Sentence examples for amusement over from inspiring English sources

"The other reaction was bewilderment and amusement over quite how big it became.

Friends and family members have regarded my status as a vegetarian with curiosity and amusement over the years.

Yet there's no scholarly distance in this electric performance, no implicit amusement over things that once shocked.

In Brussels, eager enthusiasts for more European integration on all fronts still cackle with amusement over how Mrs Thatcher was persuaded unwittingly to sign away so much sovereignty.

"To try to tie this to slots is just crazy," Ehrlich said, and he expressed amusement over the idea that he would have held enough sway with officials in Washington to have the federal prosecutor removed.

There's much amusement over this in the pre-concert interview, especially given the fact that Liam used to have a scarred, dysfunctional kidney (apparently, it's all better now), but he nevertheless has a stronger bladder than his coevals.

And, in the amusement parks, over and over, painted onto boards - that man with the beak-nose, the beady bloodshot eyes, the fangs, his limbs blown off, engulfed in flames: The evil American G.I. Shoot a BB through his head and win a prize. .

But in the tangled web of Brooklyn politics, Janis Leibowitz, co-chairwoman of a Coney Island civic group, said her organization favored the stadium, whose use would be consistent with the seasonal nature of Coney Island amusements, over the complex, which, she said, would draw too many people to the area.

One of my amusements over the last few days has been reading the testimony of David L. McClure David L. McClure of the Government Accounting Office before the House Subcommittee on Government Management Information and Technology regarding this proposed new position.

A spokesman for the Coney Island Chamber of Commerce said there were only "3,500 rain‐soaked visi tors" in the amusement area, when "over a million are nor mally reported on Easter Sun day". For one hearty group 40 members of the Polar Bear Club Coney Island was a place of pure joy yesterday.

One of the most anticipated times of year for coaster enthusiasts young and old comes at the tail end of summer, when amusement parks all over break the news for what they'll be adding for the following season.