Not long ago, I had an amusing experience meeting the author of a book I received as a gift nearly two decades ago — a book that in many ways changed my life.
Hearing the well-known songs of My Fair Lady sung in German was an amusing experience, and being able to understand the jokes between Eliza and Professor Higgins provided a confidence boost and an insight into German culture.
This was quite an amusing experience for me after having grown up in liberal Australia.
Stories of lost crowns lend themselves to drama, but not necessarily audience-pleasing entertainments, which may explain why "Frost/Nixon" registers as such a soothing, agreeably amusing experience, more palliative than purgative.
Writing in The Times, Manohla Dargis described the film as "a soothing, agreeably amusing experience, more palliative than purgative," adding that Mr. Langella and Mr. Sheen, who originated their roles on the London stage and repeated them on Broadway, were first-rate.
Writing in The New York Times, Manohla Dargis described the film as "a soothing, agreeably amusing experience, more palliative than purgative," adding that Mr. Langella and Mr. Sheen, who originated their roles on the London stage and later repeated them on Broadway, were first rate.
The reminiscences by New Yorkers about the Empire State Building brought to mind my own amusing experience as a 14-year-old native, many years ago.
And then neglected to describe the amusing experience to his notoriously inquisitive secretary.
I laughed when I read "Low-Carb Diet: Lose the Bun, Not the Burger (and Heavy on the Mayo)" on Jan . 11and the writer's amusing experience with the diet.
She drags Mimi through a few tepidly amusing experiences, then deposits her more or less back where she started.
The result is an amusing, if not hallucinogenic, experience, a kind of cartoon vision quest, and a little peek into what the future holds for VR and the music video medium.
