Social psychologists may call this an engineered mass catharsis, and language deconstructionist Derrida may have been provoked to call it a perverse example of media as entertainment, where the act of apprehending the text becomes amusing in and of itself!
It's an in-house comedy: she was using Scott Joplin music, which, early in her career, she would beg her lover and adviser, Louis Horst, to play to ease her tension on bad days, and the earnestness, even ponderousness, of Graham style here becomes amusing.
Sometimes, a weird hysteria takes hold of you, and the strangest things become amusing.
"We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.
His predicament has nearly become amusing to him; he has been bested, but still regards his attacker with woeful, wanting eyes.
Worse still, tracks like "74 is the New 24" start to become amusing.
His inability to correctly read the line "mmm – soup!" becomes very amusing and offers the show's highlights".
"Yes, I broke the law but what do we do about the diagnosis that caused me to break the law?" As these facts emerge, as we learn that McCollum has spent a full third of his life in prison, the story "Off the Rails" tells darkens and becomes less amusing as it details a system that seems incapable of making the punishment fit the crime.
Even now when I think about it, the word guild, it becomes relevant and amusing to me.
A recent, severely geometric representation of Mount Vesuvius equates poured paint and lava, which becomes more amusing the more you think about it (Johnson).
