Sentence examples for amusing period from inspiring English sources

The sculpture is little more than an amusing period piece.

(Tom Hanks provides the voice of Jackson.) Mr. Burns doesn't skimp, however, on his other signature devices, from amusing period music to exasperating re-creations.

Churchwell fills out her account with amusing period paraphernalia, such as Fitzgerald's recipe for bathtub gin, or a list of the era's new terminology: "cool", "slick", "mass media", "ritzy", "merchant bank".

It even led to an amusing period when the Republicans were suing to keep a Democrat on the ballot who didn't want to run, which ultimately failed.

Most of it is a halfhearted film noir pastiche with amusing period-piece characters (one is a perky hatcheck girl) and an array of different settings.

It also explains the variety of dialogue styles, which luckily come off as amusing shifts of verbal period.

One of the trademarks of an act that took years to develop was "phonetic punctuation," in which Mr. Borge substituted amusing nonsense sounds for periods, commas and exclamation points.

While numbers like "Hey Kazoomba" do little to advance or even link the plot elements, the songs are an amusing grab bag, dipping into period pop, doo-wop and Latin sounds with cornball conviction.

Despite the amusing fashions and hairstyles of the period and the extraordinary lucidity of the prints, which expose every blemish, they keep their dignity.

From the above examples about 17th century alchemy, you could find an amusing alchemical anecdote from the time period, or you could talk about your own forays into alchemy.

And thus an amusing intimacy was created, the source of a brief period of tenderness between us.