Sentences with phrase «of class clowns»

It's not necessarily a bad thing, being responsible in a room full of class clowns.

We need teachers who genuinely enjoy working with kids — all kids; teachers who thrive on the enthusiasm and energy of their active students, relish the thoughtfulness and introspection of their quiet students, enjoy the humor of the class clowns, and recognize the neediness of their chronic misbehavers.

His script is laced with a sharp streak of showbiz satire, driven home by the Apatow repertoire of class clowns who are currently cutting up Tinseltown.

I am intelligent, independent, flirtatious, and a bit of a class clown.

A native of Trinidad (with East Indian ancestry), Bednob originally attended the University of Toronto as a sociology major — a field far removed from acting, though Bednob had naturally played the role of class clown in school for years, which seemed to predestine him for stage and film.

An insecure Midwestern teen longs for Mr. Right while fending off the advances of the class clown.

Stevens went on to major in philosophy and intellectual history at the American University of Paris, where he reinvented himself: Instead of the class clown, his earlier persona, he was now a scholar and an intellectual.

«The effect, predictably, is that of the class clown mocking the smartest kid in the room.

Not exact matches

We looked like a class of clowns half the time and were completely unfocused.

The same clowns who want wenger out were the same calling Alex song rubbish (after a season of creating assist after assist which our so called «world class» players Ramsey and Wilshere failed to do).

Clearly, if De Gea does go, we have to find another world class keeper to prevent a repeat of the posse of clowns that kept goal for United between Schmeichel and Van Der Sar.

My hubby and I have often commented about the media perception of the «class clown» type of father... he means well, but bumbles through his parenting duties... and the steady, responsible mom swoops in to set it all right, teaching the kids, and dad, a valuable lesson in the end.

Presenting sad clowns and moneyed malcontents, a troublesome estate and class - based torment, Ivan Turgenev's 1848 play Fortune's Fool serves up a vintage feast of Russian rumination, despite it being one of the playwright's lesser - known works.

The millionaire class has lots of representatives in government and this working stiff clown thinks they're going to give him a seat at the table.

Class Clown You're the girl who likes to laugh and make your BBFs laugh with an endless supply of jokes.

I'll be dreaming of world where art is power, healthy forests back negative interest currency, former Wall Street bankers wear clown suits to work as human pollinators, the middle and working class are as strong as ever, Bernie Sanders is President, Charles Eisenstein is his Chief Economic Advisor, and all those things that could be... If only... everyone would just shut up and listen to Tacocat.

I've often been dubbed as a «bully» but a lot of people, even more of teachers have called me a class clown before [although my humour is often pure mockery of the snobby bitch in class or just complete satire about a subject that deserved said satire]...

The joys of profane working - class humour are never far from the surface in Loach's films, but in The Angels «Share our protagonist's clowning and wise - cracking is allowed to come to the forefront.

While «It» will likely create some resentment by inspiring a new wave of evil clown sightings nationwide, it should also be appreciated by anyone who wants good scares depicted with class.

Of course, along with playing the class clowns, the Malloys are also the hardest working members of Ocean's crew, often taking on multiple roles in each heist, and even going the distance on one particular occasion to help a group of Mexican factory workers fight for labor rightOf course, along with playing the class clowns, the Malloys are also the hardest working members of Ocean's crew, often taking on multiple roles in each heist, and even going the distance on one particular occasion to help a group of Mexican factory workers fight for labor rightof Ocean's crew, often taking on multiple roles in each heist, and even going the distance on one particular occasion to help a group of Mexican factory workers fight for labor rightof Mexican factory workers fight for labor rights.

These things need a little time to breathe in the mind of the public, which is still obsessed with asking inane questions of the movie star («Were you the class clown in school?»).

Once again, the seriously gifted Kendrick is effortlessly charismatic as the natural leader of the gang, while the class - clown Wilson steals every scene with her random gags.

But these are some of the film's strongest sequences, as Martinez drops his near - feral menace to reveal what drives him, and Abvincula offers a class - clown approach to life that eases the tension of what they're doing together, and the desperation that pushed them into such dangerous work.

He's consistently funny but with a hint of tragedy, as the class clown who's never really grown up or ever intends to.

They were problems, they interfered with learning, they could tell the teachers didn't like them and they now were calling them class clowns and using it in a negative, more of a derogatory way.

And they showed more of a reluctance than the other kids did in terms of labelling themselves as «class clown», and it could be labelling in general — we just looked at that one label, I'm not sure.

Brainstorm possible reasons why girls are not regarded as «class clowns» regardless of their playfulness.

It seemed to fit our data pretty well and we have from this rather unique perspective of looking at class clowning and playfulness which hadn't been done before, which we have yet further evidence to support the whole idea that there is this Pygmalion effect, this self - fulfilling prophecy that occurs in the classrooms with teachers and their students.

And then we had an assessment again from those three different perspectives of the extent to which a child could be considered to be the «class clown».

The result — a longitudinal study titled The education of playful boys: class clowns in the classroom.

A review of «Class Clowns: How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education» by Jonathan A. Knee

She is doing her work with great care and is learning to be less of a show - off and more of a class - clown.

«In and out of class, Shawn has generously, though always humbly, shared the undeniable rigor of his thinking, the poetry of his language and images, and his wry sense of humor and pathos with all of us in AIE,» says Lecturer Steve Seidel, director of AIE, citing LaVoie's past training as a clown as one source of his depth and wisdom.

She's worried about being seen as a show off, or a know it all, so she sits in the back of the class getting in trouble for telling jokes and clowning around instead of revealing that she did all this three years ago, and can recite the lesson word for word if you ask.

The class clown can ruin the mood to learn, but with a little understanding and a riff of your own, you can stop these jokesters from bouncing off the walls.

Having two standards of expectations and allowances — one for the class clown and one for other students.

«In alcoholic families, for instance, kids take on different roles — be it the scapegoat, caretaker, or clown — and if they are being validated in that role, then they bring it to school, where they suck up all the energy in the class and deprive others of quality learning time.»

In a recent radio interview, Henry «the Fonz» Winkler, who played a charismatic hoodlum with a heart of gold in the long - running television series Happy Days, confessed to having been an outrageous class clown, mostly as a way of coping with dyslexia.

Because class clowns are so often grouped in the bright - but challenging category, the question of what life holds for them is especially intriguing.

A self - described class clown, he tried to bend the rules and in turn landed a flurry of detentions for minor offenses like talking out of turn in class and leaving his seat without permission.

I recall a question I once asked when dealing with a student who had a chronic habit of clowning around in class.

Although it was always a world - class speed demon, a C6 at its limits is one of the scariest rides that doesn't involve rodeo clowns.

Class clown type — I just hope he gets a teacher with some sense of humor.»

Often discribed as the «clown,» of the dog cummunity, boxers are a class all their own..

Kutter is the class clown of the litter.

Pugs are often viewed as the «class clowns» of the canine species.

Once your finished making a brand new Chapter of Clown Marines, you can head off to the loadout customiser where you can create a custom class.

Last year, curator Robert Storr, then the dean of the Yale School of Art, went on a tirade about the state of art criticism on a Yale radio show, lambasting everyone from New York magazine's Jerry Saltz — a «class clown,» Storr said — to academics Hal Foster and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, who «know very little about art history.»

But when the Museum of Modern Art introduces the public to the auteur's private paintings, sketches, photographs, and sculptures in a major retrospective, viewers may be surprised to discover a more lighthearted Burton — the class - clown doodler within filmdom's brooding goth.

Hijacked sub-subcommittees of credible scientific societies issuing comical claims that sound like the class clown locking himself into school PA broadcast room.