Sentence examples for amusing history from inspiring English sources

As Candace Savage put it, in "Beauty Queens," her amusing history of the pageants, "The new competitions were to emphasize 'beauty,' pure and simple, with none of the ridiculous folderol about talent".

Sometime Vehicles section contributor Phil Patton, who also writes about cars for The New York Times and Esquire, has come out with a massively comprehensive and tremendously amusing history of the Volkswagen Beetle.

One of the most amusing histories of the invention of the bra is Wallace Reyburn's 1972 parody, "Bust-Up".

McNally has long since established that he's a funny and erudite guy, and the evidence is once again in plain view throughout vignettes chockablock with straight-forward or amusing history-of-theater references.

This refreshing, irreverent breeze through learning to fly a microlight includes an amusing potted history of flight and some laugh-out-loud gems.

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It is an amusing twist of history that the two regulatory motifs considered by Jacob and Monod, namely, the switch that makes the decision between the lytic and lysogenic pathways after phage infection [9] and the decision making apparatus associated with lactose digestion in bacteria [5], [10], both involve DNA looping as well.

Hornaday predicted that the Ota Benga scandal would someday be considered a "most amusing passage" in zoo history.

All of this might seem like a quaint and amusing chapter in the history of weird medical beliefs.

A Lib Dem spokesperson said: "For someone who insists on historical fact and accuracy, this is a rather amusing attempt to rewrite history".

Fortunately, the classroom scenes are intercut with authoritative, often amusing, chapters on sushi history, marine biology and the physiognomy of taste.