The word 'amuse' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a verb, when talking about providing someone with entertainment or making them laugh. For example: "The comedian amused the audience with his jokes."
But inside the rehearsal studios of American Ballet Theatre, fairies dance and courtiers amuse themselves in a gentle game of blind-man's buff, as choreographer Alexei Ratmansky directs his dancers through the second act of Marius Petipa's Sleeping Beauty.
Before we first set off, many of our friends wondered aloud how the boys would amuse themselves, how we'd keep them interested and engaged.
Connecticut has been his home for more than 40 years, first a modest house which he helped to rebuild and now a farm which, according to Morath, allows him "to amuse himself on a tractor".
But like every article or cookery book published in the Delia era, we did go through a didactic phase when the purpose of the food image was not to amuse but to tell you how the finished recipe should look.
Pantheon; 586 pages; $30THERE is merit in having books on the bedside table that induce rather than delay sleep--books that cannot be too thoughtful or gripping, but may inform and amuse.
THE wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton was an opportunity for Britain's bobbies to put their best foot forward: indeed, the policing of the huge crowds thronging London's streets went off well, with no serious incidents there was even a copper doing comic turns outside Buckingham Palace to amuse the public.
But, though cricket has a rich treasury of facts and an inexhaustibly youtubeable archive of moments, such are mere amuse-bouches compared to the feast that is a full day's play, a five-day Test or, best of all, a five-Test series.
With large flocks capable of decimating harvests, remediation measures such as aerial spraying with poison have been implemented, meaning that predators and scavengers who devour the avian amuse-bouche are poisoned as well.
Ashley Williams appeared amused by the incident, joking: "I've got my passport!" The Swansea defender added: "Most people did not realise anything was wrong until we were on the plane, he is touching down any moment I think.
At last year's Terroir Symposium in Toronto she amused her audience by reading a long list of the names of all the women who are running Manhattan kitchens.
Less amused was his father, who rushed out of his haberdashery shop to scoop up his son and ask him if he was trying to get them arrested.
