Nighttime felt a little more desperate, as the dieters looked for amusing ways to avoid thinking about their growling stomachs.
(The contortion that one legislator performs to avoid shaking Mr. Moore's hand is an amusing moment of found slapstick).
Although we found the tips offered by your correspondents on how to avoid looking like an out-of-towner amusing, we believe them to be wholly unnecessary.
Even more amusing was the sales strategy: to avoid setting up a dealer network, Daewoo enlisted college students to peddle the cars on 400 American campuses, a plan that failed miserably.
The family arrived early to the Oct. 16 event to avoid drawing a crowd, but walking into the gymnasium drew amusing stares from the 300 fathers in attendance.
There is nothing more amusing that the spectacle of Inayat twisting and turning, trying to avoid tripping himself up.
At Preah Daek elementary school just outside the city of Siem Reap, Chan and an enthusiastic crowd of several hundred children watched as a small group of schoolchildren presented short and amusing skits aimed at building awareness of landmines and how to avoid injury from them.
To avoid this situation altogether, angle the conversation to the nuances of 21st century romance and its many amusing intricacies: like how to use the internet to date older women and financially benefit from it.
We've read the amusing anecdotes about grammar vigilantes who correct signposts by night, and the furore sparked by some UK councils banning the use of apostrophes in road signs "to avoid confusion".
The ubiquity of the Sheikhs quickly goes from alarming to amusing, to unnoticeable.
