's colorful children's clothes were awfully clownish and seemed to be falling out of fashion.
Its more than 40-year history is a tale of brilliance and blown chances, clownish marketing stunts and high-stakes legal dramas.
Those conditions obviously and categorically exclude the clownish Herman Cain, the daffy Ron Paul, the dim Rick Perry and the firebrand congresswoman Michele Bachmann.
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"Too often he has been portrayed as a clownish character, but to the people who support him, he is a rock star and very capable politician, " Shapiro said.
While the clownish antics of circus theater isn't really Mr. Morse's bag, a poignant scene between Pippin and his grandmother Berthe (Andrea Martin) connected his heart to the production.
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For example, VH-1's highly rated Flavor of Love show features a black man in a clownish hat, a big clock hanging around his neck, spewing the N-word while demeaning black women.
FAR-RIGHT political parties have often been regarded in Britain as more clownish than chilling goose-stepping goons who somehow failed to notice that Britain, unlike its more volatile, susceptible continental neighbours, simply wasn't that kind of place.
She spent time in front of a mirror, retraining the shape of her mouth, forcing her lips into a long oval "O" to evoke Ms. Garland's face in midbelt but pulling back when the look turned clownish.
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As Arizona governor, Napolitano signed the toughest employer sanction law in the country, hyperbolically declared a "state of emergency" along the U.S.-Mexican border and joined the clownish Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in condemning the Homeland Security Department -- the same agency she now heads -- for not doing enough to enforce immigration laws.
Readers and viewers who know Murdoch purely as a name or as one of those figures so wealthy, and granted such frictionless mobility by their wealth, that they never seem to be in the part of the world that you expect them to be were startled to see a senior gent, with sparse white hair and a clownish smile, descend upon London.
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