But now he's moody as all get-out, and Mathers gives us an amusing frame-by-frame glimpse of ruffled feathers at holiday time: Herbie sulks his way home, buries his Santa hat, cries and fails an attempted confession to his baker pals.
The plot as a whole seems lodged in the conventions of a quaint and distant age, despite some amusing framing scenes set in the bleachers of Fenway Park in 2004.
Lowland writers began to treat Gaelic as a second class, rustic and even amusing language, helping to frame attitudes towards the highlands and to create a cultural gulf with the lowlands.
However, by the 15th century lowland writers were beginning to treat Gaelic as a second class, rustic and even amusing language, helping to frame attitudes towards the highlands and to create a cultural gulf with the lowlands.
While I think it's important to sort out the North Korea-Syria dance, I still find it amusing and alarming that Cheney's frame of reference on Iraq is a mad quest for nonexistent WMDs.
With all the imaginative hairdos, brightly patterned trousers, vests, florid eyeglass frames, skirts, and the amusing sound bites that Larocca has recorded, the book amounts to a collective portrait of some New Yorkers' vivid relationship to the idea of individuality.
Mr. Reiman is a clever artist, and his large, slick photographs of George Washington and his generals as a basketball team, performing on and off the court, are mildly amusing (note the beautiful cherry wood frames).
Mr. Merchant, with his 6-foot-7-inch praying-mantis frame and oversized glasses, is amusing but doesn't give Stuart much depth or bite.
Amusing video shows Ms. Barnes and Anna Bass hauling the curtain-and-frame set of Ms. Barnes's "Luster" down the West Side of Manhattan and into the theater, a setup that ensures applause when the two women appear in person.
Her diminutive frame and his towering linebacker presence are paired to amusing effect.
She has an amusing computer language all her own: content is "chunked into" an electronic frame; the system doesn't require students to download files that "suck up lots of stuff".
