| For example, in American cinema they were caricatured as clownish, desexualised mammies or maids. |
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| In the dream, you prefer this way of dressing, but perhaps it is time to lighten up a bit, put on a costume, and enjoy some clownish fun. |
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| The cover shows a man in a white suit with a ridiculous polka-dotted tie, even more absurd spotted socks, and clownish white and black shoes. |
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| How fortunate for him that Dobby is so clownish than no one need sympathize with him, much less identify with him. |
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| The dance floor is crowded with performers who are preening either with feminine realness or clownish flamboyance. |
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| I guess to their fellow homeboys this is hilarious and considered de rigueur, but to the rest of the world they seem clownish. |
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| The way he sped up, as if no one would notice, was a beautifully stupid clownish moment. |
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| The cover shows a man in white suit with a ridiculous polka dotted tie, even more absurd spotted socks, and clownish white and black shoes. |
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| Instead of oddly cheery or mildly clownish weathermen, they offered unapologetic scientists who explained the weather in glorious detail. |
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| A passionate leap across a sofa back to reach a beloved becomes a clownish somersault along the entire length of the couch. |
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| Some characters are portrayed as clownish or pathetic, yet its main characters are actually quite conventional in style and dress. |
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| They try to get the public to dress up in the most clownish clothes possible while paying the fashion industry good money to look like a doofus. |
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| They risked their lives to present these theater shows, disguising their political commentary behind clownish puppets. |
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| Shame is a pitiable and clownish condition, most appallingly pitiable and clownish on television. |
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| And there are going to be some very savvy candidates, not just clownish flame-outs like Herman Cain. |
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| Faint opens the service with a clownish poem, praising the gift of laughter. |
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| This clownish dreamer with blue, bright eyes was a spirited, convivial, down-to-earth man. |
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| His trumpet teacher kicked him out of class, furious about Garou's too frequent clownish behaviour. |
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| We wanted to show that hidden behind Trenet's clownish smile, was a lot of pain and sensitivity. |
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| We are making a clownish trick here of what we teach our first-year economics students. |
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| A Westie has a somewhat clownish and very physical involvement with the world around him and is full of spontaneous fun. |
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| They are wonderful friends, and provide a fair share of entertainment with their clownish and mischievous ways. |
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| In this bric-รก-brac, they are objects and places in clownish and generous ways. |
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| Fatus lets his dreams speak in a clownish and surrealistic ruckus which seems to have worked particularly well on the jury. |
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| Visit this seriously clownish experimental lab with its two free-spirited scientists and their three musical guinea pigs. |
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| And it's quite clear they thought Mitt Romney's choice of a running mate was a clownish decision. |
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| The closest we came to heat was the alleged philandering of the clownish Herman Cain. |
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| He has a history with anxiety that's at odds with his clownish public front. |
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| On a dance floor crowded with drag performers who are preening either with feminine realness or clownish flamboyance, Aviance is a unique creature. |
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| John Romane, a short clownish grub, would bear the whole carcase of an ox, yet never tugged with him. |
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| A dynamic juggling and hand to hand show in a clownish atmosphere. |
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| Mr Zardari, widower of Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister, has become a clownish regent for her dynasty, dismaying a party that sees itself as Pakistan's most liberal and democratic. |
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| Sorry chaps, but these clownish looks are well below par. |
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| Or has his clownish, retro appeal swung too far the other way and plonked itself in the long grass of tiresomeness, like David Hasselhoff or any of the music played in Walkabout? |
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| But the curious silence surrounding the transplanted Bouley doesn't indicate a slipshod redo or botched job like Secession, which debuted with a nonsensical menu and clownish service. |
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| That buffoonish behaviour, the clownish exuberance masks a hard right idealogue of unlimited ambition. |
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| Cornford 1961, 120, further claims that the imposter is exposed by an ironist, who 'masks his cleverness under a show of clownish dullness. |
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| It's interesting that the film is directed by a man because it's almost an anti-male film, in which women are strong, determined and sincere whereas men are untrustworthy, almost pitiful and clownish. |
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| Luns will be remembered at NATO as a colourful character with a regal bearing and an acute sense of humour, which at times could be disarmingly clownish. |
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| Yet the country's first response seemed clownish. |
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| No wonder the financial markets were spooked. In the 13 months since the clownish Mr Berlusconi was ousted, Mr Monti has brought calm, some significant reform and a lot more dignity to his country. |
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| The ballet, as clownish as the opera that preceded it, was inspired by a popular Russian folk tale of Alexander Afanassiev, who played a huge role in popularizing Russian folklore. |
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| 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. |
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| Perhaps it is the cloddishness displayed by a line of them in the shallows herding fish towards shore: the eruptions of clownish squabbling which belies the sophistication of their cooperative behaviour. |
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| This painting within the sculpture, precisely in its core, seems to present a somewhat clownish theater space, especially with its dismembered characters and their odd positioning, as if closed in and confined. |
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| To his credit, Morgen depicts Seale as a disruptive courtroom presence, compared even with the more clownish antics of the yippies. |
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| Indeed, when in close quarters to Rooney, it must prove almost irresistible to stick a plastic moustache and silly clownish shoes on the potato-headed fool. |
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| It had been used for clownish mock-disappearences, one auguste looking for another through endlessly circling blackness, an apparatus not now much in use. |
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