Rakish, dapper, not quite ruined, quavering with half-concealed amusement, courteous toward a fallen world, and somehow both urbane and faintly spectral, he could have stepped straight out of a Sargent portrait.
Brad Oberhofer, transplanted from Tacoma, Wash., to Brooklyn, sings about longings and breakups with self-aware amusement, sometimes yelping toward falsetto, but there's no second-guessing or self-consciousness about the band's passion for pop-song structure, both concise and expanded.
If Mr. Sanders's rhetorical signature is soaring promises with a Brooklyn timbre, Mrs. Clinton tends more toward wry amusement.
Senate candidate McCain's face flashed with brief amusement, and then he gazed toward the scuffed floor and settled into a grimace.
Many of us gravitate toward what the amusement industry calls F.E.C.'s -- family entertainment centers -- where the air smacks of manufactured confection.
One beginner-level walk takes you about five minutes on foot out of town toward a pleasantly downscale amusement park called Forestland.
They were both heavyset and inclined toward a projection of light amusement, although hers seemed more acerbic.
The only clue left behind points Veronica toward Daring Adventures, an abandoned amusement park used by her father to test his fantastical steam-powered inventions.
The British attitude toward Gandhi was one of mingled admiration, amusement, bewilderment, suspicion, and resentment.
Whether in the hothouse environment of an arts school or in Iraq in the 1940s, adolescents struggling toward adulthood offer moments of tenderness and amusement.
