From Berliners, mention of "Görli" elicits a knowing look, somewhere between suspicion, affection and amusement.
She studied Gould's face with affection and amusement and also with what seemed to me to be a certain uneasiness.
Mr. Jentsch, who worked for Mr. Sabarsky from 1986 to 1990 and is now the managing director of the Grosz estate, recalls Mr. Sabarsky with affection and amusement, even though he has gone over to the other side, and as a great charmer who "took shameless advantage of people -- and that was also a talent".
On Psycho and Let It Bang, Ferg flips seamlessly from wry detachment – retelling his relative's excesses as gags – to something darker and more impassioned: the combination of amusement, affection and horror-struck frustration feels realistic and affecting.
They vary from "What is the point of keeping old people alive?" to "What does Grandma give in return for what she gets?" The answer to this last question is: "Gives Me: laughs, amusement, affection, memories I like".
It was sort of amusement and affection.
All the characters are gently kidded with the same mixture of amusement and affection.
Where Rhett and Link look upon their subjects with genuine affection and thinly veiled amusement, Stuart Schuffman views his with awe.
In reality, though, Karmin's approach in "Acapella" feels like pure condescension, music-school satire unburdened by a sense of amusement or affection.
From the opening ensemble number, in which an alarmed homeowners' chorus pleads in panic, set to a jangly tune, for the rescuing attentions of the local exterminator, the music, by Laurence O'Keefe and the lyrics, by Nell Benjamin, evoke both an affection for and an arch amusement with out-of-it, mundane Midwestern-ness.
I don't envy Colin Firth's having to compete with this monster, but he holds his own; you catch in his eye not just affection but, more subversively, a semi-suppressed amusement at the whole exhausting charade of modern romance.
