How To Use Clowning In A Sentence

  • In addition to magic and clowning, he is a highly skilled ventriloquist and pantomimist.
  • The musical, set in a Big Top, features gravity-defying stunts and slapstick clowning as it portrays the story of American showman PT Barnum.
  • They start entertaining themselves by clowning around a lot and being silly.
  • His work involved anything from subtly painted patterns to clowning about in a monkey suit. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is worlds away from the clowning around of his previous group. The Sun
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  • This is a way of saying that the Marx Brothers are written characters, while the Stooges are mostly dumbshow and clowning. Lance Mannion:
  • You'll have seen the madcap clowning, close harmony singing, movie pastiches and magic performed by various performers in various guises.
  • The clowning that seemed so enchanting becomes almost sinister when the face gets jowly and the hair recedes. Sir Norman Wisdom obituary
  • Three of my favourite shows have been by mime or clowning acts. Times, Sunday Times
  • Great to have around but always clowning. The Sun
  • There's this one lone bass oompahing up and down the square, clowning around like we're some sort of marching band instead of the be-all and end-all of big parades and he slips in the elephant dung.
  • He said: ‘We heard a huge bang and thought it was somebody clowning around with fireworks.’
  • Instead she reminds me of a bird: tiny with dark watchful eyes ; no clowning. Times, Sunday Times
  • All aspects of the theatre will be covered including games, improvisation, script, mime, physical theatre and clowning.
  • As you would expect, they're clowning around and posing for the camera, just as children would anywhere else.
  • The narrator, as snotty teenagers tend to be, is terribly embarrassed by this until his father's cousin tells him why his father is so attached to clowning around.
  • Two men spend more time clowning around with brushes than cleaning up.
  • So do I believe that safety is somehow divorced from this general cloud of clowning?
  • According to a federal criminal complaint, Amon Paul Carlock took the illicit photos during a "clowning" trip to the House of Joy orphanage earlier this year. If You Meet a Clown in Illinois, Run the Other Way
  • Or, they may be clowning around and not concentrating.
  • Great to have around but always clowning. The Sun
  • His work involved anything from subtly painted patterns to clowning about in a monkey suit. Times, Sunday Times
  • What really stood out for me was a minor drama amidst all the clowning about and grandstanding for the media.
  • She senses that behind the clowning there is a terrible sense of anguish.
  • The lipstick could have signified anything -- maybe some kind of clowning around by the drunk before he fell asleep. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
  • His work involved anything from subtly painted patterns to clowning about in a monkey suit. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is worlds away from the clowning around of his previous group. The Sun
  • One of the great privileges of clowning in prisons is that it offers an escape route for prisoners that goes far beyond the prison walls. Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
  • She took pictures of school friends clowning around and at summer camp.
  • The spring grass can transform a model of mature stability into a clowning colt.
  • Great to have around but always clowning. The Sun
  • His work involved anything from subtly painted patterns to clowning about in a monkey suit. Times, Sunday Times
  • And by the looks of things, there wasn't a great deal of clowning around going on between them. The Sun
  • Because you shanked two prisoners to death, when you're clowning or threatening someone like me, people wonder what you're gonna do next.
  • The crowd loved this display of clowning bravery and the modern bullfight was born.
  • Three of my favourite shows have been by mime or clowning acts. Times, Sunday Times
  • Clowning became more fashionable in the mid seventeenth century when interest in spectacle superseded that for dialogue.
  • They used "clowning" as a way to bring a lighter side to the protests and publish a local newsletter called the Cambrian Snooze. REPORT ON SPEAKING TOUR TO ENGLAND, WALES, AND SCOTLAND
  • His work involved anything from subtly painted patterns to clowning about in a monkey suit. Times, Sunday Times
  • So clowning features high on the agenda, although clowns aren't exactly embodiments of leadership or teambuilding skills.
  • Cartoon caricatures, slapstick comedy, and clowning articles are all based on exaggeration, she notes.
  • She wearied of Rose's talkativeness, regarded the child's brightness as a kind of clowning, and in the way of a kind, unlettered, self-possessed mother, forgave her daughter for being intelligent. Beard
  • He saw comedies, tragedies, dramas, shows of acrobatics and clowning, all accompanied by fine music, and all this performed by a family of only twenty members.
  • Bev made her laugh, the way she was always clowning around.
  • Always clowning around, teasing girls, and getting into scraps with others, he's heading for self-destruction.
  • fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
  • Bangkok - Spaniard Alvaro Neil is giving new meaning to the phrase clowning around the world. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • We witnessed amazing feats of clowning, jugglery, and acrobatics.
  • And by the looks of things, there wasn't a great deal of clowning around going on between them. The Sun
  • Instead, it piles on the daffiness and winsomeness to such an extent that you keep thinking this trio must have trained at the Bridget Jones school of clowning.
  • Our music-hall performers have invented a kind of clowning peculiar to this country, in which kicking and leaping are also a part of the business. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory
  • The spring grass can transform a model of mature stability into a clowning colt.
  • You have to study the many facets of clowning. The Sun
  • He saw comedies, tragedies, dramas, shows of acrobatics and clowning, all accompanied by fine music, and all this performed by a family of only twenty members.
  • She jokes with teammates, clowning through routines in casual moments, and is involved in a social life that she never had before.
  • The requisite clowning, braggadocio and hip-hop historicism are in place and well articulated, and an unprecedented, post-9/11 political pique has surfaced.
  • Three of my favourite shows have been by mime or clowning acts. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘There will be clowning, dancing, performing animals, sound and lighting effects, egg splatting, a touch of magic and a truckload of mischief,’ says director Kim Hardwick.
  • Anyhow, we were getting pretty stupid and tired, and so he started clowning around to make me laugh.
  • Sadly, although the two doctors play it straight, we end up with the policeman clowning around and performing slapstick antics. Times, Sunday Times
  • His work involved anything from subtly painted patterns to clowning about in a monkey suit. Times, Sunday Times
  • He has taken the order to stop clowning around in the school car park very badly and complains bitterly that we are all stopping him becoming famous.
  • There was no discipline to impose itself on this clowning, and no parental authority to reprove it.
  • But here, we're all relaxed, and we're just a bunch of guys having fun and clowning around at Christmas.
  • Seeing Frank in brilliant color, clowning for the camera, she felt herself blushing. THE HELLBOUND HEART
  • The most extraordinary thing is the way they distract themselves by clowning around in front of their home-movie camera, a habit inculcated in them by their father in happier times.
  • It is worlds away from the clowning around of his previous group. The Sun
  • The seriousness with which the elder Pisoni mentored his son helped to build a solid appreciation for craft and precision as well as the history and tradition of clowning from the early days of the commedia dell'arte to the present. George Heymont: Once More With Feeling
  • And by the looks of things, there wasn't a great deal of clowning around going on between them. The Sun
  • She is putting on a show and 'clowning' for her audience. Does Science Fiction, in Fact, Suck?
  • In theatre, clowning around is a generally accepted thing.
  • Drawing from various theatrical traditions, such as clowning, pantomime, charades, acrobatics and vaudeville, "Godspell" is a groundbreaking and unique reflection on the life of Jesus, with a message of kindness, tolerance and love. BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
  • One of the great privileges of clowning in prisons is that it offers an escape route for prisoners that goes far beyond the prison walls. Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
  • You have to study the many facets of clowning. The Sun
  • One of the great privileges of clowning in prisons is that it offers an escape route for prisoners that goes far beyond the prison walls. Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning

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