| Le tout Montparnasse fell under the spell of Sandy's Circus, a Little Top of mechanical marionettes which tumbled clownishly or flew through the air with the greatest of ease. |
| And penguins they were, Adélie penguins, the little hooded characters who waddle clownishly around their breeding colonies. |
| Like all adolescent males, they were looking for food and their feet seemed clownishly huge. |
| The mouse understands that the clownishly inept cat has the freedom to fail over and over again, during the long course of an inglorious lifetime, while he himself is denied the liberty of a single mistake. |
| Bright-red lipstick extended almost clownishly beyond the contours of her lips. |
| He gives a performance that is both clownishly broad and impressively nuanced. |
