Sentences with phrase «as court jesters»

As a young man, years before becoming a New York Times bestselling author, he fixed computers at Computer City on Independence Boulevard, waited tables dressed as a court jester at a Charlotte restaurant, captained yachts, shingled roofs and worked in Appalachian State University's bookstore.

Save this one for a role in a Fairy Tale Theater production or as court jester, not for your ordinary resume.

Not exact matches

Today's equivalent of court jesters, minstrels and jousters often clear as much or more.

Then the psychedelic path will lead over the bridge of cybernation; and with Herbert Marcuse as guru emeritus, Norman O. Brown as classicist in residence, and William F. Buckley, Jr., as anti-utopian court jester, we will establish the new - consciousness Camelot, telling the little ones tales of old Greenwich Village, the Haight, Millbrook, the Peanut Butter Conspiracy, of all the lotus - eating cadres of the leisure class....

He also described Johnson as «a very engaging and charming court jester» and warned: «If Boris has the laudable ambition to become Prime Minister, he will find if he achieves that he will not have the loyalty of the party he divided.»

Alex Salmond has dismissed Boris Johnson as a «court jester» but said the real «test» will be whether Theresa May allows cabinet members with more gravitas to shape her policies.

I got ta admit, as I pulled the items from my closet, laid them out, resting my chin on my hand with arms crossed, I seriously debated how much this outfit would end up looking like a court jester.

The picture presents itself as a naughty court jester ready to thumb its nose gleefully at just about anything: There are gross earwax jokes, as well as gentle little pokes at every bit of fairy - tale movie lore from «Babe» to «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.»

You'll uncover the shady pasts and green - eyed and avaricious desires of the game's seven playable characters — if you're willing to play through the game three separate times — as you explore ever deeper while the Cave itself plays the dual roles of court jester and adjudicator.

When he gets steamed he mixes metaphors like «jousting with jesters» not quite realizing that the old court jesters would be able to tell the king things (truths) no one else could, as Steve noted at the time.

James Hansen, emporer of the NASA data for whom the rest of us are just «court jesters» dismissed both the restatement and the lack of warming trend in the US as irrelevent because the US only makes up about 2 % of the world's surface.

Just as there are times when we have to tell the emperor he is in fact naked, there are also times when we have to tell the court jesters that their antics aren't funny or adding to the conversation.