Sentence examples for and amusing in the from inspiring English sources

In the Amores he is outrageous and amusing in the role adopted from Propertius, his Corinna being probably a fiction.

In fact, the paintings classified as "Modern Genre" are the most appealing and amusing in the show.

Best of all was Mr. Boal, buoyant and amusing in the "Frühlingsstimmen" section and more treasurable with every new season.

Admittedly, the main characters are once again wealthy enough to appear utterly alien (as F Scott Fitzgerald noted, "the rich are different from you and me") but there's still plenty that is charming and amusing in the sound of laughter full of money.

In spite of his great distinction, he was modest and amusing in the classroom.

Shelley had sold her publisher on the idea of a travel narrative by describing the forthcoming book as "light" and "amusing", in the style of Samuel Rogers, whose travel narrative of Italy, accompanied by illustrations by J. M. W. Turner, had been a best-seller in the late 1820s.

Court TV's Ms. Jones was preposterous and amusing in her heyday on "The View," but she has a harder time as the sole host of an hourlong program.

Though constantly sharp and amusing in its choice of targets, the film "lacks the manic edge of some of Mr. Waters's earlier movies" (Stephen Holden).

Megan Fairchild is delicate with a hint of steel in the pizzicato pointe work of her final solo, and amusing in her rolling-eyed exasperation at the Marquis (an appropriately louche Adam Hendrickson).

The New Yorker, June 9, 1934 P. 11 The complaints one of our friends make about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that these objects modernes, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them dated.

He could be courtly and amusing in person.