If we can't laugh at a caricature of ourselves, then maybe we have a lot more in common with these self-important buffoons than we think. |
And yes, yes, for the hundredth time YES, feminists disapprove of advertisements that stereotype men as ignorant buffoons. |
For much of the play, the kidnappers, and the student rebels to a lesser degree, are portrayed as empty-headed buffoons. |
Much of the laughter at the antics of the buffoons is a collective release of tension. |
Saturated in colour and music, it's peopled by luminous stars and antic buffoons, by villains and vamps, heroes and incarnations of gods. |
By the end of the Civil War the backcountry idiom had been completely identified with the ignorant and buffoons. |