Sentence examples for cannot amuse from inspiring English sources

He also criticised those modern types who "cannot amuse themselves; they are too used to being amused", showing that our attraction to passive forms of entertainment is nothing new.

They are mostly for amusement purposes only, but the United States' soccer brain trust cannot be amused by the release of the latest monthly FIFA men's rankings.

Violetta, amused, cannot understand why and teases her lover, Baron Douphol, that he did not do the same.

Because the case wasn't only against him and his funny pictures, by which some people cannot be much amused.

You cannot exercise and be amused about it.

While one or two of the Southwark jury's questions may have amused people, we cannot know everything that prompted them, and most of them seemed to me to be perfectly sensible.

They discriminate against a world that offers too much at once by fixing on that which intrigues or amuses them mysteries they cannot solve in a glance.

Plus there's somebody amused by it all whom they cannot talk about.

Pantheon; 586 pages; $30THERE is merit in having books on the bedside table that induce rather than delay sleep--books that cannot be too thoughtful or gripping, but may inform and amuse.

If consumers remember a funny ad but cannot recall the product being sold, corporate types are not generally amused.

(I am convinced that I was the only one amused by the fact that in the real world, minors cannot vote; while in Bitcoin, only miners can vote. I did not waste the group's time by making this pun).