| A related difficulty is that open-minded observers will want to know why buffoonish impostors can pose such a threat to the great edifice of science. |
| Loud bursts of laughter interrupted a monologue which was sometimes slow and oratorical, at others rattling and buffoonish. |
| It's as if these two sides of his character, the passion and the buffoonish clumsiness are interlocked, as if he's a pan that's continually on the verge of boiling over. |
| Rip still dozed before the fire and wagged a buffoonish tail in servile recognition. |
| The opposition remains largely spontaneous and without a clear leader, but its animus is now directed as much against the hitherto untouchable Mr Khamenei as against his buffoonish presidential protégé. |
| Callow might look and play the buffoonish lush on screen, but he began on the great stage and continues to act and direct. |
