Sentence examples for That was amusing from inspiring English sources

In Mr. Cage, Mr. Bruckheimer, who has a longstanding habit of mixing real actors in with the pyrotechnics, found a star who could ride out the most outlandish plot developments with a fully committed performance that was amusing (comedy helps the carnage go down more easily), yet never so self-amused it might alienate the audience.

"In retrospect, that was amusing," she said.

He found a style that was amusing and engaging, that captured mindfulness without solemnity.

Victor Muss conducted with a solemnity that was amusing given the dancers' endearing giddiness.

Simon Valastro, the Alain at both performances, achieved all of this perfectly, with a concentrated stare of manic glee or childlike apprehension that was amusing and touching.

Mr. Stiller found plenty that was amusing about Roger, "who says things that are spot on" without censoring himself and is prone to embittered overstatements: when a friend innocently remarks that youth is wasted on the young, he sputters, "Life is wasted on -- people".

Angelica tells stories that are amusing and also touching.

"There's something about watching failure that is amusing," he says.

"It's a work that is amusing, troubling and mysterious, as well as very sensual at the same time," the Louvre's president, Henri Loyrette, said in The Guardian.

"We come up with ideas either just sitting around chatting or in the pub and like to do things that are amusing and a little poke at anarchy.

Almost anyone who takes a little trouble can put two unrelated images together with an effect that is amusing or disturbing (or both).