Sentence examples for court fool from inspiring English sources

She is the daughter of the banished Duke who finds herself obliged, in turn, to go into banishment with her dear cousin Celia and the court fool, Touchstone.

So, she disguises herself as "Martin" (in moss-green doublet and hose) and starts robbing aristos to give to the poor – aided by the gargantuan court fool, Pierre Ólafur Darri Ólafssonn).

Sand came to call herself Arthur's "little dwarf," a court fool permitted to speak truth to power, but she more often sounds like the noble Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.

Deakin was a chronic alcoholic, but Bacon was the one with the limitless bar tab: his status as a photographer is almost obscured by his role as the painter's court fool.

We will remind you of how Brooks, Elisabeth Murdoch and Matthew Freud slapped and scratched the backs of David and Samantha Cameron at country homes, while Jeremy Clarkson flitted in and out of their parties – gambolling through the Cotswolds like a portly court fool.

But it is Touchstone, the court fool (played by John Killoran) who coaxes all the magic out of Shakespeare's script.

These are the court fools, who speak the deepest wisdom in puns, lest they be taken seriously.

He has got the added bonus of the Liberal Democrats being willing to front up what he is doing – rather like the court fools".

Court fools, presidential aides and corporate administrative assistants learn early in their careers that it is safer to laugh with the boss than at him or her.

The earliest record of the use of court fools dates from the 5th dynasty of Egypt, whose pharaohs attached great value to Pygmies brought from the mysterious lands to the south, apparently employing them as dancers and buffoons.

Democratic governments and human rights organizations must make clear to the Islamist hard-liners in Iran that their kangaroo courts fool no one, whether those in the dock are dissidents or the lawyers who should be defending them.