Sentence examples for amusing itself from inspiring English sources

The United States is truly the devil of our times, amusing itself with murder.

They resemble a primitive communal society amusing itself around a campfire.

That subject is a society in the throes of amusing itself to death and the cost of doing so -- a subject with obvious relevance to America today.

Instead, he encountered each film as a distinctive sensory occasion, as evidence of the teeming life of a culture inspecting and amusing itself at once, and he reported what he met in a language that developed into an instrument of rare poetic and humorous impact.

8.25pm BST Bucolic birdsong Rob Booth mails from the stadium: Really quite amazing to see the flock of sheep pour into an enclosure in the middle of the 21st century Olympic Stadium and their presence has switched on a crowd which has been gathering slowly over the last few hours and amusing itself with mexican waves.

Unfortunately, James's rival, John Hastings, no sooner sets eyes on James than he causes the latter to be locked in a cabin.It's bad enough for a hansom cab driver to be out on an angry sea, but it is evidently much more terrifying for him to be awakened from a sound sleep (on the shores of "Pogo Pogo") by a chimpanzee amusing itself by smacking the poor man's face.

The amusing name itself comes from how much a driver or rider says they like to talk and share on their rides.

I thought this CFPB hearing couldn't be any more amusing, which itself was surprising.

That's never a big problem, because – even if I find the abusiveness a little wearing – Helm's needy brute persona is itself amusing.

So the fact that the MPS could reach 62mph in 6.1 seconds and stay with every German übersaloon flat-out on the autobahn (an amusing trick in itself), counted for little when man and machine were in such disharmony.

The index to The Road to Delphi is an amusing read in itself, ranging as it does from Suetonius to Tom Cruise, from Adorno to WC Fields, from Oedipus to Nancy Reagan (she kept a court astrologer, as did, more surprisingly, François Mitterrand).