Sentence examples for moving amusing from inspiring English sources

This moving, amusing and resonant tale also touches on environmental and ecological concerns, on xenophobia and the fear of the threatening other.

For this is a tale of mistaken identities and mysterious dames, strange agencies and impromptu heroics – an unabashed entertainment, moving, amusing, difficult to resist.

Moving, amusing and truthful, the film is a modest, not unduly sentimental work that touches in a light but far from slight way on subjects that will eventually be faced by all of us.

Caring After Death Dr. Dan Shapiro, a clinical psychologist at the University of Arizona School of Medicine and himself a cancer survivor who recounted his near-fatal battle in a very moving, amusing and insightful book, "Mom's Marijuana," noted in a recent interview that in the past "physicians didn't view death as the end of the relationship with the family".

Ideally there is something surprising, shocking, moving or amusing about it.

By the end, they seemed essential -- enriching, sometimes moving, sometimes amusing and always civilized.

"Thrilling, terrifying, moving, confusing, amusing, compelling and very, very dark," Kristan Reed of Eurogamer.net wrote in a fairly typical BioShock review.

This is incredibly fresh and arresting film-making: moving and amusing, swooningly romantic and socially ferocious – nothing less than a full-frontal (in every way) assault on your soul.

He's moving and amusing and immediately empathetic, far more the film's lynchpin than its apparent muse: Deschanel is so wide-eyed and emotionally vacant you suspect more anti-depressants than commitment phobia.

Departures, which won an Oscar as Best Foreign Language film, is a moving, gently amusing contribution to this tradition and centres on Daigo, a 36-year-old Japanese cellist who recognises there's no future in his musical career and returns to his remote home town where he applies for a job at what he thinks is a travel agency.

Some contemporaries regarded it as moving and amusing, others as a sentimental tear-jerker, incongruously interspersed with sexually explicit Restoration comedy jokes and semi-nude bedroom scenes.