Sentence examples similar to cause of amusement from inspiring English sources

His phenomenal success is the cause of much amusement to him.

The fact that he turned out a Tory is a cause of some amusement among his extended family.

But policy is neither the private property of the leader nor the cause of casual amusement for people who bought a £3 vote in this year's leadership election.

From his own Yale College days in the 1960's, Mr. Talbott remembers C.I.A. students "walking around town with those initials emblazoned on their sweatshirts -- a cause of puzzlement, amusement or both".

The sheikh provides little cause for amusement now.

Reich's hypothesis would be cause for amusement if not for the cost.

Reading the ongoing debate about the increase in religious schools in Britain has caused me some amount of amusement - and pause for thought.

These confessions have caused a certain amount of amusement, particularly in England, where generations of scoffers have heaped sarcastic understatement and studied incomprehension on Steiner's unabashedly mandarin prose.

He does not conceal the artifice of his mythological stories — deus-ex-machina endings seem designed to cause as much amusement as awe — and thereby acknowledges the limits of art.

It is a cause for wry amusement sometimes when the selectors talk of their grand plan for English cricket.

At least, this pathetic concession to comparatism is an unintended cause for additional amusement.