Sentence examples for engaging amusing from inspiring English sources

My novel had been reviewed in the TLS on January 30 that year, somewhat patronisingly ("engaging", "amusing"), by DAN Jones, in a review that was one-third the length of my review of Lanark.

Marie Brown, the heroine of this engaging, amusing first novel, is an aspiring tabloid writer and quondam graduate student in philosophy of science.

It's diverting without being engaging, amusing without being funny, conspicuously shaped and crafted without being inspired, performed and directed with a tethered energy that suggests a big engine roaring in neutral.

Several reviewers described book as clever, well-written, engaging, amusing, and fun.

An interview with Denis Healey proved to be one of his most embarrassing moments: "I mistakenly thought that he had become an amiable old buffer who would engage in amusing conversation, and he tore me limb from limb.

The Guardian described the film as as "Heartwarming, engaging and darkly amusing.

It has been described as "heartwarming, engaging and darkly amusing" and "the must see British film of the year" by the Guardian, and "stunning, shocking, touching and deeply moving" by the London Evening Standard, and "the best film in all history" by me.

That's why he becomes excited when a graphic image pulses: it's useless but weirdly amusing and engaging.

BFI Southbank, SE1, Mon to 28 Dec Phelim O'Neill Creating a heartwarming, engaging and even darkly amusing film about a group of junkies at the heart of Wales' heroin epidemic is a challenge but if anyone has the stones for it, it'll be Andy Capper and Leo Leigh, co-directors of this year's must-see British film Swansea Love Story (premiering at the ICA as part of VBS.TV's Rule Britannia series).

The text is seemingly random, sometimes poetic, often amusing, always engaging.

Be witty, amusing or worth engaging in conversation?