Sentence examples for was amusing about from inspiring English sources

He was amusing about his "headshrinker" and about the "misunderstanding" that had landed him there; amusing, too, about his fellow-patients, from his presumptive eminence of sanity.

Mr. Stiller found plenty that was amusing about Roger, "who says things that are spot on" without censoring himself and is prone to embittered overstatements: when a friend innocently remarks that youth is wasted on the young, he sputters, "Life is wasted on -- people".

He is amusing about Harley riders.

The author is amusing about the weave of his own moral fiber.

He's amusing about how his dialect-heavy French accent — he compares it to Cockney — made him self-conscious.

"You'd have a couple of snarky student types watching TV clips and being amusing about them," Armstrong recalls.

To be sure, at the first opportunity he begins talking about the dead; mercifully, however, he is amusing about the dead.

Gill is amusing about the kind of deadly theatre in which he started out as an actor, such as the verse play This Way to the Tomb by Ronald Duncan, in which he played at the Arts Theatre ("unutterable tosh").

Mr Bird is amusing about the Aramco oil company reservation in Dhahran in the 1960s, where the all-American oil families lived a comfortable colonial life in a desert camp as exclusive as any white gated suburb (though minus teenagers and the elderly), their main hobby distilling forbidden alcohol.

("I might be back," Adam remarks to the RePet salesman, which is one of the few times that the movie is amusing about its duplicative theme.) To make up for not getting a doggie clone, Adam buys a semi-clone doll, a SimPal, for his child.

A magazine! "Books Are A 500-year-plus Technology" And that's what's amusing about this company and the CEO, a former SVP of Dow Jones.