Sentence examples for amusing reference from inspiring English sources

"It was in these scales that the author found an amusing reference to Mr. Trump's hairstyle," Nazari wrote in a press release.

Take the lad culture of the 1990s, whose chauvinism he excoriates with amusing reference to the Spice Girls and – somewhat tangentially – the way Nigel Lawson named his daughter ("Go to jail, you weird man!") Lad culture crops up only because Kumar, unfashionably enough, is seeking to defend hipster culture, its more benign descendant.

Leibniz illustrates the claim with an amusing reference to a case that the Areopagites (judges on the Areopagus, the highest court of appeals in Ancient Athens) were having trouble deciding, their solution (i.e., de facto, but not de jure, acquittal) being to adjourn it "to a date in the distant future, giving themselves a hundred years to think about it" (Leibniz 1704 [1981]: 181).

"Catkins" is an amusing reference to the Atkins diet for humans, which many of you will remember as one of the first low-carbohydrate mass-marketed diets.

Romney also had a fairly amusing reference to his five sons, saying that made him "used to people saying something that's not always true but just keep on repeating it and ultimately hoping I'll believe it".

This makes Zoolander 2's one authentic style moment all the more enjoyable: Mugatu wears Craig Green – one of London's most conceptual menswear designers, beloved of serious fashion critics and FKA twigs – in an amusing cult reference that made approximately five people in my screening room laugh (while no one else noticed).

There are occasional moments of amusing self-reference.

There were amusing historical references tucked into the proceedings.

Many of Ms. Wagner's witticisms retain their vitality: "Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?" And the narrative shape of the show, which is outwardly fragmented by the tales of the various personae, is held deftly together with subtle (and often amusing) cross-references.

And despite its fond associations, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" — created by Dan Goor and Michael Schur, who were writers and producers on "Parks and Recreation" — is thoroughly contemporary in its sketch-comedy-style structure, emphasizing throwaway jokes, physical humor and visual punch lines (like an amusing "Mod Squad" reference) while avoiding anything resembling story development.

Zhuangzi was a skilled and amusing storyteller, and the reference is to the well-known tale in which he falls asleep and dreams he is a butterfly, but, upon awakening, is unsure if he is a man who just dreamed he was a butterfly, or if he is a butterfly dreaming he was a man.