Sentence examples for amusing in themselves from inspiring English sources

Simmons's verbal mash-ups, delivered in a frenzied rhythm, can be amusing in themselves: "Mexkimo, mexkimo, eating tacos in the snow".

The New Yorker, June 9, 1934 P. 11 The complaints one of our friends make about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that these objects modernes, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them dated.

Sue and Mel, meanwhile, scurried around trying to make themselves amusing, in Sue's case by turning into Julian Clary.

Freed from narrative responsibility, the camera dwells for rather too long on images of under-nourished children amusing themselves in joyless playgrounds or hanging listlessly around the estate.

Her genius was to realize that the very formalities of the tradition — the inter-house rivalry, the sporting slang — were in themselves amusing, and that the stuffy could be made mysterious once more.

Her genius was to realize that the very formalities of the tradition the inter-house rivalry, the sporting slang were in themselves amusing, and that the stuffy could be made mysterious once more.

The tests themselves, I thought, were amusing, in a therapy meets party-game kind of way.

Not at all amusing in Japan.

He could be courtly and amusing in person.

And it was sporadically amusing in a ditsy way.

Testimonials from ex-lovers who found him amusing in bed?