In the section on the mind Mr Mount draws some amusing, and generally convincing, comparisons.
One Democrat who has not found these comparisons particularly amusing is the former standard-bearer himself, the original Michael Dukakis.
No one said a word about any of this, but I couldn't help chuckling to myself it seemed like an amusing example of what psychologists call "social comparison" or "keeping up with the Joneses".
Second, it's always amusing how those who deride the British in comparison to the French tend to focus solely on the kind of women you'd find in about five upmarket streets in Paris.
By comparison, Faye Dunaway's hysterics in "Network" come off as amusing freak-outs, and Sigourney Weaver in "Working Girl" is a coarse, leather-lunged shouter.
Schoenaerts has heard the comparisons to Gosling and – for now at least – he's finding them amusing.
When you think of Lincoln or F.D.R., to name but two, Santorum in comparison looks like someone who'd play a character called "Ricky" in a mildly amusing sitcom.
Planned pairwise comparisons showed there was a significant difference in subjective positive response to the amusing film clip between the AN and HC groups (mean difference 5.6, 95% CI 3.1 to 8.2, p < .001, d = 0.8) with the HC reporting higher positive affect.
Kevin McGrath Harlow, Essex Simon Hattenstone's comparison of Glenda Jackson's face to a £5 note (Letters, 16 December) was apt, affectionate and amusing.
The present-tense segments are spiked with enough goofy jokes to be perfunctorily amusing, while the flashback scenes of the equally matched, bickering lovers, brought together by mischief making, are absolutely alive in comparison.
