Sentence examples for polite amusement from inspiring English sources
"So," she said, "you were working in Tel Aviv but you went to Jerusalem as a tourist?" Her tone throughout was one of polite amusement.
Shortly after The New Yorker was founded, in February , 1925 an editor across the East River, who appreciated "the absurd foibles and quaint conceits" of Manhattanites as "a source of polite amusement to sophisticated Brooklyn citizens," launched a magazine of his own, a monthly called The Brooklynite.
When the new periodical O. makes its inevitable appearance ater on in the winter, we are planning to revive the old New York Weekly Museum or Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction.
Conservative critics, he adds, may have felt threatened by the "violence and 'hysteria' " they detected and felt such emotive displays "attacked the boundaries of conventional aesthetic appreciation the cultured reception of art as an act of formalist discernment and the polite engagement of art as an act of amusement".
An indoor amusement park?
There was amusement, too.
This caused some amusement.
