1937, Robert Allerton Parker,The Incredible Messiah: The Deification of Father Divine, page 205:
"[…] clownification " for the gratification of the gullible public. "But," sagely comments Gordon Hancock, "there is something pathetic and sordid about the great following of a man who is obviously an impostor. Any man who claims to[…]"
2020, NISIOISIN,STRANGULATION:
[…] clownification, not a single puff of congruence or words like allusion, no solution nor illusion, not a drop of cogency, not a shred of common sense, not a shadow of relevance, not a note of world harmony, and above all else, no romance ...
2023 April 11, Luke Turner, “‘I got up, covered in blood’: Patrick Wolf on surviving addiction, bankruptcy and a hit and run”, inThe Guardian[1],→ISSN:
Trying to put an end to what he calls the media’s “clownification” of his identity, the 2012 Sundark and Riverlight compilation was a folk reworking of his discography that he believed might be a creative swansong.
