Sentence examples for far from amusing from inspiring English sources
"Let's just hope it gets ugly, and then we'll all have fun," Conan O'Brien privately joked about his future at "The Tonight Show" back in 2004, never imagining just how ugly — and how far from amusing — his clash with Jay Leno would become.
However, that his parents suffered major financial setbacks, banks were quick to continue to make him an expected source of future income — apparently for his lifetime — and the Great Recession demonstrably crushed the financial prospects of most of the country is far from amusing.
But today's criticism is far from being an amusing rejection of food rituals.
"The movie is far from terrible: it's amusing in spots," Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times in June.
The movie is far from terrible: it's amusing in spots (Bill Murray shows up for an eccentric cameo) and visually painless, notably during the nighttime beauty shots of Moscow that show the digital video format off to fine effect.
As one critic of my book, Underneath the Lemon Tree, wrote, with a wry observation that I still find amusing: "Far from being the illness that dare not speak its name, it is actually quite hard to get it to shut up".
But he felt deeply conflicted about being gay for years, even subjecting himself to "surrogate therapy" as a young man, and the descriptions of his encounters with female sexual surrogates in Far From the Tree are both amusing and sad.
Hop on Twitter or Instagram and you are never far from an "evil Patrick", used to illustrate amusing misdeeds, or SpongeBob himself, looking relieved, angry, stoned or indeed any other human mood.
