Pnin's various scrapes and other escapades might be made even more amusing if they left him with hair tousled and spiked out of place.
The spot was amusing even if, unlike Cedric's date, you knew what was coming.
This would be pretty amusing even if the author didn't feel the need to footnote "pastoral" with a nod to the critic William Empson.
If this version of the afterlife is a metaphor for art, it's a grim one, even if it's also amusing: the implication being that striving for immortality in art is as absurd as paying a fortune to have someone freeze your dead body.
"Down With Love" works hard to earn it and is, for the most part, intelligent and amusing, even if it never achieves the full-tilt zany desperation of Delbert Mann's "Lover Come Back," the best of the real Hudson-Day movies.
It is amusing (even if dispiriting) to think that maybe the anti-empirical biases in neo-Darwinian thought and discourse have as much to do with Victorian prudishness as with Victorian philosophical battles.
Now, however, Mr. Rich opines on political and social issues for the Times, and, while the results are usually mildly amusing (even if unintentionally so), his reach has grown a bit, so the damage he causes can travel beyond the footlights.
I just found it amusing". But even if Ashton's background is not unique for an England union coach, it is unusual.
Through the first act the talk is amusing enough, even if much of it is familiar from the sitcoms of a dozen years ago (which, come to think of it, are much more memorable than the Bush-Dukakis presidential race).
I've always found the elaborate retelling of Uncle Tom's Cabin to be filler (even if it did inspire an amusing parody in The Book Of Mormon).
Think of something funny, even if it involves the photographer's clothing or something amusing that's happened to you in the past.
