Clownish
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Nobody acts that way all the time, and the performance comes off as hopelessly
clownish
, reducing Lewis to a buffoonish caricature.
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Maybe they were trying to be so over the top, so as to be clownish, but, if so, I didn't see it that way.
The
clownish
reverend is the sort who wakes every morning with no aspiration more ethereal than to see his own face on TV before he climbs back into bed that night.
I LOVED what I caught of this show: enjoyably daft plots and some good supporting characters provided the setting for the diamond of the show - Tea Leoni as, 'Nora Wilde'; cute, clownish, and wonderfully accident-prone - How refreshing to see an actress who can clown - it's no wonder Hollyood doesn't seem to know how to cast her.
The clown is all
clownish
until he goes in for the kill, where his face turns evil and his teeth go razor sharp.
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