Audiences for "The Summer in Gossensass," which overcomes its slow and instructive beginning to generate some amusement as it displays the virtues of its homage and history, will enjoy the play most if they are already giddy about Ibsen.
Desmond's style of management has not generated universal amusement among his employees.
In the run-up to Season 2, the show's popularity among actual D.C. pols has generated light amusement — as if this fact gives some clue to how they'd prefer to behave.
This met with general amusement.
But the fantastical obsession for filling up those small empty white squares with J's and I's and L's and S's until incrementally they become words is one of those inaudible amusements that generate sales in the many millions of what is really an esoteric genre, the crossword puzzle book.
This should all come as no surprise to brands that found out with YouTube that group amusements would reliably generate a following, at least for a short while--as Mentos saw in 2006 when its YouTube video of a mint exploding in a glass of Diet Coke upsurged its fan base on Facebook (temporarily).
Would we be resurrecting these species in order to reestablish them in the wild or to generate valuable patents and ticket sales to amusement parks and zoos?
"Much of River of Fundament is laughable in its self-importance, although it's not clear if amusement was the reaction Barney was expecting to generate".
The material is cosily familiar, but he brings it to smooth, sparkling life, always sharing in the amusement he generates.
Advance copies of the paper, to be published this year in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, have circulated widely among psychological researchers in recent weeks and have generated a mixture of amusement and scorn.
It's also a fair deal since the funding will come from growth in amusement taxes generated at Wrigley, and Cubs ownership will pay for at least as much to complete the renovation.
