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.
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.
Marlon Brando's performance as an Oriental interpreter has to be seen to be believed; he's lively, yes, but there's a concerted effort to make him appear
clownish
(this couldn't have been Brando winging it--director Daniel Mann must assume part of the blame).
The rest of the masses just slept-on it or allowed
clownish
so-called hip hop ragazines like Jive...oops I meant Vibe magazine to persuade their opinions.
Artie Lange, in his brief appearance, is good and his acting skills appear godlike compared to the
clownish
Capelli.
I don't have a problem with the hackneyed premise--many good films have come from bog-standard scenarios before, but the characters are no more than
clownish
caricatures, the dialogue painfully unfunny, and the acting is hammy and highly overperfomed (perhaps in a vain effort to make the dialogue funnier.)
I thought the portrayal of Hitler, as in the original was a characterture and
clownish
and difficult to take seriously.
Most other films before and since (until the late 70's early 80's) stereotyped Asian characters as
clownish
and comical to an absolutely racist degree.
Interesting that she chose the
clownish
route.
In their burlesque approach to humanity, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are the most enduring and endearing
clownish
couple in world literature.
Trump, with his
clownish
looks and showbiz resume, is probably the ultimate example of this shift.
Russians, for example, rejected Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a
clownish
Donald Trump-like nationalist and anti-Semite, in favor of Boris Yeltsin, who had stared down tanks during the failed 1991 coup and recognized that his country’s future lay with democracy and the West.
In a sense, of course, Italians already voted three times for a
clownish
figure as prime minister.
In the Netherlands, not normally a country known for
clownish
politicians, the surge of populism was first led by Pim Fortuyn, a flamboyantly gay man who staged provocative, and always richly entertaining, public appearances.
And
clownish
right-wing radio talk-show hosts now have more influence on many conservative American voters than the sober journalists of the mainstream media do.
Even when not particularly clownish, showmanship has often been a feature of Ukrainian politics.
And in The Dragon (1944), a clownish, terrifying, yet cowardly reptile shares a deep-seated desire to eat his enemies.
CHAPTER LIIOF THE QUARREL THAT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE GOATHERD, TOGETHER WITH THE RARE ADVENTURE OF THE PENITENTS, WHICH WITH AN EXPENDITURE OF SWEAT HE BROUGHT TO A HAPPY CONCLUSIONThe goatherd's tale gave great satisfaction to all the hearers, and the canon especially enjoyed it, for he had remarked with particular attention the manner in which it had been told, which was as unlike the manner of a
clownish
goatherd as it was like that of a polished city wit; and he observed that the curate had been quite right in saying that the woods bred men of learning.
One of those who supported it, leaving the burden to his comrades, advanced to meet him, flourishing a forked stick that he had for propping up the stand when resting, and with this he caught a mighty cut Don Quixote made at him that severed it in two; but with the portion that remained in his hand he dealt such a thwack on the shoulder of Don Quixote's sword arm (which the buckler could not protect against the
clownish
assault) that poor Don Quixote came to the ground in a sad plight.
"Yea, but," answered the Disinherited Knight, "thou hast ever kept me in anxiety lest thy
clownish
bearing should discover thee."
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