play the clown
Example Sentences
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Did that make it hard to play the clown?
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2015
“I’d love to do a movie with Shah Rukh Khan in America, where he gets to play the clown and I get the girl,” he said.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2012
To mask his apartness, the youngster feels that he must play the clown, wins from his schoolmates the title of "Harold Lloyd of Northeast Japan."
From Time Magazine Archive
And at the film's climax, when he is persuaded to play the clown in Lola Lola's revue before an audience of old school cronies.
From Time Magazine Archive
For six days his wild, untamed spirit had been cabined in these walls; but he had been born a humorist, and even in bonds he sought to play the clown.
From In the Claws of the German Eagle by Williams, Albert Rhys
