Significats de clowning en anglès

I am happy to relate that it proved a very popular frivolity.

From the depths of tenderness she passed to the shallows of frivolity.

Naughtiness and frivolity are different, and I was always deeply in earnest.

Certain elements at the talks did not participate, being against such frivolity.

The count and I have but little time to give to frivolity.

He plays the part with a clever and economic use of buffoonery.

She is full of buffoonery and has a nice appreciation of it.

Nothing pleases the great chambers of sovereign man so much as buffoonery.

A vein of irony-wemight perhaps say of buffoonery-pervadedhis whole nature.

Comedy became, therefore, a sort of consecrated slander, lyric spite, aesthetical buffoonery.

It was a famous harlequinade; and, as usual, it concluded the entertainment.

Prime ministers had succeeded each other like the clowns in a harlequinade.

The next, he would repeat his first travesty in all its hideous harlequinade.

A harlequinade's the quickest thing we can do, for two reasons.

However little one may mourn the dead, something forbids a harlequinade over their graves.

The She-Bear gave her grudging assent, deaf to the japery in his tone.

Yet parting mist, which impressed no one, most especially not the Knife, had a cost far above such japery.

Thereafter, one shinned up the ladder, on post-prandial japery intent, another beat the devil's tattoo, a third writhed cachinnatory.

How the Australian barracking of Stuart Broad felt clever and affectionate, the witty japery of an intelligent and respected rival?

Despite the japery of Newsround theme tune samples and bagpipes, this good humour is mined more from their ambitious experimentation than anything else.