Sentence examples for but amused from inspiring English sources

My host remained upright but amused.

Word of the operation spread fast among South Korea's transvestites, but the country's tradition-bound medical community was anything but amused.

There he "aggressively" posed the question: "Where is Rocky number two?" Footage of Ruscha's reaction, clearly caught off guard but amused, opens Bismuth's film.

"You think we're worried you'll be putting his parents out?" Relieved at my innocence, but amused by my stupidity, they laughed for roughly 17 years.

At another juncture he decides that Einstein would have been horrified by MTV and Microsoft but amused by tae-bo, Jesse Ventura and penis augmentations.

Yet that is not how it plays; you leave the film like one of Giovanni's patients rising from the couch — far from healed, but amused and pacified by the sympathy that has washed over you.

Other treats offered include a series of rock ballads that are chorus heavy but amuse as much for their Pearl Jam-style vocal straining as they do for lyrical wonder.

This autumn, the Swedish retailer Ikea will open its own complex in Lodz, employing much the same strategy: bring them in to shop, but amuse them as well.

Gia reminds him that he "cries," which doesn't further the conversation, but amuses me.

West shakes her head, slightly embarrassed but mostly amused.

She just sat there pale faced, but slightly amused.