Often the images that first come to mind when hypnosis is mentioned is one of entertainment, counting backwards and audience members doing silly things much to the amusement of the audience.
The process of firing or not firing a manager has become an unsightly display of weakness and a public embarrassment for the Mets, a silly spectacle more fitting for an amusement park than for Major League Baseball.
If you went head-over-heels for your man during your summer jobs at an amusement park, have fun taking a silly photo on a carousel.
The still unfinished Super Silly Fun Land, based on the film's waterfront amusement park, may yet prove to be the most overlooked yet important element in the Despicable Me makeover of the former Terminator 2: 3-D theater.
This qualm was a source of amusement, not ire, and it was a small, silly display of his analytical mind.
Mr. Ratmansky's other dances are all deft, and most are entertaining, but the Land of the Sugar Plum Fairy, despite its amusement and cartoon-multicultural fun, is all a bit too silly.
It is okay to "pretend anger, playfully," as if insulted or pretending amusement, etc. Be a clever actor, but not too silly, be kind of serious, and use the pretending to teach.
Today the Japanese find the sort of wild amusement that the original Kabuki offered in the ridiculous talent or variety shows that dominate prime-time television, with pretty women, funny-looking men, cross-dressers, celebrities and old people sitting on stages answering silly questions, singing silly songs and happily making fools of themselves.
We shall no longer have spectacle of amusement-starved outlanders flocking to new York to view rehashed continental stuff and silly farces.
It looks garish, weird and silly, and it plays like it was designed in conjunction with Sega's most inventive and idiosyncratic Amusement Divisions during a company drinks party at a Genki Rockets gig sometime in the late-1990s.
