Sentence examples for Jester from inspiring English sources

Gove lacked the wealth of the rest of the Notting Hill set, but with natural wit had become the court jester of the gang.

In terms of prestige, Longford had reached the pinnacle of his career but, in practice, he was impotent, and often resorted to playing up to his image as the cabinet jester.

On the other hand, we have Quentin Tarantino, the court jester of mayhem, making good on the lurking connection between violence and laughter by making violence into its own comedy: hyperbolized, postmodern, extreme.

Professional buskers in jester hats do it all the time.

X Factor needs a court jester.

She once seemed Ukraine's populist answer to Russia's neo-fascist jester, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, although her language is of the fiery Bolshevik brand: she wants to send the country's current rulers to the uranium mines.

The royal government squandered money on misguided aviation and shipping ventures, and the bulk of the $56m it secured from selling passports was frittered away in poor investments by a visiting American rogue rather quaintly appointed by the king as his "court jester".

Mocking this, a jester recommended that moonlight also be prohibited so that the need for oil would be greater still.

But he occasionally looks like Mr Jobs's court jester in this role, and the mere fact that Mr Jobs grants him such exposure may indicate that he is not the chosen one.

Downey held court as both king and jester, rousing his audience by hounding his guests.

He died at the age of 34, though the doctor who attended him thought he was twice as old; the year was 1955, when the paths of jazz and pop music were already fast diverging.One musician who did make a commercial success of bebop was Parker's canny cohort, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, who led both big and small bands and presented himself as jester as well as virtuoso.