clownishness

• “SOCRATES: And ignorance, and what is termed clownishness, are surely an evil?”

  Philebus

• “And ignorance, and what is termed clownishness, are surely an evil?”

  PHILEBUS

• “This is going to be a test for Sen. Obama; if he can get through this kind of clownishness without losing it, he will have earned whatever prize is at the end of the trail.”

  The Wright Stuff

• “I can see how his combination of gentle clownishness and fierce curmudgeonliness would have a muse-like effect on the people he works with.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Serious and Silly Filmmaking in Denmark

• “Like no one before him or since, he shows the clownishness of playing at revolution—clownishness that, in this novel, results in tragedy.”

  The Wall Street Journal: To the Barricades! Revolutionaries in Novels

• “Anyone who repeats the NPR spin majors in clownishness.”

  The Washington Post: Send in the Clowns

• “I also find Rylance's outfit a tad too obvious in its clownishness.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Lombardi" Scores A Field Goal; "La Bete" Better For Actors

• “Tracy wholeheartedly rejects hard work (this is best captured in the episode called "The Natural Order," in which it is demonstrated that only in an "upside-down" world could Tracy be asked to sincerely labor), and so he relies on his preternatural clownishness and the coattails of his paternal writers and producers for success.”

  The Huffington Post: Zeeshan Aleem: Is 30 Rock the Most Racist Show on Television?

• “In the clownishness that we regard as presidential campaigning, none of the contenders has much to say on the matter.”

  The Art of Unpolicy « Isegoria

• “But because Beck enjoys the backing of the Murdoch empire, with millions of devoted viewers and listeners, his clownishness, whether intentional or not, is not merely his problem but ours as well.”

  The Huffington Post: Eric Alterman: Think Again: Glenn Beck and the Uses of Anti-Semitic Propaganda

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