Sentence examples for amusing idea from inspiring English sources

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"Owner's Manual," a reality show that starts on Thursday on AMC, sounds like such an amusing idea.

Bottom line: Airport dating is an amusing idea, but if you do arrange a rendezvous don't share your flight information or itinerary with your date — you don't want a stranger trailing you in a strange city.

The beauty of Boulle's amusing idea, and of the best science-fiction ideas in general, is that it encourages us to take a longer view than we're accustomed to; maybe longer than we're entirely comfortable with.

It's an amusing idea that misses the whole point about the processions, designed by the Shia clergy to encourage obedience, inculcate the idea of an eternal martyrdom and maintain their grip.

In his hands, science fiction assumes the hard, metallic sheen of plausible fact, whereas the longer I suffer each new configuration of "Spider-Man," "Fantastic Four," "Batman," and "X-Men" the more I sense a reluctance, on the part of directors, to think their narratives through, and the louder the hiss of deflation as a neat, amusing idea runs out of puff.

Lorenzo Lotto had the amusing idea to depict "The Sleeping Apollo With the Muses and Fame" (1545-49), in which the god snoozes beside a batch of discarded female garments while the ungoverned muses dance wildly down a hill without a stitch on.

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They're amusing ideas, amusing openings to books but I don't think I can write them.' He has long wanted to write a sex novel from a woman's point of view, and has already thought of the title, A Sexual Biography of my Wife, but he has no idea of the content.

There are some original and amusing ideas here – the carnival dancer condemned to perform mundane non-carnival tasks, such as crossing the road or visiting the cashpoint, while imprisoned in her sequins and headdress – but it's hard to see how some of these skits (a spoof of The Killing? Really?) ever made it off the hard drive.

However it liked some of its tracks: "there are some wickedly amusing ideas and moments of pure poetry in the lyrics while some of the musical juxtapositions are both killingly funny and strong enough to stand repeated listenings".

Wigington, who was interviewed by Sacramento's CBS News affiliate last week, has much more amusing ideas about what's causing the drought: the government and specifically, the government's chemtrails.

While many of the amusing ideas have gone viral, it's unlikely that any of them will actually end up being used to identify one of the TRAPPIST-1 solar system's Earth-sized planets, which are located 39 light years away.

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