Sentences with phrase «own court jester»

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

If only Obama would jettison his own court jester Biden!

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....

-- You hilarious court jester.

It was universally irreverent, and for the traditional girl and good student that I was, the day's reading was like an interlude with the court jester.

America has become the court jester of our planet.

I received a «Suggest a Joint» request from Cindy who claims that the wings at the Court Jester are sensational.

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.

If you do not remember this video, which came during MJ's black to white, urrr, I mean Black or White era, it's the Egyptian - themed opus where Michael Jackson plays a court jester making inappropriate advances towards a Pharaoh's wife.

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.»

Now every government has a court jester and Boris Johnson will never be able to escape that title.

He also claimed Johnson was a «court jester» who was not being taken seriously on the global stage.

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.

In essence, a doula is a massage therapist, friend, therapist, DJ, court jester or anything else a mother needs her to be in labor.

All you need are bells for a court jester look Amorette

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.

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).

His operas may star dukes, prostitutes or court jesters, but they are all packed with vital insights into human nature.

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.»

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.

Io sto con gli ippopotami, Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo, La vita è bella, Wilt, Without a Clue, the Bed Sitting Room, the Court Jester, the Burbs.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Formally, the works are defined by Hull's distinctive and characteristic visual style - angular figures, bold, graphic lines and marks in black, contrasted with gestural abstraction in vivid, sometimes shocking, color, and recurring imagery — ships and nautical themes, and court jester or clown - like figures alone or interacting in totemic or frieze - like compositions.

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.

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.

A delightful court jester in an art world that often takes itself too seriously, Franz West straddles the line between the solemn and the absurd.

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.

He appears to be nothing more than Sen. Inhofe's court jester.

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.

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

Surrounded by court jesters like House speaker Mike O'Neal and Sen. Terry Bruce, what can we expect from Gov. Brownback?

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.

The Court Jester proclaims the Wizard a fool and a charlatan on the public square.

The Wizard should have the wisdom to understand that the Court Jester's product is not perishable even if proven false.

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.

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

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.

Actually, there used to be a very popular series called Court Jesters about similar lawyers» gaffes!