Sentence examples for detached amusement from inspiring English sources
'detached amusement' is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to express a feeling or attitude of being amused, but with some distance. For example: He watched the proceedings with detached amusement.
Gimlette's tone is amused, but it is less the detached amusement of the cynic than a raw sort of black humor, threaded with sadness.
Most of the people I met at Givaudan went about their work with detached amusement.
One group is watching the tablet war with a certain detached amusement: comic book stores.
Jeter always seemed to regard the sideshow around Rodriguez's Texas contract with detached amusement.
Between his grandfather & him there was a conspiracy of the powerless, a bond of detached amusement.
He remembers his frenetic youth with detached amusement, recalling their breakthrough concert.
So with all this in mind, I read Mark O'Connell's piece at The Millions last week with a kind of detached, anthropological amusement.
From a very early age I assumed an attitude of detached wry amusement to the often insane world my mum and dad inhabited and the frequently mad things that they believed.
This history of the exploration of the Alps employs a droll, detached tone of amusement as it recounts the follies, eccentricities and triumphs of mountaineers through the ages.
A gifted writer whose descriptions convey the infrared precision of a powerful night scope, she provides an amusement that is similarly guilty, detached, even aerial.
Somewhere between sarcasm and amusement lies smarminess - a sort of detached, arrogant sense of enjoying one's self.
