Chaplinesque

Halpern also reproached me for "disingenuously ignoring the memorable ending" of Crane's hapless little poem "Chaplinesque": but we have seen

PoetryFoundation.org 2008

Various venues, to 13 NovRobert ClarkWith his little moustache and penchant for deadpan silliness, Cezary Bodzianowski cuts a Chaplinesque figure.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

Andrew Sachs, he says, is one of those people he really admires in life – "I mean, he's a proper old gentleman, he's got real class" – whose portrayal of Manuel, he says, was "Chaplinesque".

It's time for you to talk 2011

As "daughter of the regiment", she whisks and spins across stage with comedic pell-mell energy and Chaplinesque elfin charm, at once mascot, laundrette and unexplored love interest for the gauche troops.

Tosca; La fille du régiment; Takacs Quartet 2010

He grasped Autolycus, for instance, that wandering snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, in Ronald Eyre's 1981 The Winter's Tale at Stratford-upon-Avon, and transformed him into a Chaplinesque tramp with a deliciously unlikely repertoire of Victorian parlour songs.

Geoffrey Hutchings obituary 2010

Unquestionably, Tracy is great moviemaking, a feast for the eyes, a breathtaking marriage of nostalgia and violence, presenting a coldly expressionistic world that owes much to G. W. Pabst and Bertolt Brecht, but is also shot through with Dickensian and Chaplinesque sentiment.

STAR PETER BISKIND 2010

Vignon pulled the bloody trousers away from his anguished posterior and did a kind of Chaplinesque walk toward his car.

Babylon Nights Daniel Depp 2010

At times he was almost Chaplinesque, at others like a refugee from a John Le Carré novel or a fifties-era Organization Man taking the commuter train from Greenwich.

RJ Eskow: Leonard Cohen Works For A Living 2009

The clash between Henry Ford -- the man who reduced industrial production to its simplest motions in order to produce a series of infinitely identical products, the first indistinguishable from the millionth -- and the Amazon, the world's most complex and diverse ecosystem, was Chaplinesque in its absurdity, producing a parade of mishaps straight out of a Hollywood movie.

Greg Grandin: Touring Empire's Ruins 2009

But it was a Charlie Chaplinesque kind of defeat, sympathetic but funny at the same time.

Tonya Plank: The Largely Self-Taught Dancer Wins America's Collective Hearts: So You Think You Can Dance Season Finale 2008