If E.D. Hirsch's dream of a literate, intellectually engaged citizenry might ever be achieved, it will only happen when young learners feel the social and cultural value that comes from "school learning," not, as Neil Postman observed, "amusing themselves to death," or, more likely, selling themselves into oblivion.
Readers, viewing it all from outside open windows, observe amusing domestic scenes, with insects bearing fly swatters and watering plants.
Sgt. Phineas Hager observed, "It was amusing to hear the excuses some of them had for not standing sentinel at particular outposts.
Original posts could be your own thoughts or ideas, things you observe, or just amusing things that you think others might find amusing as well.
As Barnaby Conrad III observed in his highly amusing book, The Martini, it is the drink of the elite, consumed in well-upholstered bars, boardrooms and country clubs.
The negative expression to amusing stimuli observed in the RecAN group needs to be scrutinised further to see whether it is a behaviour which manifests in response to different positive stimuli.
For us, coming here is more about observing our religion and amusing ourselves.
And from a practical standpoint, she observed, it would offer an amusing place to sit while putting on shoes.
Extremely amusing and acutely observed, the book and film gain dramatic strength and satirical thrust from using Thomas Hardy's first Wessex novel Far From the Madding Crowd as inspiration and armature.
The Kommandant's attitude to women is not, therefore the product of an arrested schoolboy imagination but, of course, extremely amusing and sharply observed: "Biggish Titten, such as those belonging to my wife, can be described as 'beautiful', smallish Titten, like Waltraut's and Xonra's, can be characterized as 'pretty' and Titten of the middlish persuasion can be designated as – what?
"They were 'the hot twins.' " Ms. Chatfield, now 32 and a designer for Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects in Manhattan, first observed Mr. Howard in geology class, amusing peers with bad puns about schist and gneiss.
