There are amusing moments, among them when Senator Carl Levin, the grandfatherly Michigan Democrat, approached Mr. Feingold and the late Paul Wellstone on the Senate floor during the 1999 impeachment trial.
Another amusing puzzle, among a few I could name, was why the Western-looking characters address each other as qióng sī tài tai and the like.
The other bohemians, Oren Gradus as Colline and Tommi Hakala as Schaunard, were also appealing, and there was plenty of amusing chemistry among the four in the opening garret scene.
My wife and I came away with many marvelous and, at times, amusing memories, among them the joy of an elderly lady at seeing the ocean for the first time and of the dining car attendant who, on a moving train, could pour milk from a great height into a small jug without spilling a drop.
All of these inventions were amusing; some were among the wittiest caricatures since Dickens.
There was something undeniably amusing about being among a group of folks who had traveled from as far away as Australia and California to meet and debate the merits and meanings of a television show about a young woman chosen as the slayer of demons and vampires.
We don't stay for the dinner (it costs £15,000 a table), but read about it in the social columns afterwards: J. K. Rowling and Peter Kay bopping, while DJ Mark Ronson spins; Chrissie Hynde's acoustic set; Cossacks hoofing it to Run DMC, and the amusing detail that among the items in the silent auction is the Louis Vuitton bag "as modelled by Gorbachev" in that famous advertising campaign.
Humor is present in any social situation, and the nature of what is perceived as amusing varies widely among individuals, societies, and cultures.
Among her amusing touches were the use of a melodica (a harmonica with a keyboard) as an old-timey bridge between Blaché's images and her own post-Minimalist music.
Ruggieiri got a friend to do a photocopy "publication" of an amusing piece which claimed, among other things, that cardiomyopathy patients could die from the static shock of walking across carpet or combing their hair.
