: Tony Malaby?s Novela at Jazz Gallery - Review 2011-12-19T22:05:11Z Besides, it’s written that yobs, slobs and snobs are fair game in knockabout comedies. You make me sick! Why film’s fondness for food poisoning takes the biscuit 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z And so was his work on the closer, which began as a knockabout drum battle before plunging into calypso mode. Music Review \| Joe Lovano and Us Five: Celebrating 75 Years of Grooves in Village 2010-02-26T22:49:00Z It’s no surprise that this knockabout dramatic style bleeds into the rehearsal room, but the friends at the heart of the company, who are in their late 20s, don’t just fight. The Amoralists Ready a New Play, ?Amerissiah? 2010-06-05T02:03:00Z Oozing quality, the action switches seamlessly from surreal dance sequence to hyper-realistic sporting enactment, poignant soliloquy to knockabout comedy. En Route; Fair Trade; Shakespeare: The Man from Stratford; Up 'N' Under; Odyssey; Poland 3 Iran 2; Beautiful Burnout 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z You would be hard-pressed to connect the driven, knockabout Klemperer on these discs with the legendarily monolithic defender of the German classics in his old age. Brahms played brilliantly, with an L.A. back story to boot: Christoph Eschenbach at Disney Hall 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z West Is West is far from the knockabout family comedy of its original. London film festival second week ? review 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z It helps to recall that good farce is always knockabout, regardless of gender; it’s a pleasure to roar at suffering that is big and fake and somebody else’s. Review: A Fair Fight Makes ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ Lovable Again 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Maybe Ms. Agami is aware of the problem, and is trying to address it in “Calling Glenn” with knockabout humor. Review: ‘Calling Glenn’ Puts a Humorous Spin on Gaga Dancing 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z The closest the movies have come has been the knockabout Darwinism of Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle The Revenant, in which the primal quest for survival looked like a Tough Mudder assault course. Under fire: how cinema's new breed of cowboys are taking aim at the old west 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z But a naughty part of me – perhaps the theatre-critic part of me, perhaps the part of me that wants to see greater public interest in Parliament – quite relishes the weekly knockabout. Is it unparliamentary to call someone a 'muttering idiot'? 2012-05-26T17:19:01Z He is good at knockabout invective, laying into "fragilista" economists such as Joseph Stiglitz and self-aggrandising journalists such as "the vile and harmful" Thomas Friedman, who was an apologist for the Iraq war. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z Comic plays on Broadway these days are generally either knockabout farces like “The Play That Goes Wrong” or repurposed stand-up routines like “Latin History for Morons.” Review: Look Up! It’s Amy Schumer in ‘Meteor Shower’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Lost at times in the linguistic shuffle is the wistful ache underpinning a comedy that, as is the Shakespearean norm, unveils grievous emotions on the way to its knockabout finish. A Mexican-Style ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z On Jan. 2 at 9 p.m., he leads his knockabout trio at the Stone, with Chris Tordini on bass and David King on drums. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z And the album has proportionate doses of knockabout groove, scratchy free improvisation and chamber-esque restraint. Playlist: Straightening Out, Rapping and Leading a Band 2010-12-10T20:18:00Z In the knockabout adventure comedy Every Which Way But Loose, co-starring an orangutan, she plays Lynn, the alluring but duplicitous country singer with whom Eastwood’s character falls in love. Sondra Locke: a charismatic performer defined by a toxic relationship with Clint Eastwood 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z For all the production's knockabout panto spirit, it means this Arnolphe is more complex than the regulation commedia dell'arte oaf. Educating Agnes ? review 2011-04-12T17:29:03Z For well-needed light relief, a handful of knockabout medical problems are worked into the scenes that depict House's clinic work. House: the science of drama 2010-10-05T05:59:00Z Now picture what this overactive, knockabout meeting place of stray ideas looks like at one of his crucial moments of creative inspiration. \| 'Border Towns': A Little Bit Dylan, a Little Bit Lots of Other Stuff 2010-09-16T03:00:00Z Doug Carnell, the picker, is an Olympic Peninsula knockabout with a checkered past and an internal atlas of prime mushroom patches from the North Cascades to the Klamath Mountains. ‘The Mushroom Hunters’: foragers in the fungal wild 2013-09-06T14:16:07Z They share permutations on jokes and a preference for smooth execution over fast knockabout stunts. Pierre Étaix Is Honored at Film Forum 2012-10-14T02:03:03Z His combination of brutish innocence and inner loneliness belongs wholly to the world of knockabout. Why The Dictator isn't Great 2012-05-16T14:38:23Z The business with Lou enlisting the other guys to help him fake his way through a possibly career-killing medical exam was just as sharp, and much more broad, in the best knockabout "Rescue Me" tradition. "Rescue Me" recap: Season 7, Episode 2: "Menses" 2011-07-21T14:30:00Z The intelligentsia of their era embraced the knockabout vaudevillians and basked in their company. The movie Salvador Dali wanted to make with the Marx Brothers didn’t happen – until now (sort of) 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z So if Adams practically perfected comic SF that was neither full of knowing in-jokes for the cognoscenti, nor knockabout parody, then who else has come close? Douglas Adams is still the king of comic science fiction 2013-03-11T12:55:34Z Mr. Burstein’s knockabout “Buddy’s Blues,” a low vaudeville clown turn, seethes with a genuine exasperated ambivalence that comments wryly on both Buddy’s self-flagellating nature and on the cathartic nastiness of music-hall humor. \| 'Follies': Broadway Babies? Glory Days 2011-05-23T02:01:05Z He draws here from a new album, “In Memory of Things Yet Seen,” featuring a knockabout quartet with Darius Jones on alto saxophone, Bill McHenry on tenor saxophone and Chad Taylor on drums. Jazz Listings for Sept. 26-Oct. 2 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Indeed, as far as the ever-excitable Charles Spencer is concerned, what the audience at the Chichester Festival Theatre have witnessed may be some kind of knockabout masterpiece. What to say about ... Yes, Prime Minister 2010-05-25T10:21:00Z But, in Britain, I would argue that knockabout rudeness in print is less prevalent than it used to be for a variety of reasons. How rude should theatre critics be? 2011-07-29T14:03:46Z Wisdom, who has died aged 95, was almost the last in a great tradition of knockabout, slapstick clowns, a performer who relied less on words than on an acrobatic physical dexterity to gain his laughs. Sir Norman Wisdom obituary 2010-10-05T00:01:00Z The show, presented by Wilson’s Faction of Fools troupe, is basically an excuse for Wilson to run through a bunch of character types from the 16th-century Italian commedia dell’arte, a deceptively knockabout form. Surely, he jests: Matthew R. Wilson’s classic clowning in ‘One-Man Commedia Epic’ 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z If you ignore the fact that both of these characters had plot armour coming out the wazoo, and therefore were, at no point, in any real danger, it was pulpy, knockabout fun. The Walking Dead: season 8, episode 12 recap – The Key 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Mental is a knockabout black comedy from Australia that starts off exhilaratingly mad and funny, then progressively loses its edge. Mental – review 2012-11-15T22:00:03Z If the first song is a delicate ballad, the audience will be confused and unhappy when a knockabout farce ensues. ‘The Secret Life of the American Musical’ — from ‘Gypsy’ to ‘Hamilton’ 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Stephen Root, in a single scene as Porter, lifts the grim, forensic business of regicide and its aftermath into the realm of knockabout farce. ‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: The Thane, Insane, Slays Mainly in Dunsinane 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Even today, most comedy in Germany is generally more physical and knockabout than in Britain, though this is not to say that it is all as crude and basic as a Benny Hill sketch. What's German for funny? 2012-02-12T20:00:13Z The ballet unfolds as a circus of bold colors, full of knockabout energy. Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Little Humpbacked Horse’ is rowdy fun at Kennedy Center 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z If the cast members at the Old Globe excel more in song than in story, they serve Tresnjak's knockabout approach. Old Globe's 'Kiss Me, Kate' steals a smile if not a heart 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Adam Scott Mazer’s script pulls more punches than his persuasively knockabout fight choreography. \| 'Death Valley': The Undead Are Uneasy in the Untamed West 2011-07-03T21:10:27Z A reformed getaway driver's past catches up with him in this knockabout road comedy. This week's new films 2012-10-12T23:05:33Z What each is up to now — Mr. Vile with his deceivingly knockabout band the Violators, and Mr. Granduciel as the auteur of grand panoramic moods in the War on Drugs — isn’t the step after roots-rock. Kurt Vile and War on Drugs Share a Middle Ground 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z The actors fling themselves into this knockabout scene with admirable commitment, not to mention well-choreographed precision. Review: ‘Permission’ and Spankings at the Lucille Lortel Theater 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Disney’s problem now is that it fears repeating the failures of the prequel trilogy, which shifted the heart of Star Wars from knockabout space adventure to turgid bureaucratic battles in the Galactic senate. Attack of the clones: can Rogue One save us from a future of identikit cinematic universes? 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z A jacket that may become a skirt — “We’re still playing,” he explains — as something knockabout and “street” gets a brazen, puckish patina of higher style. ‘Oliver!’ shows off Arena artisans’ craft 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z It’s a wrathful show, one that unrepentantly sacrifices the knockabout farce that theatergoers may be expecting from Molière’s famed 17th-century play exposing a religious faker. Taking on a fanatic with zeal in Molière’s ‘Tartuffe’ 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Or perhaps an old one: “Nollywood Dreams” is spirited and casual, with the knockabout rhythms and narrative shortcuts of Hollywood in its early years, before flickers became films. Review: In ‘Nollywood Dreams,’ a Star and an Industry Are Born 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Dumb and Dumber To, sequel to the knockabout comedy released 20 years ago, was at four after making £1.8m. Hobbit retains UK box office command 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z It's the kind of knockabout, kid's-eye-view -horror that hasn't been made for a while, with some nasty, frightening touches, but expertly encased in a distinctive family-movie aesthetic. Film review: The Hole 2010-09-23T22:10:00Z The directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, create the usual college satire and fill up the holes in the plot with knockabout physical comedy, some of which is funny.—D.D. Movies 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z On Jan. 2 he leads his knockabout trio at the Stone, with Chris Tordini on bass and David King on drums. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z This knockabout farce out of London, where it has been running for more than two years and won the Olivier Award for best comedy, is devoted entirely to destroying itself before your eyes. Review: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ Upends a Whodunit 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z The tone was knockabout bordering on slapstick, and while neither actor is a born comedian, together they made an entertaining double act. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z This year Mr. Lawrence appeared on an album by the Cookers, a knockabout hard-bop brotherhood; he also made his debut at the Jazz Standard, drawing from his own album. Music Review: Azar Lawrence Quintet at Jazz Standard - Review 2011-12-15T23:04:44Z Largely dispensing with knockabout farce, this long, blithe, clever film earned Edwards his only Oscar nomination, for adapted screenplay. 10 Pink Panthers at Tiffany's: Farewell to Blake Edwards 2010-12-19T14:10:00Z Much of the comedy in Dinner for One is slapstick, knockabout stuff: James spills wine, drops food, crashes into furniture and downs the water in the flower vases instead of what's in the port glasses. What's German for funny? 2012-02-12T20:00:13Z Almodóvar’s films are full of similar moments: anguished human dramas edged with knockabout farce. Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I can no longer hide’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Repeatedly knocked down throughout this knockabout comedy, Tammy takes a licking and keeps on sticking her foot right back in it. In ‘Tammy,’ Melissa McCarthy Hits the Road 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z When, after years of separation, Gatsby and Daisy meet, their awkwardness is turned into knockabout farce. Gatz; The Witness; You Once Said Yes – review 2012-06-16T23:06:06Z None of it seemed bleak or depressing at the time; it was just knockabout fun. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Her paintings and sculptures may be knocked-about as well as knockabout, but there is a great deal of personal abjection in them. Turner prize 2010: Dark nights of the soul 2010-10-04T17:53:00Z The three bond in a herky-jerky plot of low comedy, knockabout combat and a saccharine song here and there. Review: ‘Monster Hunt’ Features a Baby Beast on the Run With Its Surrogate Parents 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z In his review of the show for The New York Times, Charles Isherwood said Mr. Bleu “brings a lively, knockabout charm to the role of Ted.” Corbin Bleu, on Broadway and Dancing in Fred Astaire’s Footsteps 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Fighting With My Family Now, this is either going to be a knockabout action comedy about hilarious domestic disputes, or a harrowing kitchen-sink drama about the emotional toil caused by a lifetime of familial resentment. What The Rock is cooking: Dwayne Johnson's next 26 films decoded 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Star Wars movies will always be judged on their ability to intelligently balance dark and light motifs, as the saga works best as pulpy, knockabout space adventure rather than brooding sci-fi. The six key questions Rogue One: A Star Wars Story must answer 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Clegg said it would be a "bit odd" to have a knockabout session in the Commons on the same day as Thatcher's funeral. Margaret Thatcher death celebrations were puerile, says Nick Clegg 2013-04-11T09:48:13Z Gone were tedious trade delegations, midi-chloreans and galactic senates, back were knockabout space romps and realistic looking sets. Would George Lucas's Star Wars sequels have been better than Disney's? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z No. This is far too scary for a knockabout family comedy. Operation Dumbo Drop to Mr Boogedy: the 10 strangest Disney films 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z "We're just metaphorically knocking the boaters off your heads, chaps, all good knockabout fun – don't go taking it to heart!" What's up, you posh boys, can't you take a joke? 2012-08-18T23:06:40Z To my mind, the funniest one is the knockabout Love at First Bite, starring George Hamilton as Count Dracula in New York. Vampires Suck ? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z The humour was of the driest variety, not the usual knockabout, and left an indelible impression. Letter: Richard Griffiths was a brilliant Bottom for the RSC 2013-04-14T15:36:26Z Spike Lee’s fierce knockabout satire BlacKkKlansman won the Grand Prix, and this was a period movie based on the true story of the black police officer who masterminded the infiltration of the KKK in Colorado. Cannes 2018: cheering – if baffling – set of prizes caps a curious year 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Crude and knockabout, it nonetheless has — like many a bromance — a sloppy, sentimental heart. Movie Review: ‘That’s What She Said,’ a Comedy Directed by Carrie Preston 2012-10-18T21:33:23Z The whole thing races along at hilarious breakneck speed, with some nifty knockabout choreography from Mark Smith and excellent playing from musical director Christopher Mundy. Iolanthe; Angela Hewitt/Britten Sinfonia ? review 2011-04-09T23:05:44Z A knockabout comedy, this “Merry Wives” is also something more. Hot Vax Summer? Falstaff and Shakespeare in the Park Are Ready. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z The test of any Henry IV must be the transition from the knockabout comedy and provincial English violence of Part 1 to the sweet, haunting melancholy of Part 2. Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z It's a movie I didn't like much on first release, but every time I see it on television, its energy and knockabout humour keeps me watching. Angelina Jolie: Hollywood won't be the same without her 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Horrid Henry is an inexpensive-looking knockabout comedy of a sort perhaps enjoyed by kids who are appreciably younger than those at which the film is apparently aimed. Horrid Henry: The Movie ? review 2011-07-28T21:10:01Z Maybe the "Facebook for suits" is fine with its new knockabout tone. How LinkedIn is changing and why some are not happy 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z The son of a butcher who had fled Nazi Germany, Mr. Caan grew up in the 1940s and 1950s on the knockabout streets of the outer boroughs of New York. James Caan, who played Sonny Corleone in ‘The Godfather,’ dies at 82 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z But Raiff sends Andrew on what turns out to be an unexpected journey that makes its way to its own version of a happy ending with tenderness, warmth and knockabout wit. Review \| ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’: A coming-of-age movie with charm to burn 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z But Albanese, a one-time backroom fixer, renowned early on in his career for his knockabout style, still needs to persuade a sizeable portion of the electorate that he is a prime minister-in-waiting. Australia election: Enter a lacklustre advert for democracy 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Warne often described himself as just a knockabout bloke, an ordinary Australian who liked a drink and a joke and who happened to discover a talent for spinning a leather ball. Thousands to commemorate Warne, cricket’s ‘box office’ star 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z This could be a lot of knockabout fun. Liverpool v Arsenal: Premier League – live! 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z “Business journalism is a demanding but knockabout trade,” Flanigan would say, “full of secret clues and red herrings.” James Flanigan, longtime Times business columnist, dies at 85 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z “The Chair” is entertaining in a knockabout way, if you don’t look too closely, and Oh is wonderful every minute she’s in it. Netflix's new campus comedy is a mess. The marvelous Sandra Oh holds it together 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z The usual knockabout stuff of Harry Redknapp managing a group of middle-aged former footballers, as they prepare to play Germany in a search for “redemption”, has a moving segment in the second episode. Lee Hendrie: 'My wife went through an awful lot. She's seen me on life-support machines' 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z Now much of this may look like the familiar knockabout you get on social media. China’s new brand of tough-talking diplomats 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z The knockabout banter offered some candid reflections on their glittering careers — both on hold as tennis awaits the end of the pandemic which has claimed more than 150,000 lives globally. Djokovic shares Olympic regrets with Murray in live chat 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z There’s a lovely, knockabout energy to Atim, balanced by a deeply serious side. Sheila Atim: ‘I had impostor syndrome until I picked up my MBE 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Up until now, the Hitler Youth hasn't exactly been fertile ground for knockabout comedy. Films lookahead: 20 movies not to miss in 2020 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z “He was a lovable, knockabout Aussie guy, loved his surfing,” Smith told AAP. New Zealand police seek dashcam footage after murder of Sean McKinnon 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z After the printing district burned down, in 1835, he returned to Long Island, working unhappily as a schoolteacher and pursuing a knockabout career in journalism. How to Celebrate Walt Whitman’s Two-Hundredth Birthday 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z When he is in the Speaker’s chair, Bercow, who is short and has a labile, cat-like grin, also enjoys the more traditional, knockabout elements of his job. Is a Parliamentary Official Trying to Stop Brexit? 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z It was a knockabout partisan diversion from the main national issue, which now resumes. It’s now or never for May. Time to compromise on Brexit \| Martin Kettle 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z “For all their knockabout farce, these books are remarkably subtle, and in a way display the art of the translator at its best.” Anthea Bell, deft translator of Asterix comics and literary classics, dies at 82 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z "The Epic Adventures of Captain Underpants," born as a series of massively successful books by Dav Pilkey, has become a charmingly subversive, knockabout cartoon series, streaming as of Friday on Netflix. Review: The undies-wearing superhero gets his own Netflix show, 'The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants' 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z He'd written a knockabout comedy but got sloppy with details and seemed to have run short of ideas, especially in segments involving the rough wooing of a brainy, independent woman. Amy Freed helps Shakespeare with a rewrite. The result: 'Shrew!' 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Louis was the delinquent, knockabout son of Italian immigrants in Torrance, Calif., who went on to run for America in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, then joined the Army Air Corps before Pearl Harbor. Billy Graham, the Ecumenical Evangelist 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Similarly themed but more delicately rendered is Amazon's poetical, knockabout "Danger & Eggs." Let's get animated: The cartoons we'll keep watching in 2018 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z Before beating Murray in the knockabout exhibition match, Federer told the three-time grand slam winner: ”My best advice is just to get fit again. Federer advises Murray not to rush back too quickly 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Seattle Shakespeare Company has just the remedy: a delirious rendering of “The Government Inspector,” Nikolai Gogol’s knockabout lampoon of Russian provincialism in particular and human foibles in general. Review: Seattle Shakespeare’s ‘Government Inspector’ keeps us laughing 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Yet the movie is more than just a knockabout period piece. On sisters and snacks with Jenny Slate and the team behind 'Landline' 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z From a certain perspective, this is knockabout political theatre. Are we entering a golden age of the conspiracy theory? 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z We were told, absurdly, to take him “seriously but not literally”, as if all the talk of a Muslim ban, Mexican rapists, and locking up his opponent was mere knockabout. In Donald Trump’s fantasy world, hints of reality are dawning \| Matthew d’Ancona 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Before beating Murray in the knockabout exhibition match, Federer told the three-time grand slam winner: ”My best advice is just to get fit again. Federer advises Murray not to rush back too quickly 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Seattle Shakespeare Company presents a delirious rendering of “The Government Inspector,” Nikolai Gogol’s knockabout lampoon of Russian provincialism in particular and human foibles in general. Review: Seattle Shakespeare’s ‘Government Inspector’ keeps us laughing 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z In a knockabout week for English football the news that Santi Cazorla will miss the rest of the season through injury was a note of sadness, and not just for those who follow Arsenal. Absence of Santi Cazorla, Arsenal’s Penfold-ish skill-goblin, adds to sense of loss \| Barney Ronay 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Sound Theatre Company has unveiled its vigorous, congenial Seattle premiere of the knockabout romp “One Man, Two Guvnors.” ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ equals delightful music, slapstick fun 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z After a knockabout encounter with a particularly obtuse alien race, the ship heads to Yorktown for routine maintenance. 'Star Trek Beyond' boldly goes kind of where you expect it to, but with style 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The movie is still something else, part veiled biography, part love story, part musical, part knockabout nightclub comedy, part statement of purpose. Indie Focus: Strange and profound with 'Elvis and Nixon,' 'The Meddler' and 'Purple Rain' 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z And 18th Century London entertainments regularly advertised knockabout "added scenes, in grotesque characters". The Vocabularist: Grotesque wasn't always an insult - BBC News 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Jeremy Corbyn's team are pleased because it was a serious attempt to change the brutal knockabout and present the Commons, and the public, with something different. Jeremy Corbyn's first PMQs: Both sides happy - BBC News 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z The knockabout comedy served as a fine foil for the climactic violence. A Pie-in-the-Face “Pagliacci” 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z After an hour and a half on the water, I might chat to the Captain at the knockabout bar before riding home on a wave of endorphins. My Weekend: Dickie Bannenberg 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z In the Spanish Golden Age, “entremeses” were interludes — short pieces performed during breaks in a longer work — featuring rustic settings, stereotypical characters and knockabout comedy. Iberian Suite at Kennedy Center aims to engage on many levels 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Prime Minister David Cameron is frank about his view of the weekly knockabout. Behind the scenes at Westminster 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z That she might have to rely upon political knockabout at some point in the future. Are Holyrood's ding dong days over? 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Old Trafford was virtually empty and the place was almost in silence as he took a full XI of team-mates’ kids on to the pitch for a little knockabout under the floodlights. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Looks like I picked a bad week to draw inspiration from current affairs for this knockabout comedy column. 2014 is so horrible, nothing can cheer us up. Not even Simon Cowell with a bucket on his head 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z It seemed to jostle with the street-level comedy, the knockabout characterisation, the swagger of the prose. Why we love to hate Martin Amis 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z "It does not always have to be a massive knockabout," he said. Miliband wants 'more serious' PMQs 2014-01-08T17:15:24Z This is not an unusual sight and although it is just a knockabout it is taken seriously. Queen's baton leaves from Delhi 2013-10-14T00:01:19Z But I wonder whether this knockabout has actually been a distraction because, on the whole, it seems that people do not live in a demythologised world. When did people stop thinking God lives on a cloud? 2013-05-16T01:21:22Z The knockabout former props Barrie McDermott and Terry O'Connor, now Sky regulars, seemed central to the latter, along with the amiable coach Andy Kelly. Super League Set of Six: Sonny Bill Williams's return rocks Australia 2013-03-05T10:30:01Z If that knockabout match provided political commentators with opportunities for cheeky metaphors, Cameron seemed keen to provide City observers with a similar opportunity. Prospect of selling RBS and Lloyds recedes as Hester's innings drags on 2013-02-23T20:27:39Z Mikengreg's follow-up to Solipskier, one of the strongest games for Apple's platform, takes the knockabout excitement of backyard basketball and combines it with robots and puzzles. The 20 best games you may have missed in 2012 - part one 2012-11-19T11:58:58Z All good knockabout fun, except the klutz Starostin had bested would grow up to be a very dangerous man indeed: Lavrenty Beria, chief of Soviet security under Joseph Stalin. The Joy of Six: nutmegs 2012-11-16T10:38:09Z Among the scatological knockabout there are two passable jokes, one about accidentally socking a baby, another about accidentally punching Uggie, the dog in The Artist. The Campaign – review 2012-09-29T23:03:05Z The US Open champion took part in a knockabout with young tennis hopefuls at his local club where he began his career. In pictures: Murray mania in Dunblane 2012-09-17T06:52:25Z The tabloids, of course are known for their knockabout proficiency with puns. 12 things in 212 words that every 2012 visitor should know 2012-07-27T00:46:38Z It's knockabout stuff, but the implementation is smooth and looks to integrate well into the combat mechanic. E3 2012: Injustice Gods Among Us – preview 2012-06-13T11:29:19Z I mixed myself up once in a delightful knockabout farce near Kabinda, and possibly made the biggest fool of myself I ever did. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Mr. Peasley spent a week in the world's metropolis with no clothes except a knockabout travelling outfit and what he called his "Tuxedo," although, over here they say "dinner jacket." In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z I could manage to make a few degrees of allowance for jazz and the Mack Sennett knockabouts under the circumstances, but the deification of Hearst created an unbridgeable gulf. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z I was now in a one-cylinder knockabout which in every way lived up to its name. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z The amusing stuff is all knockabout one-liners and campy cut-throat silliness: imagine a Monty Python sketch about a motley crew of corsairs, set to stop motion animation and you'll be in the right ball park. Pirates conquer Comic-Con for Aardman 2011-07-22T10:58:41Z Or knockabout comedies like Hangover or Bridesmaids starring comics and small-screen graduates. Has Hollywood's A-list been shown the door? 2011-07-11T21:00:00Z The one-time pantomime comedian of an English company presenting a knockabout vaudeville act had made himself a multi-millionaire through clowning before a camera. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z But there was none of the knockabout that has followed Big Willie throughout his colourful career. Hull KR 40-22 Crusaders 2011-03-13T20:41:33Z The three deals, all signed under the patronage of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, represent a major shift in Russia's energy strategy away from the knockabout oligarchic capitalism born in the 1990s. UPDATE 2-Total joins Arctic gas project, buying stake in Novatek 2011-03-02T22:48:05Z It's knockabout stuff, but the key element, and questions, are still: is the code from Sun used without permission? Android files row: makers did include them, analysis says 2011-01-24T07:17:34Z He kept it simple, played the percentages and emerged unscathed after an hour of political knockabout in front of a warm and friendly home crowd. Clarke Carlisle done good: footballer answers Question Time challenge 2011-01-21T12:28:38Z Beneath the knockabout exterior and old-fashioned physique, Riddell has been a key figure in Wigan's best league season for a decade, and is determined to sign off in next Saturday's Grand Final at Old Trafford. Riddell to face grunts and grudges 2010-09-24T15:07:00Z It's knockabout fun, it makes a refreshing change from the platitudes, truisms and downright statements of the obvious usually trotted out by managers and journalists love it because it makes their jobs easier. The Fiver 2010-05-21T15:27:00Z On offroad tracks, meanwhile, the endless scrublands merge with the looming cloudy sky, creating an unexpectedly moody setting for a knockabout weapons-based racer. Blur: hands-on with Activision's rocket-powered racer 2010-05-06T08:00:00Z Father gave me a knockabout two years ago, and I've had lots of fun in her. The Bachelors A Novel You are made of far better stuff than to slide into the mere knockabout, harum-scarum adventurer, as some of these up-country going chaps are only too ready to do, especially when they begin young. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley The trading and knockabout days were over now. A Frontier Mystery A couple of them would go to make a capital knockabout act. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly The above are well known on the South Coast as sound, wholesome knockabout boats, with ample cruising accommodation. With The Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the comtemporary magazine in which it appeared) Her knockabout life had taught her self-control and sound common sense in many respects, and she was old enough to appreciate the expediency of the altered plans. The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life After all, it was here he had spent his childhood; it was to the knockabouts received here that he owed much. Ted Marsh on an Important Mission You know, we rough knockabouts haven’t much time for that sort of thing. A Frontier Mystery As I said when I first came here, I have been a sort of a knockabout, a wanderer. Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer Whenever possible his play-hours had been spent on a little knockabout sloop that he owned jointly with another man, both of them members of the Corinthian Club. A Man to His Mate He was followed by two obviously comic men, who might have been costermongers or knockabout brothers from a music hall, and one comic woman. Diversions in Sicily Frightening rooks, son," he remarked kindly, "or rehearsing as a knockabout comedian? No Man's Land I suppose a knockabout like myself gets all the taste for the fine arts knocked out of him. A Frontier Mystery Freshly painted dories were slipped into the water; newly rigged yawls and knockabouts were anchored in the bay; the float was equipped with renovated bumpers, and a general air of anticipation pervaded the community. Walter and the Wireless The old combination of knockabouts or of swell and clown has for the most part disappeared; the Poluskis, The Terry Twins, and Dale and O'Malley are perhaps the last survivors. Nights in London There was no knockabout business; nobody entered the room with a somersault, tripped over a pin or hung his hat on the scenery. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914 Twice a week, rain or shine, she was crew of the young gentleman's knockabout. We Three If all was as I hardly dared to hope, I would give up my present knockabout life, and take a good farm somewhere and settle down. A Frontier Mystery With uncertain step the boy loitered in the sun, glancing at the expanse of sea and at a knockabout that heeled dangerously in the rising wind. Walter and the Wireless "Fate's irony!" he himself would sometimes say inwardly, with a sidelong glance at Albert, preoccupied with knockabouts or trained dogs. On the Stairs So we accepted the offer of a good friend’s knockabout, and sailed around the dreaded Point with our little boat tailing behind at the end of her rope. More Jonathan Papers At first the set was content with giving a sort of low comedian, knockabout performance. The Loom of Youth “This man says, sir,” continued the petty officer, “that he saw your friends, sir, going aboard a white knockabout sloop.” The Submarine Boys and the Middies There were tennis tournaments, golf matches, swimming races, regattas when small fleets of knockabouts maneuvered in the bay. Walter and the Wireless "This man says, sir," continued the petty officer, "that he saw your friends, sir, going aboard a white knockabout sloop." The Submarine Boys and the Middies The Prize Detail at Annapolis An hour's knockabout with me will do the child more good than moping in the house, and I ought to have thought of it myself. Poison Island A little later Blount found himself handling the wheel of a very serviceable knockabout car equipped for hard work on country roads. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush “Turn the light on the knockabout, now, and keep it there,” directed the submarine boy. The Submarine Boys and the Middies He wore a long frock coat instead of the usual knockabout suit he affected on the farm. A Little Book for Christmas I half believe, sir," Eph rattled on, "that my two comrades, Mr. Benson and Mr. Hastings have been tricked, in some way, and carried out to sea on that knockabout. The Submarine Boys and the Middies The Prize Detail at Annapolis And, I suppose, owing to our knockabout sort of intimacy, she has adopted a protective, motherly attitude towards me. Jaffery Some day, Yeovil reflected, the rights of the monopoly might expire and new “business” become available for the knockabout profession. When William Came He was the black-bearded man who shanghaied you in the white knockabout. The Submarine Boys and the Middies There had been something like vaudeville—say Signor Givens and his funny knockabout act with the stuffed lion. Heart of the West [Annotated] "Turn the light on the knockabout, now, and keep it there," directed the submarine boy. The Submarine Boys and the Middies The Prize Detail at Annapolis He took a knockabout watch from the breast pocket of his shirt. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise His life was a tragedy written in the terms of knockabout farce. Moon and Sixpence These vulgar knockabouts have, at least, got hold of a social shade and real mental distinction, though they can only express it clumsily. Alarms and Discursions It was only dull and stale and stupid; the same old sort of knockabouts and serio-comics you can see everywhere down town, only not a quarter so good—just cheap imitations. Under the Skylights He was the blackbearded man who drugged you and shanghaied you in the white knockabout. The Submarine Boys and the Middies The Prize Detail at Annapolis The knockabout was forthcoming shortly after she had demonstrated her amphibious qualities by diving from the rocks and performing water feats which dazed her anxious guardians. The Law-Breakers and Other Stories I suppose none of you merchants can give me any idea when the next knockabout entertainment of this kind is likely to take place?” Mike This motive is glorified in the quarrel between Brutus and Cassius, degraded in the patter of two "knockabout comedians." Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship You had fun with the crockery—that knockabout act of yours with the water-jug was alone worth the money—and you had the advantage of listening to the views of a master of his subject. Psmith in the City In his knockabout life he had met all sorts of people, yet here was certainly a new kind. Richard Dare's Venture Blake held the knockabout to its course, with the confidence of youth in his prowess, against them. A Fool There Was Here he secured the "knockabout" horse, always kept saddled and bridled about the station for generally-useful work, and set off at a swinging canter up the paddock after his own steed. Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life Nothing in the theatre is staler than the situation of husband, wife and lover, or the fun of knockabout farce. How He Lied to Her Husband He's just an ordinary knockabout like you and me. Dubliners He dressed himself hurriedly in a neglige shirt with a windsor scad, light-colored, serviceable trousers with a belt, russet shoes, and a tennis hat-a knockabout costume, he considered. Main-Travelled Roads In the meanwhile, far out on the sound, the little knockabout was heeling far over in the playful breath of the summer breeze. A Fool There Was Her knockabout act in the restaurant would have satisfied the most jaded critic. Psmith, Journalist I laugh at the knockabout brothers, I confess, so long as they are on the stage; but they do not convince me. The Angel and the Author, and others Leonard introduced them to a young fellow named Weathers who was performing at the Tivoli as an acrobat and knockabout artiste. Dubliners There had been something like vaudeville--say Signor Givens and his funny knockabout act with the stuffed lion. Heart of the West At length they reached the side of the swamped knockabout…. A Fool There Was Having settled myself, or my property rather, I put on my knockabout clothes and went out for a walk. The People of the Abyss I present the idea, for what it may be worth, to the concoctors of knockabout turns. The Angel and the Author, and others This horse must have been raised, I think, in the knockabout song-and-dance business. Cobb's Anatomy The knockabouts and those other three chaps won't come it on us for their own sakes. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields They reached the side of the knockabout as Blake and Kathryn were dragging Jack Schuyler from the water; and they took him into the other boat. A Fool There Was We'd had a couple of knockabouts to help with the cooking and stockyard work. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
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