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Example sentences for: clown

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It is hard to foresee a future with a person whose philosophy is akin to that of a cryptofascist clown.
With relative stillness this week from the White House, the Hill, Kenneth Starr's office, and the world of international diplomacy (excepting Ireland, unfortunately), the commentariat must clown about to keep the crowd's attention.
They took particular pleasure in the antics of Punchinello, a long-nosed clown with white clothes and a cone hat.
Even omitting some of the best-selling novel's more scandalous episodes (such as the future first lady jumping into bed with the young narrator), the picture cheerfully out-leers, out-winks, and out-nudges the book by the notorious Anonymous, a k a Joe Klein, transforming the Clinton campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination into a bumptious clown show and the voters into gullible dummies.
Dario Fo's play Accidental Death of an Anarchist proved that the Grouchoesque clown could be an anarchic avenger, driving fascists to apoplexy; and Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties (1976), however gross and ham-handed, at least suggested that a concentration camp could function as a legitimate setting for a black-comic parable about a parasite's struggle to survive at all costs.