But the transparency and cloddishness of such a sudden lurch insulted a large segment of the population. |
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. |
Sly has traded in his exploding arrows for a chocolate milk mustache, his waxy steroidism for cutesy cloddishness. |
It was a horrible bit of thuggery, to be sure, but the sheer cloddishness of the crime soon overwhelmed the outrage. |
Alpha, the resident caveman, is played by Charlie Russo with the lumbering cloddishness popularly associated with prehistoric males. |
I am suspicious of a play that depends on the advanced cloddishness of its characters, and whose biggest coup is the unexpected and very realistic barf of one of them. |