Sentence examples for quietly amusing from inspiring English sources

Ms. Sebaly also presented "Siberia," a quietly amusing piece for two couples, to the ballerina's variation music in Act III of Glazunov's "Raymonda" and piano pieces by Glinka.

Today's "Museum Monday" video is a gorgeous (and at times, quietly amusing) time-lapse short that captures the springtime explosion of flora currently taking place at Kew Gardens.

Some of the gags (a stroke victim mistaken for a drunk driver, for example) are sub-Gervais, but there are plenty of more quietly amusing moments, and the characters do develop and deepen.

Their hopes, and the family histories that emerge from their conversation, are quietly amusing, and the missteps and misunderstandings that trip up everyone when Lata's parents return to the house are very funny.

One man gave an impassioned reading from JL Carr's wistful novella A Month in the Country, and another, championing Tom Wolfe's seminal novel about greed and consumerism, The Bonfire of the Vanities, carried his copy on his iPhone – an irony I found quietly amusing.

I find the duality of 'destruction' quietly amusing.

Brubeck, though an entirely unpretentious, amused and amusing man, had something of the affable, quietly hip professor about him.

But they might consider that taxonomists have been amusing themselves quietly for years, as names such as Colon rectum (a beetle), Ba humbugi (a snail), Oedipus complex (a salamander) and Ytu brutus (a beetle) attest.

An amusing subplot about Quirk's love of Guns N' Roses supplies him with a quietly devastating finale, too, that hints at what we miss when we drive the people we love away.

Of course, it's unlikely to be quite so amusing to those involved, particularly Mosley, but he does not seem willing to ease the humiliation by quietly retiring from his position.

One would not use that adjective for the images, which are powerful and quietly, deeply disturbing, full of pain but resolutely refusing to dramatize it, now and again touching, now and again amusing in an elegiac sort of way.