SOCRATES: And ignorance, and what is termed clownishness, are surely an evil? ❋ Unknown (2006)
And ignorance, and what is termed clownishness, are surely an evil? ❋ Plato (1972)
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. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I also find Rylance's outfit a tad too obvious in its clownishness. ❋ Michael Giltz (2010)
I can see how his combination of gentle clownishness and fierce curmudgeonliness would have a muse-like effect on the people he works with. ❋ J. S. Marcus (2011)
Like no one before him or since, he shows the clownishness of playing at revolution—clownishness that, in this novel, results in tragedy. ❋ Joseph Epstein (2011)
Anyone who repeats the NPR spin majors in clownishness. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In the clownishness that we regard as presidential campaigning, none of the contenders has much to say on the matter. ❋ Unknown (2008)
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. ❋ Eric Alterman (2010)
His New Yorker colleague Hendrick Hertzberg this week describes some of these cuts and notes that state governments have become "toxic waste dumps of futility" with "abnormally high levels of clownishness." ❋ Unknown (2009)
I can't help thinking of Pappy O'Daniel's campaign in "O Brother Where Art Thou" -- the general level of clownishness has gone through the roof. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The elite have perpetrated an act of catastrophic clownishness so massive that it has left the rest of us stunned, and left to pick amid the debris of our exploded hopes. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He pins down Bob Gibson, the world's most intimidating pitcher, by examining not just his intensity but his clownishness (Gibson was a merciless, on-target mimic). ❋ Unknown (2008)
God only knows what Allen and Bennett wanted of Jay Novello, whose character goes from comic relief coward (complete with musical stings to underscore his clownishness) to potential rapist (of native girl Vitinia Marcus) to diamond hoarder to dinosaur chow. ❋ Arbogast (2008)
Whichever side of the political divide one stands, one has to vote against Boris, who is someone who is more a celebrity because of his televised clownishness, than a politician because of his intelligence and political awareness. ❋ Unknown (2008)
