Sentence examples for full of amusing from inspiring English sources

Despite its serious subject matter, the book is a rollicking read, full of amusing details and sarcastic humour.

Whether a reader goes along with her theory, the book is chock full of amusing anecdotes and brief biographies of those she calls health fanatics.

Ashton was full of amusing little one-liners after becoming the first Englishman to bag four tries in a championship match since Ronnie Poulton ran rings round France in 97 years ago.

Of course the dialogue is full of amusing asides about Edith's eagerness, but Mr. Hollis misses a fine opportunity to demonstrate how much funnier the talk could be if the action did not compete with it.

Brooks Atkinson, in The New York Times, summed up her work as superb and called it a "glowing performance that is full of amusing detail -- cheap, ignorant, bewildered, but also radiant with personality".

As you might expect, Mrs Malaprop is full of amusing mistakes, exclaiming "He's the very pineapple of success!" and "She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile!" The adjective Malaproprian is first used, according to the OED, by George Eliot.

His conversation is a wry onrush of colourful anecdote and high-level gossip; full of amused, and often amusing, feinting and ducking.

Nate's ideal girlfriend may simply be a woman clever enough to appreciate his many intellectual gifts, but not so clever as to challenge them.This is an impressive book, full of sharp and amusing observations about urban life, liberal pieties and modern dating that minefield of "intimate inspections" that often yields more loneliness than romance.

The story is full of neat and amusing little cultural reversals, such as the boy offering (for a fee) to fix the spelling on his uncle's elephant hire sign, and being sharply told that the uncle has done it on purpose, because farangs find it charming.

You might even want to invest in a bathroom reader full of interesting and amusing facts that can easily be picked up and put down between visits.

His renderings were full of invention, sometimes brilliant, amusing, and illuminating, sometimes merely wayward.