Sentences with phrase «of court jester»

This may be a shocking melodrama, but it grips the imagination with the ingenuity of the master storyteller, the wit of the court jester, and the bombast of the prodigal composer.

With NBA Live being more of a court jester than an actual competitor (apologies to Tha Hoop Gawd), there is plenty of reasons why developer Visual Concepts could become complacent.

My friend turned to me and asked, «So you keep a dog around to serve in the role of court jester?

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.

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

It's unfortunate that this pope fell victim to his own gullibility and the anti-science machinations of his court jesters advisers.

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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....

America has become the court jester of our planet.

If we throw in the towel on democracy — and with barely half of Americans bothering to vote, perhaps we already have — and go back to a having a king, for my money we could scale back our expenses on hiring a court jester and poet and nominate Kelly to occupy both roles.

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.»

Gone is the vicious child murderer of the past: he's been replaced with a type of almost scary 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.»

Her best - known Hollywood assignments include the roles of Maid Jean in Danny Kaye's The Court Jester (1956) and the suffragette Mrs. Banks in Disney's Mary Poppins (1964)(Johns was the only cast member to have the foresight to demand a portion of the royalties for the Poppins soundtrack record).

Danny Kaye appears in The Court Jester and The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty.

Doing the voice of the title character, a newborn infant whose insistent demands challenge the family life of his young parents, Baldwin plays to type: court jester for the angry Hillary mob.

«Underneath the delightfully daffy papier - mâché head of Frank Sidebottom, the real - life inspiration for the 2014 film Frank, you will find Chris Sievey, the inventive court jester of the

«Underneath the delightfully daffy papier - mâché head of Frank Sidebottom, the real - life inspiration for the 2014 film Frank, you will find Chris Sievey, the inventive court jester of the Manchester music and comedy scene for over 25 years, who is finally unmasked in this singular portrait of a truly uncommon artist.»

FOR THE WEEKLY DOCKET the court jester wore his standard garb of well - used and deeply faded maroon pajamas and lavender terry - cloth shower shoes with no socks.

I am reminded of Danny Kaye in the «Court Jester» http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS75NtlH3gI enjoy plschwartz

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If the New York art world is a kind of royal court populated by empurpled dealers, landed collectors, waggish artists, and all manner of opulently bourgeois courtiers, then Walter Robinson is the kingdom's scribe — and also, from time to time, its jester.

José Lerma is the jester at the court of high culture.

You see it in the postcards for the semi-annual open studios event he runs at Poor Yorick Studios (which he has operated for 15 + years): the card inserts the skeleton of Denmark's famous court jester into an iconic work of -LSB-...]

Clone is the diabolical court jester of the group, coming the closest to suggesting an infinite space beyond the visible field of the viewer.

Clown Torture, which includes Clown Torture (Art Institute of Chicago, 1987); Clown Torture: I'm Sorry and No, No, No, No (1987, Pinault Collection); Clown Torture: Dark and Stormy Night with Laughter (1987, S.M.A.K., Ghent); Dirty Joke (1987, Museum of Modern Art, New York); Double No (1988, Froehlich Collection) and the present lot, No, No New Museum (1987), places traditional clowns — from circus and show clowns to French baroque clowns and court jesters — in strange, uncomfortable situations, disconcertingly coupling a squirming violence with a universal symbol of childhood innocence or comic relief.

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.

Of late, has has begun to act the little Caeser, calling his critic's «court jesters,» with the obvioius implication that he is the king.

Last September, we told you about the retired New York Supreme Court judge who found an unusual way to keep himself busy in his retirement years — recruiting prostitutes to service members of the fraternal group the Royal Order of Jesters.

Hi, Alan — I was a lawyer for over 30 years and one of the most popular publications in our profession back then was called Court Jesters.