Amusing a group of active, lively children may seem a daunting task for any parent or teacher who is organising a day trip or school tour. |
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These are the best places for whiling away lazy afternoons in amusing, light-hearted conversations with the often-quirky fellow hostel mates. |
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It would have been sort of amusing if I wasn't whimpering with pain and olfactory overload. |
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Apparently there's some strange, arcane folk belief that wearing such headgear actually makes everything you say and do amusing. |
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I always find it amusing that LibDems portray themselves as whiter than white yet will fight dirtier than anyone. |
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Distractions such as rattles, music, or even running a vacuum, washing machine, or blow-dryer may be amusing or comforting to your baby. |
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The coincidental use of the same comparison is as amusing as it is overdrawn. |
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Although there is no narrative, the work clearly interprets the music with some sections being quite sombre while others are quite amusing. |
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To be fair, the audience, or some of them, found the evening amusing although I noticed there were a number who left in the interval. |
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In some ways I was mentally regressing anyway, so I find flatulence quite amusing now. |
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I enjoy talking about food and wines with food servers and find it amusing to engage in heated debates. |
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His film is amusing, but with his parody of the veteran Titoists, he has picked an easy target. |
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Should I make some amusing reference to a recent out-of-school meeting, or will the teacher think I'm a toady? |
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The concluding item was an amusing sketch which took everyone by surprise as the finish was wholly unexpected. |
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It's a stream of consciousness one man play about a man with a bucket on his head and is amusing and interesting rather than riotously funny. |
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It's an amusing idea, that even the harbingers of capitalism are subject to the ever-changing moods of capricious Mother Nature. |
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The case is notable not for the momentousness of the underlying legal question but for its amusing caption. |
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It wasn't true of course, but it made an amusing story to tell over the campfires. |
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The Wigan game last year showed the demand for top class RL and the scramble for tickets was amusing to watch. |
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I have always seen the position of the traditional mayor as an amusing archaism. |
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Everyone knows that a hero is only as interesting as his arch-enemy and the bad guy in this film, while amusing, isn't particularly interesting. |
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I think the reason I find this whole article so amusing is because it's the ultimate archetype of all news stories about weblogs. |
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The film comes to St. Kilda where blowing someone's brains out looks rather more amusing than shocking. |
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It is almost amusing, to watch whomever it is drag themselves through it, as their feet sink to the ground almost immediately. |
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More conventional bonuses include good making-of documentaries, two commentaries and amusing technical goofs. |
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His presence here can be evinced in a handful of amusing gag bits, and an armful of the unamusing kind. |
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His strange mannerisms and goofy asides are amusing, and he has a comedian's sensibility for wanting to keep the audience at home interested. |
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As you can imagine, the carefully positioned, unblinking magazine cutouts were very amusing to many of my classmates. |
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It could be amusing if the pols posted unblushing, unedited diaries of what they were really thinking, as real bloggers do. |
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So yeah, if I broaden my horizons and meet interesting and amusing people, then so much the better. |
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And, in a normal world, this would be an amusing sign of how good we lotus-eaters have it. |
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It is amusing to see that pedestrians would rather make a long detour to avoid the clutter than straighten up the mess. |
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Moving on to the invariably amusing or mildly interesting search engine hits. |
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Last week, we looked into some rather amusing cases of animal pitch invasions. |
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If I get completely paralytic on the vins blanc, there may be some amusing late night ramblings. |
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The latest and most amusing one was discovering two students who took to falling asleep in a lecture. |
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One of the joys of the radio show is Adams's pleasure in twisting language into all sorts of new and amusing shapes. |
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There is some amusing footage of the band rehearsing while a couple of '80s stoners look on. |
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Although impromptu teenage singalongs can be amusing enough, sometimes the results are rather disturbing. |
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It is amusing to see blonde Germans peeking out from under feather headdresses and holding powwows by teepees. |
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Bonham Carter shows us an Olivia who is feisty and strong, chafing at her restrictions and only too happy to entertain the amusing Cesario. |
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It's perhaps merely amusing to think that the author intended all that textual confusion. |
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The concept is so original and it started with a bang, the audience being welcomed to the occasion one by one with some amusing improvisation. |
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Sam smiled a bit as the rest offered their own strained smiles and laughs to his amusing but rather frighteningly honest statement. |
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You can imagine an alien civilisation observing this strange scene and finding it fascinating or amusing. |
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While the stories sound amusing, attached to them are unheard feelings of embarrassment and hurt. |
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How amusing, then, to meet there, where the body language is about as subtle as being hit over the head with a pair of boobies. |
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It wasn't, but ostriches have a poor sense of humour and thus find unimaginative alliteration almost ridiculously amusing. |
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Overall, Late Nite Catechism proves mildly amusing, but slight and uninvolving fare. |
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The author of this amusing and admirable history of the English language argues powerfully for universal linguistic tolerance. |
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Despite all this, the most amusing thing about your article hasn't yet been mentioned here in my little polemic tirade. |
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He completely hijacks the conversation with streams of consciousness, which are very amusing but very self-protective. |
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He seemed to always find a different way of changing the subject, which she found very amusing, but annoying. |
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I go out for a meal with colleagues that evening and they think it's highly amusing. |
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The rather amusing and somewhat Monty Pythonesque The Weekly offers us the true origins of your name. |
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It's amusing in one sense that you have to sing in English to become accepted. |
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If anyone knows of any well written, amusing, or otherwise meritorious right wing blogs you'd like to suggest, please post a comment. |
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Excellent dialogue and wryly amusing situations were wrung hard and without subtlety by the two main actors. |
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It naturally overgeneralizes to some extent, but I found it to be an incisive and amusing read. |
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This is most amusing and shows how captive the Revisers are to their corrupt text. |
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If this was the case, we'd end up with the amusing sight of a parliament full of Lib Dems and Greens. |
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It is really an overlong, rather chaotic collection of amusing, sometimes hilarious, political cabaret sketches. |
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I've just been amusing myself searching for events, shops, bars and cafes in Chch and Wellington. |
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This cheerful, amusing picture appeared before my eyes this morning and made me smile. |
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The most amusing thing I bought was a plastic box full of bendy drinking straws. |
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Metaphors or repetition become tiring and irritating when overworked, rather than amusing, moving or shocking. |
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Everything becomes absurd and dull at the same time, and the film appears both amusing and hollow. |
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Like much of the play, it is superficially amusing but ultimately horrifying. |
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It's almost amusing when you consider that no one with any horse sense brings a handgun to a gunfight. |
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His script is peppered with mildly amusing moments, but few that are uproarious. |
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There are no amusing typos, which is a notable absence given that mistranslations have been a mainstay of British comedy for decades. |
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At the time, it was a triumphant, pertinent, poetic and amusing choice to all of them. |
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Their colorfulness, intelligence, and entertaining qualities make toucans one of the most amusing species of birds to own. |
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The media, of course, treats these incidents as an amusing sideshow, a bit of spice in an otherwise bland political soup. |
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Liam chuckled as if this was amusing and got a swat in the chest from Leslie. |
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They are blatantly, didactically, and moralizingly feminist, but they are also erudite, interesting, and amusing. |
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On the surface there is not much of story, but the film works as a drily amusing human interest comedy. |
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He mounts photomontages of nightmarish imagery, amusing and dangerous, on all kinds of rich and startling supports. |
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A collection of amusing animal photos as well as warm and inspirational texts designed to cheer up anyone who's got the blues. |
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Blanchett is charming, Thornton, as a hypochondriacal and generally obsessive personality, is amusing. |
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Bierce is always amusing, and the idle moment spent picking through his definitions is never wasted. |
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Gripped by a palpable fatigue due to work pressure, he remains eloquent and sweetly amusing, despite complaining of sleep deprivation. |
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We have seen it before in previous incarnations, but we reprint it as mildly amusing. |
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It won't change the minds of the incorrigibly and wilfully stupid, but I did find it amusing. |
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Mr Hunt recounted a number of amusing stories, including one about a Royal Command Performance for King George V and Queen Mary. |
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He finds this amusing, but plans to use his freedom and independence constructively. |
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But of course, we all know that this feeble rubbish is only a weak-kneed attempt to be amusing. |
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Everyone has something touching or amusing to say, but the movie maintains a feeling of being entirely natural and unscripted. |
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However, grimly amusing as this spectacle is, the political reality behind these appointments may be less felicitous. |
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His eloquent, amusing, yet sad and sensitive writing raises many timely and important issues. |
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Well-crafted dialogue will indicate if a character is smart or dumb, honest or dishonest, amusing or an old sobersides. |
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An amusing instance of his classical emendations occurs in the text of Shakspeare. |
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In about two weeks I'll be back into again anyway, so no worries I guess, but kind of amusing all the same. |
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I urge readers looking for an amusing distraction to visit The 419 Eater's trophy room. |
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An amusing game for verbalists, in which one or more persons try to unscramble words scrambled by the computer. |
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There was an amusing final theatrical flourish from the Conservative candidate, John Taylor, a sprightly 63-year-old. |
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This sometimes amusing and insightful four-part doco series looks at how Aussie neighbours get along. |
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Council fans may remember the amusing doco Rats in the Ranks about a Sydney council. |
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It was sometimes amusing or even witty doggerel, but doggerel, and everyone knew about his voice. |
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It is amusing to notice his lectures to Jeffrey, on his cacography, which may be attributed to a similar restlessness of mind. |
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Even Shakespeare might have been glad of such an opportunity to enlarge the cacology, by actual hearing, of some of his most amusing characters. |
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Both reports had treated the group and the response of its fans as a mildly amusing novelty item. |
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But about two-thirds of this book is filler, page after page of mildly amusing caricatures of political figures, doodles and sketches. |
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His witty sarcasm has been replaced by the still-ironic but much less amusing regime of menacing doublespeak. |
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Of course, the jokes are all on backwoods Southerners, so if that isn't an amusing subject to you, don't pick up this droll satire. |
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He was relatively short in stature and often amusing on account of his klutzy habits. |
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The amusing and mock-serious lyrics also contain many clever inner rhymes, and especially those that associate with the key word, kiss. |
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Such defamiliarization with the subject-speaker gives us an amusing and sometimes insightful look into the voiceless. |
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Most young people who have had any experience at all of cards and card playing are well acquainted with the amusing game of Happy Families. |
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That Olympian goddesses could be brought down to such a base level is just the kind of thing that Eris might find amusing. |
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Each week we will feature one of her cartoons, which provide amusing insights into Southampton's rich past. |
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Your answer to the question about Ouija boards brought back a rather amusing story of my own experience with the devil board. |
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He also became a star in his own right, thanks to his ability to be amusing off the cuff in TV and radio panel games. |
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Lloyd George was from a very humble background, had risen to the heights of British politics, and was very clever, very amusing. |
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The witticisms of Oscar Wilde are without a doubt some of the most amusing and perceptive observations on society. |
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It's always amusing to introduce one's perverted friends to one's family, knowing what you know about them. |
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I guess some people would find it amusing to watch him fast-talk his way through situations, but these scenes just didn't stir my coffee. |
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This can be an amusing approach when you're talking about fashion faux pas and such like. |
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His intonation and faux-elitist accent made the dialogue much more amusing. |
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Our mayoralty, in contrast, in seen as a retirement home for amusing, quirky politicos who couldn't quite hack it in the Commons. |
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The performance was at times mildly amusing, at times cringeworthy and on one occasion convincing. |
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This could prove to be intensely irritating and amusing in equal measure, and probably all too easy to take potshots at. |
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She sat there, muttering to herself and overall amusing the daylights out of me. |
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It's amusing due to that fact I was rather enjoying some of his entries up until that point, and left comments to that effect. |
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Unfortunately, this is the show's high point, the finale of an amusing first act swiftly followed by an anticlimactic second. |
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It's also quite amusing that the material is copyrighted to a limited company. |
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And I became interested in book reviewing, in writing the entertaining or amusing review, in the construction of reviews and essays. |
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Towards the end of the film, his buff, clueless, completely narcissistic character became less amusing and more annoying. |
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Boonlua is an excellent chap and a rich fund of information on crime in Pattaya in whose company I spent many amusing hours over the last month. |
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They're amusing anecdotes about riding the rails and living the life of a hobo. |
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Buoyant circles, rings and squiggles float like islands and lena, at times, an amusing semblance of comic-book drawing. |
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The nef is embellished with two European dragons, and an amusing open-mouthed dragon's head forms the spout. |
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Looking over the catalogues and listings of the period, it is amusing to see what was popular then as opposed to what is popular now. |
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I don't find the image of a woman digging through cat litter for a dropped pill amusing. |
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Played by two women, their portrayal of the huffy, roly-poly cartoon-like Russians was very amusing. |
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However, Grams found the hymn's ribbons extremely amusing and braided the long red ribbons into braids. |
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Even in the Journal, the spectacle of upper middle class, middle aged men whining about their life situation is absurd if amusing. |
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It was amusing to watch as the band tried everything in their arsenal to garner some kind of response from the crowd. |
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But, shopping with, or indeed for, those paying with the pink pound, is certainly an amusing experience. |
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Nevertheless, it's an amusing 200-odd pages, bright and breezy and bubbling with imagination and enthusiasm. |
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In keeping with their attitudes about copying, I will now lift from their web site a topically amusing story. |
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I haven't deleted it, simply because it's far more amusing that most loony entries. |
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In the Czech Republic, like any non-Anglo region of the globe, one frequently runs across amusing mistranslations of English. |
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At least, I assume it was supposed to be amusing, because I glanced once at it, and burned the foul thing as soon as decency allowed. |
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There are some amusing characters and catchy songs and we're using the original set drawings for our production. |
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Matt has recently purchased some new hardware, and there are days when I would defy you to find anything smarter or more amusing anywhere. |
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He wrote one inimitably brilliant work, one wryly enjoyable one, some amusing pieces, and everything else is admirable but largely unreadable. |
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He thinks he was born for women, though I must say his vainness is highly amusing. |
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Fort's colourful and amusing prose meanders through picturesque towns and sleepy villages where soporific suppers are served. |
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The sheer absurdity of the situation he recounts would be very amusing were it not so utterly pathetic. |
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She waxes amusing about the trials of boys wanting to play like girls and even brings along her hubby, Ben. |
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He makes some quite acid comments about the seventies mystical counterculture which make for very amusing reading now. |
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There was a time that I found your comments amusing, however recently you have degenerated into farce and hypocrisy. |
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It was none the less an amusing portrayal, which fitted in with the high spirits of the evening if not into the household. |
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The non-linear screenplay by Ring Lardner, Jr. is filled with a lot of jokes and one liners that were highly amusing. |
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And the fire alarm before the last round of the day was also amusing, but just added to much of our aggravation. |
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The spark had gone out of him and what he used to find amusing held no interest for him any longer. |
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The plot holds together well, featuring a number of laugh-out-loud moments, and some terribly amusing twists. |
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I had found the whole incident rather amusing, but he was slightly miffed by it. |
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Jack, aka Green Fairy, dealt with the problem of not having enough unity of mind to write, in a manner most amusing. |
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If, as the run continues, the company unleashes the wild rage of the underdog, it might well hit delirious, instead of merely amusing, heights. |
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With this in mind, many actors ensure they're armed with some amusing anecdotes from the shoot to toss to the baying press pack. |
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He found it amusing to see people rush throughout their daily lives and hardly stop to appreciate the day, weather rain or shine. |
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As she wiped tears from her eye I finally admitted that it had been rather amusing. |
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The most amusing parts were when they'd call for audience participation, and there'd be dead silence. |
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John's description of it is both unusually amusing and absolutely dead accurate. |
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United viewed his first stunt as amusing but the club was not impressed by the latest hoax. |
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I've had a few of these kiss-and-tell stories, and I'm sure it's all very amusing when you are with the guys down the pub, but I don't like it. |
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While satirical and amusing, the film appears to suffer a lack of energy, which would give it a much, needed edge. |
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The only way in which I can recuperate my humiliation is to turn it into an amusing anecdote that elicits laughter or sympathy. |
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I find it amusing that the country's air force logo is a kiwi, a bird that can't even fly. |
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Squander Two has an amusing article about British customer service. Everything he says is true with knobs on. |
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The presenter uses amusing approaches to introduce children to the animal world. |
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The theatre world found this extremely amusing, although the actor reputedly did not. |
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He offers a convincing and amusing point-by-point refutation of the criticisms. |
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I will endeavor to stay in touch on a regular basis, and regale you with amusing anecdotes of our experiences to date. |
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I think the whole ecommerce-targeted hack last week was ever-so-slightly amusing. |
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There is nothing amusing about snobbery, racism, bigotry, misogyny and xenophobia. |
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In a story that's alternately amusing, maddening and gut-wrenching, Foul Ball marks a welcome return for a legendary voice. |
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I find it amusing that so many actresses and models lay claim to one or more of these attributes. |
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I subsequently found a good number of thoughtful, articulate, intelligent, amusing, entertaining blogs by Yanks. |
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Unfortunately the formula that produces big laughs on screen is somewhat less amusing for the fans of this latter long-running tragicomedy. |
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I've been amusing myself with the idea of militant liberalism or liberal extremists. |
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The Punakawan parts, which had amusing dialog and action, saved the performance from turning into a big yawn. |
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The events leading to The Great Bear's wayward sojourn are both lamentable and somewhat tragically amusing. |
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Every now and then it all seemed slightly amusing, as if offering a kind of light relief beside the real horrors of war. |
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There's his amusing shot of the neighbourhood barber at work as the neighbourhood goat noses about. |
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It wasn't much of a movie, but had a slightly novel concept and some amusing things to look at. |
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If you're really interested in this as more than just an amusing news item, check the post out. |
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The barefoot bass player was most entertaining as he hammed it up with his amusing stage antics. |
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Declarations of love and lustful interest can often be both amusing and embarrassing simultaneously. |
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The film is essentially about two women's desire to conceive and the amusing situations that result from this. |
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Jared finds this amusing, so I hang up on him as the laughter peals through the phone line. |
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Along the way he meets a variety of outlandish and amusing animal characters, each of which has its own distinctive style of dance and music. |
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There was an incredibly amusing interview with the cast a while back with some more about the deleted scenes. |
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But it does have the amusing benefit of pulling out randomly entertaining figures and presenting them as charts. |
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Invariably, the play is enacted at home, perhaps in front of parents and siblings who might find it all very amusing. |
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It seems that guys brag about it all the time, which I find to be quite amusing. |
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Are you here because you want to be wowed by my amazing writing skills and entertained by my amusing descriptions of the quirks of the world? |
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There I stayed in the union bar for a few hours amusing myself with a few friends playing table football. |
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Apart from obviously amusing the director himself, it is about as entertaining as a high heel in the back. |
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Chandler's words crackle and dance, amusing us while instilling a sense of impending doom. |
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It's hard to pin down the most amusing thing, but it has something to do with his name suddenly going up on the leader board. |
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David Gordon Green and Jamie Bell deliver an amusing and anecdotal commentary, relaying the many misadventures that took place in the production. |
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No funny stories, no amusing anecdotes just a proud Dad sending his baby off into the big wide world of further education. |
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Though it is an amusing anecdote, this detail touches on a small but potentially crucial peculiarity in the current international emergency. |
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He had led an interesting life and was full of amusing stories and anecdotes, all of which he told with enthusiasm. |
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Cultural differences are not just amusing anecdotes, but can have a real impact with real consequences. |
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The distance between an amusing anecdote and thing that happened can be measured in kilometres. |
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As a travelogue the film has some interest, and there are amusing moments, but as a whole it is not penetrating or critical enough. |
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It went over big with the crowd, and if you voted for the opposition, you probably found it amusing. |
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He features there as the teller of one of the best stories in what is a most lively and amusing book. |
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He was amusing, and he made me feel as if I was the baddest one in the place. |
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It was amusing to see one of our number downing pints as I don't think I've ever seen her drunk before. |
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Some bright spark decided it would be terribly amusing to spill the contents of six litter bins across the cathedral green during the night. |
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The magazine is also where he found his peculiar romantic voice, bittersweet and darkly amusing, like a balladeer serenading a wall. |
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The play is amusing and serious, and is a drama as well as being a musical of sorts. |
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Sacrificed and captured, she becomes first a trophy and then an amusing plaything. |
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But sometimes puppies get into mischief that's more risky than amusing, and this adventuresome spirit can spell danger. |
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The museum highlights history, amusing trivia, and shows step by step the way kazoos are made. |
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He did appreciate the chickens again, though not to the point of kecking, and thought that any farm animal that made noise was amusing. |
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There is an amusing Tango sequence, complete with bandoneon accompaniment, before the couple part again. |
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Chalmers treasured his 25 cents a week, and it was amusing to watch him hobble about on his remaining leg, emptying rubbish baskets and grinning toothlessly. |
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Yes, this is a completely useless story, but I found it amusing. |
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The speeches can sometimes be awful but his was very amusing. |
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The originality and uniqueness of the play mean that that the actors seem to enjoy being in it which all adds up to a thoroughly amusing performance. |
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So the amusing photo that doesn't look anything like me is up instead. |
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Watching him trick the poor dopes into turning the wrong way when he tapped their shoulder or scaring unsuspecting matrons with his grotesque face was amusing. |
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Leo time brings exciting enterprises and adventures to the Aquarian storyboard, and this week's brimming with the kind of fun and trouble you find amusing. |
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It is in appalling taste and naturally I therefore found it very amusing. |
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They're droll, yet morbid, featuring amusing little colorful happy people behaving with perfect presence of mind as their 747 ditches into the Atlantic. |
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As amusing as this looks, Detective, get this lummox off me. |
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He was a great one for talking to people and a very amusing character. |
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So what is the chance of an untrained computer at the other end of a phone line decoding your dictation, especially when you adopt your most amusing Huw Edwards accent? |
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The writers spice up the timeline by including several amusing and off-color conversations between Mac and his friends and family to illustrate Bernie's perspective on life. |
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Most of the articles have serious points to make, and only J. T. Bonner's amusing essay largely devoted to his social encounters with Haldane is purely anecdotal. |
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I've made enough speeches to know that you're supposed to connect with the audience by telling a joke or a humorous anecdote or some amusing tale. |
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There was an amusing mix of classical and oldies in the film. |
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Scheduled to appear on a chat show, Jerry thought it would be more amusing to send out his school-age son and sister Amy to haltingly play violin. |
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Even Daffy Duck's avaricious histrionics are amusing in a buffoonish way. |
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Seeing her drive a car with a stick shift was kind of amusing. |
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The loaded language is quite amusing, especially given that anyone can look at the response for themselves and see that it's entirely unwarranted. |
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It's much less amusing that the quote was mangled and misattributed. |
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Within the vast, bright realm of cyberspace, however, lurk various tricksters and scam artists ranging from amusing to annoying or downright dangerous. |
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Now these are amusing errors, presumably secretarial in origin, but homophonic mistakes of this type have sometimes made their marks on the language. |
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The results are tedious rather than amusing, and the whole thing feels dated and torturous. |
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It's sometimes wearisome, sometimes amusing, to see partisan Democrats and Republicans constantly accusing the other side of things that both sides are constantly guilty of. |
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He was an active and knowledgeable gardener and he remained a highly competitive bridge player and an excellent raconteur of amusing medical reminiscences. |
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Yes, it has some amusing dialogue, mostly one-liners, but the humor is that of a professional popgun for hire, an impersonal jokester, rather than an observer of humanity. |
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This was a real ball, the music playing was suited to waltzes and minuets, and it was amusing for Angelique to see how the groups were once more separated. |
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Knowing what we know now, it's quite amusing to see the reaction of Bertie's daughters to his sudden elevation to the top of the monarchial ladder. |
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Matisse wrote letters to Amelie on a nearly daily basis, and depended on her support in ways that his contemporaries found fascinating and even slightly amusing. |
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The amusing thing here, of course, is that his character in the film is clearly an obsessive, neurotic control freak who also teaches his cat to use a flush toilet. |
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Fun facts like this abound, often displayed via amusing graphs and infographics. |
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It had a mildly amusing political commentary about consumerism taped on. |
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It is amusing to note, however, that the doggie equivalent of red-eye in photos is an unsettling neon green, which my small photo-editing skills don't extend to erasing. |
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The site offers colourful graphics and specialty products such as T-shirts and glassware, as well as amusing quotations from some of absinthe's most famous imbibers. |
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Employing a device used in numerous recent films, the director mixes day-to-day reality with Glass's fantasies in a manner both amusing and disturbing. |
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Symbols of the excesses of the white-shoe brigade may be kitsch and amusing, but are indicative of a society where development was pursued for the good of a few. |
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Ibbotson is dextrous with pace and suspense, accessible, always amusing, and a treat to read aloud, and the book is both joyously light-hearted and profoundly good-hearted. |
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The titterers must have actually thought it was genuinely amusing. |
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Their attempt to soften the electorate's impression of her as a scientific cold fish is one of the few amusing spectacles in a grim political landscape. |
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His is an odd, disjointed book, but is also an amusing screed aimed at the Times itself, its greatest stars, and many of the conventions and hypocrisies of journalism. |
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However, while amusing and breezy, it is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. |
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Sorry about the lack of light hearted and amusing posts recently. |
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When your attention flags, a switch in tense or change of narrative pace, an amusing anecdote or a crisp scientific explanation draws you in again. |
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Tatton in Cheshire came top, and it is amusing to learn that certain Sheffield residents are better off than the toffs from Kensington and Chelsea. |
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It was rather amusing for me, watching these two gentlemen parley. |
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A comedy titan who was always the center of attention, amusing even the most hardened of cynics with his manic energy. |
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Krugman does raise the amusing question of whose visage should appear on such a coin, if minted. |
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The amusing thing here, of course, is that De Niro's character in the film is clearly an obsessive, neurotic control freak who also teaches his cat to use a flush toilet. |
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I have to tell you that Mike's contrarian intellectualizing on the subject of reporters and the law was more amusing when it was all hypothetical. |
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For all that, though, there was a certain amusing surreality to the show, with jabbering rats, crazed socks and giant bluebottles all regularly putting in appearances. |
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Besides the amusing circus and aquatic performances, visitors can have their pictures taken with a well-dressed bear or a large, semi-comatose tiger. |
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But for every amusing World Cup story like this one, there seems to be at least one that infuriates. |
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Why is it that you only talk to people on days when you are feeling so muddle-headed that you cannot be witty and amusing even on topics you find of interest? |
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Sometimes the corrections are amusing exercises in pedantry. |
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This is vaguely amusing, perhaps, but is it worthy of anthologization? |
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This was a shining example of teamwork, in which three great comedians combined to create an amusing and cohesive whole to a diverse and difficult play. |
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Over the years Arthur has had many amusing incidents happen to him. |
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I confess, I'm a sycophant, even if my bootlicking inclines less toward, oh say, administration officials than foul-mouthed and amusing anti-propagandists. |
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It's almost amusing, until one of them sinks into a pool of oily sludge and wings greased, struggles helplessly to get free as the others fly off. |
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I can report that the thoroughness of the yin-yang between their personalities is inherently amusing. |
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Such dubious assertions are by turns annoying and unintentionally amusing. |
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Nothing was more amusing than standing inside the pivot point and seeing it twist and turn as the driver maneuvered through the windy streets of Kingston. |
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Flat-chested and tall, it wasn't exactly a very amusing sight to look at. |
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That came as a surprise to me, for while there were moments during the film that were mildly amusing, I would hardly have recognized it as a satire or a comedy of any sort. |
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Artists have colourful lives, and this fascinating biography reveals the interesting times of this most amusing painter. |
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It is fascinating in a direct and amusing way, has many unsuspected facets and possibilities, it is simple and basic, suits him quite well, and attests to his good taste. |
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The picture of scientists on different sides of an issue presenting their cases for adjudication to a group of high school students is too amusing to contemplate. |
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That's merely amusing in its snottiness but this is despicable. |
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Despite the rather amusing sight of ladies in Elizabethan dress asking us to turn off our mobiles, I heard at least three during the course of the evening. |
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Whether you need a break from exams, or are just looking for an amusing, intelligent film, you can't go wrong with a trip to the zany world of Steve Zissou. |
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Every time Duritz tyrannizes her, Janet responds with amusing riffs. |
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Saving Mr. Banks is more than a movie about a snippy curmudgeon who excels at amusing put downs. |
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Less than a month later, Christie got the least amusing news of his career. |
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He's bright, amusing and just vulnerable enough to disarm critics. |
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It was amusing, it was in my vernacular, and the atmosphere held great emotional resonance for me. |
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However the fact that these two shadow-box grottoes were made by mature women suggests that shellwork was an amusing pastime for women of education and wealth. |
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His specialties are attracting the sympathy of the jury for his physical pluck and amusing it with his lively wit. |
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