Sentence examples similar to hardly amusing from inspiring English sources
The song Tell Me the Truth About Love made for an arresting opener to the exuberant production, created in partnership with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Sage Gateshead, although its playful mood and amusing lyrics could hardly be said to set a consistent tone.
When I began biking to work, my colleagues found me an amusing curiosity, but now hardly anyone notices.
But Aira's writerly self-reference, while hardly subtle, is disarming, and the result is amusing, self-conscious camp.
Acknowledging that choruses of "You're s*** and you know you are" or "The referee's a w*****" are hardly Wildean shafts of wit, Marshall prefers to highlight the more amusing variations.
That said, anyone who knows what weekend pressure at a major can do to the inexperienced would hardly be shocked to see Oosthuizen's joy ride turn into something much less amusing over the next two days.
But not half as much as when the kids get to do their amusing "tell them we're not in" routine - with a proud mummy and daddy hardly containing themselves in the background.
Mitchell and Webb did an amusing sketch about this, and came down on the side of rocket science, but that's hardly conclusive.
While the cascading inanity of the Tiger Woods story is amusing, that fact that rich men like to hang around what S. J. Perelman called "pneumatic blondes" is hardly surprising.
Yes, it had a title and subject matter that trod the line between amusing and disgusting, but so do most shows on the Discovery Channel – hello, I Shouldn't Be Alive – and hardly anyone watches those.
