How To Use Buffoonery In A Sentence
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A bit of buffoonery and tomfoolery are always welcome after a tense high wire act, during which everyone in the audience has been holding their breath, and looking anxiously upwards, in total empathy with the performer.
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He resists with buffoonery on the set, peevish demands for attention, and displays of contempt for her direction.
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Like all standup comedians who transition into film careers, he had to buy his way into the business through buffoonery.
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But his buffoonery (ary?) is just too comical to watch as he meltsdown now between a rock and hardplace, He will lose even more of his listeners (a$$holes) than he has lost over the last 4 years.
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The humour of Pimple films derived from theatrical burlesque, music-hall satire and from a tradition of buffoonery that embraced such infantilised characters as Silly Billy.
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Officials hope that the fines will act as a deterrent against 'buffoonery'.
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Faced with this sort of noisome buffoonery, there is a danger of underreaction.
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Oh, how the Simpson's writing staff can truculently castigate styli of pretentiousness when necessitated by buffoonery...
Succulent truculence.
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Aristotle said Irony better befits a gentleman than buffoonery; the ironical man jokes to amuse himself, the buffoon to amuse other people.
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Even the gents' foreign impersonations, an obvious peg for buffoonery, arrive on tiptoe.
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The movement went to extremes in its use of buffoonery and provocative behaviour to shock and disrupt public complacency.
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For old hands, there's enough laugh-out-loud buffoonery to override any reservations.
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You have everything from Homer's buffoonery to the more complicated satire.
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The crazy fivesome promise ‘a host of new songs and a finely tuned performance, punctuated by drunken buffoonery and priceless gems of wit and wisdom’.
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There is a beautifully simple slapstick moment between Pedro and Javier on the tennis court that perfectly captures the cheeky buffoonery of the movie.
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This gorgeous, impressive set, once lit, was host to dancing that bordered on buffoonery, but silly music deserves silly dancing.
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Aside from being great fun, what is the lesson from Boffa's boffo biological buffoonery?
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I've seen musical performances that combine virtuosity with buffoonery as well as exhibitions by photographers who use their own images as the butts of jokes.
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I suspect that there are lawyers who have been disbarred because of less offensive courtroom buffoonery.
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With their powerful blend of gothic horror, aggression and buffoonery, The Damned have become one of punk's most enduring and entertaining bands.
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Though he is often ridiculous in this movie, he is rarely ridiculed, and behind the pompous buffoonery of San Diego's most favored newscaster is an endearing quality that keeps him entirely sympathetic.
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For it is by his buffoonery that he gets a hearing.
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In short, that agreeable turn, that gaiety, which yet maintains the delicacy of its character, without falling into dulness or into buffoonery; that elegant raillery, which is the flower of fine wit, is the qualification which comedy requires.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
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With elegance so well attended to by Genaux and Tarver, it fell to the two spoiled sisters, Clorinda and Tisbe and (in this opera) their bumbling and graspingly nasty father, Don Magnifico, to supply the buffoonery.
In performance: WCO's "Cenerentola"
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Real acts of bravery and selflessness as opposed to buffoonery and bigotry.
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From blatantly racist films such as W.D. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" to the tasteless buffoonery of MGM's "Soul Plane" whether intentionally mean-spirited or ignorantly self-inflicted, the message of the so-called brutish or oversexed Black male has been disseminated throughout America and the world.
Undefined
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The snuffy apartment, the unhomelike livingroom -- dust and books its only furniture -- the unbelievable kitchen, looking like a pictured warning to housewives, were only guffaws before the final buffoonery of discovering the J S Francis who'd inserted that promising ad to be Josephine Spencer
Greener Than You Think
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Aristotle said Irony better befits a gentleman than buffoonery; the ironical man jokes to amuse himself, the buffoon to amuse other people…
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A filmed version of the Pirates of Penzance, it is rich in anachronism and movie jokes, camp and buffoonery
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The tartan army, for many a source of national pride as a good-natured counterpoint to prevailing hooliganism elsewhere, is now routinely derided in the press for its apparent buffoonery and lack of knowledge of the beautiful game.
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We have no low buffoonery in the former, such as disgraces Enobarbus, and is hardly redeemed by his affecting catastrophe.
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What buffoonery that Vulcan is not guilty of, while one with his polt-foot, another with his smutched muzzle, another with his impertinencies, he makes sport for the rest of the gods?
In Praise of Folly
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Having led the Arches Circus Summer School for the past two years and with international performance experience, Seed is on a mission to subvert the public's preconception of big top buffoonery.
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The trapeze girls are putting colours, clowns are busy giving final touches to their buffoonery, a cute puppy is ready with an umbrella and the white chimp, a proud possession of Great Royal, is already on the bicycle.
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How were these levels of squander and buffoonery sustainable?
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It seems to me more likely, that this is a genuine act of repentance by the Pope of behalf of his Church; in light of their recent buffoonery, manic secularists will probably remain unappeased.
2010 April « Anglican Samizdat
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The joys of the story -- Aang's impish capriciousness, Katara's valiance, Soka's buffoonery, even Uncle Iroh's avuncular charm -- have all been el […] (author unknown)
2010 May 06 « Monster Scifi Show Blog
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Originating from the Chinese funny tradition, from the Chinese optimistic mind, the aim of buffoonery is to make use of the art lightness to lighten the life heaviness.
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Many a batsman has already paid the penalty for believing that Kirby's glares and stares were mere buffoonery only then to find a stump ripped out by a great delivery or an edged shot finishing up in the hands of the slips.
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Previous to this affair my father, from all I can learn, had been a good-humored and light-hearted man, the ringleader in all fun at cornhuskings and Christmas buffoonery.
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There's a smooth machine under the buffoonery.
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It has been interpreted as a beating out of evil spirits, as beautification, and even - erroneously - as buffoonery…
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Oh bravissimo in chorus, and he would have danced out into the middle of the room before us all, had not Fortunata whispered in his ear, telling him, I suppose, that such low buffoonery was not in keeping with his dignity.
Satyricon
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Amid the buffoonery, however, glimpses of the war's horror emerge.
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A bit of buffoonery and tomfoolery are always welcome after a tense high wire act, during which everyone in the audience has been holding their breath, and looking anxiously upwards, in total empathy with the performer.
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Second: beyond the buffoonery, can he impress?
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The crazy fivesome promise "a host of new songs and a finely tuned performance, punctuated by drunken buffoonery and priceless gems of wit and wisdom".
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But what happened last week at Westminster was not buffoonery: it was Parliament - both Houses of it - doing exactly what it is supposed to do.
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But something really should be done so that Europeans don't have to wait for another bout of buffoonery to put the EU's only directly elected institution briefly and thrillingly on the front pages.
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Besides, her filter-free buffoonery is in high demand.
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He danced the Lancashire clog-hornpipe; he rattled out puns and conundrums; yet did he contrive to infuse into all this mummery and buffoonery, into this salmagundi of the incongruous and the
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
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Added to all of this technical wizardry is a musical score by David Rhymer, performed by the entire cast with just the right mix of sentiment and buffoonery.
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It's made up of all sorts of bits and pieces that no one would otherwise touch, but he's packaged it well and dressed it up with his trademark buffoonery.
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I suspect that there are lawyers who have been disbarred because of less offensive courtroom buffoonery.
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This ridiculous sounding direct translation of a toiletry-product seemed to perfectly sum up the buffoonery and pomposity of the French.
