| 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. |
| However, before dismissing the generals as mere incompetent buffoons, we must establish the context. |
| Much of the laughter at the antics of the buffoons is a collective release of tension. |
| There must be thousands of gullible theatre-going buffoons who'd happily shell out for a piece of souvenir art. |
| Other countries have survived limp, weakish buffoons in power and have recovered in the next regime. |
