Sentence examples for cool amusement from inspiring English sources

Given such savagery, Sissako might be expected to rail against the freedom crushers, but he is too oblique for that, preferring a cool amusement at their expense.

The biography observes this multiple life with cool amusement - as when the dean preaches a party-pooping wedding sermon rubbishing marriage as "but a continuall fornication sealed with an oath" - but is also winningly infused with its subject's mix of wit and sobriety.

Set aside what it says about Hollywood that today even Disney thinks what the public needs is ever-more-graphic depictions of killing the innocent as cool amusement.

You'll find cool amusement-park-style games and rides, such as Ferris wheels, ropes courses and zip lines.

The dancers pull this off with aplomb, throwing themselves into the choreography and Bernstein's voluptuous score, but with a sense of amusement that keeps them, well, cool.

At his final rally of the day in Pensacola, Florida, Trump insisted that he is on course for victory, telling supporters: "It's feeling like it already, isn't it?" Acknowledging the need to stay disciplined and avoid missteps in the home stretch, Trump said with amusement: "We've got to be nice and cool, nice and cool.

One was known as the "nickel empire" — a raucous place of thrill rides, sideshow amusements and cooling sea breezes reachable by a 5-cent subway ride.

This vile, narrow strip of crumbling asphalt zigzags uphill like an amusement park thrill ride, rising from the cool Pacific Coast over steep mountains and into hot, dusty highlands.

nytimes.com/frugaltraveler GLOBESPOTTERS Correspondents report on a folklore festival in Prague, options in Berlin for cooling off with ice cream, and a newly expanded amusement park and aquarium in Hong Kong (above): nytimes.com/globespotters LIFE IS A WHEEL Bruce Weber is cycling across the United States; follow his journey on Twitter, @nytbruceweber, or on the In Transit blog.

He is the Joel Grey of the camera, presiding in mock amusement (though in genuine arousal) over his cabaret of cool.

You can turn the traction and stability controls off for more amusement, but even when switched on they don't cool your ardour too often.