Citations:clownification

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English citations of clownification

  • 1937, Robert Allerton Parker, The Incredible Messiah: The Deification of Father Divine, page 205:
    " [] clownification " for the gratification of the gullible public. "But," sagely comments Gordon Hancock, "there is something pathetic and sordid about the great following of a man who is obviously an impostor. Any man who claims to [] "
  • 2020, NISIOISIN, STRANGULATION:
    [] clownification, not a single puff of congruence or words like allusion, no solution nor illusion, not a drop of cogency, not a shred of common sense, not a shadow of relevance, not a note of world harmony, and above all else, no romance ...
  • 2023 April 11, Luke Turner, “‘I got up, covered in blood’: Patrick Wolf on surviving addiction, bankruptcy and a hit and run”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
    Trying to put an end to what he calls the media’s “clownification” of his identity, the 2012 Sundark and Riverlight compilation was a folk reworking of his discography that he believed might be a creative swansong.