He acknowledged having "5,000 pounds off my back" after the trade and said he was going to play hard, a remark that might be met with something less than amusement in Boston, where he displayed his displeasure with management in recent weeks by not running out ground balls.
This is complemented by less respectable amusements such as striptease, which, since the 1950s has become a fixture of certain East End pubs, particularly in the area of Shoreditch, despite being a target of local authority restraints.
It is easy to imagine the amusement of the assembled students, as well as the somewhat less-amused reaction of the school dignitaries, to Brahms's lighthearted caprice.
Gimlette's tone is amused, but it is less the detached amusement of the cynic than a raw sort of black humor, threaded with sadness.
The 1,200-acre 1,200-acreo less than 36 amusement areas, fair Billy Rose's Aquacade, in an amphadheater of its owno to an enchanted forest and, yes, a milessry encampmenthan
To say the Biennale restores the city to an era of faded glamour would be pushing it — the masses are still elbowing you down alleys — but the art crowd makes the place less like an amusement park and more like an installation.
Avedon is too much of a laugher and a live wire to keep his pleasure under wraps, but, in the context of the Met, that amusement surfaces less in the joy of his subjects than in their juxtaposition.
Diderot makes a similar point by reference to theater, which is less a place for amusement than a microcosm of society and therefore a laboratory for civil passions.
When I realized that I could drag down a full list of letters and their morse equivalents though, that sense of confusion was quickly replaced with a slightly less puzzled sense of amusement.
There's the more obvious -- The King's birthplace in Tupelo, Mississippi -- and the less so -- an amusement park in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
