Sentence examples for amusing vein from inspiring English sources

The New Yorker, May 15 , 1926 P. 9Details about Mayor Walker, written in amusing vein.

They tell the story of two giants a father (Gargantua) and his son (Pantagruel) and their adventures written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein.

While she regarded the emptiness of the protagonists' adventures as "surprisingly amusing" in a similar vein to Seinfeld, Ashby ultimately called it "mindless entertainment", stating "there are no subtle themes nor any clever satire to be had here".

Donnetta Lavinia Grays plays the pearl-fishing old salt with amusing relish, and, in a sweeter vein, Louis's wife, who decides to remain in the Australian Outback when he insists on returning to England to cure his chronic homesickness.

Often accompanied by doggerel in the vein of Gorey and Dr. Seuss, his drawings are usually amusing, but neither shocking nor laugh-out-loud funny.

Did, as I like to imagine, Harry Enfield and Kathy Burke insist on hyper-realistic 9" dildos, repleat with bulging veins and a gnarled, weighty glans, or did a Lucozade bottle suffice?—was an immediately amusing prospect.

Very amusing.

Less amusing?

John Wheeler found that amusing.

No amusing stories.

Everyone is amusing.