| By the end of the Civil War the backcountry idiom had been completely identified with the ignorant and buffoons. |
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| There must be thousands of gullible theatre-going buffoons who'd happily shell out for a piece of souvenir art. |
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| Politicians regularly complain about the public perception of them as being clowns, buffoons or chancers. |
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| Other countries have survived limp, weakish buffoons in power and have recovered in the next regime. |
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| For much of the play, the kidnappers, and the student rebels to a lesser degree, are portrayed as empty-headed buffoons. |
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| If we can't laugh at a caricature of ourselves, then maybe we have a lot more in common with these self-important buffoons than we think. |
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| And yes, yes, for the hundredth time YES, feminists disapprove of advertisements that stereotype men as ignorant buffoons. |
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| However, before dismissing the generals as mere incompetent buffoons, we must establish the context. |
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| Saturated in colour and music, it's peopled by luminous stars and antic buffoons, by villains and vamps, heroes and incarnations of gods. |
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| The exercise is designed to separate the dim from the deft, the brains from the buffoons, the clever from the clodhoppers. |
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| Much of the laughter at the antics of the buffoons is a collective release of tension. |
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| A comedy packed with cross-dressing, quiproquos, imbroglios and intrigue, peopled with joyous buffoons that drink more than just water. |
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| The hyena symbolizes knowledge, wisdom, and the sciences of inferior humans to the divine wisdom evoked by the lions and the buffoons. |
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| It was then when the popular hero Maccus was born, he was a comical character, to whom all the Western Europe buffoons claim as his father. |
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| He was ruined by megalomania and self-indulgence, but had also been shrewdly disarmed by a society that reduced those who threatened it to harmless buffoons. |
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| A battalion of solid metaphysicians, reinforced by a tribe of tittering harridans and three companies of ventripotent buffoons, venture a daring sally. |
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| There we were, four or five clowns and buffoons in silly outfits waiting together backstage to walk out on a wooden platform with a brass pole in the center. |
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| The roles they're given here never allow them to do much more than play straight men to the buffoons around them, who only provide comedy on the most base levels. |
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| During the self-imposed seclusion, Prospero provides his guests courtly entertainment in the form of buffoons, improvisatori, and ballet dancers. |
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| Some buffoons served at boyars and princes, singing of military feats and affairs of our ancestors. |
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| On TV shows, leading men wore suits and came home from offices, not factories, while the occasional blue-collar protagonists who did appear were treated as buffoons. |
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| According to the script, Interpol is run by buffoons and they let a super bad guy named Snakehead get away when he was about to steal the life-giving medallion. |
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| We need creative solutions, not just the bellowing from a bunch of buffoons. |
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| They become a danger to society when they are accepted as leaders rather than as buffoons. |
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| In particular, participants of the festival will see buffoons, mummers and peddlers. |
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| All orchestrated by the dynamic characters portrayed by NomadUrbains who, in the pure tradition of circus buffoons, will be busy touting the crowd. |
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| It is surely better that buffoons, and even hypocrites, bring up these issues than that such questions are ignored. As for Mr Bennett and his virtue empire, its fate is uncertain. |
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| Zanni were valet buffoons, clowns, and knavish jacks-of-all-trades. |
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| Those show business buffoons, sponsored by multinationals firms, try to convince us that a simple change in our habits will be enough to save the planet from disaster. |
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| Parody: the buffoons lived all together in swamps and gave parties to avoid boredom where they would mock and imitate the people of society, the sons of God. |
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| Here liked to give the representations buffoons. |
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| There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. |
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| Let them have their conference in London, we don't want our streets closed and police monopolised to protect these overprivileged buffoons. |
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| Moe Howard and Larry Fine, of course, formed the never-changing nucleus of the crew, with the vital position of Third Stooge rotating among at least four other buffoons. |
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