It turned out that my fear was equally amusing to him, though. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take you out through El Patron’s study. He’ll say you were there all the time. He thinks this is pretty amusing, but Senator Mendoza doesn’t think it’s funny at all.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They think it makes it all the more amusing.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I found him amusing for all of about five seconds. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t mentioned Miss Lilian, my brother and I would still be telling tales about the old days, amusing ourselves while the rain fell and the wind blew. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Whatever he was whispering must have been amusing, for his big bald friend gave a sudden snort of laughter, loud enough so that the king himself turned his head toward the Domishmen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he watched the tower the whole time during his luncheon, waiting for the amusing spectacle of me jumping to my death. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, there was silence now; the tribe were curious to hear what amusing thing he might have to say. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And well they might, I said, for it was amusing that even in Neptune most of them made shift to chase themselves pretty safely up the easier faces. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“In all gatherings he at once became the center of attraction, having a ready command of language and a constant fund of amusing anecdotes and experiences.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The second Anne, who’s never overconfident or amusing, but wants only to love and be gentle. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Seriously, though, ten years after the war people would find it very amusing to read how we lived, what we ate and what we talked about as Jews in hiding. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It is easy to distinguish the parts told by each, Aeschylus grave and direct, Ovid light and amusing. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Crazy like he might come to school with a gun and start shooting people, or crazy like he just says amusing things about outer space?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above these again were the playrooms where, the weather having turned to rain, nine hundred older children were amusing themselves with bricks and clay modelling, hunt-the-zipper, and erotic play. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never considered, though I should have, that these crackpot prejudices of Bunny’s which I found so amusing were not remotely ironic but deadly serious. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I have discovered if I only have me, myself, and I for company, I might as well be amusing. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

His female attendants release a series of fake chuckles and coo over how amusing he is. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It meant acceptance by a more fashionable and amusing part of Cambridge and allowed him to dismiss the fact that he was not appreciated by a variety of dull and pompous dons. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I could never tell if Anatole respected me or just thought I was an amusing child. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve written an amusing story called “Blurry the Explorer,” which was a big hit with my three listeners. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Every day I think what a fascinating and amusing adventure this is! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He seemed to find Frank amusing, maybe because Frank was the only one at camp who wasn’t uneasy around the children of Pluto. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I found it rather amusing that he thought the opening in a woman’s body was simply left out of illustrations. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Her gossip was more amusing than a sweater war with Gay. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Beth was soon able to lie on the study sofa all day, amusing herself with the well-beloved cats at first, and in time with doll’s sewing, which had fallen sadly behind-hand. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few of the rowdier customers kept up the remarks, amusing themselves at his expense. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

This is both amusing and useful—makes it much easier to ignore her. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Be amusing, my little darlings, or you will wish you had.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that everyone’s had enough of me to last a month. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He wondered if Lord Petyr would find that subject amusing as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Within days, or even hours, it would have become an amusing memory to be wheeled out on family occasions: the night the twins ran away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“This is really very amusing,” Mr. Curtain said. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She looked back on the drunken episode as an infantile adventure and it seemed so funny to her that she told Aureliano Segundo about it and he thought it was more amusing than she did. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Triton smiled like that was a cute suggestion—like I was a slightly amusing dog that had barked for him or something. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The rest of Meereen might see him as an amusing curiosity, like the exiled Summer Islander King Robert used to keep at King’s Landing, but the queen had always spoken to him gently. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I still haven't gotten around to writing amusing sketches that I could read aloud at a later date. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“But you must agree, to eat such amusing prey is a great pity.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I did not know before,” continued Bingley immediately, “that you were a studier of character. It must be an amusing study.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

It’s always amusing to catch one of the burly suits speaking in code over their earpieces: “Black Bear has requested extra banana peppers.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was lost in thought, and the emotions on her face were sort of amusing. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There’s an amusing children’s proof that they don’t have time for school. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents found my new urge for purity amusing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment Ash hesitated, and in that moment she saw Lore’s look change slightly, as if she found Ash amusing. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wrote, “They are, however, amusing and spend hours in seizing hold of the edge of a cabbage leaf and trying in vain to pull it into their holes.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see what’s so amusing about London,” Olive said with a frown. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The New York Herald Tribune found one reporter’s valiant attempt to get more than a monosyllabic answer out of him so amusing that it published a transcript of the entire nonconversation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have found that amusing under different circumstances. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some teachers even seemed to find it amusing that a little kid like Derrick could pick on someone as big as Stanley. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Jaime did not think that was amusing, and the remainder of the trip he was withdrawn. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I don’t care, it’s amusing rather than upsetting to imagine the arguments going on back in 13. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Meantime, Francis’ mind fastened on a more amusing topic until, the meal over, he remembered that he had to rush to a 2:30 appointment. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

There was an ironic tone to that final message, as if the Speaker found it amusing; and Jonas had smiled a little, though he knew what a grim statement it had been. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I am tempted to think that Mrs. Pontellier is capricious,” said Madame Lebrun, who was amusing herself immensely and feared that Edna’s abrupt departure might put an end to the pleasure. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

"Come, Lady Stark, don't you find this all terribly amusing?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He spoke conversationally, laughed as if I had made an amusing reply, and moved off to the pickled blackfish. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t help finding these pictures funny—but still, as Burt caught the spirit and made amusing comments on the films, I was overcome with a sense of mischief. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, I’m glad you find it amusing,” I said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I found this amusing, considering our last name was Cook. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cop didn’t find it amusing, though, and his scowl deepened. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"That was amusing, if not terribly profitable," he commented. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The queen seemed to find that wonderfully amusing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I did not find Noah's account of the events surrounding his becoming best man quite as amusing as he did, but for several complicated reasons, I did not express my opinion. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, this is amusing,” says Lord Roiben in a low voice. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And while we waited for the coin to reappear, we knew we were amusing Mama and Daddy. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes; but intricate characters are the most amusing. They have at least that advantage.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

What you need to do is force it to assume a shape that you find amusing. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I looked and saw her coming through the crowd in the square, walking, her head up, as though the fiesta were being staged in her honor, and she found it pleasant and amusing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I was very backward in those days and the combination of poverty and provincialism made for some amusing incidents. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean, ‘something amusing’?” he said irritably. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“That’s amusing—but no. He was no accident. I’m certain these ‘enhanced’ hollows were an integral part of the assault on our loops.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

That he was amusing himself, at my expense? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was kind of amusing, and also heartening, hearing my parents recite the branches of government in their broken English. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

So I confine myself to telling him a few amusing things. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered what Chico had said about people enjoying amusing antics. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“If this is some new game then I have to tell you that I'm a bit too old to find it amusing.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The young gentleman seemed to find this an amusing thought. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan quickly lost interest in the game and left with Tyger, who found it all amusing. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Now then, where did I leave off? Oh, yes, Constance. I take it you didn’t find her answers as amusing as I do. I’m not sure, however—perhaps you laughed while I was sleeping?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was so lost in amusing Hari with the pictures on my quilt, I didn’t hear his maa come into the room. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The earmuffs made him appear, at the same time, reassuring, amusing, and, ultimately, loveable. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

At first it was amusing, but it soon grew tiresome. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At the far side of the lake, otters built a slide and were amusing themselves by tumbling down it. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I only composed it in my mind, meaning to tell you. It’s an amusing story anyway.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once he became a major subject for the press, nothing was more amusing to him than creating situations that left his pursuers confused and frustrated. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look back at that Anne Frank as a pleasant, amusing, but superficial girl, who has nothing to do with me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Suddenly elevated into the world of the rich, she moved with an easy, charming propriety, yet had the rare grace and aplomb to make her frequent departures from convention seem amusing instead of scandalous. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I find nothing about you amusing, Kings layer." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But I remember one amusing thing about our marching. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you believe you are being amusing, Gary Drake?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I know they are supposed to be amusing, and you should be tolerant, but I wanted to swing on one, any one, anything to shatter that superior, simpering composure. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was a very crude thing to do, in chapel and all, but it was also quite amusing. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

How kind, how good-looking, how delightfully amusing every one was! Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to admit that I had never heard atheism of so militant a nature; but the Communist speaker seemed to be amusing and frightening the people more than he was convincing them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, there was the blithe unselfconciousness of some crotchety old Veteran of Foreign Wars—married for years, father of multitudes—who finds the topic infinitely repugnant and amusing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But Blanca soon discovered that she was bored making utilitarian objects, and that it was far more amusing to make statues of animals and people. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taro laughs louder, sighing at the end like he finds himself incredibly amusing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He laughed again and I sensed that I was amusing him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effect of the overlarge eye against his otherwise handsome face is both grotesque and amusing. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The backpack toppled down the stairs in an awkward but amusing sort of way. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, at the morning meal, one of the workers would recount an amusing dream. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I told him I just wanted him to see that I didn’t write only amusing things. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

To break through the smug veneer of those who use their brains to find amusing ways to kill us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I think I'll stay rather drunk. This is all awfully amusing, but it's not too pleasant. It's not too pleasant for me." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I believe my chief danger will be that I shall lead so happy comfortable & amusing a life that I shall be careless & good for nothing & think of nothing serious in this world or the next. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look upon our life in hiding as an interesting adventure, full of danger and romance, and every privation as an amusing addition to my diary. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We often pass the time amusing ourselves with anecdotes about you. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

For me the most amusing spectacle was a drunken woman stumbling and urinating, the dampness seeping down her stockinged legs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must tell you this amusing story, the wife of an important business associate gave her an Old German bisque Doll dressed in a Hulu Grass skirt... The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They thought his answer was amusing, and they allowed the boy and the alchemist to proceed with all of their belongings. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as Jefferson’s description of Virginia’s allegedly egalitarian conditions were concerned, “No Romance would be more amusing.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her classmates found this most amusing, for they whispered among themselves, then orchestrated a frenzy of waves for all to see. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Ha ha. Very amusing. Keep it up, Foaly. I have my limit, you know.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

For some reason, that struck her as horrifically amusing. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Always. He’s amusing; I liked him; I felt a little sorry for him. What was it to me, to lend him money for his schoolbooks and know he wouldn’t pay it back?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was looking at her, soliciting her agreement with his eyes: they were not supposed to watch Nollywood, people like them, and if they did, then only as amusing anthropology. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After amusing himself some time with their curiosity, he thus explained: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Not only did the mesmer prove ineffective, but the mysterious pair seemed to find it amusing. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He didn’t find the letter amusing at all. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I found none of these antics as amusing as when I first set out on the road. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instantly the like­ness of apes lost its amusing character. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I am sorry if we offended Prince Bran. We only meant to be amusing." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“But she is so amusing, so extremely amusing! I am very fond of hearing Miss Bates talk. And I need not bring the whole family, you know.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“The just and noble king! Yes, it is easy to be fair, when it is over. That is the amusing part Justice! He can keep that too.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s well. He is a good man, really, very amusing.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She hoped so, for her wide-awake dream was hardly amusing—it was desperate. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan found it amusing how Citra gave the scythe attitude—but it worked. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As alert as an eagle, he was sniffing the wind and wagging his tail as if reading some amusing wolf story. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hermione’s remonstration was drowned by a loud giggle; Lavender Brown had apparently found Ron’s remark highly amusing. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Theon was a lean, dark youth of nineteen who found everything amusing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The truth, which I can’t avoid acknowledging when I’m in those vast, desertlike stretches between afternoon breaks, is that I’m just amusing myself, and in what seems like a pretty harmless way. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had meant to be amusing; it sounded cruel. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghosts probably found this even more amusing than two beggars fighting to the death. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s amusing to watch them haggle over the details. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

You could tell neither one of them wanted to look like the other one, and you couldn't blame them, but it was very amusing anyway. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The other children of the Gentry are standing around in their padded tunics with their practice swords, watching, hoping my downfall will be amusing. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

To most other people, I was Sal, and to a few boys who thought they were especially amusing, I was Salamander. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The amusing novelty of a tame tiger and a magician was over. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

When you’re doing the talking or writing, the scrambled sentence isn’t so amusing. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got the mistletoe and went with it to where the gods were amusing themselves. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dancing was amusing enough for people to throw pennies to me when I danced. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

This lighthearted banter is all very amusing, but reality will prove otherwise. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I was so happy those first few nights, in this amusing house, sleeping in the big soft bed with my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion arrived late, saddlesore, and sour, all too vividly aware of how amusing he must look as he waddled up the slope to his father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Miles raised his eyebrow as if I was a very amusing puppy. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Make him keep quiet. We were having such fun, such a grand, gay time. Oh, lie’s not even amusing.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did our best to find him amusing on these occasions, but there was something truly scary about him in these moods. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not put aside my sloth for the sake of a few amusing anecdotes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the first boyfriend in whom I confided about my family—really confided, the truth and not just amusing anecdotes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As usual Beth lay on the sofa and Laurie sat in a low chair close by, amusing her with all sorts of gossip, for she depended on her weekly ‘spin’, and he never disappointed her. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now they looked up at him, their faces shrouded in shadows, and he could tell that tonight neither of them found anything amusing. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, he wrote, The story of your rabbit is very amusing indeed! I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She’d only been at our church for a year or two and was sort of annoying and amusing at the same time. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each line, amusing enough on its own, builds on the next until its audience is breathless with laughter and — somewhat inexplicably — profoundly moved. These Short Story Debuts Are ‘Squirmy,’ ‘Virtuosic,’ ‘Claustrophobic’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

From an older generation and a more nostalgic style is Jeff Hobson, the Trickster, a card and comedy specialist whose bio describes him with amusing effusiveness as “the epitome of glamour and showmanship.” ‘The Illusionists,’ a High-Tech Magic Extravaganza 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

These exchanges are far more amusing or rousing than anything that transpires between Moose and Hunter. Fred Durst's "The Fanatic": Even Travolta's overacting can't make this limp thriller any fun 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

It reads, in part, “While we appreciate that in an adult context, the book may be harmless and even amusing, we have grave concerns about its effect on aggressive and dysfunctional parents.” Adam Mansbach: My year on the bestseller list 2012-12-12T01:00:00Z

This section of the play includes some amusing spoofing of academic jargon. GALA Theatre weaves a swift and taut ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

Sure, it was a throwaway line, and even a little amusing, but the shorthand it represents is dismaying somehow. Television: ?New Girls,? ?2 Broke Girls,? ?Last Man Standing?: New Season for Old Jokes 2011-11-23T14:30:42Z

I don’t remember the names he used, but let’s say Lucy and Desi—something amusing like that. My Absent Father 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

It received some puzzled coverage when it was last here: Guardian theatre critic Michael Billington considered it an endearing piece of exotica, energetic and amusing but ultimately not "tragic" enough. Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain? 2012-05-19T11:00:01Z

The contradictions are more amusing to think about than to watch. ‘Jurassic Park’: Where the Wild Things Are 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Terence Davies and Agyness Deyn will show Sunset Song on Tuesday at Museum of the Moving Image, followed by another Michael Koresky Q&A that will hopefully be equally as insightful and amusing as Sunday’s. Terence Davies on avoiding Hollywood A-listers: 'I don't cast big names' 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Along the way, there are many amusing hiccups, and Gigi manages to pop in with nutty frequency. "Booksmart": Billie Lourd was so magical on set, she’d get new scenes written for her each day 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

It’s mildly amusing to watch Ifans swan about in a pageant crown and cape when he shows the contestants how to walk onstage. ‘Misbehaviour’ Review: Pretty Women, Some Pretty Angry 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Subjects, the same but different, arrived bunched like flowers – an assortment of weddings, six kinds of amusing animal, umpteen dinners sizzling in pans, oddballs of different stripes, people caught in religious observance. Rewind TV: The Men Who Made Us Fat; Britain in a Day; Dead Boss 2012-06-16T23:05:40Z

Isn’t hellraising simply another supposedly amusing or picturesque aspect of arrogant behaviour that is becoming increasingly tiresome and objectionable, with wives and children left behind to pick up the pieces? Men behaving badly: why cinema's great hellraisers were a breed apart 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

“Its triviality is beyond contempt, its witlessness at times amusing, and the standard of the acting is not exactly memorable.” Anthony Marriott, British Playwright, Dies at 83 2014-04-28T04:22:30Z

Her amusing defense for her crowingly vindictive rendition of “Goody Goody” was her Sicilian temperament. Gabrielle Stravelli Intoxicates at the Metropolitan Room 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

To bring it back to Georgina, all this is interesting because talking to her today, and she's still only 26, it's crystal clear that none of it felt remotely amusing to her. It's time for you to talk 2011-08-12T23:06:39Z

But the author added audiences will get to see the amusing side soon. John Green: 'Paper Towns' Is Funnier Than Trailer Suggests 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

From opening titles presented in the style of a classic Hollywood film during the overture, Mr. Strassberger and his team provide a near-ceaseless barrage of sight gags, amusing diversions and outright distractions. Music Review: ‘Le Roi Malgré Lui’ at Fisher Center for the Performing Arts 2012-07-30T21:52:59Z

In the past, he suggests, it might have made him angry; now he mostly finds it amusing. Tricky: 'I can still be really dark in my mind' 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

I find it kind of amusing that people think I do crossover, because I've never done any of that music. Alison Balsom: The top brass 2010-10-07T21:45:00Z

It's a pacy, engaging read, allowing Frayn to unfurl regular bursts of his coruscating intellect while remaining amusing throughout and, particularly in the confused interactions between Fox and the foundation's moneyed guests, downright hilarious. Skios by Michael Frayn – review 2013-04-28T11:00:02Z

The critic Howard Thompson called the film “a tough, laconic and amusing Western” in his 1967 review for The Times. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Everything’s Trash’ and ‘The Rehearsal’ 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z

Obviously, the anecdotes are a lot less amusing when it’s kids rather than pets who get into a parent’s stash. Marijuana’s last taboo: Parents who get stoned 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

The Globes chose it because they thought it was amusing enough.” Ridley Scott on making blockbusters: ‘It is bloody brain surgery!’ 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Even as Jackson sold amusing essays to women’s magazines about her madcap life with four children and a hapless husband, her menacing fiction revealed the turmoil roiling beneath the surface. Ghost stories 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

The snarling back and forth among the party bigwigs is evoked with amusing potency. 2010-01-12T07:09:00Z

The show includes amusing recitations of Dorothy Parker verses and of a Porter lyric, and an instrumental suite of Edith Piaf songs played in Mr. Ross’s emphatically martial society-piano style. Music Review: Return to Civility, With Wit and Rhyme 2011-01-20T22:47:11Z

In particular, they spend a lot of time repeating stupid things you’ve said in what they think is an amusing approximation of your voice. Tim Dowling: ‘One masters the art of raising teenagers…’ 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Some are successful: Milton Jones's loopy one-liners are dependably amusing; Joan Rivers retells the jokes she told here last month with no less ruthless gusto. We Are Most Amused – review 2012-11-29T17:54:18Z

The Pali parts were translated by Professor Richard Gombrich, president of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, who said the task "brought some amusing challenges". Opera to revive dead Asian language 2013-05-10T11:56:53Z

The amusing "We'll Never Have Paris" bills itself as "based on a true story … unfortunately." 'We'll Never Have Paris' is a fun, quirky romantic comedy 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

There will be times when nothing is amusing. I’m a lonely country girl 2013-06-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s quite common that one partner is much better at amusing themselves,” says Celia Dodd, author of Not Fade Away: How to Thrive in Retirement. 'You will have an emotional reboot': the ultimate guide to stress at every age 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

As for my friends — we are all brilliant and amusing when not tired. Lorrie Moore has some instructions on how to read her new book 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

A subsequent comic action sequence has the pair handcuffed together trying to drive a tiny yellow Fiat through the streets of Italy and encountering a series of obstacles, but it is neither amusing nor exciting. Both "Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning" and Tom Cruise look and feel exhausted 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

This will be “an important step for your future,” they continue, an amusing acknowledgment of how large China looms in world consciousness as it flexes its increasing financial muscle. Theater Review: ‘C’est du Chinois,’ at Under the Radar Festival 2013-01-11T23:42:25Z

Jack Anderson White and Erik Bagger were consistently amusing in supporting roles. Opera Review: Bronx Opera Company’s ‘The Rivals’ at the Lovinger Theater 2014-01-13T19:15:13Z

The spots were clever and the character amusing. ‘Ted Lasso’ Is Back, but No Longer an Underdog 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

Challenging viewers to spot such stuff is amusing in a lightweight way. Television Review: ?Smash,? on NBC, With Debra Messing and Anjelica Huston 2012-02-05T22:56:28Z

It was both amusing and touching how a commentator tried to find meaning and beauty in a video of cars in a junkyard. Dance Review: At Abrons Arts, Works Focusing on Bodily Sounds 2014-05-11T05:56:41Z

There are a few amusing moments like this, but ultimately it's all a bit soulless and you don't really care who wins. Radio review: The Third Degree 2011-03-01T08:00:05Z

The detour that Elise inadvertently forces David down is not to the strangers’ liking, a situation that leads to tricky, niftily staged cat-and-mouse chase scenes involving some amusing creative geography. | 'The Adjustment Bureau': Creepy People With a Plan, and a Couple on the Run 2011-03-03T20:00:07Z

Before the opera begins, Mr. Marthaler adds an amusing silent dialogue — conveyed by projected titles — between two women who smoke cigarettes in a glassed-in enclosure while discussing the opera’s subject of eternal life. Opera Review: Provocations at the Salzburg Festival 2011-08-16T11:30:19Z

Your costumes in this movie are pretty amusing. Three women in 'Hot Pursuit' of laughs -- and audience and respect 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

It is certainly amusing: a sly assault on conceptual art, disparaging the movement’s didactic, text-heavy creations even as it doubles as a definitive example of one. John Baldessari: An Artist in a Class by Himself 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

But her mom and dad remain gentle, amusing gems through it all. "We Are Lady Parts," a fierce new comedy about a Muslim punk band, rocks our world 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

And there is an amusing scene involving Cage and Javi tripping and trying to scale a wall when they think they are being pursued. Movie Review: Give in to Nic Cage's "Massive Talent" 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

This was the most amusing and thought-provoking version of “The Music Man” I had seen in ages, often unpretentious despite its pretensions, cleverly costumed and full of new ideas. In the Berkshires, Musicals With Ambitions Not Always Realized 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

Normal campaign seasons amass political crowds so large that even a slightly amusing observation can prompt an outsize reaction. The Shows Must Go On. But They Aren’t the Same Without You. 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

An amusing, rather enigmatic painting by Yasuo Kuniyoshi shows a pudgy young woman in a tight one-piece bathing suit standing on a rock by the sea and smoking a cigarette. Art Review: ?Youth and Beauty? at Brooklyn Museum - Review 2011-11-03T14:00:00Z

The naïve teenagers are as persuasively drawn as the professional goons stalking them, and the language presents an amusing exercise in the fine art of dialogue. The Scenes of the Crimes: Landfalls, Stadiums and Creepy Blogs 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

Impolitic truth telling is more broadly amusing, and plenty of movies have toyed with the comedy of characters who can’t stop telling the truth, notably “Liar, Liar” and “The Invention of Lying.” Television Review: Laura Linney in Showtime?s Cancer Comedy 2010-08-15T22:05:00Z

The science fact and fiction website io9.com recently published an amusing but insightful article identifying 10 story tropes that top editors at science-fiction publications are sick of seeing. Otherworldly film fun at Cinerama sci-fi fest 2014-04-25T23:42:29Z

The unapologetic gore and squishy sound effects are amusing for a while, but start to get old after about five or six hours. Review: A new 'Dead Island' vacation with zombies 2013-04-25T13:34:13Z

All the while Mr. Murphy tosses out amusing asides, weighty philosophical observations and contemporary analogies. Books of The Times: ?God?s Jury? by Cullen Murphy - Review 2012-01-18T22:38:44Z

Despite his days as an antic young Surrealist and the definite buoyancy in his early paintings, Tanguy was not nearly as amusing in his art as Calder was, and probably not as happy in life. Art Review: Calder and Tanguy, Together Again at L&M Arts 2010-05-13T21:39:00Z

A great many reviews of the Eras Tour referred to the show's opening song, "Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince," as a "deep cut" or "deeper album track" — highly amusing divulgences of ignorance from our commentariat. Taylor Swift’s invisible merchandise: The era of surprise song collectibles 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z

I called my Paltrow file Wellness because, last year, I thought it’d be amusing to find some overlap between her acting and Goop, her lifestyle brand. I Love Gwyneth Paltrow. There. I Said It. 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

Robert Farquhar’s script and Jason Lawson’s direction, however, provide them with little opportunity to explore their loneliness, almost always choosing an amusing moment over an introspective one. | 'Kissing Sid James': ?Kissing Sid James,? at 59E59 - Review 2011-12-20T23:25:12Z

MS Buxton brings his laptop of amusing curiosities to the TV, and it translates surprisingly well. TV highlights 09/07/2012 2012-07-08T19:00:01Z

YouTube's official comedy channel brings us a series of amusing enough sketches about a nuclear family carping at one another across the dinner table. YouTube Comedy Week, day four: Crabstickz, the Gregory Brothers and Psy 2013-05-23T12:09:06Z

But a few good women and a handful of amusing lines are far less than we expect from such an intelligent, resourceful filmmaker. Review: ‘She’s Funny That Way’ Offers Tomfoolery Amid the Floodlights 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Even then I still assumed that narrative to be dictated by mass-market newspapers, treating OK! magazine’s presence at my wedding to Andy as an amusing adjunct to the entertainment. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

The film quotes Gould from a radio interview the next year saying he found Bernstein’s speech that night full of good spirit and thought the whole controversy was amusing. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

Just shocking, appalling things that hopefully people find amusing.” Comic With Short Fuse and Some Long Feuds 2011-03-09T23:15:45Z

When a group of friends and neighbors on a Pacific Northwest island go caroling, they create an amusing cacophony: Warbling in mismatched tones and keys, they stand next to each other but not together. ‘Deep Blue Sound’ Review: Searching for Orcas and Longing for Community 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

The quotations provided from other sources are no less amusing, mostly unintentionally so. Books of The Times: A Chef as Visionary, Poet and Chemist 2010-10-05T17:16:00Z

It’s amusing enough, if predictable, and the actors attack their various tasks with aplomb, slipping fluidly between characters and vignettes and making good use of their kneepads. | 'Paris Syndrome': Ex.Pgirl?s Clash of Cultures at Here Arts Center 2010-06-13T21:56:00Z

Coasting from the triumph of that release – and with the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's still months away – Brian Wilson imagined an orchestral, psychedelic and amusing suite. Beach Boys to release lost masterpiece Smile 2011-03-14T10:17:00Z

That Italian designers tend to be creatures of habit, doing things the same way season after season, as if someone has hit the repeat button, is also in a way amusing. Fashion Review: Jil Sander, Bottega Veneta and Prada Highlight a Strong Milan 2012-02-27T23:42:53Z

It was a reasonably amusing Twitter feed, but I didn't hang on every update. Does the @pippatips legal spat show we're losing our appetite for satire? 2013-07-19T10:22:02Z

They make their stale buddy routine and romance amusing and, as with the rest of the adults, make the movie bearable. | ‘Rock of Ages': Review: ‘Rock of Ages,’ a Musical Starring Tom Cruise 2012-06-14T15:54:25Z

But its smirking observation of a family that eats its young until the young rise up is a grimly amusing portrait of a closed system in which the pressure is building to an explosion. | 'Down Terrace': Trying to Sniff Out a Rat Hiding in a Toxic World 2010-10-14T23:21:00Z

Continuing an amusing conceit he began in his first book, he ends each chapter with the recipe for a dish that a character has eaten in the preceding pages. Review | Only one sexy couple can stop a Russian spy from taking over the CIA 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z

He and a friend fall in with a rich man and woman who entertain themselves by issuing preposterous dares, and Craig and his friend become their playthings, to gruesome but amusing effect. Movie Listings for April 4-10 2014-04-03T22:28:24Z

Which is a shame because “The Happiest People in the World” contains amusing elements — about marriage, small towns, Danes and spies — but they’re weighed down in the corpulent body of this novel. ‘Happiest People in the World’: Just a madcap comic satire about Islamofascism 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

In his 1985 autobiography, Lewis swore he would one day finish the film, in which he plays a concentration-camp clown charged with amusing children on their way to the gas chamber. The 10 greatest "missing movies" 2011-07-20T00:30:00Z

Of all the myriad takes on the Moonlight/La La Land fiasco, Beatty’s big sister’s was the most amusing. And the Oscar for most self-satirising ceremony goes to … 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

The episode’s most amusing moment involves two maps, one showing the location of prisons in the United States, the other the location of Starbucks franchises. Review: ‘The Big Picture with Kal Penn’ Looks at the Data Driving the Stories 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Horror stories, in other words, teach you how to be afraid and how to conquer your fear, which turns out to be the deft, amusing moral of this one. Movie Review: ?Intruders,? From Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, With Clive Owen 2012-03-29T21:17:00Z

And another Radio 4 offering, My Teenage Diary, now halfway through its second series, is proving a gentle, amusing listen. Rewind radio: Today; Victoria Derbyshire; Ed Reardon's Week; My Teenage Diary ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:52Z

In between, amusing parodies of a waltz and tango lightened up the texture. Phillips Camerata and guests perform a trio of Washington premieres

Lana Condor managed to bring thoughtfulness to one of the night’s more amusing awards. The Rock and other stars promote positivity at MTV awards 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

It’s also an amusing study in how intellectuals become neutered and co-opted through venal self-interest. For Ideologues in Silicon Valley, Everything Is Just Right 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

The presence of the “Author” in the tale is fitfully amusing but ultimately unsatisfying. Review | Montalbano says farewell in the lovably quirky novel ‘Riccardino’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

The premise of “You’re the Worst” is amusing, but the lines don’t match it. It’s Ennui Time on ‘Satisfaction’ and ‘Married’ 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

The audience of technophiles, though, didn’t find it amusing. Perspective | Mark Zuckerberg claims that, at Facebook, ‘the future is private.’ Don’t believe him. 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z

While many people said they found the short an amusing way of addressing the issue of apathy towards climate change issues, others found it tasteless and unnecessarily violent. Backlash over Richard Curtis's 10:10 climate film 2010-10-02T18:38:00Z

The Michel Petitjean of 1939 was described as affable and charming, while the “man I knew,” the author writes, “was certainly charming and elegant but also a little depressed and not especially amusing.” Review | When he found out his father had an affair with Frida Kahlo, an author’s investigation began 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

But while plenty found the ad amusing, some aren’t so tickled. Berlin tourism department pulls controversial ad showing woman giving middle finger to those without masks 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

His Produce is amusing and likable and exactly what Calvin needs to shake off his self-absorption. Review: ‘Where Hope Grows,’ a Baseball Career Lost and Relationships Found 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

David Ives does, and in “The Metromaniacs,” which opened in a handsome Red Bull production at the Duke on 42nd Street on Sunday, he scours the far recesses of English for its most amusing specimens. Review: Rhyme Gone Wild in ‘The Metromaniacs’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Your critic can toss out adjectives — lively! amusing! corny!— but can’t say all that much about what happens. ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Review: Listen Bud, No Spoilers Here 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

A Million Ways to Die in the West Writer, director and star Seth MacFarlane sends up every Western convention he can think of in this amusing satire. Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'A Million Ways to Die in the West' 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

The expected eccentric nun recollections are never merely amusing character sketches. Review: Reliving a Childhood Interrupted in ‘The Tricky Part’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

The spectacle of Ms. Huppert, the epitome of adult self-possession, impersonating a schoolgirl is grotesquely amusing. | ?Special Treatment?: Isabelle Huppert in ?Special Treatment? - Review 2011-08-25T23:05:36Z

The competitors may not be all that amusing, but some of the show’s gimmicks are. Television Review: ‘King of the Nerds,’ TV Contest Series on TBS 2013-01-16T23:02:45Z

She often mispronounces words, but then commits to the mistake, making it amusing. Now Playing Nightly on Instagram: Sketch Comedy’s Newest Star 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

Although "Lovesick" plays more like an extended sitcom episode than a full-fledged feature film, the script by Dean Young contains enough genuine laughs and amusing moments to keep this slight romantic farce afloat. 'Lovesick' script and star give romantic comedy a boost 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Well, maybe the word "hooey" is kind of amusing, but that's not the point. Rose McGowan 'fired' by agent for noting that condescending note was condescending 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

As amusing as these interludes are, they read as attempts to force an exaggerated sense of mystery into an ultimately simple and moralistic tale about the futility of vengeance. ‘Jinpa’ Review: Murder and Mystery in Tibet 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

The most amusing look at leisure centre staff this side of The Day Today's fictional documentary. Six to watch: workplace comedies 2011-08-04T14:08:03Z

In an amusing touch, he’s portrayed by a human actor, Zach Kononov, not a puppet, adding a layer of absurdity to this already absurd conceit. Review: The Golden Girls, Back Again as Wisecracking Puppets 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

“They’re Watching,” a horror film by Micah Wright and Jay Lender, does a commendable amount with very little, using an amusing premise to separate itself from much of the genre’s low-budget fare. Review: ‘They’re Watching,’ and Reality TV Is Capturing Every Eerie Second 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

If his mannerisms are evocative of Hoffman, his chat is more Woody Allen, a wry, tireless patter, the world a quarter amusing and three-quarters appalling. Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Do you look at me and think, God! What an indulgent prick?’ 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z

Last December, Robbie finally won conditional approval from the council, but the row lives on chiefly as a means for local chancers to make amusing complaints. Pools, ponds and 40ft aquariums: planning disputes of the stars 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Strips were meant to be ephemeral, if amusing, splashes of color that helped sell newspapers, while comic books were originally aimed at children before wending their way to the pulp heap. A Return to Slumberland and a Psychedelic Rediscovery 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Despite the Mexican American comic's engaging presence, amusing observations and deft imitations, "Fluffy" is a standard-issue comedy concert film far better suited to a 90-minute cable TV slot than the big screen. Gabriel Iglesias in 'The Fluffy Movie,' good fun, standard film 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

His sustained tone was beautiful, and his occasional purposeful flirtations with a baritonal register were amusing. Music Review: ‘Oscar,’ at Santa Fe Opera, With David Daniels, Countertenor 2013-08-01T21:53:47Z

As written by Carroll, Alice’s dream of Wonderland is as frightening as it is amusing, as bewildering and frustrating as it is exciting. Dance Review: Alice on Her Toes, at a Rare Tea Party 2011-03-01T22:56:51Z

He shows us amusing and human panic when he realizes he can't please both at once. 'The Front Page': Easy laughs in era when newspapers were king 2011-04-17T22:22:01Z

That’s the time for a rhyme amusing; Style—laugh through all your losing. Style Invitational: Do over the do-over — enter any of the year’s contests 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Together, sometimes in amusing counterpoint, the Book and Benny chronicle his journey during the fraught year 2016, when he turns 14. Review | If a book could talk, what would it say? Ruth Ozeki has some ideas. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

The funny thing about irrational behaviour, which I admit isn’t amusing to the recipient of it, is that the participant is generally aware of their untenable position; they’re just not in control of their emotions. My mother-in-law should apologise to me | Mariella Frostrup 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

It isn’t, not really, though details and true stories from the book have been slipped into the mix amid amusing performances, historical re-creations and heavily perfumed fertilizer. Movie Review: ‘Hitchcock,’ With Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren 2012-11-22T22:23:25Z

Directed by Mr. Manning, with an amusing performance by Deon Frank as the waiter, the play begins as comedy, then takes a somber turn that does not bode well for the couple’s engagement. Review: ‘The Unrepeatable Moment,’ Six Plays by John Yearley 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

She frequently addresses the audience directly, even amusing herself by manipulating the order and tone of events. How "Euphoria" challenges viewers’ expectations of what a television show should be 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Lanre Bakare May's Toy Stories, in which the Top Gear presenter asks iconic toys of his childhood to face gigantic present-day challenges, makes for amusing TV. TV highlights 28/03/2013 2013-03-28T07:00:04Z

Mr. Hines can be an amusing storyteller, and he wows us with his footwork as he sings classic song after song, including a blazing version of “Luck Be a Lady.” Review: ‘Maurice Hines Tappin’ Thru Life,’ a Jazz- and Tap-Filled Journey Through the Past 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Toms, whose engaging naturalness in classical roles continues to impress, is especially amusing as the whiny Cloten. Shakespeare's complicated 'Cymbeline' is sweetly streamlined at Seattle Shakespeare Co. 2011-01-12T21:17:04Z

Or, rather, thank Mr. Lee and the gods of digital imagery, who conjure up a beast — named Richard Parker, for mildly amusing reasons — of almost miraculous vividness. Movie Review: ‘Life of Pi,’ Directed by Ang Lee 2012-11-20T17:49:12Z

Between films, looking at title cards with amusing animated sketches of satellites or desktop computers, we hear “Waltz of the Flowers,” from “The Nutcracker.” Five Short, Dark Comedies About Smartphone Obsession 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Adam Hugill is similarly amusing as the defender Harry Maguire, who is portrayed as a lovable simpleton — not the sharpest tool in the box, but solid and dependable. ‘Dear England’ Review: When Soccer Success Becomes a Moral Victory 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z

Ten minutes, today, listing things you once enjoyed, were good at, found interesting or amusing. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Can a ‘less-than-great parent’ find a way to make amends to her grown child? 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

The push and pull required to even embark on the R40 tour is also retold in an amusing but pointed way in “Time Stand Still.” Rush’s final goodbye: “Time Stand Still” documentary is a loving lesson in navigating loss 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

But its insistence that it is somehow more dedicated to pure flavor without any distractions than any other show is amusing. The Taste: Do Cooking Shows Really Need The Voice Treatment? 2013-01-23T14:41:32Z

At least 30 minutes and several scams too long, the plot passes from amusing to confounding long before the final double-cross. Movie Review: ?Let the Bullets Fly,? With Jiang Wen and Chow Yun-Fat 2012-03-02T04:40:37Z

It’s almost amusing to encounter this in the ideologically overheated climate of the 2016 election, but Pacelle is a true evangelist for capitalism. Are animals “persons”? Or just cute objects capitalism can save? Animal rights enter a strange new era 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

The amusing comedy gradually and seriously swings around to the main character’s shame and darkness, and Twyford couldn’t be more convincing. Women’s Voices: Getting it done, at least for now 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Her pixie quickness, boneless body and large, amusing face was the antithesis of blousy showgirl glamour. The Astaires: Fred & Adele by Kathleen Riley – review 2012-07-04T07:00:03Z

Last week, on Christmas Eve, BBC Radio 3 featured “Winter Wanderer”—a delightful, amusing three hours of the travel writer Horatio Clare walking through the Black Forest, stamping briskly and musing about Pliny and conifers. “Slow Radio,” The Podcast That Promotes Monks, Moose, and Inner Peace 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

“He’s funny, he likes the spirit to be uplifted, and he found me amusing,” Rivera said. A Dancer’s Life: Chita Rivera on Working Hard and Learning From the Best 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

A particularly amusing scene has Youssef in America to appear on “The Daily Show.” The documentary “Tickling Giants” is a chronicle of weaponized satire and the Arab Spring 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

He can, occasionally, bring up religion in Hollywood circumstances, which can make for amusing juxtapositions. Etan Cohen, director of 'Get Hard,' is used to confounding expectations 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

The observation is aptly quoted in the doorstop of a catalog for “Tony Oursler: The Imponderable Archive,” a fascinating and amusing exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art at the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies. Review: Tony Oursler’s Grand Illusions, Science Left at the Door 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

“Well remembered for her singing on ‘Twin Peaks,’ she is spunky as well as amusing, although the script unwisely keeps her offstage for most of the first act.” Julee Cruise, Vocalist of ‘Twin Peaks’ Fame, Dies at 65 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

Top Gear was crowned the winner of best factual show, which presenter Jeremy Clarkson thought was amusing, as "there hasn't been a fact on Top Gear for seven years now", he said. Ant and Dec scoop 10th TV Award 2011-01-26T23:10:12Z

There’s an amusing element of oppressive office comedy among the harried clerks and claustrophobic warrens of the time authority. Review: ‘Loki,’ on the Light Side of the Marvel Streaming Universe 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

Carey Young takes the language of global corporate marketing and turns it against itself in subtle and ironically amusing ways. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-08T00:06:27Z

Shows usually have three or four performers who take turns, with amusing banter in between. 36 Hours in Nashville 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

At the time, I didn’t understand why she felt it to be so amusing. Nigella Lawson: I'm very much a survivor. Everyone should be 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

And if you do these things, deaf people will find you amusing even when you are not trying to be. Gene Weingarten: Here’s some unsound advice 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

This X-rated version of “National Lampoon’s European Vacation” soon segues into an amusing — and surprisingly absorbing — series of quests. Summer Reading: Travel Books 2011-06-03T22:09:16Z

Back in Beacon is the sprawling, contemporary museum DIA Beacon — equal parts amusing, bewildering and bizarre. 36 Hours in the Hudson Valley, New York 2013-07-26T15:18:39Z

As has become his style in recent plays like “Shows for Days,” Mr. Beane focuses on amusing characters at the expense of coherence. Onstage, the New Gay Agenda Involves Cake and Not Getting Fired 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

“Me and Jezebel,” a real-life version of “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” was probably an amusing, highly readable book. Theater Review: Bette Davis Stays and Stays in ‘Me and Jezebel’ 2013-07-25T02:00:01Z

Artists are like hamsters, amusing pets for those who own the cages, a thought that Mr. Colen, who is represented by the blue-chip Gagosian Gallery, hasn’t developed much further since. Dan Colen Creates an Elegy for Dash Snow 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

With this book I turn my back on the prospect of amusing an audience and embrace the humorless passions of the artisanal craftsman. Artisinal pencil sharpening 2012-06-07T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bhardwaj understands the built-in problem with the conceit — at one point, a title card announces there are only four more husbands to go — but can’t really overcome it, though he does some amusing things. | '7 Khoon Maaf': A Black Widow Tale 2011-02-19T00:14:13Z

The occasional interpolations of the playwright, majestically voiced by Mr. Abraham, do not constitute an inspired dramatic device, but are often more amusing than anything that is transpiring onstage. | 'Leaving': A New Play by Vaclav Havel Has Its American Premiere 2010-06-08T22:24:00Z

Once the plot has sprung into action, “High School” is a bumpy ride that takes a few amusing dives but never coheres into anything special. Movie Review: John Stalberg Jr.’s ‘High School,’ With Adrien Brody 2012-05-31T22:21:00Z

There’s a brief, amusing party scene at Jake’s house that suggests who he — and Mr. Burton — believe are the real monsters. Review: In ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home,’ Chasing Grandpa’s Stories Down a Rabbit Hole 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

His highly amusing autobiography of sorts, “Unreliable Memoirs,” has five volumes in it. Clive James Translates Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ 2012-10-07T20:07:16Z

The campaign was publicly introduced via a fun and amusing television commercial. The 7 most bizarre "Pepsi, Where's My Jet?" revelations from Netflix's strange-but-true docuseries 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

It felt absurd, but also just satisfying and amusing enough that I did not reject the suggestion. Venture Capital Is Putting Its Money Into Astrology 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

“I will say that I found something amusing about talking to my therapist about making a show where a patient kidnaps his therapist,” Weisberg said. Are You Strapped In for ‘The Patient’? The Therapist Is. 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

As amusing as these exercises in team spirit are, they can be pointed toward specific political ends. Art Review: ‘Pawel Althamer: The Neighbors’ Is at the New Museum 2014-02-13T20:22:19Z

In the work of Alarm Will Sound, a vibrant, technically dazzling new-music ensemble, listeners have grown accustomed to encountering the amazing, the amusing and, occasionally, the near-impossible. Music Review: A Soundtrack to a Collaboration That Never Was 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z

Ms. Porter’s ingenuity and droll presence kept this amusing. Dance Review: Claire Porter at Joe’s Pub 2014-04-30T20:47:09Z

Tranter's schadenfreude for another writer is the centerpiece for one of the most amusing scenes in the novel, set at an awards ceremony for the Pizza Palace Book Prize. 'A Week in December': Faulks' novel of 7 London lives over 7 days 2010-03-24T23:34:00Z

This slim adventure lacked the edge, or even the point, of that show, but it was amusing in parts, charming in others and a little gift for Tintinophiles everywhere. Dom Joly and the Black Island | TV review 2010-03-19T22:15:00Z

I thought those could be the first lines of a very amusing song. Sheldon Harnick, 'Fiddler' and 'She Loves Me' lyricist, sails back into the Tony spotlight at 92 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Gilbert said the opera was “laid in Japan” because it “afforded scope for picturesque treatment, scenery and costume,” and amusing characters. The ‘Mikado’ controversy: A call for calm discourse 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

I shrugged my shoulders at the signer to let him know I was as clueless as he was as to what was so amusing for Chuck. Perspective | It was my dream to meet Chuck Berry. Then I got to perform with him for 30 years. 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

Despite Van Cougar’s diligent and often amusing presentation of both sides in “Gonna See a Movie Called Gunga Din,” it remains largely unexplored. Theater Review: ?Gonna See a Movie Called Gunga Din? at Bushwick Starr 2012-01-31T23:06:06Z

The idea that people thought Betty wouldn’t be in the show was amusing to me. ArtsBeat: ?Mad Men? Creator Talks as Season Comes to an End 2010-10-18T03:02:00Z

Four Lions might have been more amusing if it had made fun of the Qur'anic verses on which jihad is supposed to be founded. Four Lions may roar, but its laughs are hollow 2010-05-10T10:09:00Z

Such are the customs and rituals of motherhood on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, which Wednesday Martin, a social researcher, chronicles in “Primates of Park Avenue”, an amusing and occasionally incisive new memoir. Unnatural selection 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

As a longtime fan of ABC’s “Alias,” it’s amusing to me how much this new ABC show borrows from its older sister. She’s got that red lip classic thing that you like, but “Agent Carter” needs more substance with her style 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Cline’s book — readable and amusing without being exactly good — is a hodgepodge of cleverness and cliché. Review: In ‘Ready Player One,’ Spielberg Plays the Nostalgia Game 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

To me, the most amusing entries are the ones where Patrick’s subjects crankily resist the question. What book changed your life? 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

I find it amusing that this genre is still denigrated by some critics as being a lesser form of the novel. Daniel Mendelsohn: By the Book 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

It provides obligatory, intermittently amusing links to other corporate properties, serving essentially as a sidebar to the “Avengers” franchise. Review: ‘Ant-Man,’ With Paul Rudd, Adds to a Superhero Infestation 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Barlow enjoyed hosting, however casually, and could be an amusing raconteur, though his stories almost always centered on himself. My long strange winter trip with John Perry Barlow, a legend in the making 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

Colorful zoological anecdotes and amusing domestic interludes provide a welcome respite from the author’s hard-charging argument. Not From Venus, Not From Mars: What We Believe About Gender and Why It’s Often Wrong 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

He is right to call “Optional Family” a divertissement: The 10-minute work for three dancers is amusing, well crafted and intriguing. On London’s Reopened Ballet Stages, a Focus on the Contemporary 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

The whole premise of the army is amusing to me - taking high school kids and dressing them up and giving them titles and responsibilities and regulations to adhere to. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Shani Boianjiu on Women Soldiers in Israel 2012-09-26T16:00:17Z

The journalist and sometime performer Michael Musto, who declared Mr. Weinstein his second favorite musician, after Diana Ross, delivered a scathingly amusing parody of Ms. Ross’s upbeat rendition of “I Loves You, Porgy.” Review: Aaron Weinstein, Wunderkind as Highbrow Dandy 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Picking herself up and dusting herself off becomes something of a habit as Dolly is humiliated by her male colleagues — entitled snobs who view her as an amusing curiosity — and rejected by her first crush. ‘How to Build a Girl’ Review: Write On 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

An MC both amusing and ribald, but also with the odd pang of conscience, Drake is having his cake and eating it: enjoying fame's spoils, while also providing a Robbie Williams-style commentary on their effects. This week's new live music 2011-01-01T00:05:40Z

“Heads in Beds” is Mr. Tomsky’s highly amusing guidebook to the dirty little secrets of the hospitality trade. Books of The Times: ‘Heads in Beds,’ a Memoir by Jacob Tomsky 2012-11-05T22:51:47Z

Standout, because this amusing word-picture of pious, novice lovers contains a giddy twist, revealing the band as players in the scene they describe. Dead Cat Bounce 2010-08-25T21:01:00Z

As the boy rejects each answer, the fable-like text builds to a crescendo of solutions, both serious and amusing: A mass of people of all types proudly parade their love metaphors across the page. New Picture Books Pose Two of Life’s Biggest Questions 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

“I think it’s an amusing acquisition,” he said. Who Buys a Guillotine? Someone Who Wants an ‘Amusing Acquisition’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

At its best, it pummels soft targets with logic to highly amusing effect. Richard Herring ? review 2010-12-21T22:45:00Z

As its title boldly, somewhat hopefully announces, the documentary “Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made” recounts the amusing ups and periodic alarming downs of a singular handmade project. Review: In ‘Raiders!,’ Two Boys’ First, Great Movie Crush 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

It was not an amusing story until Mr. Hiaasen had his way with it. ‘Razor Girl,’ a Tale of Kidnappers, Reality TV Stars and Dodgy Seafood 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

“They evidently just find each other amusing,” Armstrong said dryly. Matthew Macfadyen Has Mixed Feelings About the End of ‘Succession’ 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

Local kids clearly spend a lot of their time here: There’s graffiti that veers from the abusive to the amusing. Britain’s oldest roller coaster is ready to ride after a $30 million park makeover 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

There are also some amusing scenes of a seal "prairie dogging" in the water, or overhead shots of polar bears on ice floes or swimming. In the stunning yet grim "The Last Ice," melting glaciers and development threaten Inuit way of life 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

One of the most amusing chapters recounts how she organised a menage a trois for Simon’s 40th birthday present, writing about the experience in a magazine. So now you're middle-aged? Pamela Druckerman can walk you through it 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

The gossip columnist Cindy Adams, who tells her own amusing anecdote about Cohn’s derelict payments, admits that he exploited her perch at The New York Post. ‘Bully. Coward. Victim.’ Review: The Paradox of Roy Cohn 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

At one point Lopakhin — who never, ever says the right thing at the right moment — starts to tell Ranevskaya about an amusing play he saw the other night. | 'The Cherry Orchard': ?Cherry Orchard? With Turturro at Classic Stage - Review 2011-12-05T03:01:07Z

So I just got down my weathered copy of “Feeling Good” by David D. Burns, M.D., and leafed through it, looking at his classic and very amusing dialogues. You don’t know $#% about CFS 2012-07-25T00:00:00Z

She didn't even mispronounce anything in an amusing way. Tyra v Elle 2010-07-06T10:19:00Z

That is all amusing, if not entirely coherent. A Human Cloning Error and Existential Questions Fuel This Science Fiction Romp 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Delivering this chaotic and amusing 65-minute monologue, Mr. Maguire is an entertaining if confusing guide, his words cascading forth with few pauses for the rest of us to catch up. Theater Review: ‘Wild Man in Rome,’ a Solo Show by Matthew Maguire 2012-11-19T22:52:54Z

Along the way, a few amusing things happen, and a handful of clever lines are uttered, but the point of the exercise is hard to discern. Movie Review: ?Thin Ice,? With Greg Kinnear and Billy Crudup 2012-02-17T00:20:13Z

He was an author, educator, amusing public speaker and leader of wine tastings. Remembering Steven Spurrier, Whose Contest Shook the Wine World 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

While the witty wordplay and aphoristic metaphysical musings that dominate the dialogue can be often amusing, sometimes profound, the play’s self-conscious navel-gazing starts to feel glib, even predictable, partway into the two-hour piece. ‘Middletown’ at ACT: A little Thornton Wilder, a little Beckett 2013-09-09T21:26:13Z

Mr. Hanks, in his best clownish mode, scrunches his features into all manner of amusing grimaces. Review: ‘A Hologram for the King’ Is Elevated by Tom Hanks’s Portrayal of an American Everyman 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

But as dramatic entertainment, it's often touching and amusing and through its sensitive handling of topical subjects it means to do some good in the world. Amusing, sensitive 'Immediate Family' tackles sexual orientation, race 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

Mrs. Armfeldt, Bergman writes in the screenplay, is “a very small lady,” first discovered in a very large room, sitting in her bed, which is also enormous, amusing herself with her morning solitaire. Elaine Stritch and Other Matrons of ?Night Music? 2010-07-23T02:12:00Z

He was plain-spoken, self-deprecating and always in possession of an amusing anecdote or quip. John McCain knew how to make journalists love him 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Sure, it may help keep the peace, but is it also turning this serious process of picking a leader into a game show, just another way of amusing ourselves to death? The secret history of the presidential debate buzzer 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

“This Is What You Get” was a repetitive taunt that grew more amusing over the three shows. Savages, a London Band, Plays Three New York Clubs 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

White pronounced her book another “beautiful and amusing wreath” laid “on the altar of the City of Light.” New in Paperback: ‘Speaking American’ and ‘The Seine’ 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

Then there’s a random entry, an amusing but nonsensical commentary about the vagaries of fame, which features Roberto Benigni as an average white collar worker who becomes an overnight celebrity for no reason at all. To Rome with Love: Woody's Roman Holiday 2012-06-21T10:45:09Z

The passages recounting this provide the most amusing sections of the book, as taupe leisurewear and its mental equivalents so often do. How to Be Gay by David M Halperin – review 2012-08-29T09:00:00Z

The Grand Guignol theater of Paris, with its bloodlettings and eye-gougings ingeniously faked, was thought to have denatured shock by making it amusing. L.A. Times' original 1975 review of 'Jaws' unearthed: We hated it 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

In other "Black Swan" news, here's an amusing interview with a New York City Ballet dancer who's fact-checking the film. It's "Black Swan" weekend 2010-12-10T00:09:00Z

It’s moderately interesting, but not nearly as amusing as “Brain Games,” which began last week on National Geographic. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Big Brain Theory’ and ‘Brain Games’ 2013-04-30T22:19:07Z

The startling lack of basic chemistry and sanitation knowledge among these devotees is pretty amusing. Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Walking to the front of the stage, they scrape back their hair and check their teeth and profiles with a sharp, amusing tuck of the hips. ‘Kontakthof,’ by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, at BAM 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

These amusing if obvious parodic elements couldn’t be sustained if the production didn’t translate them into such thoroughly theatrical terms. Theater Review: Kristoffer Diaz?s Body Slam to the American Dream 2010-05-21T03:52:00Z

You have some pretty amusing bits in "Lady of the Manor," from some brash, funny lines that talk down to people, to your comic reactions when Tanner is cockblocked. "I love absurdist comedy": Ryan Phillippe on his career evolution and the fun of playing a rich jerk 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

It’s 58 minutes of pretty amusing magic, building to a two-minute letdown. 'Wizard Wars,' on Syfy, Lets Magicians Compete 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

They manage a small lot in Charlottesville, Va., and have amusing observations about cars, society and life. | Oct. 17 ? 23 2010-10-15T16:51:00Z

It’s been lovingly preserved and today houses shops ranging from practical to amusing — a perfect stop for last-minute souvenirs. 36 Hours in Kauai, Hawaii 2013-12-05T17:25:08Z

Some of these film anecdotes about gigs from hell are amusing. '99 Layoffs' lays on a lot of laughs 2012-08-10T19:51:06Z

If the book is sufficiently amusing, interesting and well written, then they should get on. T Magazine: Bon Mots 2012-11-09T16:00:43Z

Justin Chang at Variety called it “initially amusing but fatally overstretched.” Key & Peele Film Gets a Sneak Peek at SXSW 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

In that capacity she provided amusing scene-setting introductions and occasional historical notes. Music Review: The Metropolitan Opera in Central Park 2012-07-26T21:57:22Z

Mr. Coker’s dour expression and minimalist responses to attempts by coaches and others to draw him out are amusing at first, but men of few words are not what appealing drama is generally made of. Theater Review: ?Magic/Bird? at the Longacre Theater 2012-04-12T02:00:00Z

Though these songs are more mature and modulated than the Minor Threat and Fugazi classics of MacKaye’s salad days, it’s refreshing, even amusing, to hear his familiar voice clocking the indignities of the contemporary world. Review | Coriky is the sound of D.C.’s punk past landing squarely in the present 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

Directed by Spencer Lott and developed in collaboration with preschoolers, this special camp, closing this weekend, will include stargazing, looking for exotic birds and amusing porcupines with a joke. Kids Listings for May 16-22 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

“Smash” is full of references that are moderately amusing. Television Review: ?Smash,? on NBC, With Debra Messing and Anjelica Huston 2012-02-05T22:56:28Z

The audience may have loved the Fords' Good Housekeeping dream kitchen and a real horse that Falstaff rides into Windsor Forest, but these were only amusing gimmicks. Royal Opera's "Falstaff": Big knight on a big horse 2012-05-22T11:15:47Z

Mr. Marquis’s conceit of a keyboard-crunching roach let him dissolve writer’s block and meet deadline while amusing the readers of his newspaper column from 1916 and into the 1930s. Books of The Times: Poems by Bao Phi, Roberto Bola?o and Simon Armitage ? Review 2011-12-19T22:52:42Z

In the amusing new Round House Theatre production of this offbeat script, you realize how many different kinds of kisses there can be, from swoony to shy to riotous. Kiss me again, and again, and again, and . . . 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

He commented wryly in 1998: "I find it rather amusing to sit through the on-screen credits today, seeing the names of 200 people doing what I once did by myself." Special effects master Ray Harryhausen dies at 92 2013-05-07T18:34:11Z

“Coming to America” finds the brothers in a decidedly unglamorous setting for an amusing cameo in which they benefit from the casual largess of Mr. Murphy’s African prince. Same Character, Different Film: Recurring Roles in Non-Sequels 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

It’s ultimately as complacent, self-absorbed and clueless as its heroine, and not always in an especially amusing way. Review: She’s Still a Mess, but ‘Snatched’ Is No ‘Trainwreck’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

In recompense we get Jonathan Pryce at his most earnest as a widowed businessman and Tim Curry in an amusing bit as a traveling magician. 2010-01-08T04:05:00Z

After producing his historic Bible, Gutenberg gained much more financial success with his next publication, a set of amusing prints of cats. Style Invitational Week 1272: The hex files — think up creative curses 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

His frustration can seem amusing, but as his dissatisfaction mounts, the temperature grows colder and management becomes openly hostile. ‘American Factory’ Review: The New Global Haves and Have-Nots 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

There are amusing videos of parents reminding their children, tweaking the song’s frisky sample, “There’s some chores in this house.” ‘WAP’ Is Good, Raunchy Fun. On TikTok, It’s at Home. 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

I must admit, however, that some of the choices on Sunday were amusing. The Art of Summer: Music of the Spheres (Whoosh! Thud! Crack!) 2011-07-20T15:27:07Z

Their “baby” is a sack of flour named Joan, who accompanies them on a wild road trip to California, providing commentary in Danielle’s voice and also through an amusing visual conceit. | 'Dirty Girl': ?Dirty Girl,? Starring Juno Temple and Jeremy Dozier - Review 2011-10-06T21:14:14Z

Tolins' play is very amusing on the subject of Los Angeles and the plight of actors waiting for their big break. 'Buyer & Cellar' is a pleasant, fond sendup of Streisand 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

A catalog of these jokes might make “Eternity: The Movie” sound amusing, but there’s much more dead air than laughs, despite a certain anything-goes enthusiasm from the leads. ‘Eternity: The Movie’ Spoofs the Rockumentary 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Tig Notaro took on Louis C.K., her own producer, with a subplot in her amusing mosey of a series, “One Mississippi,” that had obvious echoes of the sexual misconduct allegations leveled against him. Comedy Highlights of 2017 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

It also throws in a dash of comedy with Stanley Tucci’s amusing portrayal of Louis’s preening, effeminate brother. Review: In ‘A Little Chaos,’ a Guileless Kate Winslet Offsets a Lavish Versailles 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

At that time, I thought it was all quite amusing. Why sex and love don’t belong in the same bed 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

Overnight, Tate changed its website to remove a reference to the restaurant as “the most amusing room in Europe,” and a few months later, Tate’s trustees discussed the mural. Racist Mural Puts Tate Galleries in a Bind 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

“My bag is acting or getting into an amusing situation and then sharing my amusement,” he told the Los Angeles Times. Dean Jones, boyish-looking leading man of Disney films, dies at 84 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

Jacopetti's narrations were resolutely satirical, amusing, sad and at all times contemptuously despairing of humanity's failings. Gualtiero Jacopetti obituary 2011-08-18T21:06:08Z

It’s a chronically underachieving movie, but relatively amusing in its quaint wish fulfillment. ‘Night at the Museum 3,’ With Robin Williams 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

And in one amusing moment along the way, you emerge from an elevator into a cocktail party in a collector’s penthouse. Review: ‘Doomocracy’ Looms at Fright Night in Brooklyn 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Though amusing, “Pledged” questions what it means to be an informed citizen. | Connecticut and Westchester: Art About America at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Conn. 2012-09-22T05:19:06Z

It’s an amusing choice — “I do come from a big family,” he tells Charlie, then sheepishly adds, “It’s actually just me, I’m an only child” — and one that’s almost touching. ‘Veep’ Season 5, Episode 2: Dangerous Recount Liaisons 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

Yet for all of their crassness and hypocrisy, they come across as appealing and amusing, not quite endearing, certainly, but still, a la Shakespeare’s rude mechanicals, exquisitely comical. Why ‘The Front Page’ is the best newspaper comedy of all time 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Alan is a sweet, dim bulb who wants to be Dash, and Tatum's entrance at a book event where he performs a "Magic Mike" routine is amusing. Sandra Bullock charms in "The Lost City," which falls short of its screwball-comedy ambitions 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

Reflecting on her experience, she is never maudlin and almost always amusing. Theater Review: ‘Ruff,’ Peggy Shaw’s New Solo Show at Performance Space 122 2013-01-13T22:41:46Z

As British engagements with hip-hop and American pop go, it’s amusing and well done. Critic?s Notebook: Straight Out of the East Bay, With Aspirations and Swag 2011-08-20T00:19:58Z

But publication is funny – in the sense of being not remotely amusing and not really very much to do with you. The book launch letdown 2011-08-23T10:26:59Z

If this wispy subplot were detached from the rest of the movie and developed, it might be the basis of an amusing screwball farce. Review: ‘Ashby’ Pairs a Retired C.I.A. Killer With a High School Nerd 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Smyth’s illustrations are vibrant and amusing — “sex” is a funny word! — and Silverberg’s text is informed by a lighthearted candor that kids will appreciate. Perspective | For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

In the end, “Assisted Living” settles for being amusing, entertaining, life-affirming rather than alarmist and dystopian. In ‘Assisted Living,’ the Golden Girls (and guys) meet Orwell 2013-04-29T19:14:35Z

Reading these bits of doggerel it is impossible not to revise your image of Eliot, and I began to find him more varied, amusing, and even more admirable, than I had previously. Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z

Its cleanliness is faintly amusing – the emphasis here is on the importance of tender words: "It's not just sentimental," Rosing assures us. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2011-07-21T21:22:01Z

An amusing detail of “8 1/2” is that the film that the beleaguered Anselmi is trying to get off the ground is science fiction. Fellini’s “City of Women” 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

That is one of many ideas to gather from “Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire From Leonardo to Levine,” a fascinating and amusing exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art Review: ?Infinite Jest? at the Metropolitan Museum - Review 2011-09-15T21:19:50Z

Gael García Bernal is quite amusing as a young maverick conductor hired by a fictional New York orchestra, Saffron Burrows less so as a veteran cellist. ArtsBeat: On Amazon, Pilots — and Potential — on View 2014-02-07T19:17:07Z

Perhaps an amusing movie could be made out of that idea, but it would have to contain a lot less bad taste than this one does. Review: A Sex-or-Guns Comedy That Might Make Aristophanes Wince 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

This turns me off of supposedly amusing works, and I have to will myself to overlook it elsewhere. ArtsBeat: A Critics Conversation: Modern Dance Madness 2012-04-03T14:14:19Z

Despite some amusing bits and clever songs, it’s only occasionally as much fun as it ought to be. ‘Galavant’ Musical on ABC Has Some Naughty Laughs 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Schine takes her readers on deep philosophical dives but resurfaces with craft and humor; her tone is amused and amusing. In Love With Language, but Not Necessarily With Each Other 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

Chris Sirois sang with flair as Mr. Slender, amusing in an aria in which he imagines the indignant reaction of his faithful wife to Falstaff’s advances. The Lesser-Known ‘Falstaff,’ in 1980s Clothing 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Leno may never stop sucking, but the corporate flusterfest surrounding him may be the most amusing thing to happen to his show yet. 2010-01-08T13:09:00Z

It’s amusing at the beginning when Manny the Mammoth, speaking in the lugubrious tones of Mr. Romano, rolls his family’s traditional holiday centerpiece — the Christmas rock — into position. Television Review: ?Jingle All the Way,? ?The Elf on the Shelf,? and More Christmas Cartoons - Television Review 2011-11-23T15:46:02Z

Will yearns to be his own crustacean, and Bill yearns to be with Will, a desire that turns their part of the movie into a sweetly amusing bromance. | 'Happy Feet Two': ?Happy Feet Two,? With Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Elijah Wood - Review 2011-11-17T22:58:19Z

If you remember the first “Footloose,” you know more or less what happens, and you may find some of the alterations amusing. | 'Footloose': ?Footloose? Remake, With Julianne Hough and Dennis Quaid 2011-10-13T15:43:03Z

Infused with puns that the label decodes, it is also one of the show’s many amusing reminders that Buddhist practice isn’t the beatific experience people like to believe. ‘Unexpected Smiles: Seven Types of Humor in Japanese Paintings’ Review: Elegance That Encourages Laughter 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

And while neither series is at all funny, the A&E one will be inadvertently amusing to anyone who has seen the original, which is available with subtitles on Netflix. Review: In ‘The Returned,’ the Dead Return as if Nothing Happened 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

If that’s going to be the pattern for this series, it will probably stay amusing enough. ‘black-ish,’ a New ABC Comedy, Taps Racial Issues 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

“You know,” we said, deadpan and obnoxious, amusing only ourselves with this weak pun. My Mademoiselle Summer 2013-07-19T20:55:07Z

Granted, there is something amusing about a girlish decorative sampler with “misandry” embroidered in purple thread, in the way that gross contrast is often amusing. Sorry, Feminists: Misandry Isn't Funny 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

That makes for an amusing hour – not for the songs, which are so-so, but for the likable banter between Hoyle and pianist Thomas, and the air of collusive mischief he fosters with the crowd. Merrie Hell – review 2012-12-13T18:15:57Z

Design Observer bestows its always amusing Year-End Awards. Links We Love: What We're Reading This Week 2013-12-13T05:00:00Z

Such enjoyment overwhelms, and we have to give ourselves up to it, forfeiting fantasies of control, which is why words fail, and literary descriptions can seem inadequate, amusing and foolish. Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure, translated by AND Haskar ? review 2011-03-25T13:00:01Z

This is all lively and amusing enough, but it’s the familiar stuff of antic undergraduate revues, as practiced for decades by fans of Monty Python and the Goon Show. Kneehigh Theater's ‘Tristan & Yseult’ 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

He gave a master class on how to be a talk show guest, telling an amusing story about being asked to give a lecture on comedy to MI5. The TV Watch: John Oliver Steps in as ‘Daily Show’ Replacement 2013-06-12T20:45:03Z

De Niro is game throughout, and sometimes amusing in that way he can be. ‘The War With Grandpa’ Review: Robert De Niro Gets Juvenile 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

It feels quaint and amusing to imagine guys strutting around advertising their ostensible virility when, as anyone who spends time online now knows, the unvarying response to any such claims now would be: “Pic?” In London, Cheetos Tans and a Codpiece Are in Fashion 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

Some are puerile, some po-faced, some mildly amusing, some not. TV highlights 28/12/2012 2012-12-21T10:08:17Z

It is far easier and usually much more amusing to write a nasty takedown than to say what can be beautiful and life-affirming about culture high and low. I have had enough of irony 2012-05-30T19:00:04Z

The title character, portrayed with an amusing sense of cranky entitlement by Tom McCamus, has a slightly shaky grip on his country as the play opens. ‘King John’ and ‘King Lear’ at the Stratford Festival 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

She provides one of the film’s more amusing moments: asked if Gould was romantic, she responds with a long pause before answering, “sort of.” Film: Seeking the Ordinary in the Eccentric 2010-09-03T15:14:00Z

Stick on the DVD today, and the film may seem harmlessly amusing. The Infidel is not Islam's Life of Brian 2010-04-12T09:50:00Z

None of this would matter if the movie was full of genuine laughs, but it’s just sporadically amusing. ‘The Internship’: Google movie searches for laughs 2013-06-06T23:03:34Z

This is amusing fun, as is the satire in Tanya’s program bio and the moment when the dancers replicate the sunburst image from George Balanchine’s “Apollo,” including Tanya’s limbs in the array of arabesques. Review: ‘The Mineralogy of Objects,’ With a Most Flexible Guest Star 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

As the feeling of amusing game-ness rises, the sense of authenticity fades. Valiant Hearts, a Game Set in Historical Battles 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

Their rapport is amusing, but never precious in a cringe-inducing way. Cheers to Maya Erskine, flawless life of the "Plus One" party 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

"Some people claim 'it's just a joke'," she continued, "but there's nothing amusing about taking away good role models for young boys." Homer Simpson isn't a positive role model for kids? Eat my shorts… 2013-06-15T23:05:26Z

Another amusing selection features excerpts from some sort of seminar presided over by two women who instruct the sheepish-looking men in attendance on how to approach women without intimidating or offending them. Review: ‘The Art of Luv (Part 1),’ a Quest for the Perfect Erotic Recipe 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

Pitt appeared in the amusing final episode, The Cloak, as a film star in tacky horror movies who really becomes a vampire. Ingrid Pitt obituary 2010-11-24T14:40:00Z

It's campy, it's amusing, and it's scheduled on the same night and time as True Blood which renders it instantly DOA. Jonathan Bernstein's Aerial View of American TV 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

But its wittiest moments are very amusing, and its musical high points, like the song “Off to the East,” near the end of the first act, are gorgeous. Theater Review: In ‘Unlock’d,’ a Land of Dueling Hairdos 2013-06-28T02:01:00Z

The animal welfare workers did write on Facebook, however, that while this incident was amusing, it’s still the right thing to do to report strange sightings. 'Creature' lurking in tree terrorizing Poland town turns out to be a croissant stuck in a tree 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

The novel’s amusing dialogue enlivens its compelling storyline and is sure to please fans of “Downton.” A novel to cure your ‘Downton Abbey’ withdrawal: ‘The Summer Before the War’ 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

I mean it's cathartic, but also it's amusing. Charlie Brooker answers your questions: 'I get angry to amuse myself' 2013-02-06T19:01:10Z

And Mr. Johanson, who wrote the text he speaks, is a benign and amusing presence, talking of social rituals both avian and human. Review: In ‘The Loon,’ the Birds Can Coo. Can You? 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

The characters are very amusing with lots of depth. The High Skies of Adventures by Blue Jay the Pirate by Scott Nash - review 2013-05-17T11:00:00Z

The pilot of “The Mindy Project” isn’t quite as funny as Ms. Kaling is at her best, but it has some amusing moments and a lot of promise. The TV Watch: ‘The Mindy Project’ and ‘Ben and Kate,’ New Fox Series 2012-09-24T21:56:50Z

The Hollywood Reporter found it "amusing but thin." 'American Splendor' directors will bring 'The Extra Man' to Seattle International Film Festival 2010-03-29T23:22:00Z

This is a particularly amusing jab, as Allen had previously destroyed Buckley in a televised debate. Annie Hall at 40: ranking the film's funniest moments 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Ginny quickly corrects him during the type of competitive intellectual banter that would be vastly more amusing if the performances settled into the rough, unexpected edges of its people from the start. Review | ‘Smart People’ puts race under a comic microscope 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

What comes out of them isn’t as amusing or surprising as what came out of those cars, and no matter how fast they go, these planes cannot escape the gravitational pull of the earlier movies. Movie Review: ‘Disney’s Planes’ Follows in the Footsteps of ‘Cars’ 2013-08-08T23:03:51Z

Monicelli, who was nominated for several Oscars and directed the unstoppably amusing "Big Deal on Madonna Street," made antic movies that also managed to touch the heart. 'The Passionate Thief' as laugh-out-loud funny now as in 1960 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Keep the truly amusing stuff, shed the rest. Review: 'Gypsy King' has some princely moments, but some poor ones, too 2010-03-22T21:03:00Z

She’ll remember her long hair and then her very short hair as little more than amusing relics of a year she’d like to otherwise forget. Our long pandemic hair is finally getting cut — and hair donation charities are overwhelmed 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

So assumed was it that a gentleman should have read Locke, that The Spectator found it amusing to contemplate the hilarity of men in the kitchen making cheesecakes, and ladies in the parlor reading Locke. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

“I always liked off-key, decadent, amusing books,” he said. The Tipsy Diaries: Punch, the Drink of Dickens, Redeemed 2010-10-14T20:36:00Z

And of course, steer them towards his amusing website, poetry4kids.com. Meet Kenn Nesbitt, the New Children’s Poet Laureate 2013-06-15T14:58:08Z

It’s a neurosis, a sort of pathology, but I find it amusing and interesting, and it allows me to continue to make films often, as if I was 20. Benoît Jacquot, the Director Who Loves Women 2012-07-06T17:00:00Z

The always amusing Jay Baruchel is the sidekick Crunch brings in on the job. Movie Review: ‘The Art of the Steal’ Stars Matt Dillon and Kurt Russell 2014-03-14T01:13:58Z

Her disabilities, and the predicaments they spawned, struck her as amusing as often as not. Nancy Mairs, Who Wrote About Her Mental Illness and Multiple Sclerosis, Dies at 73 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

But in their place are amusing parodies of 1940s commercials and an agreeable bonhomie among the cast, enabling this production, like the angel Clarence, to earn its wings. Theater Review: ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ at Irish Repertory Theater 2012-12-12T23:33:28Z

What she gets instead is both amusing and somehow dismaying. Television Review | 'Running With Wolves': Taking on the Wilderness, Both Without and Within 2010-03-05T23:33:00Z

His touch remained light and amusing as ever. How unlikely Steven Stucky proved indispensable to the L.A. Philharmonic's rise 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Brown wants no part of it, and ups the emotionalism, which, by the time of "Night Train," has passed from amusing to intense to "Oh my, he might expire up there." The best concert film you've never seen 2010-04-11T18:01:00Z

New York Times critic Alessandra Stanley wrote on Friday, "These four women are amusing, at times poignant, but not easily likeable. The show is caustic and hard to watch, but harder to turn off." 'Girls' go wayward in HBO's tale of a gender and a generation 2014-01-11T01:03:01Z

It's fitfully amusing to tackle a level with three friends, but most of the time I found myself wishing we were playing something more inventive. Review: EA's sci-fi shooter 'Fuse' lacks spark 2013-05-30T12:35:12Z

Despite its amusing opening dialogue — the sour-witty banter of editorial assistants at an upscale magazine — I was convinced by subtle quirks in its tone and pacing that something bad was going to happen. In Virtual Readings, Less (a Lot Less) Is Sometimes More 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Despite such sloppiness - as well as plotting that's ridiculous even by zombie-story standards - "Riptide" is amusing in spurts, especially if you can gather an online posse to deal with the hungry hordes. Review: A new 'Dead Island' vacation with zombies 2013-04-25T13:34:13Z

The dog's facial expression is simultaneously amusing and slightly terrifying. Pottermore: our verdict as first chapters of Askaban join web wonderland 2012-12-21T16:00:00Z

That last quotation provides not only an amusing critique of “Fiddler,” but also a nifty summation of Mr. Bezmozgis’s considerable aims and achievements in this novel. Books of The Times: One Jewish Family in 2 Worlds, Outsiders in Both 2011-04-10T19:00:16Z

From there, I toured a world of amusing headlines: “Frugal Palm Beach,” “Frugal Jackson Hole.” Three Things I've Learned About Frugal Travel (And the Things I Didn't Do) 2010-05-26T03:01:00Z

A fight over a window shade between two airline passengers was caught on video, and it’s about as amusing as it sounds. Airline fight between passengers over window shade caught on video 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Scott wrote in his review for The Times, “which is amusing and puzzling and possibly kind of a relief, given what ‘very 2019’ might look like.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ and ‘Shaq Life’ 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

What might not seem like a big deal to Hart is less amusing when given a wider context. Oscars host Kevin Hart's homophobia is no laughing matter | Benjamin Lee 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Not that they don’t try, in their different, often amusing ways. Theater Review: In ‘Appropriate,’ Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Subverts Tradition 2014-03-17T02:00:16Z

In the first, Hart takes an amusing, self-deprecating tour of the neighborhood in Philadelphia where he grew up. 'Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain': a comic tour 2011-09-15T19:23:05Z

“It’s an amusing film because ordinary people challenged a powerful businessman and they won,” she said. The Film ‘Merci Patron!’ Emerges as a Rallying Cry in France 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

The goings-on at the taxidermy shop are amusing, but will they last? Critic?s Notebook: New TV: ?Gator Boys? and ?American Stuffers? 2012-01-01T18:02:55Z

The girls are asked to give amusing reasons for their decisions, but the reasons they give are not amusing, and aren't even strictly reasons. TV review: Take Me Out 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z

The willful ignorance of Burke's piece would almost be amusing if it didn't go right to the heart of the far right's ongoing concern trolling about abortion. National Review's crazy Steven Tyler abortion take 2011-05-06T19:01:00Z

This week, it's the turn of Jason Byrne, en route from the airport, who waxes vaguely amusing about conspiracy theories. Tonight's TV highlights: NCIS 2011-01-05T00:05:01Z

Unspooling, Manchester A wryly amusing exhibition in which the artists display an ambivalent attitude towards the history of film. Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures 2010-10-01T13:40:00Z

One Bingham descendant said that he found the hoax amusing, even if Gordon had falsified a portion of his family’s history. ‘I lied. I cheated,’ says woodworker who fooled antiques experts 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

The book is also filled with amusing and sometimes staggering accounts of goofs and gaffes that make one wonder how someone like Sacks would fare in today's more rigid, competitive, and "increasingly professionalized" environment. Oliver Sacks' 'On the Move' a memoir of an extraordinary life 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

In “Hollywood: The Oral History,” we have the provocative or amusing or illustrative words of hundreds of insiders to entertain us. That’s Entertainment! Here’s a Dishy History of Hollywood. 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

The whole thing is so charming and mindlessly amusing that it may not be immediately apparent just how much skill is on display. | 'Room 17B': In This Cubicle World, Actions Speak Loudest 2011-01-20T22:15:17Z

An amusing sketch in which competing ad agencies pitched a new Cheetos campaign had political overtones but no overt Trump references. Review: ‘S.N.L.’ Targets Trump Again, With a Hint of Exhaustion 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

Kimberly King plays her in richly amusing detail, as a squinty, imperious standard-bearer for British snobbery. Oscar Wilde’s elegant wit shines in Seattle Shakes’ ‘Earnest’ 2014-03-26T23:59:36Z

For instance, in one of the most amusing story lines stirred into this pot, James and Dolley Madison take Jefferson to see a Hollywood movie about him and Sally. ‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines his illicit affair 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

With time, such stories inevitably emerge as amusing anecdotes about a period of life that you don’t regret but – now that you live alone – you are glad to put behind you. How was it for everyone? The rules for sex in a flatshare 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

He did just that, creating hits like “The Duke Is Tops,” an amusing, creaky musical with an all-black cast that was shot in 10 days on a shoestring. Escape With Me Into the Trippy World of 1930s Musicals 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

None of the darkness and death of Fringe or later X-Files, just a breezy mystery with amusing characters. The Sky News Debate 2010-04-22T23:05:00Z

When asked how he accomplishes that in the course of his normal day as an orchestral musician, he launches into an amusing tirade. Symphony welcomes new flute, cello principals 2011-09-28T23:42:07Z

The word bao, though amusing to say in English, is more interesting in Mandarin. Buns and bright lights: the joys of Taiwan's street food 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z

It felt incredibly awkward, but at least our conversation was amusing. Feeling Socially Awkward? Even Extroverts Are a Little Rusty 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z

The soldiers are cute, amusing and very young. Review: The Architecture of Grief and Dread in ‘Foxtrot’ 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

But he kept on writing lively and amusing letters, some of them surprisingly irreverent and political. The Enduring Whimsy and Wonderment of Eric Carle 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z

The Light Thief: 'a touching, pawkily amusing example of satirical tragedy'. The Light Thief ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:41Z

The title of the likable, amusing “Spider-Man: Homecoming” indicates that this is a return, though to what exactly? Review: Spider-Man (Again) and All That Sticky Kid Stuff 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

As Izzy, the disheveled title character in the amusing frustration comedy “Izzy Gets the F**k Across Town,” Mackenzie Davis takes almost all day to travel through Los Angeles. Mackenzie Davis on playing a comedic antiheroine in “Izzy Gets the F**k Across Town” 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

I found it mildly amusing at first—a good distraction. Naked and Afraid 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

The pooch passage provides an amusing end to a movie that really needed it. SXSW 2011: My Tabloid expos? 2011-03-15T17:39:42Z

“She would find it amusing. She was always very indulgent of her son.” Sean Scully: Painting From the Heart, to the Heart 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

Which would be merely amusing if it weren't for the fact that plans were revealed last week for a film about the birth of Google. The Social Network: the ultimate brand identification film? 2010-08-27T13:37:00Z

While this, too, might strike one as amusing or contradictory, my dive into the modern cake-mix market reveals that, for many — especially millennials — this state of affairs is normal. Be better than Betty Crocker. Here's how to make your own baking mixes like a pro. 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

I know one or two comedians' spouses, and they accept their occasional appearances in standup routines as a sometimes amusing, sometimes tedious fact of married life. Long live those mother-in-law (and ex-wife) jokes 2010-10-04T13:24:00Z

But what about that fine line between something amazing and something amusing? Cars That Will Make You Cool 2011-03-17T17:00:00Z

The narcissism for which the thespian tribe is widely noted also occasions some of the show’s more amusing passages. Theater Review: ‘We Are Proud to Present a Presentation,’ at Soho Rep 2012-11-16T23:47:40Z

“It’s really amusing how attuned he is to human emotions.” Her dog went missing in the middle of the pandemic — and a neighborhood of strangers found a mission 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

But it’s amusing enough to make you curious. On Paid YouTube, Sci-Fi Comedy and the Grown-Up Karate Kid 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

There is an amusing section on the 17 rules for married men conducting an affair, which include lying “intelligently” and the tragic “never fall in love.” Books of The Times: In France, Sauciness Extends Well Beyond Food 2011-06-15T23:45:43Z

These illustrated vignettes are peppered with sample dialogue and amusing quizzes to drive Newman’s points home and give kids some scripts to follow. 2 Graphic-Style Guidebooks to Calm Kids’ Social Butterflies 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Recently, a bunch of young men found it amusing to stage a kidnapping as part of their friend’s bachelor party. T Magazine: France Nouveau 2011-11-17T17:04:21Z

“American politics tends to drum the amusing out of people,” she says. Boris Johnson, London’s lively mayor, writes about Churchill and muses about his future

Russian food is often thought of as bland and heavy, and indeed many dishes seem geared towards getting people through the grueling winter rather than amusing their palates. From caviar to veal tongue, fans get true taste of Russia 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

Later, in an amusing touch, bloodied heroes, completely nude, are sponged by valkyrie-nurses during the Ride of the Valkyries, but this and other novelties add little of dramatic substance. Review: Enjoying Rossini's Serious Side 2010-06-29T14:33:00Z

Mr. Russell paints an amusing portrait of the young, aimless and entitled. | 'Just Cause' : Young, Aimless and Primed for a Revolution 2011-05-20T23:05:18Z

It’s a calm, amusing, low-key meditation on a subject that is anything but calm, amusing or low key. Books of The Times: Application Adventure: A Dad?s College Essay 2011-03-03T16:59:43Z

"I do think my writing is more modern and maybe with a slightly more amusing slant," says Felix. Family romances: When relatives write together 2010-09-24T12:02:00Z

The hairline fractures in Sean and Beverly's relationship are widening over time, and "Episodes" itself is not as genially amusing as it was in its first couple of episodes. What makes Matt LeBlanc's new show so good 2011-02-03T15:04:00Z

“Maybe they give me credit for being amusing when I’m really being inept,” he wondered, before adding: “Hey, if it gets a laugh, that’s great. It’s how I set my table.” Woody Allen confesses affinity for Hitchcock and murder fantasies 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

His Argan is at once exaggerated and recognizably human — the complaining scourge of a retirement home that visitors find amusing but residents and staff scramble to avoid. Comedy for hypochondriacs: It's A Noise Within's 'The Imaginary Invalid' 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Here, there is a wickedly amusing cultural clash between rich suburban New Jersey materialists and the Brooklyn bohemian-bourgeoisie, a narcissism of small differences that is reminiscent of Yasmina Reza’s play “God of Carnage.” Review: In ‘The Slap,’ Culture Clash and Family Dysfunction 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

“It’s Strauss at his craziest, amusing his listeners and hoping to change the mood of depressed, postwar Vienna,” he said. In This Ballet, a Sweetly Disturbing Confection From Alexei Ratmansky 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

On a recent morning, sitting in his studio in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles, he recalled an amusing snub. David Hockney, Contrarian, Shifts Perspectives 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

None of the characters and situations is any more than moderately engaging or amusing and it just doesn't lead anywhere at all. Film review: Extract 2010-04-22T22:10:00Z

Such a scene is among the better moments in “March Madness,” a fairly amusing comedy that delivers most of its chuckles during angry showdowns. Theater Review: Mike Vogel’s ‘March Madnesss’ at the Abingdon Theater 2012-11-05T22:43:29Z

Disney, as one might guess, almost never finds it amusing. Disney Gets Its Head in the Bad Lip Reading Game 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

There's a very kind of amusing moment in the film where one of Whitney's brothers says, "When it came to drugs, Bobby was a lightweight. We could run rings around him." “Whitney” director on Houston’s untold story: “Whitney had been abused, and it took a hug... 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

It’s an emotional, interactive fireplace with a story line and some notions about the dangers of amusing ourselves with distracting trifles. Video Games: Little Inferno; Hitman; Assassin’s Creed III; Persona 4 Golden; Angry Birds Star Wars; My Little Pony 2012-12-05T05:04:45Z

Very amusing scene, introducing a very different sort of character for Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad Watch: Special Sauce 2012-07-23T12:00:38Z

Whatever the rationale here, the results are amusing, and it’s especially nice to see Keaton, who first played Batman in Tim Burton’s 1989 film. ‘The Flash’ Review: Electric Company 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

It was a brief, amusing detour from the mapped path she planned to pick up again in the fall: junior year abroad, graduation, Yale drama school, Broadway. The competition for Miss America 1984 was business as usual — until everyone got a look at Vanessa Williams 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

Here, though, such self-consciousness curdles, despite some amusing “who’s on first”-style circular dialogue on weighty subjects like the existence of God. Review: In ‘Everybody,’ Mortality Loves Company 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

The twenty-minute restriction—which Parker admits that she plans to violate—was an amusing touch, given the almost impossibly picaresque scope of Hill’s life, and his own propensity for indulging in personal history. The Improbable Life of Ray Hill 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

As a drug dumpster mocked for his idea of investing in bottled water, Tobias Segal does an amusing take on substance-induced catatonia. | 'Little Doc': ?Little Doc? by Dan Klores: Departing Friends 2010-06-21T22:46:00Z

“And I found that quite amusing, but also quite refreshing.” Saudi Women’s Driving School: behind an inspiring, frustrating documentary 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

There is not a lot in the movie for tweener-and-above children, but some amusing film homages and such have been slipped in for adults. Review: In ‘Shaun the Sheep Movie,’ a Flock Heads to the City to Find Its Farmer 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

And that play, brothers and sisters, is the amusing “An Act of God,” starring a droll guy who makes ungodly amounts of money on television — Jim Parsons. Hi, God. It’s me, Jim Parsons. Oh, wait: I AM God? 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Someone, in short, who wouldn't cut the bracingly amusing number "Black Men Ski" but would integrate it more effectively into the musical's overarching story. 'Family Album' confirms Stew and Rodewald's musical instincts 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

The visuals occasionally overwhelm the plot, which loosely accommodates some oddly amusing encounters. 'Bunny and the Bull': Buddies jump into an offbeat adventure 2010-09-16T22:17:00Z

After he said that women write sex better, we ran an amusing quiz: spot the gender of these sex-scene writers. Culture coach: the week's essential arts stories 2012-06-14T13:59:40Z

I found the list of dubious pronouncements amusing, and the idea of steak and mushroom pies "priding themselves", particularly, was a memorable one. Poetry workshop: Names 2011-07-12T10:04:43Z

I wave good-bye to the British couple I overheard amusing each other with a game of one-upmanship to name each plant. Paradise found: Lago Maggiore, the ‘Eden of Italy‘ 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

When the singing stops, a few slightly more amusing things happen. ‘Annie’ Remake Stars Quvenzhané Wallis 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Why not just treat the Oscars as an amusing yet dismaying reality-TV show? The Oscar Whiteness Machine 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

This animated sitcom on Fox is as subtle and amusing as a brick border wall. Review: ‘Bordertown’ and ‘Cooper Barrett’ Debut 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

Like Mr. Swanberg’s “Drinking Buddies” last year, “Happy Christmas” is mellow and amusing, but it also cuts more sharply and deeply into the lives of its characters than it seems to at first. BAMcinemaFest Showcases Indie Films 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Titled after one of Ms. Kalman’s books, this absurd travelogue will feature dancers contemplating ordinary objects, friends, strangers and philosophical ideas, immersing themselves in situations both amusing and heartbreaking. Maira Kalman and ‘The Principles of Uncertainty’ Head to Jacob’s Pillow 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

And from an older generation and a more nostalgic style is Jeff Hobson, the Trickster, a card and comedy specialist whose bio describes him with amusing effusiveness as “the epitome of glamour and showmanship.” Review: ‘The Illusionists’ Showcases Magicians and Stagecraft 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

‘Moving, amusing and truthful’: Maggie Smith and Pauline Collins in Dustin Hoffman’s first film as director, Quartet. Quartet – review 2013-01-06T00:08:41Z

A scene of a body getting pumped up, literally, is amusing. A guide to watching the Oscar-nominated animated shorts, from cheeky birds to grisly torture 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z

These insights into her professional life are gracefully dropped into a text that seems to amble casually from one amusing anecdote to the next but in fact demonstrates Fraser’s careful attention to structure. Antonia Fraser’s ‘My History’: The biographer and mom of six looks back 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

Gilbert is a sharp and amusing prose stylist and an openhearted critic of her own foibles and failings. "Eat, Pray, Love": A phenomenon goes bust 2010-08-13T00:20:00Z

But that lesson has unfortunately subsumed the more important one: That no matter how amusing, it’s wrong to exploit the vulnerable for a cheap thrill. Using Homeless Guys as Reality Show Props is Offensive 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

The kung fu reference cuts both ways though, and it is slightly amusing that the Taliban thought Bergdahl was a trained martial artist. Serial recap – season two, episode two: The Golden Chicken 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Others wear pantsuits, a point Beard illustrates with an amusing picture of Clinton and Merkel greeting each other in identical uniforms like reunited Shakespearean twins. Review | Author explains history’s muzzle on powerful women. Removing it is up to you. 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

Ziegler’s 90-minute play is amusing, yet it’s also grim and tense as an eager New York couple flies to Maine to see their son at summer camp. Kid goes missing and family freaks (gently) in Theater J play 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

We thought it rather amusing, but Gordon didn't and we had to deny it. The enemy within: how Machiavelli would have dealt with Gordon Brown 2010-10-09T05:59:00Z

The artists playfully arrange manufactured items in ways that are amusing, as well as formally satisfying. In the galleries: Art that expresses the feel of Foggy Bottom 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

The key interlude struck a rare amusing note in a sale that had a monastic rigor about it. An Auction Brings to Light a French Collector With an Eye for Ignored Beauty 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z

The challenge for Oliver’s talented team of writers would be to make this bleak trend in U.S. correctional facilities amusing. 6 Things John Oliver Should Tackle Next 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

An episode about Bishop's assassination of a hypocritical religious leader has its amusing touches, but a subplot about a seductive gangster comes off as not just ugly but vicious. 'The Mechanic': Jason Statham is no Charles Bronson in this remake 2011-01-27T22:39:06Z

The wavelength they seemed to share was based on an awareness — as hurtful as it was amusing to them — of both the power and transience of sexual attraction. In Alan Rickman the Stage Actor, an Erotic Blend of Desire and Conscience 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

It contains amusing jokes and has an old-fashioned impulse to tug at heart strings. ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ Review: Swashbuckling Again 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

On the original recording, Lynn’s lecture comes off as righteous but also amusing, and, to gingerly use a somewhat condescending but common descriptor of her work, feisty. Loretta Lynn’s New Album, and the Trail She Blazed in Country Music 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

"Le Chef" — not to be confused with the current Jon Favreau gastro-hit "Chef" — is an amusing soufflé of a comedy that pokes fun at foodies while honoring the art of those who cook for them. 'Le Chef' cooks up a comic fairy tale about what feeds us 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Aristarkh, played with amusing pedantic pomposity by Robert Stanton, urges Semyon to die a martyr to the oppression of the intelligentsia under Soviet rule. ‘Dying for It,’ Adapted From a Banned Soviet-Era Satire 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

"Don't Look Up" does have a smattering of amusing moments, but there are far more offensive ones that are meant to be funny. "Don't Look Up," sheeple! Adam McKay's comedy about a comet that will destroy Earth, fails to hit 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

It’s also amusing to see Stevens, the British actor warmly remembered as Lady Mary’s sainted husband on Downton Abbey, slip into his new career playing scuzzy Yanks with a patina of class. Review: Liam Neeson Gets Taken on A Walk Among the Tombstones 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

She is terrified of scary movies and has a ticklishly amusing podcast, “Ruined,” in which a friend, Halle Kiefer, explains the plots of horror films to her. Comedians Turn Their Attention to Abortion 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

The highlights were an e-mailed message from , whose grandparents were avid players, and an amusing speech by Mayor Michael A. Nutter of Philadelphia. Bridge: In No-Trump, Playing to Keep the Long Suit Off the Lead 2010-10-03T21:18:00Z

Her resentment of the much younger women in the infertility specialist’s waiting room, all of them visibly pregnant, is bitter and amusing, as is her description of the endless tests of her personal “pipery.” Pregnant at 40 and other adventures 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

They range from amusing to excruciating–you will never see the Keebler hollow tree again after the pilot–but it leaves the dispiriting feeling that this subversion is just another form of marketing. Review: Happyish Suffers from First-World Problems 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

“Billions” latches on to an amusing food metaphor to express that, with Chuck castigating Bryan for his weak Korean lunch order. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 8: The Miseducation of Bryan Connerty 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

In the meantime, this amusing chap seems to be suggesting that the Pink Panthers are a bit like al-Qaida, and lack a conventional command structure. Kim Kardashian, the Pink Panthers and the missing jewels 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

But, she added, Washington “has that ineluctable what’s-it for selling the goods no matter what their sell-by date. And he has nice help in his amusing backup team.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ and New Year’s Eve 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

Calder is even amusing in the bronzes he made in 1944, especially “The Vine,” a balancing act of a plant with a dragonlike slouch straight out of . Art Review: Calder and Tanguy, Together Again at L&M Arts 2010-05-13T21:39:00Z

Two of the most amusing moms to be found lately are on “47 Secrets to a Younger You,” a web series that went live a few weeks ago. Mother: Television’s Favorite Role 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

He went on to call the programme "criminally unimaginative", "unintentionally amusing" and full of "tired" cliches. Mixed reviews for BBC gymnastics show 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

Hop on Twitter or Instagram and you are never far from an “evil Patrick”, used to illustrate amusing misdeeds, or SpongeBob himself, looking relieved, angry, stoned or indeed any other human mood. Stephen Hillenburg: the naive genius who made SpongeBob a cultural titan 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

And characteristically, Dylan has chosen to preview Tempest in unconventionally amusing fashion, letting the track Early Roman Kings soundtrack the trailer to a new HBO TV series about terrorism, Strike Back. Bob Dylan's Tempest: first listen 2012-08-06T14:47:55Z

It is a world defined by amusing, if routinely predictable and ultimately superfluous stories and characters. Calling All Killers: 2 New Games Offer a Workout 2011-02-28T16:27:59Z

Their existence does lead to a rather amusing sequence in which, their traitorous men having spilled the beans on their beauty formulas, Rubinstein and Arden are forced to appear before a Senate investigation committee. Review: In ‘War Paint,’ Sing a Song of Face Creams 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

That rare combination has made her stories about species extinction and global warming profound and weirdly amusing. Review | Lydia Millet’s ‘A Children’s Bible’ is a blistering classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

There's also an inconsequential but surprisingly amusing little subplot involving Mrs. Patmore, who inherits a small sum of money and turns to Mr. Carson for advice about how to invest it. 'Downton Abbey' recap: Cocktails and cuckoldry 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

She’s found the comparisons to Hepburn, the girlish, wide-eyed beauty who would become a movie icon, flattering and amusing. Vanessa Hudgens graduates from High School Musical to Broadway and ‘Gigi’ 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

The ponderous music that blares when Arnold’s phone rings is amusing, and then it’s abruptly not, having transformed, call after call, into a dirge, a requiem, a discordant family bleat. ‘Gloria Bell’ Review: Love Is in the Air for a Transcendent Julianne Moore 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

I think Tony Robinson is a very good author; he's great at explaining things in an amusing way. Weird World of Wonders: Funny Inventions by Tony Robinson - review 2013-04-14T08:00:00Z

Connor has perfect recall, is computer savvy, can play chess in his head, land a punch, and tells some amusing stories, despite being, at times, an unreliable narrator. Jack Kesy is a chatty hacker in comic thriller "Dark Web," in which the truth is loosely defined 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Shannon himself tells a few mildly amusing stories. ‘Worst to First: The True Story of Z100 New York’ Review: An FM Radio Sensation 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

That made people think of the London Underground, which they found especially amusing. Authors of Fiction Confront a Problem: How to Write About Sex 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

And I once made a movie in Wales that was really quite amusing. Christopher Walken: 'I'm a regular guy' 2013-03-21T19:00:03Z

It is less a full-scale comic feast than a buffet of amusing snacks, and while it does not necessarily exalt or flatter your intelligence, it doesn’t treat you like an idiot, either. | 'Dinner for Schmucks': Steve Carell Stars in ?Dinner Game? Remake 2010-07-29T16:26:00Z

Is it really so amusing that Max and Merelli, of wildly different body types and voices, would suddenly be perceived as interchangeable simply by putting on blackface and a fright wig? Theater Review | 'Lend Me a Tenor': LaPaglia and Shalhoub Clown Around at the Music Box 2010-04-05T02:09:00Z

Franchises operate on an axis of sameness and difference, so it’s amusing that one incorporates that truism into its actual character design. Review: Positions Wanted by Minions Experienced at Serving Evildoers 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

“It was kind of amusing,” she says with a laugh. Sociologist Sarah Thornton scrutinizes the insular art world

Bailey's subjects are a mostly charismatic bunch: warm, chatty, guileless and often amusing, but rarely precocious or theatrical. 'I Am Eleven' an enjoyable portrait of kids on cusp of adolescence 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

In some of the loosely organized stories on his next album, “Retaliation,” he captured the amusing ways that a thin-skinned guy avoids honesty. Dane Cook, a Changeable Comedian 2013-01-18T19:15:28Z

Whether you find “Wrinkles,” an animated look at creeping inanimation, amusing or terrifying will depend almost entirely on which side of 50 you are currently parked. ‘Wrinkles,’ an Animated Depiction of Nursing Home Lives 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Williams matches Ms. Smith in amusing affectations. Women Set London’s Stages Ablaze 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

Not at all amusing, however, were the people harassing the nominally wild monkeys at Krabi. Three yogis take on Thailand 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Violence is packaged as feminist retribution in a film that, in one of its more amusing moments, literally name-checks Gloria Steinem. In the battle against toxic masculinity on screen, is revenge our only option? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

"Vulgaria" is certainly crude, but most of its amusing vulgarity is discreetly held off screen. 'Vulgaria': a raunchy, yet good-natured, Hong Kong comedy 2012-10-04T20:02:09Z

All quite amusing, but in the process the tragedy was softened. Opera Review: East Meets West at Macao Festival 2011-10-25T11:30:08Z

The juror’s jumbled hearing was amusing, but otherwise the early proceedings in the case didn’t make much sense. 'The Good Wife' Recap: Alicia, the Scary Parent 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

His self-absorption is sometimes amusing and often quite annoying. 'Queen of the Lot': an aspiring starlet's further adventures in Tinseltown 2010-12-16T21:52:08Z

The food’s better than might be expected at such a furiously fashionable address, and for an amusing eyeful of Parisian bobos in all of their splendor, this place can’t be beat. | Bobo Heaven in Paris 2011-04-12T21:28:49Z

Or if there is trouble, it’s likely to be more amusing than agonizing. Review: In ‘Nasty Baby,’ Friends Decide to Start a Family. What Could Go Wrong? 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

And while amusing, it wasn’t a laugh riot – and was quite slow for many moments.” ArtsBeat: Curtain Down, Heads Up: Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Theater? 2011-01-31T12:00:14Z

The worse a film the better they like it, because it's easier to be amusing at the expense of a bad film than to explain the ineffable qualities of a great one. The film critic is dead. Long live the film critic 2010-04-07T14:52:00Z

An amusing range of old ads from Schieffelin & Co., the former American importer of Chartreuse, seems to be casting about for the right lure. Chartreuse liqueur’s popularity has soared. But how do you market the elixir without offending the monks who make it? 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

The sculpture is little more than an amusing period piece. Art Review: Mrs. Whitney?s All-American Salon 2011-04-28T22:23:32Z

A sad column written as if it were amusing. To Stay Married, Embrace Change 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

As it stands, the early episodes may not be very illuminating regarding Dickinson or her poetry, but they’re a consistently amusing twist on teenage agita, and a lot quicker to watch than HBO’s “Euphoria.” Apple TV Plus: More Than ‘The Morning Show’ 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

It's not a substantial show, but the character's egoism, hyperanimation and the randomness of his commentary are highly amusing. Nick Mohammed – review 2012-12-06T13:03:40Z

The set has a merely amusing closer, about Ray Bolger’s hammy acting as the Scarecrow in “The Wizard of Oz.” Half-Truths, Non-Truths, and Louis C.K. 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Fluffing her lines, twisting around to better see the projections, she steps in and out of the cosmopolitan, almost Sinatra-like performer she has created with superb, amusing ease. ‘Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest,’ Deep in the Wilds of Video 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

For anyone in the latter camp, little could be more amusing than a pun or joke that delivers laughs beyond a standard play on words. 7 puns that make sense in more than one language 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

The amusing examples of her newly roughed-up language suggested a child imitating a gangster. Katie Finneran Performs ‘It Might Be You’ at 54 Below 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Even at its worst it's interesting and amusing. Not the Booker prize 2011: Jude in London by Julian Gough 2011-08-25T11:21:28Z

The canvas for “Tuning Up!” — which takes its title from an amusing, iconoclastic piece by French-American composer Edgar Varèse — is nothing if not open. Screams and silence: the new approach at Seattle Symphony 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

His predicament has nearly become amusing to him; he has been bested, but still regards his attacker with woeful, wanting eyes. Harry Belafonte and the Social Power of Song 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Under the title “Every Song Sounds Like a Song About New York,” she sang an amusing seven-part medley that included “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life.” Review: Celia Berk’s ‘Manhattan Serenade’ Exudes Romantic Nostalgia 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

You might remember Cassel from his turns as the shifty master thief antagonizing George Clooney and the gang in the highly amusing and recommended "Ocean's Twelve" and "Ocean's Thirteen." Like 'Mesrine: Killer Instinct'? Scarecrow suggests other Vincent Cassel movies 2010-08-26T22:25:00Z

The book includes history, content analysis, artist interviews, amusing asides and more than 100 pages of illustrations. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

The slick actor was already well-known before he ever was Roger Sterling, the office’s amusing MVP. What the Mad Men Cast Has Been Up to Since the Show Ended 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

The ensuing adventure is lively, amusing and predictably predictable with revelations, reconciliations and some nebulous politics for the grown-ups. ‘Frozen 2’ Review: The Cold Still Never Bothers Them 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

He specialized in creating a literal and conversational haze and then finding his way toward a story, usually couched in some amusing, self-deprecating remarks. Alexander Chancellor’s Laugh 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

It was an amusing - and embarrassing - display of the food world's split personality, an ever growing chasm between how real Americans eat, and how real foodies want real Americans to eat. Of droughts and foie gras angst _ the year in food 2012-12-18T16:28:09Z

He looks as though he is privately enjoying a mildly amusing joke, although after spending twenty minutes in his company one suspects there really is no joke, it’s just the way his mouth is. The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z

Every time I sit through one of his movies and marvel once again that millions of apparently normal people find him amusing, I feel like American guys are in worse shape than I thought. The soul-sucking emptiness of “Pixels”: Donkey Kong is the least of humanity’s worries in Adam Sandler’s latest desperate quest 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Their sibling rivalry is only intermittently amusing, which pretty much describes the show as a whole. TV Review: ‘Other Space’ Explores Familiar Territory 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

“It is, overall, an amusing little picture, with some inspired moments and some sour notes, a handful of interesting performances and the hint, now and then, of an idea.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Captain America’ and ‘Swan Lake’ 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

For some reason, I found the “Do Not Feed the Prairie Dogs” signs amusing. Life Is a Wheel: A Cyclist in North Dakota, Tougher and Smarter About Limits 2011-09-02T17:55:00Z

The main problem is that none of his characters is at all amusing. TV review: The Hour; Angry Boys 2011-08-02T22:10:01Z

Shoehorning Beavis and Butt-Head into a “12 Angry Men” satire is an amusing premise but feels like something “The Simpsons” would do. The ’90s Cartoon That Mattered? ‘Beavis and Butt-Head.’ (Fight Me.) 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

It’s an amusing little riff, but one that pales next to the vast corpus of existing conspiracy theories that involve Washington, let alone Rome. In the galleries: The stars and planets align for ‘hyder flares’ 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

On opening night, Jessica Lefkow, portraying the boozing freeloader Lady Toby Belch — one of several performances that play with gender — paused scenes with amusing archness as emergency vehicles whizzed by. Review | ‘Twelfth Night’ at the D.C. War Memorial features pop music and the (unscripted) sounds of traffic 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

Auslander figured that, if nothing else, he could "monetize the failure" and turn the ordeal into an amusing "This American Life" segment. Shalom Auslander creates a curmudgeon much like himself in 'Happyish' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

McDonagh has spent his career making people laugh at things that are not amusing – mainly physical violence, but also the violence of language – and then forcing them to question why they have been entertained. Why Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

Rockwell, who died in 1978 at age 84, painted nostalgic and amusing scenes of everyday American life over the course of some 65 years. Norman Rockwell paintings to be sold at New York auction 2013-09-19T21:36:44Z

Her quest to do so is often amusing and sometimes poignant. Anna Quindlen’s No. 1 Rule for Grandparents: Butt Out 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

She was an excellent professional cutie pie, but while some of her films are amusing and a few are better than most, others can make you gag because of their treacle and wincing representations. Escape With Me Into the Trippy World of 1930s Musicals 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

Generally, Shepard’s essays are right on target — thoughtful, colloquially written and, like Kehr’s, highly amusing. How Movies Work 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, her most dexterous rapping is spry and amusing, even when she seems to be sleepwalking through her verses. What we talk about when we talk about Nicki Minaj, ‘The Pinkprint’ and pop music as conversation fuel 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

By turns amusing and annoying, Young Adult could be the flip side, plus the sequel, of Juno, another film written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jason Reitman. Young Adult: Charlize Theron Finds Life After High School 2011-12-08T18:18:01Z

Without Hauer, Hobo would be an amusing low-budget oddity, but with him, it's prime cult material. Rutger Hauer on Hobo With A Shotgun 2011-07-08T23:07:07Z

DiCaprio has fun with his role, whether having a meltdown in his trailer or doing a cigarette ad in an amusing end-credit sequence. "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" shows off Quentin Tarantino's best and worst moves 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

In its first season, its audience, presumably largely progressive, could revel in Watergate’s absurdities, and in Richard Nixon’s amusing hubris and short-sightedness, while being reassured, almost subliminally, about our own era. “Slow Burn” Season 2, Reviewed: The Painful Lessons of the Clinton Impeachment 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

"Kitty in the City" is very amusing, but the script needs a shampoo and a trim. You still have time to catch some daring, funny, touching solo performances 2010-03-17T18:53:00Z

I still found them amusing, but it was impossible to ignore the overtones of contempt for women in Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and her Sisters. Louis C.K. and Hollywood’s Canon of Creeps 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

She is surrounded by a gallery of amusing and intriguing types. Review: In ‘Love & Friendship,’ Austen Meets Whit Stillman 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

His very amusing explanation of the days before remote control employed screaming sparingly, which increased its impact. Critic’s Notebook: Comedy and Politics, Uneasy Bedfellows but Snuggling 2012-10-03T20:05:01Z

That is what “The Infidel,” an amusing little film from Britain, does with one of the touchiest subjects of them all, the animosity between Jews and Muslims. | 'The Infidel': A Muslim Who Just May Be Jewish 2010-05-04T23:26:00Z

Well into adulthood, they remain trapped in the same house in Cork, Ireland, where they’ve spent their whole lives — caring for their father and passing cruelly amusing judgment on the neighbors. Review: The Melancholy of Misspent Lives in ‘Autumn Royal’ 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

More a mash-up than a medley, it samples and tweaks Sousa without really making fun of the music: the themes are simply repurposed as part of a wooly, amusing meditation. Music Review: Deconstructing Sousa, And Other New Ground 2011-02-14T05:17:25Z

And, yes, it’s mildly amusing to watch the cardinals’ farcical desperation as they attempt, with the assistance of the stage manager, to keep the pageant from falling into a confused shambles. ‘The Cardinals’ at the Public Theater 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Her obligatory plug for the firm is overshadowed by an amusing spoof tampon ad she creates – a smart upholding of her bargain that does little damage to her artistic credentials. Edinburgh festival comedy endorsements are no laughing matter 2010-08-25T12:41:00Z

“There’s something about watching failure that is amusing,” he says. Decker: Unclassified's Tim Heidecker: 'Watching failure is amusing' 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

For the viewer, this conundrum is both troubling and amusing. ‘Closed Curtain,’ by the Iranian Dissident Jafar Panahi 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

It's amusing, but the charm starts to wear off after the third or fourth time; in dramatic terms, it's empty calories. 'Sherlock': A modern Holmes battles crime on PBS 2010-10-22T23:55:00Z

An amusing article which tells a fundamental truth. For Canadians, Thanksgiving Is a ‘Quieter’ Affair in October 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

It was a glib, amusing response, but when I asked why he cares what anyone thinks, he didn’t directly answer. Is Lars von Trier Trolling Us? 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Story is a fine storyteller, personable and enthusiastic, and he throws in some amusing interplay with the audience. Review: ‘Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, Live!’ 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

She captured a single woman’s point of view that was empowering and definitely amusing. It’s an It Girl! The Birth of ‘Sex and the City’ 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

Is the Book of Esther amusing enough to warrant seven different exegeses? Why Are Jews Funny? 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

No doubt Strauss would have found such speculation amusing if not downright absurd. Strauss Joins Sibelius?s Vacation 2011-07-22T15:31:19Z

It’s amusing, but the charm starts to wear off after the third or fourth time; in dramatic terms, it’s empty calories. | 'Sherlock': The Latest Sherlock Hears a ?Who? 2010-10-21T22:24:00Z

And between movements, he delivered amusing commentary off the cuff. At 100, the Cleveland Orchestra May (Quietly) Be America’s Best 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

“The Big Leap” fits that template, and it’s amusing and easy to watch. The Fall TV Season Is Back, Smaller Than Ever 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

Which I thought was really amusing, because I love that band. The Zombies resurrect their famous album 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

In the film, the amusing antics feature Skipper trying to control the other penguins as they embark on various capers. “Drew! Barry! More Power!”: The 10 best penguin movies ever made 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

In it a translator takes it upon himself, with amusing results, to “improve” the prose of the German novelist whose work he is supposed to render into Turkish. Books of the Times: In Europe, Mixing Union and Diversity 2010-12-29T23:29:44Z

Readers may expect a morbid story line, but Jones skillfully fuses tragic events with amusing dialogue, keeping the story lighthearted. Review: Darynda Jones' debut novel is divine 2011-03-04T15:41:11Z

Throughout, Warwick offers amusing and amused commentary on her long history. ‘Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over’ Review: A Trailblazer Gets Her Flowers 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

It’s not “Gone Girl” cleverness or the amusing frustration of an unreliable narrator. Fast Times at Citywide Academy for the Performing Arts 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

At the end of the second movement, accompanied by a solo piccolo, Ms. Semionova and Mr. Gomes lie down, as if to sleep, and yet the timing is amusing. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Symphony #9’ Has City Center Premiere 2012-10-20T02:30:07Z

“The Consultant” doesn’t have that kind of energy at its center — Waltz, recycling his oddball cultivated-creepy persona for the umpteenth time, is amusing but not much more as the coldblooded, possibly diabolical capitalist. ‘The Consultant’ Review: Silicon Valley Goes to the Devil 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

The two chewed at the sheets, even tussling one packet in a tug-of-war-like struggle, before dropping the schoolwork in favor of a more amusing assignment — wrestling each other. Dogs actually eat boys' homework, hilarious video shows 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

“I think it’s highly amusing that I’m still doing what I’m doing and I’m 50 and I’m still taking stupid risks.” Thom Yorke follows Radiohead bandmate Greenwood with first film... 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

There's the evil but amusing Lylas, a witch frozen at the age of 15 and all the sillier for it. World of fantasy: Death's Master by Tanith Lee 2010-08-27T10:05:00Z

Some amusing bits of business do erupt, even if there are only about 15 bona fide minutes of fun sprinkled over an erratic hour and a half. ‘Cake Off’: Signature’s new musical is lively, but not fully baked 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

Well, it’s amusing to imagine the three real sisters vying for the notepad to write their noms de plume. Galley Girl: The Week in Publishing 2011-11-12T18:07:26Z

She leans into his shoulder, smiling, saying something her "Tom" finds amusing. Valerie Eliot's death deprives poetry of its strongest advocate 2012-11-13T12:01:10Z

The film is amusing puncturing smug self-important types, who are being mocked right alongside the Texans. In crime comedy "Vengeance," B.J. Novak dares to mess with Texas while also skewering all the rest 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

EMI said while the similarities "might be amusing or of interest to the highly sensitized or educated musical ear," they were unlikely to be noticed by an ordinary listener. Record company EMI files "Down Under" royalties appeal 2010-02-26T04:33:00Z

The solution in each case is a dongle, which is basically a more amusing word for an adapter—a thing you now need to connect things that used to be compatible but aren’t anymore. The Year in Nine Objects 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

The perpetually smirking Mr. Jones offers an amusing impersonation of James Dean doing Hitler. Are You Over 35? ‘Wild in the Streets’ Should Scare You 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dargel sang three of them — “Toes,” “Hooked On You” and “Sincerely Yours” — in his amusing, cabaret style, with Ms. Supové at the piano. Music Review: Some Off-the-Edge Songs, Placed Front and Center 2011-05-04T22:12:30Z

Susan Jones is more effectively amusing and absurd as the highly buxom, aging Dacha Dweller, but Martine van Hamel — who wins her own laughs — makes the role more rounded, with a dash of pathos. Dance Review: Down on the Dacha, Farmers Showing Off Expressive Footwork 2011-01-23T22:45:37Z

Best of all, by the third and fourth episodes it seems as if “iZombie,” like “Buffy,” aspires to be more than just an amusing idea. Review: ‘iZombie,’ the Undead as a Force for Good 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

But those powers are put to amusing rather than hilarious use here, in a show that reviews the Canadian's globetrotting adventures in the time since he last played the fringe. Glenn Wool ? review 2011-08-23T18:20:00Z

It’s just an excuse on which to hang two trite overbearing fables and one amusing one. Review: ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ and a Trippy Time Machine 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Sure, mull such stuff afterward if you want, but during the film just roll along with Ms. Schaeffer’s amusing story and the pleasantly quirky cast she has assembled to deliver it. | 'Timer': A Sci-Fi Love Story 2010-05-13T23:44:00Z

Though avoiding criminally dysfunctional families or unwanted pregnancies, her cleverly plotted and amusing adventures deal frankly with emotional clumsiness, parental neglect, jealousy between siblings and a general sense of being an outcast. Diana Wynne Jones, Children?s Author, Dies at 76 2011-03-29T00:52:53Z

His entourage of translators, drivers, a monk, an archaeologist and assorted pilgrims are, like the apostles, colloquial and universal, restless and oblivious souls that are at once amusing and profound. Tom Bissell's 'Apostle' takes a ride-along through unanswerable questions about Jesus' disciples 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

The amusing backstage banter, which takes up much of the opera, is easily believable, but the premise is pure fancy. 'Great Scott,' an opera about opera, shows what makes Jake Heggie so popular 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

The amusing farce premiered on Wednesday at the Sundance Film Festival to a warm reception. Julie Delpy, Chris Rock talk "2 Days in New York" 2012-01-26T13:43:29Z

But it’s quite amusing, especially at the beginning, and not as arch as you might expect. Amazon Unveils Its Latest Smiles and Thrills 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

There’s something slightly amusing about viewing such a hotbed of politics and ferment inside the Cabinet at the Frick, a museum devoted for the most part to the status quo. Art Review: ?A Passion for Drawings,? Charles Ryskamp?s Bequest, at Frick 2012-02-23T23:27:54Z

He came by his sense of humor at home, he said; his parents were “very amusing.” Galley Girl at Book Expo 2013: The First Night 2013-05-30T18:02:35Z

Speaking of absurd, a Cannes screening of "Inside Job" provided one of the more amusing incidences this festival of art imitating life. Cannes films mine financial collapse for material 2010-05-18T04:27:00Z

It’s already an amusing, effortless vibe here, one whose pleasures derive in part from being comfortable to be what it is. Four Stand-Up Specials That Punch Above Their Weight 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

The film makes them out to be first-rate dining companions, such as when they imagine an amusing conversation between actors Tom Hardy and Christian Bale in character from "The Dark Knight Rises." 'The Trip to Italy' serves it up in strong limited opening 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

Less amusing are the lawsuits Mr. Bleckner is trading with a former associate, Cody Gilman. Ross Bleckner on His Comeback and Mary Boone 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

It’s amusing when Barbie points out a billboard filled with women, mistaking them for the Supreme Court because that’s what the court looks like in Barbie Land, just with more pink. ‘Barbie’ Review: Out of the Box and On the Road 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z

Stiller too puts in a few amusing minutes in the pilot. 'Big Time in Hollywood, FL' a weak shot at absurd comedy 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Short, snappy, amusing and genuinely surprising, it combined all the best elements of what a short film should be. Witty or gritty? What ingredients make the best short films? 2011-01-14T16:29:46Z

There was, for instance, a lengthy and amusing segment on the general election in India, with a funny Gandhi joke pegged to the fact that Mr. Oliver is British. Television Review: ‘Last Week Tonight,’ on HBO, Reviews the News 2014-04-28T16:23:18Z

All this is amusing, but it doesn't reinforce the power of the original. Heather Gardner – review 2013-03-19T23:00:01Z

Anyhow, the most frustrating aspect of this film is that its only amusing sequence comes in the very last minute, after the closing credits, with a mock commercial for Dwayne's tanning salon. 30:Minutes or Less: Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari in a Go-Nowhere Fargo 2011-08-11T21:05:00Z

“Good-looking, great job, fine education, puckishly amusing and even clever when he put his mind to it”: that describes Noah Gardner, the hero of Glenn Beck’s political-conspiracy thriller. Novles by Glenn Beck, Stephen McCauley and Others 2010-06-16T22:42:00Z

If it’s of no real consequence, not even remotely amusing, or if it’s something you’ve brought up 17 times before and ruthlessly failed to confront, please deal with it all by yourself. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Invasive questions? Tell him it’s none of his business. No lie. 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

Created, directed, designed and produced by Mr. March, with choreography by Ben Franklin, the show is insufficiently distinguished as a dance recital and only intermittently amusing as a trashy rethink of a holiday classic. ‘Chris March’s The Butt-Cracker Suite!’ at Here 2012-12-01T03:33:58Z

These releases are not just craftily assembled and amusing, but just when you think the franchise might be getting long in the tooth, another twist spices things up. Video game: 'LEGO Harry Potter' is magical 2010-07-10T01:54:00Z

And then there were the random experiences that she didn’t expect, but which were amusing and memorable. You, too, can travel like a symphony conductor or a prima ballerina. For a price. 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Cryer and Thompson also inject amusing and melancholy nuances into a pot-smoking scene that shows the fundamental divide separating husband and wife. Theater review: 'Company' 2011-04-08T20:40:13Z

Mr. Moe’s forces are minimal: apart from the keyboards, the only instruments required are a clarinet and a bass clarinet, which provide amusing commentary on the vocal text, and were played deftly by Jo-Ann Sternberg. Music Review: Sequitur at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-09-20T20:10:02Z

He seemed to find something about the peas amusing. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

You’ve heard a lot of generic one-liners involving amusing children and clueless husbands, some of them pretty funny but none of them especially illuminating. Review: ‘One Funny Mother’ Delivers One-Liners Without Depth 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

It is amusing to learn that he dated a woman whose surname was Bacalhau, which means salt cod. Books of The Times: A Cautious Memoirist Who Ends With a Laugh 2011-05-10T20:49:38Z

While that would have been amusing, I suppose it would not have boded well for future seasons of the show. "Fringe" recap: Two shapeshifters revealed 2010-10-15T12:30:00Z

That’s how the smooth, consistently amusing “Fickle” runs: Director Eleanor Holdridge appears to lightly nudge it from the top of a hill and watch it race down perfectly laid tracks for 80 minutes. Review | At Olney Theatre, steady laughs in ‘Fickle,’ a new reboot of classic French farce 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

“Life needn’t be pleasurable or amusing; it need only continue playing its program.” The Sheltering Sound: Paul Bowles’s Attempt to Save Moroccan Music 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

He added: "I trust the Police are investigating this. It’s not amusing and just plain dangerous." Clown seen outside schools sparks fear, leads education company to apologize 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

It’s a funny line, but it’s also as if he has delimited the four-year age window within which his situation will cease to be amusing. Are We Having Fun Yet? ‘Party Down’ and the Sadness of the Sitcom Revival 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

In most ways he is a strictly adult conception of unregenerate boyhood – perennially 11 years old, dirty faced, stone-throwing, window-breaking, amusing at a safe distance. From the archive, 13 January 1969: The Peter Pan world of William 2011-01-13T11:26:35Z

The descriptions of this initial phase of the Afghanistan war are both amusing and hair-raising. Many masters, many lives 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

On that March evening, though, the frame around it gave way, derailing the plot and amusing the crowd. ‘I Want to Live in That Room’: Designers on Their Broadway Sets 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

It’s then that Miles puts the moves on, in another scene that’s amusing and touching, as the grieving Sara responds to the intuitive tenderness beneath the puppyish adoration. | 'Graceland': Grieving as an Odd Family Affair, From LCT3 2010-05-18T04:59:00Z

He tosses ideas out and then, through force of charisma and performance chops, makes them amusing in a way no one else could. What Makes Katt Williams Great? It’s Not the Jokes, It’s the Performance 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

In an amusing side note it turns out that the president of the "Flat Earth Society" is a global warming believer. Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt,’ Separating Science From Spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile Robert, often the amusing boor, seems like a much uglier sort of bully with his brother, taunting him and embarrassing all present with his talk about "making the eight"? Game of Thrones Watch: Talk to the Hand 2011-05-23T16:45:00Z

He always told amusing anecdotes about the war so it seemed quite innocuous and entertaining. Should I be ashamed of my grandfather? 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

Yet these detours play more like amusing diversions than necessary plot points. Review | Road-trip musical ‘Miss You Like Hell’ embarks on a bumpy ride to catharsis 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

The New York-born actress’s game attempt to teach the American public how to pronounce her Irish name was catchy, amusing and actually useful. ‘Saturday Night Live’ Jabs at Trump, Michael Flynn and Matt Lauer 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

The illustrations are distinctive, amusing and sometimes powerful line drawings by Lennon, who in addition to his musical talents was a trained artist. John Lennon manuscripts, drawings to be sold at auction 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

“Schine takes her readers on deep philosophical dives but resurfaces with craft and humor,” Susan Dominus writes in her review; “her tone is amused and amusing.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

But the Independent's Ellen Jones said the line up "may be the most amusing and instantly likable yet". Bake Off return attracts 7.2 million 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

But it is, inadvertently, more amusing when Buckley gives us what he considers the conservative viewpoint. Review: ‘The Jeweler’s Eye,’ by William F. Buckley Jr. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

She is amusing in her distress, a compulsive blubber who pronounces "squalid" as if a squall were involved, which in her case it usually is. Private Lives; Berenice; The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner – review 2012-10-06T23:05:38Z

Even the front matter and jacket flap are upside-down amusing. Your Kids Need a Laugh? Try the Short, Quirky Poems in This Book 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

“As I make these marks, I begin to hear characters speaking, and then they start speaking to each other if I’m lucky; if I’m even luckier, they might start amusing one another,” he continued. A Writer Collapses. As He Recovers, His Dispatches Captivate Readers 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

They make for agreeably watchable, sometimes amusing spectacles, even though there’s no disguising that their characters are the usual dreary family-circle causalities. Movie Review: ‘The Eye of the Storm,’ With Geoffrey Rush 2012-09-06T22:03:02Z

My children found it endlessly amusing, perhaps recognizing early on how diversity can make things more fun. Ouch, Oh and Oh No! 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

Instead of handling it as an amusing side gig, Mr. Coates hit Mr. Stelfreeze with questions and notes, and notes on notes. Ta-Nehisi Coates Helps a New Panther Leave Its Print 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

When Jones turns to the amusing origin stories behind “The Cat in the Hat” and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” the book picks up in pace and intrigue. Review | A portrait of Dr. Seuss offers a look at the prankster workaholic behind the iconic characters 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

At first, Johnson is depicted as an amusing, comically inept figure dodging unpaid hotel bills, buying groceries at bottom-market prices and concocting cons so egregious there are no laws against them. ‘BS High’ Review: Greed and Football 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z

In addition to being surprisingly amusing, this film sees how serious these strange musicians are about their art and that there is something quite magical about Frank and his gifts. 'Frank' gives you something to wrap your head around 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

The clever and amusing scene, a tribute to “The Lego Movie,” was not the work of seasoned animation artists, but that of a 14-year-old fan turned professional creator living in Toronto. How a 14-Year-Old Came to Animate a Scene in ‘Across the Spider-Verse’ 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

His jubilation over his own greatness is so relentless it becomes amusing. Review | Should celebrities narrate their audiobooks? Will Smith and Mel Brooks make the case for yes. 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

Studying the differences is fascinating and often amusing. Art Review: His Path From Shutter to Paintbrush 2010-12-09T22:43:00Z

Often “Meet Me in Montenegro” suggests a long story-of-how-we-met that might be proudly recited to friends over drinks, and it’s not without bittersweet or amusing bits. Review: ‘Meet Me in Montenegro,’ Romance for Ex-Lovers 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

And sure, it's also quite amusing to compare your tastes with others and debate whether eating moldy bread is actually detrimental to your health or not. People are flexing their food sensitivities on Twitter, thanks to a trending food disgust test 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

A new show "with a couple of wing chairs and a rug" is still at the planning stage, says Laurie: "M'colleague will recount amusing stories, and I will sit at the piano and play ditties." TV executives stifling new comedy, says veteran producer 2013-06-25T13:38:37Z

For a film about such a solemn and weighty subject, “Footnote” has a lot of amusing moments. The Carpetbagger: For an Israeli Director, the Oscar Ceremony Gets Interesting After It's Over 2012-01-23T15:14:26Z

There are interesting and amusing works also on view by Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Hans Bellmer. Art In Review: ‘CARNAL KNOWLEDGE’: ‘Sex + Philosophy’ 2012-05-31T21:29:07Z

The mystery takes an amusing turn once the clever young Constable Peregrine Twitten starts second-guessing his superiors. Puzzles and Paradoxes: Marilyn Stasio’s Latest Crime Column 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

The sequence manages to be beautiful and amusing in its exploration of the catharsis of running. Ten of the best running movies 2013-02-18T13:18:00Z

But that amusing swipe is misleading, because the story Mr. Augustin proceeds to tell does engage race at every turn. ‘The New Englanders’ Review: Trying Too Hard to Be Special 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

Women grinned as they waved a cherry tomato near their mouths, as they tossed leaves, as they stuck a fork into a big plate of kale and thought about something amusing. From sidekick to superstar: the rise of the salad 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Krymov has, however, added generous doses of theatrical whimsy that are often amusing but do not always seem to serve the text. Theater Review: ‘In Paris’ Stars Mikhail Baryshnikov 2012-08-03T22:57:36Z

Or get your jollies from amusing partnerships in “The Nice Guys” and “Ghostbusters.” What’s on TV Saturday: Ruth Negga in ‘Loving,’ and the new ‘Ghostbusters’ 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

Charnonneau was an interesting, amusing and provocative man and I like to think he brought out the best in me.” ‘Sweet Caress’ review: A portrait of a photographer’s tumultuous career 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

When women win beauty contests, it's not considered amusing; it's considered, you know, normal. Look at him: Why can’t straight guys acknowledge male beauty without freaking out? 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

The graffiti, which includes, "Don't eat the chicken," is pretty amusing, but even the film's climax makes a pointed commentary. Riz Ahmed rapping and a dark comedy about prison: A look at the Oscar-nominated live action shorts 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

In one amusing sequence, Mr. Leung Ka Fai’s imperious grandmaster slides under charging war horses and incapacitates them by jabbing two fingers in their bellies. Movie Review: ‘Tai Chi Hero,’ Directed by Stephen Fung 2013-04-26T01:08:40Z

British newspaper The Guardian called it a "tasteless but amusing comedy," giving it three out of five stars. Sony spoof 'The Interview' makes North Korea butt of the joke 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

I have these voices ready that I think are amusing, or entertaining. Hank Azaria: I've Lived The Simpsons Marathon 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Audience members said the second performance on Sheen's "My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is not an Option" tour wasn't stellar, but it at least had some amusing moments. Sheen gets cheers, not boos in second stop on tour 2011-04-04T13:58:13Z

The shape of this gardening accessory echoes the spirals in the paintings and pays an amusing tribute to ikebana. In the galleries: An early spring is always welcome 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

The approach to your dog varies somewhat by the amusing types Hodgson imagines. New Self-Help Books for Pet Parents 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Instead, Crufts is for humans, and it speaks to their infinite ways of consoling and amusing themselves. Crufts uncovered: ‘Dog people look like hairdressers with very small clients’ 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

It’s amusing to see identical Arnolds clash like titans, but nobody here seems to have fully grasped that they had another heavyweight in Mr. Clarke. Review: ‘Terminator Genisys’ Shows That Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Most Assuredly Back 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

We have created for ourselves a political culture so drained of personality and humour that we fall upon a mildly amusing after-dinner speaker like Johnson, and hail him as a Titan of mirth. Boris Johnson, the comedian of politics, has the last laugh 2012-07-30T12:00:01Z

A scene depicting a meeting between Hoffa and Tony Pro is wryly amusing as each insulted party wants an apology. Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman": De Niro, Pacino and Pesci shine in this intimate gangster epic 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

Hanks nicely underplays here, amusing without being overly comical. As "A Man Called Otto," Tom Hanks' gruff yet noble curmudgeon will warm your heart 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

I still find the 'legend' of her to a bit amusing. In Julia Child’s Provençal Kitchen 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

An amusing scene has the teammates bonding over beers and swapping stories about their "first kill" while Graciela, a naïve stranger to all of this derring-do, looks on in amazement. "The 355" delivers all the glammed-up action you want from a badass women spy flick 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

This is truly art for the masses, as kitschy as it is amusing. ‘Pulp Drunk’: ‘Mexican Pulp Art’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

I'm guessing not, though what an efficient, amusing alternative to law school, if so. Motherlode Blog: Home-Schooling, Comic Con Style (Part 2) 2012-10-17T15:35:51Z

After reflecting on the offer, and discussing it with Heinz, who found it amusing, I realized I had nothing to lose. Finding the Heart 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

Some of which, like the the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, is mildly amusing, but most of it, frankly, is not. Hey, what's that sound: Ukulele 2010-08-17T14:19:00Z

Some of the works here have the traditional vertical oomph of sculpture, but others are amusing ground huggers. A Rare Look at Rauschenberg’s Second Act 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z

“They both thought it was the most amusing thing.” Luke Janklow: Not Exactly Bookish 2013-06-14T20:57:36Z

The result is a knowing — or at least a ticklishly amusing — demonstration of celebrity and its relay of gazes from one of the most looked-at women in the world. Movie Listings for Nov. 20-26 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

“Younger,” an amusing new TV Land comedy about recapturing lost youth by Darren Star of “Sex and the City” and “Melrose Place,” is a case in point. Review: In TV Land’s ‘Younger,’ a Woman Cheats the Clock to Land a Job 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

When interviewed by the press, Brown took pride in coming up with pithy quotes, knowing from first-hand experience how a writer delights in an amusing comment or memorable insight. Anna Wintour and Tina Brown: Inside their Condé Nast rivalry 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

Hat is meant to be amusing in his goofy uncouthness; Orange the hard-bitten but soft-hearted maternal type, the salt of the peaty earth. | 'Orange, Hat & Grace': A Salt-of-the-Earth Romance Amid Shadows of the Apocalypse 2010-09-23T02:01:00Z

Perhaps they’re churning out more hosts with which to harm humans in a more violent story, or training to become money-making weapons of mass destruction with amusing bar stories. 10 Questions Westworld still needs to answer 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

There’s an amusing synopsis of Season 1 at abc.com. Looking Ahead: Time to Turn the Page 2010-12-30T23:28:26Z

One amusing tale involved an encounter with a grifter named Tony Bennett who helped him paint his car, then stole $65 from him as they hugged farewell. Music Review | Todd Snider: A Bit Wry and Rough at the Edges 2010-03-08T06:37:00Z

But, I mean, the notion that it's some sort of Sodom on the Potomac, some sort of hotbed of sin, is so amusing! Cokie Roberts is a commentator these days, but she still prefers facts to opinions 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

And Telly Leung performs an antic, amusing mash-up of famous movie lines — from “Gone With the Wind” to “Network” to “Dirty Dancing” to “Stage Door” — in the parable of the prodigal son. | 'Godspell' : ?Godspell? at the Circle in the Square - Review 2011-11-08T03:00:04Z

That said, there are a few amusing moments along the way. ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: Dutch Treat 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

While he had his scraps with the press, Kennedy was known for embracing reporters, amusing and even befriending them, a communion that was instrumental in fostering his lasting, and in some eyes romanticized, legacy. Masters of their medium: JFK on TV, Trump on Twitter 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Yeah, it’s amusing, but in a forgettable sort of way. Review: Name-Dropping ‘Nobodies’ Hoping for Showbiz Success 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

As an essayist he is thought-provoking, tantalizing, irritating, abusing and amusing. Langston Hughes on James Baldwin’s ‘Notes of a Native Son’ 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

But watching this disaster in motion provides some amusing moments. A sneak peek at ‘P---y,’ the soon-to-be published novel about Donald Trump 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Perhaps some will even be born at 2:22, which will make for amusing stories on local news channels. Here comes Tuesday, 2-22-22, a.k.a. Twosday. (It can mean anything you want it two.) 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

It is meant to be amusing but it is just dull. In the heavy-handed "Stillwater," Matt Damon is an Oklahoman in France trying to free his daughter 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

“The result is rich, dense, often amusing and, above all, full of inner tension and suspense,” Jack Miles said here. Paperback Row 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

We steep in that sensation for the entirety of the show’s premiere, in fact, before relaxing into the more amusing second episode. Fearless, fresh “Atlanta”: Donald Glover’s dreamy, surreal series is infused with peculiar magic 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

It’s amusing in its genteel way, but not much blood is drawn. Television Review: ?Wait Wait Don?t Tell Me!? on BBC America - Review 2011-12-22T23:07:54Z

“The Royals” is a mischievous sendup, a “Dynasty” about a real dynasty, and Ms. Hurley is quite amusing as she sashays across the marble halls of Buckingham Palace, making catty remarks to servile courtiers. Review: ‘The Royals’ on E! Is Another Pretender to the Throne 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

But I guess it was all part of the act, and Geraldine was delightful, amusing and friendly. Michael Winner, David Cameron and the Tories' approach to women 2013-01-25T17:45:30Z

Long after our screening of the animated feature “The Wild Life,” my almost-10-year-old companion was still chatting about the film’s amusing animal characters. Review: In ‘The Wild Life,’ Island Critters School a Castaway 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

There are some touching and amusing zigzags on the way to the film’s sweet and affirmative conclusion. Review: ‘Moana,’ Brave Princess on a Voyage With a Chicken 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Some of them found this special attention amusing. The Twenty-Five-Year Journey of Magic: The Gathering 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

By putting them into a character whose goal is in fact to educate, and by blowing them up into amusing overstatements, she keeps the play itself from becoming gassy. ‘Clyde’s’ Review: Sometimes a Hero Is More Than Just a Sandwich 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

This mélange of styles may be intentional, but it fails to cohere into anything amusing or frightening. Review: ‘Dead of Summer’ Tugs at Horror and Mystery 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Jost, 38, approaches “A Very Punchable Face” with his characteristically matter-of-fact tone and self-effacing persona, rattling off amusing anecdotes from an uncannily eventful existence. Colin Jost has a new memoir — and some thoughts on the end of his SNL run 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

She will let her mind lead her heart, in a long, amusing debate in contract law: the terms of Christian’s pre-whup. Review: 'Fifty Shades of Grey': Where's the Wicked Whiplash? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

The solution to the logistical jam that arises when, in “Hamlet,” the same actor is playing Polonius and Laertes, can be amusing. Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Shaw's 'Saint Joan': A marathon for four actors, and the audience 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

It inspired a lot of online debate, particularly centred around how accurate the costumes are – which I found amusing, since Ragnar is a figure about as historical as King Arthur. Is TV's Vikings historically accurate? Who really knows 2013-04-09T13:17:05Z

The 'meet cute' is Hollywood screenwriters' name for a standard plot device in which a couple meet in a way that's charming, ironic, or just generally amusing. Clip joint: The top five 'meet cutes' 2013-01-23T17:36:53Z

Mr. Hopkins doesn’t have much to do, but it can be amusing to see him upstage everyone else with sonorous murmurings and imperious demands for a robe and Chinese takeout. Review: ‘Kidnapping Mr. Heineken’ Revisits a 1983 Dutch Crime 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

So the show has Frank collecting disability from an injury that healed a while ago -- an amusing contrivance that nonetheless lacks the necessary bite. "Shameless": American TV's problem with class 2011-01-08T02:01:00Z

Both are surrounded by a coterie of odd, amusing and disturbing characters who make the story familiar and like nothing you've ever seen before. 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' conjures literate magic world 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Certainly Rylance’s presence enriches “The Outfit,” a moderately amusing gangster flick that doesn’t make a great deal of sense. ‘The Outfit’ Review: The Violent Measure of a Man 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

You follow the link and decide that yes, it is indeed rather amusing. What is Rule 34, you ask. Let Charles Stross explain 2011-08-11T11:25:12Z

And Moore is supposed to be the amusing smoothie of the Bond stable, right? I've never seen … any James Bond film | Hadley Freeman 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

But his other four songs in the show, two of which deal with cannibalizing insects, although amusing, are not as sharp. Music Review: Songs in Several Languages, Wisecracks Spread Throughout 2011-01-18T23:45:40Z

Occasionally, the dialogue is amusing, with its offbeat lurches in unexpected directions. Review: ‘A Ride on the Irish Cream,’ Erin Markey’s Tale of an Odd Affair 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

And I don't have an amusing reason why. TV review: Take Me Out 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z

The icing on this amusing cake is Mary McCormack, who plays Casey, an American and the no-nonsense vice president of the company that bought the four misfits’ concept. Review: ‘Loaded’ and the Amusing Pitfalls of Sudden Wealth 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

In the pilot, costumed heroes appear only in the amusing credits sequence and in an opening on an elevated train that plays like an ooh-it’s-the-big-city scene from a Hollywood musical. Review: ‘Powerless’ on NBC Has Cubicles, Not Capes 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

True Stories: Erasing David10pm, More4 This social experiment by way of a documentary is an inventive and amusing way of tackling a serious point: the erosion of civil liberties in the UK. Theo's Adventure Capitalists 2010-05-04T07:00:00Z

“Why did this world become amusing,” she asks, “only when I realized I was about to leave it?” Imbolo Mbue’s ‘How Beautiful We Were’ Exposes the Human Cost of Capital 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

It’s an amusing and at times sobering series of vignettes — a quickly inhaled highlights reel of Trebek’s life. Review | Alex Trebek’s memoir, ‘The Answer Is . . .,’ is everything a ‘Jeopardy!’ fan could want 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

But as with her films and artwork, Ms July’s writing playfully mixes extraordinary ingredients with ordinary concerns and the effect is often amusing and insightful. Magical realism 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

In collecting these images, van Houtryve discovered that many refugees emphasized not the suffering of their journey but moments that were joyous, triumphant, and even amusing. Following Europe’s Migrant Trail, Through the Instagrams of Refugees 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

They also meet Prince William’s polo instructor, who finds their childlike awe and eagerness amusing, up to a point.      Arts & Leisure: Toasts for Royals, Spiked With Scorn 2011-04-20T15:02:28Z

Listening to these three swear up a blue streak is amusing for five minutes or so, but that’s about it. ‘Swearnet,’ a Project of the Trailer Park Boys 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Much of this proceeds in amusing slapstick fashion, often based on the fact that Marco plies his trade as smuggler, enforcer and conflicted hero while using a wheelchair. | 'Carmo, Hit the Road': Romance in Brazil?s Wild West 2010-10-15T00:49:00Z

The climactic scene, in which social media is fingered as the facilitating villain, is probably not supposed to be as amusing as I found it. Among Amazon pilots, 'The Cosmopolitans' a promising diversion 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

The series isn’t all hard slogging, though; Cenac also explores things like goat yoga classes, which can only be called amusing. The Best Movies and TV Shows New to Netflix, Amazon and More in April 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

The stories they told were cocktail party anecdotes, amusing rather than dramatic or scandalous or especially revealing. ‘Models Never Talk,’ From Olivier Saillard, at Milk Studios 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

It’s endlessly amusing to watch Ian’s face light up when he explores the great outdoors. Camping with toddler is a joyful challenge worth the effort 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Reeves plays the part, however, as a blank canvas, and while some of the deliberately contrived elements of the combined plotlines are amusing, it becomes increasingly silly rather than gaining the laughs it seeks. "Crime" doesn't pay for Keanu Reeves in spoof 2010-10-04T21:36:00Z

For well north of two hours, Ms. Streisand was like that: amusing, self-amused, at home. Brooklyn, Can You Hear Her? Barbra Streisand Still Sounds Amazing. 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Finishing off with a self-serving but still amusing Jennifer Aniston cameo, the segment overall had a strong perspective and enough good jokes to make it worthwhile. Saturday Night Live review: Emma Stone rocks as real Donald Trump weighs in 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

Their verbal riffing is amusing in spite of Mr. Chou’s heavy accent and slow delivery, and they also demonstrate a lively physical rapport, aided by Mr. Gondry’s stop-and-start editing and his knack for hand-to-hand action. | 'The Green Hornet': Have Cool Car and Mask (and Sidekick), Will Travel for Justice 2011-01-13T22:53:25Z

If there’s not much romantic chemistry between them, it’s amusing to watch them sledge and sail and climb across Alexander V. Nichols’s multilevel stage. Review: Could a Long-Gone Antarctic Explorer Be Mr. Right? 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

The various iterations of her boyfriend, Gavin, are especially amusing: sometimes bearded, sometimes not; sometimes a gourmet chef, other times a Grubhub addict; now faithful, now a cheater. Review | ‘The 22 Murders of Madison May’ is a thrilling ride in every dimension 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

After their extremely long period of immobility, the two dancers began to do isolated staccato moves that were amusing and startling; and the patches of silence in the peculiar music were funny too. Dance Review: Tao Dance Theater at Alice Tully Hall 2012-07-26T21:24:32Z

Po’s clumsy, goofy eagerness no longer seems quite as amusing now that he is a psychologically damaged warrior. | 'Kung Fu Panda 2': A Noble Panda Takes On a Nightmare Enemy 2011-05-25T21:42:30Z

In one example, it was at first amusing, then absolutely confounding, that so many designers showed models wearing shorts with black dress socks. At Men’s Fashion Week in London, a Changing of the Guard. 2012-06-20T20:43:03Z

In an amusing feint at the frenzied finale, the filmmakers leap, with the help of Ryder’s nuance and aplomb, from one contemporary fable to another, also born out of culturally shaped cravings. ‘Gone in the Night’ Review: Double-Booked and Double-Crossed 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

The saving grace is that Eggers' subject is so timely and important, and the way he dramatises it so apt and amusing. A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers – review 2013-01-30T10:07:03Z

Moving, amusing and truthful, the film is a modest, not unduly sentimental work that touches in a light but far from slight way on subjects that will eventually be faced by all of us. Quartet – review 2013-01-06T00:08:41Z

The dawn of rock and roll helps a bit: a Richard Lester-like chase sequence set to “Long Tall Sally,” the amusing spectacle of Geordie railing against Teddy boys. The Unholy Pleasures of “Grantchester,” The Original Hot-Priest Show 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

"I knew that she was given to pithy, sometimes outrageous statements and behaviour - sometimes amusing, sometimes horrific. "That alone wasn't enough. Imelda Marcos inspires disco musical 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

He found the story amusing and would occasionally break into fits of laughter, which became more frequent as he moved towards the conclusion of his tale. China by train: tracks, tales and a snapshot of everyday life 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

In the early episodes, Mr. Giamatti is particularly amusing as the ambitious but paranoid prosecutor. Television This Winter: 20 Shows to Keep on Your Radar Screen 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

“Hot Bananas,” in which Mr. Keillor recited more of his poems — some wistful, others whimsical, among musical selections by Debussy, Sousa, Scott Joplin and Jerome Kern — was consistently amusing. Music Review: Garrison Keillor With the New York Philharmonic 2012-10-17T22:06:47Z

Shortly after “Tár” opened, The Cut published an amusing, much-mocked article by Brooke LaMantia, who claimed to have watched the movie under the impression that Lydia Tár was a real person. One Indelible Scene: the Master Class in Ambiguity in ‘Tár’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

It didn’t hurt enough to cry, nor did I find it amusing enough to laugh. Among the native tribes in the Amazon Jungle

Not to be confused with the Madonna hit “Papa Don’t Preach,” the Loesser song was an amusing reminder that girls’ defiance of daddy’s rules began long before the 1980s. Michael Feinstein Salutes Sinatra at Birdland 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

She had phoned from Los Angeles, where she was on the first leg of her book tour, and was amusing herself by noting how her audiences were dividing themselves by Tendency. Whatever Happened to Just Being Type A? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

Italian rosés often are a bit heavy, so this amusing wine is a little unusual with its lively acidity. Sure, drink your rosé this summer. But try these bottles, too. 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Those with something to say, and with an amusing way of saying it, get noticed. YouTube + ukulele = YouKeleleMania 2011-05-06T16:32:05Z

He registers at first as an amiable host with an amusing line of patter about growing up Catholic in Denver. Review: Reliving a Childhood Interrupted in ‘The Tricky Part’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

Alec Baldwin spent some time online Tuesday night explaining himself after a morning run-in with police that resulted in two summonses for the actor and a subsequent amusing blurt by him on Twitter.  Alec Baldwin: 'I asked for no special treatment' from cops 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Milo grows up to become a louche moneybags played by Matt Smith, who’s best known for playing Prince Philip in “The Crown,” a bit of casting history that gives his role here amusing tang. ‘Morbius’ Review: The Other Bat, Man 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

Ms. Davis, a gifted film and stage actress, is quite persuasive and amusing as a Siberian Tiger Mom — she makes her children redo their homework and scorns the bland tastelessness of American potatoes. Hope Davis Stars in ‘Allegiance’ on NBC 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

This being a French movie, the Flaubert connection lends “Gemma Bovery” an amusing if pretentious intellectual gloss. Review: ‘Gemma Bovery,’ a Modern Sex Comedy With a Nod to Flaubert 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Another terrific sidebar, later in the film, has Hae-joon distracted and chasing after stolen soft-shell turtles, which generates an amusing sight gag. Park Chan-wook's mesmerizing "Decision to Leave" is a dreamy seduction that plays with our trust 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

“Left Exit,” which began with a kinetic, amusing solo from Mr. Curran and segued into a female quartet, offered a physical accompaniment to philosophers talking about religion, Romanticism and other big topics. Dance Review: An Intimate Setting For a Range of Intensity 2011-04-14T21:35:48Z

Yet it turns out there's little less amusing than being told something is a riot. The Hollywood comedies keeping it in the family 2013-05-02T17:33:16Z

It’s the kind of triumph that Globes fanciers find amusing, bemusing and exasperating – or, conceivably, an example of the way the Globes honourably strive to reward populist entertainment that audiences really, really like. Golden Globes 2016: just rewards for The Revenant – and an incredible coup for The Martian 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

Dr Seuss is so amusing and egalitarian and free-thinking and so unlike all the more respectable English books I was given and liked as a child. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z

“Having lived through apartheid, I found the art similarly evocative and powerful, but also amusing and full of satire,” he said. The Protest Art of Cuba Finds an Unlikely Champion 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

The only downside to the amusing moments she spends sparring with canny veteran Kline is that they mislead us as to where this film is going. Paris isn't enough of a diversion in weak 'My Old Lady' 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Oddly enough, there's also a kind of sweetness in the chaos of crushed heads, exploding viscera and mangled limbs, thanks mostly to Rutger Hauer, who plays the title character with amusing ironic detachment. 'Hobo with a Shotgun': Rutger Hauer is amusing as, well, a hobo with a shotgun 2011-05-26T20:22:51Z

It’s vaguely amusing, but like many sections in this work, which bounces from scenario to scenario, it switches gears too soon. Dance Review: Headlong Dance Theater at Danspace Project 2013-06-07T21:14:11Z

There's plenty that both kids and their parents will find genuinely amusing with an underlying story that is classically conceived and authentically poignant. 'Tangled': Disney's twist on Rapunzel is tressed for success 2010-11-23T21:57:00Z

It’s an amusing ending, but it’s also indicative of Mr. Magloire’s limited sense of drama when he attempts a narrative. Dance Review: Miro Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet at City Center 2013-09-08T21:50:52Z

David Cross turns in an amusing cameo as a wealthy mark. ‘Justified: City Primeval’ Review: Raylan Redux 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wilson, a naturally amusing screen presence, looks uneasy delivering relationship lines that could have been fed to him by Dr. Phil. | 'Hall Pass': Man-Child in the Promised Land, for a Whole (Pant! Pant!) Week 2011-02-24T22:54:48Z

Ivins wrote that these “strains lead to a form of sexism so deeply ingrained in the culture that it’s often difficult to distinguish the disgusting from the outrageous or the offensive from the amusing.” ‘Raise Hell’ Review: For Molly Ivins, Writing Was Fighting 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

It's an amusing shtick, which Wehn pulled off tonight with Teutonic efficiency – until interrupted by an abusive heckle, which provoked an "aaawww" of sympathy from others in the crowd. Henning Wehn ? review 2011-03-04T18:06:05Z

The literary aspirations that animate Jacobs-Jenkins’s young strivers, ambitions that in Act 1 seem amusing and benign, become twisted, even sick, in Act 2. Review | Tell your friends about the disturbing ‘Gloria,’ but do not tell them the plot. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

It’s the most amusing of the four documentaries, and even a little informative. Review: Chelsea Handler Chats Up Racism, Marriage and More 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

At his nicest Mr. Bowers is a pleasant fellow relating mildly amusing yarns. | 'Beyond Words': ?Beyond Words,? One-Man Show by Bill Bowers - Review 2011-10-19T23:04:39Z

I always saw “Liaisons” as more infantile than most people saw it, as more amusing and childish. A Conversation With: John Malkovich: John Malkovich on Casanova and Other Roles 2013-05-27T21:18:58Z

Mr. Baryshnikov, in a telephone interview, said he found the experience more amusing than upsetting. dance: Tharp Is Back Where the Air Is Rarefied 2010-03-05T21:17:00Z

Ms. LuPone does offer many amusing and unkind ones on the subject and spares a few for Glenn Close, who ultimately played the role in New York and never sent a conciliatory or friendly message. Books of The Times: Glory and Misery on the Way to Stardom 2010-10-07T22:52:00Z

An amusing side plot in the premiere involves the brats’ expulsion from preschool, where an administrator tells Laura the boys are no longer welcome. Debra Messing Stars in ‘The Mysteries of Laura’ 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

But finally, inevitably, he unloads on Brown, in a meltdown which is made all the more amusing by the fact that the medium is wearing a comedy flat cap throughout. Screen burn 2010-05-07T23:08:00Z

These visual puns continue throughout Picasso’s career, and they are particularly amusing when they reconfigure an easily recognizable object from the everyday world. In a MOMA retrospective, Picasso’s sculpture is still full of surprises 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

It’s an amusing tale for young audiences, ending with the expected messages about friendship and courage. Review: In ‘Teen Titans Go! To the Movies,’ It Takes a Superhero to Spoof One 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. McKay, with a comedy writer’s eye for archetypes, sorts them into an amusing array of strongly defined characters. Review: In ‘The Big Short,’ Economic Collapse for Fun and Profit 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

He's equally assured in the musical numbers, providing amusing caricatures of Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich along the way. Kelsey Grammer shines in "La Cage Aux Folles" 2010-04-20T01:27:00Z

She also knows Tao well and finds his dramatic ways amusing, especially when she can get a rise out of him with a dry, pointed remark about his love of "Donnie Darko." The best breakout TV performances of the year, from twins and vamps to werewolves and superheroes 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z

And none of them is as amusing as the giant bouncy balls in Total Wipeout that, I'm slightly ashamed to say, I never tire of. TV Review: 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow and Confessions of a Cannibal Convict 2010-07-12T05:45:00Z

This is not to say that there aren't some amusing moments that break through the Xanax mood. Cannes 2012: Cosmopolis – review 2012-05-25T11:16:33Z

In one amusing bit on Friday, he turned his impersonation skills on himself in meta fashion, doing impressions of a young Terry Fator trying to impersonate rock stars. Critic’s Notebook: Terry Fator’s Comic Style Successfully Plays to the Middle 2013-07-28T20:50:43Z

Others find humor and stress relief in a good laugh and an amusing practical joke. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: How do air fryers work? 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a tough premise to sustain for long, but an amusing one. ‘Selfie,’ ‘A to Z’ and Others Refresh the Romantic Comedy 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

“It’s a talent to put the words together in a way that we find amusing. It’s not exactly like you’re going to review the DMV to decide where you’re going to get your driver’s license.” How Was Your Experience? Please Rate the Entire World 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

But this high-grade pulp entertainment is too delectably amusing and self-amused, and far too aware of its own outrageous conceits to sustain such a dolorous verdict. Movie Review | 'The Ghost Writer': Writer for Hire Is a Wanted Man 2010-02-19T05:58:00Z

Mr. Strathairn is also amusing to watch in a role that, for him, is less buttoned up than usual. Television Review: Mind Over Crime for a Superpowered Team 2011-07-10T22:09:51Z

"I think he just found me amusing to have around. Our lives were not supposed to intersect in any way." How John Oliver started a revolution in US TV's political satire 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

Often the speaker was my father, sharing some amusing anecdote or bit of history. Personal Journeys: Walking Martha?s Vineyard 2011-08-12T18:55:00Z

It is her second celluloid collaboration with Vincent Paronnaud, following their hit animated feature “Persepolis,” but this time using more conventional sets and actors, although with many colorful, charming and amusing graphic touches. Film: At Venice Film Festival, Love, Sex and Bickering 2011-09-06T11:55:32Z

For Ms. Benglis, the fountain isn’t just an amusing sideline; it’s an expression of an essential intuition that we all are the offspring of the Great Mother. Review: Lynda Benglis Celebrates the Fluidity of Nature at Storm King 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

In the most obvious, but still amusing example, "Reclining Nude," she sets a large black amphora on its side atop a pedestal in the shape of a squat, white, fluted column. The sculptures of Cammie Staros contain beautiful wit 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

And what a group — an assortment of eccentric, tragic and highly amusing women trying to free themselves from their obsessive, self-destructive pursuit of awful men. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

Watching her rationalize a way out is amusing. ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette’ Review: She’s Hiding From Herself 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

The movement of one, in high heels, her short skirt swinging as she goes, has a slightly amusing quality, but what makes the moment comic is the contrast with the woman following her. The Art of Summer: Art of Summer: Grand Central?s Fluid Human Dance 2011-08-31T12:02:00Z

He also did an amusing skit with Mr. Hanks, a quick-change montage of scenes from Mr. Hanks’s most famous movies that allowed Mr. Corden to wear a blond wig to impersonate Meg Ryan. Review: James Corden Is Amiable, if Not Particularly Special, in ‘Late Late Show’ Debut on CBS 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

He's not trying for nuance or depth in these portrayals, which verge on cartoons if not cliches, and some of them are more amusing than others. Winning back the girl he left behind at 'The Pavilion' 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

In one amusing passage, he ignores advice to remain safely on the Colombian side of a border town, and attributes his decision to “my stunted but stubborn sense of Brazilian patriotism.” A Writer’s Trip Into the Amazon Reveals Brazil and Himself 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

One Bingham descendant said he found the hoax amusing, even if Mr. Gordon had falsified a portion of his family’s history. ‘I Cheated,’ Says Woodworker Who Fooled the Antiques Experts 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Adams also cut the “Spider Dance,” an amusing diversion that should have an afterlife as a short orchestral work, like “The Chairman Dances” from his “Nixon in China.” Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

The director having fun is the presiding feeling here — which may account for why the movie is so frequently amusing, and occasionally delightful. ‘Meg 2: The Trench’ Review: Gleefully Jumping the Shark 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

In and of itself, the back-and-forth is quite amusing, but it's also interesting to peel back the layers and ponder why social media users reacted the way they did to such a seemingly simple announcement. After Cracker Barrel adds vegan sausage, some say chain is too "woke" 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

But what you get with Jigsaw are performers who radiate enjoyment and ease with a crowd, and a hell-for-leather pace that means – however corny the last gag – something amusing is never far away. Jigsaw ? review 2011-08-22T17:00:08Z

Stephen Smith is our amusing guide into the world of Fabergé eggs, the jewelled creations synonymous with the Romanov dynasty of Russian tsars. TV highlights 25/06/2013 2013-06-25T06:00:03Z

And he gets up to amusing New Jersey style teenage pranks, just as Chase did. Q&A: Not Fade Away‘s David Chase, James Gandolfini and Steven Van Zandt 2013-01-03T13:00:30Z

But along the way to that problematic finale, “On Approval” stays classy and awfully amusing. Sparkling performances buoy revival of British comedy ‘On Approval’ 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

That said, despite the sex and chatter, which includes some amusing bossy instruction, it’s the sentiment that keeps you hooked. | 'Friends With Benefits': It?s Just Sex. We?re Just Friends. You Know the Rules. Etc., Etc. 2011-07-21T21:25:09Z

Admittedly, she made the most of that quality in “Bridesmaids,” in which she played a superficial, slightly snobby character; I found her Slavic-accented froideur opposite Melissa McCarthy in “Spy” similarly amusing and deceivingly well calibrated. Is it possible to be fair to actors we simply, irrationally just don’t like? 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

He also takes us through amusing experiments conducted to test human integrity, particularly when influenced by monetary gain. 'Truth About Lies' tells it like it is. Really 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The results were mixed, alternately amusing and annoyingly fragmented. Music Review: ?Sounds Reimagined: John Cage at 100? From Juilliard 2012-02-02T23:17:48Z

But even the most over-the-top scenes are fun to watch because Odenkirk's expressions are so dryly amusing. In the joyfully violent "Nobody," Bob Odenkirk channels his inner John Wick 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

It's been cheap, tawdry and only fitfully amusing. The Russian trailer for Jack Reacher, explained 2012-07-02T16:43:49Z

It's a rarely amusing movie overwhelmed by grating kids, unfunny sidekicks, halfhearted Sandler funny voices and a co-star who seems more fearful of smiling with each passing year. 'Just Go With It'? Sandler and Aniston should have said no 2011-02-10T18:11:03Z

It’s amusing that his interest in institutions is shared by TV, which uses hospitals, schools, law offices, police departments, etc., basically as genres for its sitcoms and soaps. A Movie House Divided 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Hope perfected the role of the nebbish hero, a weakling and liar who was also amusing and endearing because he showed a cleverness and persistence that triumphed over his vulnerability. Book review: ‘Hope’ by Richard Zoglin

Set It Up is amusing, but the film feels like 105 minutes of romcom deja-vu: mechanically effective, but devoid of any emotional clout. Can Netflix save us from the Great Romcom Shortage of 2018? I watched 11 films to find out 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

The shtick is amusing, but the melodramatic campiness lowers the dramatic stakes. Comedy for hypochondriacs: It's A Noise Within's 'The Imaginary Invalid' 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Reiser has some amusing moments, but his comedy would be better if it didn’t try so hard to copy the inimitable. Television Review: An Idle Star With Time for Trouble 2011-04-13T22:47:22Z

She was witty, well read and told amusing stories, such as her worst job as a teenager in Michigan: a house cleaner, scrubbing the toilets at the homes of the popular boys. Growing Older With Madonna 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Once Nils Neubert overcame his initial tentativeness in the title role, his attractive tenor, beautifully controlled vibrato and amusing, flexible portrayal of Pygmalion carried the evening. Music Review: Underworld Opera?s Multimedia Twist on ?Pygmalion? 2010-05-14T22:04:00Z

Despite its faults – the length and the occasional self-indulgence – this is a likeable, amusing read. Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero by Grant Morrison ? review 2011-07-21T09:00:01Z

That is basically a good thing but it is not amusing. I’m a lonely country girl 2013-06-05T00:00:00Z

As a broadcaster, he is famous for his high-energy commentary style and his propensity to mis-speak in an amusing manner. Murray Walker diagnosed with cancer 2013-06-17T19:14:24Z

It’s both amusing and frightening to watch these men adopt identical faraway stares. Werner Herzog’s Internet Visionaries 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Maybe what makes for amusing video isn’t the greatest argument for the beauty of the democratic process. That viral Idaho debate was not the “best ever” 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Though “Plain Bad Heroines” is endlessly amusing, cranks may claim it’s a bit too endless. Review | Emily M. Danforth’s ‘Plain Bad Heroines’ mixes up a delectable brew of gothic horror and Hollywood satire 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

They meet cute in the men's bathroom of a New York hotel, and the subsequent conversation is amusing and romantic. The Adjustment Bureau ? review 2011-03-03T22:15:01Z

He's unfulfilled professionally, advertising pear cider and making amusing remarks on the radio. Mark Watson ? review 2011-01-10T22:30:01Z

On radio, where tone is everything, he always nails it, amusing his older listeners without leaving the young ones out. Nick Grimshaw: Meet BBC's It-boy 2012-07-11T09:00:00Z

The film is occasionally amusing but rarely feels genuine. Review: In ‘Love the Coopers,’ a Dysfunctional Family Sits Down to Christmas Dinner 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

“After all, it’s a boathouse that looks like a boat. Imagine an airport that looks like a plane. Instead of amusing we wanted elegant.” Michael S. Smith Brings Art Deco Flair to a Waterfront Home 2014-05-12T04:00:00Z

Slate dithers and messes up with amusing abandon as “Obvious Child’s” heroine, a mouthy stand-up comedian. Critic’s Notebook: The sisters of summer

That devastating yet amusing experience grew into a theater piece, a book and then a documentary, in which both stars and civilians recounted their best getting-canned stories. Books Of Style: Annabelle Gurwitch’s New Book Asks Questions About Aging 2014-03-21T21:06:42Z

Bent Hamer’s “Home for Christmas” is a series of darkly amusing holiday vignettes that lighten up once they begin to intersect. The Week Ahead: April 24 ? 30 2011-04-22T14:36:40Z

But there are amusing twists, countless glamorous locations and certainly plenty of sex. Is Kay Burley's new book any good? 2011-03-30T19:30:00Z

They may have been terrible, these two, but from the evidence of the movie, they were fairly amusing company, intentionally or not. Review: ‘Legend,’ Starring Tom Hardy as the Gangster Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Jimmy Fallon is the executive producer of “Guys With Kids,” and some of the jokes are amusing, but the show is a traditional sitcom that looks slightly dated. Television Review: ‘The New Normal’ and ‘Guys With Kids’ Begin on NBC 2012-09-10T21:56:20Z

"The running saga of The Patty Winters Show summed it up for me – global poverty or Patrick Swayze's personality, all equally important and amusing, none of it real to someone in Bateman's position." American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

He does an amusing, if underdeveloped, riff on “The Lion King” and borrows from “Mormon” for the production’s showstopper, a tap sequence called, uh, “Stop.” Review: ‘Mean Girls’ Sets the Perils of Being Popular to Song 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

Many of the more than 100 entries are delightful – and amusing – from start to finish. Caspar Henderson: rereading The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges 2012-11-23T22:55:06Z

In an open letter to NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt, the Nobel Prize winners said that "preparing for war is neither amusing nor entertaining." Nobel laureates call for end to TV's "Stars Earn Stripes" 2012-08-14T00:26:36Z

Dickens started out as a parliamentary reporter, and the Pickwick Papers was originally a book of sartorial and amusing sketches. Charles Dickens bicentenary: Call for online editors to save forgotten journal 2011-08-06T21:28:35Z

It is always amusing to see the elements invoked in fashion; weather must seem like a distant distraction to people who spend all their time in spaces that are both climate- and reality-controlled. Review: With Weather as a Composed Prop 2011-01-15T20:42:43Z

From the name and the amusing cartoon on the label, you might expect this wine to scream at you, but it doesn’t. Review | At $12, these two white wines prove that pinot grigio doesn’t always mean boring 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

In other instances, a writer may simply be amusing herself. Sex, Lies and Infidelity on a Small College Campus 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

But push past the sometimes amusing asides and you’ll be rewarded with an intriguing and thorough look at the therapeutic possibilities of an illegal drug. ‘A Really Good Day’: One harried mom’s LSD experiment 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

I think that this will be a very amusing film – very erotic but very funny also. Lars von Trier to offer softcore and hardcore versions of Nymphomaniac 2011-08-02T12:43:30Z

Arm yourself as you light the grill, pull a sheet-pan dinner from the oven or baste the Thanksgiving turkey in its roasting pan with these amusing oven mitts. Cook Dinner Like a Warrior 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Bob’s play is entirely terrible and yet, unlike the play within a play in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” not especially amusing. Review: ‘The Groundling,’ a Backstage Farce With Heartbreak 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Manet’s adoring, amusing portraits of Morisot, one of the show’s better moments, attest to the influence of the newfangled camera and the dawning age of a fresh medium. Manet?s Reflections of Paris at a Cultural Peak 2011-05-16T13:33:21Z

What there is, for practical comedy-writing purposes, "nothing amusing about" is good role models: a caring, conscientious father who doesn't get into scrapes – that's the stuff of government information films, not funny programmes. Homer Simpson isn't a positive role model for kids? Eat my shorts… 2013-06-15T23:05:26Z

The movie touches on some worthy topics — sex, age, ego, desire, reason, insanity, death — but never focuses long on any of them: Some bits are amusing, most are simply tedious. Review: ‘The Genital Warriors’ Revisits Bygone Romances 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

There's also an amusing glossary of rap slang, which translates the likes of "move to me blud and ya click get shank" into gentlemanly English. Doc Brown 2010-08-08T14:45:00Z

"I've had a really fun life, and I hope it's interesting and amusing to read the story," she says. Known for photos, Vogue's Coddington pens memoir 2012-11-20T20:31:14Z

The first 15 minutes are really funny, the next 30 mildly amusing and the rest a bit of a bore. 'MacGruber': A bloated, juvenile, sometimes funny 'SNL' film 2010-05-21T16:32:00Z

The compact, intelligent Boston terrier — a.k.a. the American Gentleman, known for its amusing, bright and friendly personality — fit the bill. 'Feast': A doggie tale built around the dinner table 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

But it really gets amusing when you dig deeper into the archives, and the site starts suggesting Tanlines-appropriate movie playlists. Recommended For You: Tanlines' new Netflix parody site 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

If the family-dinner caricatures register as mildly amusing, the bit with the cop is played even more broadly. ‘Jersey Boys,’ Eastwood’s Take on Showbiz Myth 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Weird and amusing examples fill this chronicle of six kinds of innovation — glass, cold, sound, cleanliness, time and light. 50 notable works of nonfiction

I'm sure there are plenty of people who don't find certain passages in The Bell Jar as amusing as I do. Reading group: Is it OK to find The Bell Jar funny? 2013-01-31T11:37:44Z

A silly but amusing yarn about an English dandy who takes charge of a weekly publication in New York and produces campaigning pieces about the slums. Tom Rachman's top 10 journalist's tales 2011-07-27T11:26:31Z

Their houses and social life clicked along on well-greased rails: the vases filled daily with fresh flowers, the refrigerators stocked with Bill’s favorite snacks, the dining table circled with amusing guests. ‘The Swans of Fifth Avenue’ review: Would you trust Truman Capote? 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Writing upbeat topical comedy during the least amusing week in recent memory is just plain stupid. Is it good news that there's so many topical comedy shows? 2011-03-25T11:24:18Z

It is amusing to watch her dispatch a rude neighbor, or a man who called Femke something he would never say to or about his girlfriend. In dark comedy "The Columnist," a reporter finds that dealing with online trolls is literal murder 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

The letters, at turns chatty, amusing, and touching, offer a glimpse into Hemingway’s more private self. ArtsBeat: JFK Library Unveils Hemingway Letters 2012-03-28T19:57:08Z

Probably the best way to experience “Warcraft,” a generally amusing and sometimes visually arresting absurdity, is stoned. Review: In ‘Warcraft,’ Orcs of a Different Domain, Fighting With Heart 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

I found it a little amusing there were no pronunciation hints for Lagavulin unlike the others. The Whisky Chronicles 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

“The Suicide Squad” dutifully serves up the same evergreen fantasy with amusing flourishes, disappointing stunt choreography and much cartoonish slicing and dicing. ‘The Suicide Squad’ Review: Train Them! Excite Them! Arm Them! 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

I never liked "Mad About You" and find Reiser only fitfully amusing. Could Paul Reiser destroy NBC? 2011-03-23T14:01:00Z

When he drifts into attempted solemnity it’s usually more amusing than his actual attempts at humor. Hustler’s denigrating S.E. Cupp “satire” 2012-05-24T20:30:00Z

For the second time, Michael Kors narrated an amusing, informative, salon-style presentation in his showroom, which allowed for an up-close appreciation of his luxuriously relaxed collection. | The Top Five Fall/Winter 2014 Men’s Wear Shows in New York 2014-02-14T22:00:19Z

Churchwell fills out her account with amusing period paraphernalia, such as Fitzgerald's recipe for bathtub gin, or a list of the era's new terminology: "cool", "slick", "mass media", "ritzy", "merchant bank". Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell – review 2013-06-29T08:00:35Z

"It's amusing when you say it," he said unsmilingly. Tracklists of my tears 2010-06-09T11:05:00Z

Only when Berenger finds himself falling instantly for the Architect’s secretary does Mr. Shannon’s performance spark into amusing life, as Berenger groans in joy at every odd word she throws his way. In ‘The Killer,’ Ionesco’s Everyman Seeks a Source of Evil 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

Furthermore, he found time to jokingly promote gun-ownership – hugely amusing for the parents at Sandy Hook, no doubt. Morrissey accuses Jimmy Kimmel of 'reliving the intellectual fog of the 1950s' 2013-02-28T11:44:55Z

The screenwriter of "Sleepless in Seattle" and "When Harry Met Sally" can apparently make anything amusing, as she proves again in her most recent book, "I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections." The Week Ahead: 'Wittenberg' and Ralph Lemon are A&E highlights 2010-11-14T05:01:00Z

And then of course there’s clowning, which she started doing in college, amusing obnoxious kids for beer money. ‘Welcome to Clowntown’ Review: Raunchy Stories and Giant Balloon Animals 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

Brooks acknowledges his tweets are "like a commercial" but says he at least "tries to be amusing." Albert Brooks: You're all on Twitter probation 2011-05-11T20:22:23Z

The average visit to Walt Disney World or any similar theme park isn’t a profound experience, but it’s an amusing enough diversion. ‘Happyland,’ MTV’s New Scripted Series 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

But since the release of Fyre Fraud, what started as an amusing example of corporate one-upmanship has morphed into a larger referendum on the ethics of both films. Fighting Fyre with Fyre: the story of two warring festival documentaries 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

They are absorbing and amusing to study, but it’s in her films that Ms. Cao most vividly projects her haunting, sad vision of modern malaise. Cao Fei Captures Modern Malaise in a Series of Inventive Videos 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

And if the outcome was materially affected by her amusing piece of self-promotion, shame on the self-important boobies who run the Academy. Oscars 2011: Melissa Leo takes the low road to success 2011-02-25T21:00:01Z

And describing the heat level you prefer in words for takeout orders can be amusing for the kitchen staff as they struggle to translate “sort of spicy, spicy but not over-the-top spicy.” Sriracha has moved into the American mainstream: What hot Asian ingredients are next? 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

And while the beaming Jimmy Carter puppet that Lisa Anne Auerbach made in fourth grade is pretty amusing, “My Kid Could Do That” does also offer some deeper insights. 'My Kid Could Do That': See the childhood art of Ruscha, Opie, Aitken and others on view in L.A. 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

The more eccentric the destination, the more amusing is the language. Why We Build by Rowan Moore – review 2013-01-06T00:08:47Z

For Mr. Johns, 79, the experience has been amusing — to a point. Glyn Johns Doesn’t Get Why People Like His Look in ‘Get Back’ 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

My wife thought that was sort of amusing. Modern Love: He Had Her Attention, and Then He Lost It 2010-04-16T20:55:00Z

References to the search for Carlyle turn up throughout, enhanced by the amusing use of Skype calls projected on a video screen. Review: ‘Mrs. Smith’s Broadway Cat-Tacular!,’ a Ziegfeld-Style Portrait 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

The angle was an amusing one: that poets dislike talking about their work. What the Poetry Book Society means to poets 2011-04-05T08:56:01Z

Mr. Andriessen was on hand for an amusing interview with Robert Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch Records, and the club was packed. Music Review: Louis Andriessen Series Continues at Le Poisson Rouge 2010-04-19T21:58:00Z

The film breaks the fourth wall from time to time to explain the terminology and social customs of Koreatown, which is amusing but disruptive, too. Review: In ‘Ktown Cowboys,’ Men on the Prowl in Koreatown 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

The results, while occasionally forced, are consistently amusing. Burlesque Review: Dances with Divas 2010-11-24T07:00:00Z

That's never a big problem, because – even if I find the abusiveness a little wearing – Helm's needy brute persona is itself amusing. Nick Helm ? review 2011-08-10T16:53:22Z

The whole movie is very 2009, which is amusing and puzzling and possibly kind of a relief, given what “very 2019” might look like. ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ Review: Back to Crack Wise and Crush Skulls 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

It’s a severe, impenetrable display belying their amusing album titles, including their 2011 disc, “Hardcore Will Never Die, but You Will.” Pop & Rock Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:39:49Z

In response to e-mail questions, David Weiss wrote that his father had found Shuster’s drawings “amusing but not a big deal.” Model for Superman Comes to Center for Jewish History 2013-01-02T23:08:29Z

When a company initiates a conversation — as it did with Baker, the JetBlue customer — it’s amusing and engaging. That saucy, borderline NSFW email? It’s from your airline. 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

It's got about as much substance as a snowflake, but it's amusing and distinctive, and makes a great introduction to this poky but stylish new King's Cross comedy space. Rory Sheridan's Tales of the Antarctic – review 2012-09-25T17:06:09Z

In the words of Prince Orlofsky, “And this is amusing why?” Opera Review: Die Fledermaus at the Met, via Douglas Carter Beane 2014-01-01T16:04:50Z

In the above case, I think it is the word "amusing". Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries 2010-10-01T23:05:00Z

The show is a lighthearted autobiography in which Mr. Tune, accompanied on piano by Michael Biagi, breezes through 20 songs stitched together by amusing anecdotes and brief tap routines. Music Review: Tommy Tune at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-11-22T21:31:29Z

He's is subtly amusing in a role that requires him to spend much of the play reacting to Rylance in silent fury. Rylance shines in Broadway-bound comedy 'La Bete' 2010-07-08T13:16:00Z

The brightly attractive color of the hat and some pink accents here and there provide the only color in Joyner’s amusing black-and-white cartoon-style illustrations. Review | A celebration of that famous pink hat and other best books for young readers 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

“Breaking In” isn’t memorable in any way, but it’s fast-paced and easy to watch, with some amusing secondary characters. Television Review: Devilish Job, for a Slacker or a Schemer 2011-04-05T21:01:58Z

Mr. David is the reverse: he makes glancing allusions to books and movies and relies on his own amusing, unexpected flights of fancy. Television Review: ‘Clear History,’ Starring Larry David, on HBO 2013-08-09T21:51:47Z

As Molière wrote, “The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.” Brilliant compendium of ‘Truth Facts’ shows us how silly we all can be 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

To paraphrase a Thrifty Vinyl post, it is an amusing distraction from the sure knowledge of life's arbitrary but unceasing vortex towards moral, spiritual and, ultimately, physical nothingness. Blog jam: Thrifty Vinyl 2012-05-31T14:45:04Z

For nearly 10 years and more than 1,400 episodes, Colbert remained a constantly amusing and insightful part of our national dialogue. Conservatives just aren’t funny: Why the right will never have its own Stephen Colbert 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

They offer nice moments to-- well, I was going to say nice moments to sit back and watch a moment of amusing television, but I always use that time for preparation. ArtsBeat: Emmys Watch: Don Roy King on Directing 'Saturday Night Live' 2012-09-14T17:53:03Z

There’s no mistaking their contrariness in this amusing show from South Korea, which combines polished illusion, Chaplinesque comedy and old-fashioned circus arts into a 70-minute whirl. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

The light, amusing bits cannot overcome the grinding, hectic emptiness, the bloated cynicism that is less a shortcoming of this particular film than a feature of the genre. Movie Review: Robert Downey Jr. in ?The Avengers,? Directed by Joss Whedon 2012-05-04T13:44:22Z

Tender and outlandishly amusing at its best, "Up Here" is a work in progress that, like its protagonist, shouldn't be dismissed because of a mixed first impression. 'Frozen' team premieres 'Up Here,' a quirky, pleasing, undercooked musical 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

The film’s man-horse hybrid is one of its most amusing creations. 2010-02-11T23:49:00Z

Mr. Baldessari’s excursions into Conceptual photography leave few stones unturned and are consistently amusing. Art Review: Tweaking Tradition, Even In Its Temple 2010-10-21T21:30:00Z

“Owner’s Manual,” a reality show that starts on Thursday on AMC, sounds like such an amusing idea. Television Review: ‘Owner’s Manual,’ a Reality Show, Makes Its Debut on AMC 2013-08-14T23:04:16Z

They are witty and waggish and wildly amusing. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Finally, a proven method to show just how funny I am 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Despite the misery they were borne out of, the drawings were both bizarre and amusing. Nan Goldin Survived an Overdose to Fight the Opioid Epidemic 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

The results can be brilliant, amusing, infuriating or all of the above. Dance Listings for Oct. 14-20 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

She was also an accomplished artist, as was evident from her amusing illustrations, such as a Christmas card showing Martians on canals. Sir Patrick Moore 2012-12-09T16:19:01Z

Her evenings are spent in the pub with a cast of amusing characters: tall Mr Hughes, short Mr Hughes and Septic Barry and his Children from Previous Relationships. Rachel Trezise's top 10 Welsh underground novels 2010-05-19T07:56:00Z

There are some amusing moments, especially involving Mr. Gad, who was a star of “The Book of Mormon” and adds his own idiosyncratic idiocy to the proceedings. Television Review: ‘1600 Penn,’ on NBC, With Pullman, Gad and Elfman 2013-01-09T18:12:03Z

The "Material Girl" sounded lukewarm in U.S. interviews released on Friday, calling her influence on Gaga's music "interesting" and "amusing." Madonna not totally sharing the love with Lady Gaga? 2012-01-13T19:43:36Z

Her “journey through the world of Jane Austen fandom” is amusing and sometimes mind-boggling. The Austen Legacy: Why and How We Love Her, What She Loved 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

But his premature mastery of the standup arts guarantees an amusing hour. Kevin Bridges 2010-08-16T16:31:00Z

Its shadowy thrift-store design evokes a weirdly amusing mood of giddy, maniacal desperation. Critic’s Notebook: The Rise of the Anti-Talk Show 2012-06-07T21:51:11Z

Its object of adoration is Mr. Harnick, now 86, who joined her onstage and offered gentle, amusing reminiscences of his musical-theater career. Music Review: Showering the Songwriter With Love and His Words 2011-03-09T22:38:43Z

Jonathan’s love of offbeat and oddball culture is what earned him the title “American cinema’s king of amusing artifacts.” Jonathan Demme: The mentor, the maestro, the model 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush, who may very well get another nomination for his work in "The King's Speech," is slumming here as the town drunk, and a not very amusing one at that. 'The Warrior's Way': Cowboys vs. Ninjas, oh my 2010-12-03T17:25:00Z

His efforts to get help from Shankar were unsuccessful—and amusing in retrospect. Works of Glass 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

But many of them were amusing, in a beetle-browed grandpa sort of way. In defense of Andy Rooney 2011-09-28T13:29:00Z

Adam Record illustrates this amusing turnabout with zest. Picture books for children – reviews 2013-07-27T13:00:01Z

It is amusing and at times moving to see the older and younger versions of key characters as they rewrite a bit of X-Men history. 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' revives mutants' fighting spirit 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

The quality of the moderators from year to year is volatile but in general the jokes are funny, at least amusing. 5 Ways to Fix the Oscar Ceremony 2010-03-08T15:22:00Z

During the day, they ate underground, worked underground, amusing themselves as they worked by telling stories to one another. Raising a black son in the US: ‘He had never taken a breath, and I was already mourning him’ 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z

Some of the most amusing videos on the site target the theatre industry itself. Noises off: Michael Billington gets the animation treatment 2010-12-10T14:12:00Z

With a keen eye for the amusing, and humanizing, detail, he enlivens the traditional rise-and-fall narrative. Was Bugsy Siegel the ‘Supreme Gangster’? A Biography Makes the Case 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Not only was he invaluable to the composer, but a good friend to many – shy, modest, giggly and amusing. Michael Tillett obituary 2010-03-17T18:32:00Z

Besides, Tom is bored, and Baba is amusing. Music Review: In Yielding to Temptation, Losing a Chance at True Love 2011-06-27T21:19:10Z

“California” is certainly amusing, though not conventional, neither of which comes as a surprise from Harnetiaux. Review: In ‘California,’ a Road Trip and a Detour Into Darkness 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wegman made his reputation in the early 1970s as a pioneering if invariably amusing and accessible multimedia artist of the Conceptual kind. Art Review: ‘William Wegman: Hello Nature’ at Bowdoin College Museum 2012-08-16T17:46:55Z

And indeed, Arena Stage’s “The Shoplifters” does start off on an amusing footing, with Houdyshell in the role of a light-fingered grocery shopper named Alma caught in the act of stealing a steak. Slight ‘Shoplifters’ alights at Arena Stage

So it’s disappointing that Jack Ferver’s “I Want You to Want Me” is little more than an occasionally amusing comedy sketch. Review: An Innocent Abroad (Beware the Boss’s Bite) 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

Strong's judge character says she finds the trial "amusing . . . You bad, Captain Jack." SNL’s disturbing mockery of the problems of the Heard-Depp trial makes itself part of the problem 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

It was amusing, however, to learn why Mr. Skrein’s scientist wants to explore his prisoner’s brain: He wants to decode human thoughts into algorithms. Netflix Roulette, Where the Movies Never End 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

And it was one of the more amusing awards shows because of it. The TV Watch: A Night for Saluting Women at the Golden Globes 2013-01-14T05:06:00Z

So I thought this was going to be the same thing again, but it was funnier and more amusing than I expected. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Jeffrey Eugenides 2012-01-31T22:27:19Z

Someone in the audience loudly whooped his approval, and Dudamel amusing raised his fist in acknowledgement. Dudamel gives Schubertian tragedy a surprising buoyancy 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

It's set in the 14th congressional district of North Carolina, which is quite amusing, since there isn't one: North Carolina only has 13. An American studies professor's view on The Campaign 2012-10-29T17:39:34Z

It declares "preparing for war is neither amusing nor entertaining." Desmond Tutu calls for axing 'Stars Earn Stripes' 2012-08-13T20:40:10Z

In his equally amusing, fascinating and moving new book, Rabin chronicles his week in Ohio, attending both the annual Gathering of the Juggalos and the Republican National Convention. Who’s the real insane clown posse? Trump fans give Juggalos a run for their money in “7 Days in Ohio” 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

A polished, amusing host and all-around entertainer, Mr. Caruso and his sidekick, the formidably talented pop-jazz pianist and singer Billy Stritch, are true believers in old-fashioned vaudeville-descended entertainment as panacea and escape. Music Review: ‘Jim Caruso’s Cast Party Goes to the Movies!’ in Songbook Series 2014-03-09T21:04:08Z

Mr. Gray’s walk on the red carpet was pleasantly routine — at once hectic and controlled, amusing and bizarre. Critic’s Notebook: James Gray Makes His Way on the Cannes Star Circuit 2013-05-26T21:37:19Z

They didn’t worry about the correct way to do things, just on amusing one another. The Secret Weapons of ‘Broad City’ Make Fine Art From Crude Humor 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

It was amusing how these self-involved singers took the time to share with us their internal experience of each number, and their sweet thank yous effectively tied off each comic segment. DanceNow Festival Keeps Performances Short and Snappy 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

The director Roar Uthaug knows how to work on a sizable scale as he proved in “The Wave,” an amusing nail-biter about a tsunami that sweeps away a Norwegian paradise. Review: ‘Tomb Raider’ and the Perils of Blockbustering 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Kevin Smith has made some amusing films in his day but is incapable of breathing life into this soggy script and its dismal characters. Cop Out 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z

Cohen also found it amusing that the song received so much attention, because his record label refused to release the album it was originally on. 25 of the most covered songs in music history 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

"This almost-wordless book reveals the unlikely nighttime adventures of a band of amusing animals who borrow a child's sled to swoosh down hills in the snowy moonlight." Top 10 books for babies 2012-05-26T03:53:36Z

I found myself not finding myself amusing and finding other people way funnier. Sitcom stars get serious about comedy 2010-06-08T06:44:00Z

It’s such a horrifyingly casual display that it becomes grimly amusing before it turns devastating. Visiting the African-American Museum: Waiting, Reading, Thinking, Connecting, Feeling 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z

Robust sex and amusing plotting follow, as we would expect from a writer who in her other life is the daughter of the poet Robert Bly and a professor of English literature at Fordham. A Roundup of the Season’s Romance Novels 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

They chatted briefly over wine, and Mr. Chisolm began amusing Ms. Hamilton, who is of Jamaican descent, by speaking in his best Patois accent. Unreliable Witnesses to Their Own Meeting? 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z

It’s amusing when, like human delivery trucks, they say, “backing up” while backing up, amusing when “going forward” progresses to “penetrating, penetrating.” Dance Review: ?The White Box Project? by No?mie LaFrance - Review 2011-09-11T21:55:11Z

“Natasha, Pierre ... “ balances amusing antics and satire, with real feeling and heart. Natasha, Pierre, Imelda Marcos and you: Immersive new Off-Broadway musicals 2013-07-11T19:25:59Z

What is amusing is the baby Skinny must protect. 'The Warrior's Way': Cowboys vs. Ninjas, oh my 2010-12-03T17:25:00Z

At its best, "Tales of the Night" offers a gently amusing cycle of traditional storytelling and a sumptuous feast for the eyes. 'Tales of the Night': Striking visuals brighten animated vignettes 2012-11-15T21:32:05Z

Mr. Markson excavated the history of literature and art for eerily resonant and often amusing, petty or scandalous tidbits of biography and juxtaposed them with declarations about the narrator’s state of mind. David Markson, Postmodern Novelist, Dies at 82 2010-06-08T03:22:00Z

Mordantly amusing ordeals are a specialty on “Breaking Bad,” which begins its fourth season on July 17. Magazine Preview: The Dark Art of ?Breaking Bad? 2011-07-06T12:20:00Z

And in place of program notes, a smoothly flowing, occasionally amusing narration — delivered by the actress , the singer Robert Cuccioli and Mr. Anagnost — discussed the works and their historical contexts. Music Review: Little Orchestra Society Takes Flight at Tully Hall 2010-04-27T22:12:00Z

The movie is by turns grim, grimly amusing and romantic, sometimes at once. Review: In ‘Cymbeline,’ a Drug Kingpin 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Bennett and Davies are less sports analysts than cultural observers, looking for amusing ways to frame the most compelling story lines of the tournament. ‘Men in Blazers,’ a Whimsical Soccer Show on ESPN 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

I found the style ridiculous and repellant, too, but I never thought anyone would make a move as hostile and amusing as pulling those sleeves down on another person, on TV. Without Dave: Life After “Late Show with David Letterman” 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

The Alienist is a sharp and amusing work that uses irony and false leads to good effect. The Alienist by Machado de Assis – review 2012-12-23T00:10:26Z

Only a few scenes fail to draw laughs in a movie that’s unexpectedly smart and consistently amusing. Review: In ‘Slow Learners,’ Aspirational Hedonists Doff Their Glasses 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

I found that amusing as on FiveBooks we describe the contents of books. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z

The quality of moderators is volatile from year to year but in general the jokes are funny, at least amusing. 5 Ways to Fix the Oscar Ceremony 2010-03-08T15:22:00Z

The most amusing sequence is on video, and involves her waving a microphone in the face of confused pedestrians, without ever inviting them to speak. Charlyne Yi 2010-08-09T16:29:00Z

Perhaps the most readily amusing of the gang is Santa, or, as he is more geographically named here, North. Review: 'Guardians' a lively 3-D storybook spree 2012-11-19T22:31:05Z

At first, Natalie, 38, felt guilty for enjoying seeing long-distant loved ones and giggling at amusing stories she had never heard about her mom. Perspective | Ask yourself: What are you grateful for? 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

In fact, the book itself becomes something of a ramble around its subject, though it is often amusing and informative. Ramble On by Sinclair McKay – review 2012-06-22T21:55:19Z

Or is he just amusing himself, and us? International Thrillers Favor Trysts over Treason 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

The “amuse bouche” was suitably amusing, but as the minutes ticked past, the excitement dimmed. Why Gourmet Food and a Table Full of Kids Don't Mix 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

It’s impossible to know if he is making an ideological point, amusing himself, or whether he actually means it. 'I was very angry' – the last interview with Jonas Mekas, godfather of avant garde film 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

This man who is often so unintentionally funny in the purportedly serious setting of national politics was, one on of the funniest shows on TV, rarely even amusing. Thanks for nothing, “SNL” and Donald Trump: Welcome to the nightmare of “equal time” for these GOP candidates 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

There are some amusing moments, to be sure, and some touching ones as well, but the film is less interested in ideas or emotions than in illusions. Review: ‘Dior and I,’ a Documentary That Peers Into a Storied Fashion House 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

It is a funny book with amusing pictures and me laugh a great deal! Daisy and the Trouble with life by Kes Gray - review 2013-01-12T09:00:00Z

Upon successful registration, I chose "GobletWatch" as the most amusing of the offered user names, bringing to mind some sort of magical neighbourhood surveillance group. Pottermore: my quest to find the magical quill 2011-08-02T16:07:02Z

Re: Hurtful, not dry: When I'm about to say something wildly amusing but kinda mean, I offer my husband the option of the good answer or the evil answer. Carolyn Hax: Mother-in-law doesn’t have a filter, so run her words through yours 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

But as much as one might want to hold Linton in contempt, she generates a few real chuckles in this sporadically amusing comedy-romance, which is being released on demand just in time for Valentine's Day. With "Me You Madness," Steve Mnuchin's wife creates a bold, bipartisan comedy to annoy us all 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

"Taking people for idiots can be amusing," continued. Is France in the grip of an existential crisis? 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z

It’s occasionally amusing and fairly well-written, but it tries so very hard to be cute and clever. Monday TV Picks: the new ‘King & Maxwell’ on TNT 2013-07-12T20:31:23Z

The midcentury middlebrow was defined most incisively by Russell Lynes, a brilliant magazine editor and pop sociologist whose 1949 Harper’s essay “Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow” remains instructive and amusing to this day. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

The stories are usually lively and amusing, particularly Ms. Auster-Rosen’s recounting of a “pagan ritual” she attended. Theater Review: ?From the Same Cloth? at the Shell Theater 2012-04-10T20:51:07Z

This one's focused on the Twilight saga but crams in barely amusing gags about Twitter, Lady Gaga, Lindsay Lohan and others. This week's new films 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

There are lots of folk art in the show, including a lovely and amusing quilt bearing a pattern of black elephants on an intricately stitched red field. At Armory’s Winter Antiques Show, Volumes of Variety 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

This Pepperland has been overrun by the Blue Meanies, who number among the most amusing villains in all of cinema. The return of “Yellow Submarine”: Why even people who aren’t Beatles mega-fans love it 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

One amusing aspect of the staging deserves mention. Opera Review: Traveling Through Time With 'Eugene Onegin' 2011-06-28T12:00:06Z

This amusing newspaper novel from 1967 is set in the era when "Fleet Street" was a real place. Tom Rachman's top 10 journalist's tales 2011-07-27T11:26:31Z

It was an amusing and resonant, if not remarkable, touch. Music Review: ?Don Giovanni? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-10-14T18:50:40Z

In the amusing, mildly raunchy Paris film her heroine Marion takes her American Jewish boyfriend to meet her eccentric French family. 2 Days in New York ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:44Z

Better, as is the case here, to laugh at amusing people even as you see the perils of letting them run your life and your money. Abraham makes 'Merchant' a memorable show 2011-03-18T21:06:11Z

And so it is that my editor, Tom the Butcher, recently came up with a nifty plan that all my friends and colleagues thought was really amusing. Weingarten: Can’t get no SATisfaction

The conversations presented here as amusing really do amuse. Dangers Close to Home: Four New Domestic Thrillers 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

The scene of Ian’s tossing the documents doesn’t register; a visual gag involving flutes of champagne, which is predictable but promises to be amusing, is flubbed in the editing. Review: ‘Special Correspondents’ Stars a Fumbling Ricky Gervais 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

The press corps, I found, was flawed, amusing, smart, fumbling, witty – and a range of adjectives beyond. Tom Rachman's top 10 journalist's tales 2011-07-27T11:26:31Z

He finds it painful to see this memento of colonialism and bondage turned into an amusing bibelot, but he also loves the woman in whose household it is displayed. How Moving to France and Having Children Led a Black American to Rethink Race 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Even "Modern Family," a two-time Emmy winner as best comedy, has relied on ads that were more eye-catchingly elaborate than amusing. Make 'em laugh: Emmy marketing campaigns try humor 2012-06-15T02:06:38Z

That side of the show, with Natasha looking into the life of the woman who was responsible for the baby just before her, is amusing in an off-handed way. ‘The Baby’ Review: That Kid’s a Monster. No, Literally. 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

They were invented by 15th-century fops who sat around amusing themselves with terms like a “murder” of crows, a “parliament” of owls or an “ostentation” of peacocks. From a giggle of girls to an infirmary of punchlines

And they shoved in a few outtakes at the end that are slightly more amusing than the gags they actually included in “Scary Movie 5.” ‘Scary Movie 5’: Plenty of pop-culture references, nary a laugh 2013-04-12T17:33:46Z

While it’s mentioned briefly in the book, along with a few people’s other really awful travel experiences, Mr. Lansky is careful to acknowledge that there is nothing remotely amusing about them. On the Road: ?Titanic Awards? Catalogs the Misery of Travel 2010-05-18T01:40:00Z

It’s amusing, though at this point not blazingly original. Review: ‘One Hand Clapping,’ a Darkly Comic Story of Consumerism 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

The angles defy gravity enough to be amusing at times, but they can also look like painful contortions. Two Artists, Two Views of the Human Figure 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

So when Frankie’s amusing scam starts to crumble — as it must — it’s Rex who breaks your heart. Crime fiction: Pretentious writers get their comeuppance 2014-02-05T23:37:04Z

Together, they make for an amusing odd couple: She’s poised and deliberate; he’s frenetic verging on feral. Where’s the Party? Ask Benny Blanco. 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Shepard stars as a guy in witness protection who took the name Charlie Bronson - just why is one of the subtly amusing bits of "Hit & Run." Review: Shepard gives a good chase in 'Hit & Run' 2012-08-21T13:12:20Z

It's very acute, isn't it, but who was he supposed to be amusing instead? TV review: The Impressionists; The Marriage Ref 2011-07-16T20:02:01Z

Cricket Azima does just that, though she doesn’t write amusing rhymes about broccoli and beans; she shows how to enjoy them in kid-friendly fare. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

I also find it amusing that these topics trended during a time when everyone is fighting so hard for America to be identified as "post racial" since the election and reelection of President Barack Obama. 'Black people activities' versus 'white people activities'? Give me a break 2013-03-10T15:40:37Z

Radnor's script is competent and mildly amusing -- even if the whole subplot about the lost black kid stretches credibility to the breaking point -- and I think he's a promising director. "Happythankyoumoreplease": "How I Met Your Mother" star's likable film debut 2011-03-04T18:26:00Z

Watching Elliot and his fellows stumble determinedly through shoots, pleasantly delusional about the movie’s prospects, is mildly amusing, a testament to indie film’s appeal for a certain hardy strain of dreamer. Review: ‘Kung Fu Elliot’ Documentary Follows a Martial Arts Enthusiast 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

With the director Scott Burkell she has conceived an amusing, savvy show around her formative years. Music Review: Marin Mazzie’s Cabaret Show at 54 Below 2012-09-06T21:48:53Z

Minor White, showing off his righty stance, and hiding his body and the strike zone beneath a shawl, proclaims, cryptically, “Baseball is an amusing anecdote about beautiful women.” Baseball Cards for the Photography Set 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

The “extremely private” Mr. Lourd, she added, “finds Bruce’s flashy surface amusing.” The Charmed Life of Bruce Bozzi 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

The ensembles, for the most part, are deftly written and amusing. Music Review: Love Beats Science in a Spoof by Menotti 2011-08-14T22:00:12Z

The most appealing character is Jonah himself, who is amusing and observant but also a believable teen who can’t avoid trouble. Review | Jane Smiley reviews a novel so intimate and familiar it’s almost as though you’re eavesdropping 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z

First you must watch a series of amusing movies by Mr. Sachs in which basic, often nonsensical tenets and rules of his enterprise are explained in a deadpan delivery mimicking that of real training films. Art Review: Tom Sachs, ‘Space Program: Mars,’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-05-24T22:30:07Z

That way, when the aliens come looking for some mildly amusing anecdotes to take back to their planet when they blow ours to smithereens, this one will be primed and ready to go. David Spade: This is why Eddie Murphy hated me, wouldn’t come back to “Saturday Night Live” 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

And they mined the tapes for amusing bits of between-takes studio chatter, which are sprinkled throughout the show. In Las Vegas, All You Need Is ‘Love’ and Eight Million Beatles Fans 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

When I finally got a return flight to New York, the skeleton seemed considerably less amusing. There’s a Skeleton in My Closet, Literally 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Weidenfeld & Nicolson; £25 A cruel history of hereditary power, by a master storyteller who lifts this unfamiliar narrative with vivid, amusing and surprising details. High fliers 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

It looks quite amusing, with rooms chaotically decorated by local artists, and a charming, if rather shambolic, young man called Justin running the place. TV review: The Secret Tourist and The Hotel Inspector 2010-07-30T07:00:00Z

When I asked him about following the Twitter account, he was calm, denied anything beyond a healthy interest in her and that she’s amusing, so he enjoys following her. My BF went Twitter-crazy 2012-10-17T00:00:00Z

Why bother, when confounding the perpetrators with their absurdity is far more amusing? Amazon's "One Mississippi" exudes calm confidence in its second season 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

And for all of the complaints about their treatment, some found it amusing. In Paris, Dior, San Laurent and Their New Designers 2012-10-03T22:25:55Z

Somehow, files containing the fates of these two chefs must have ended up on the desk of some cosmic prankster who decided it would be amusing if they switched places, “Freaky Friday”-style. Alfred Portale Writes a Second Act, in Italian 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

An accidentally Wes Anderson world is an amusing idea, partly because his films can outwardly seem somehow removed from life despite their agonies, broken hearts, dashed dreams and nuclear weapons. ‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

There are at least two OnlyFans references, neither of which is funny, plus a dumb running joke about edibles in cupcakes that might have been amusing 30 years ago, but is tired now. In "White Men Can't Jump" remake, Sinqua Walls outshines Wesley Snipes' original basketball hustler 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z

The songs were interspersed with amusing personal anecdotes, some of which will probably be included in a memoir she is writing. Music Review: Barbara Cook, at 86, Swings at Symphony Space 2014-04-27T20:09:14Z

On the page, the passage seemed grimly amusing; in performance, it was hilarious. Guardian book club: The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore 2010-04-23T23:07:00Z

It may seem amusing to encounter that urge in 1949, an age of full-on American Greatness and Permanent Winning, as I’m sure our current president would agree. Trapped in a cave: A true story with mythic roots and symbolic power 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

Some of the wordplay may be clever, but the attempts at witty repartee aren’t sharp enough to be remotely amusing. Review: A Chilly ‘Miss Sloane’ Makes a Lecture out of Lobbying 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

“The show was amusing in spots, though the avant-campists might contend it really wasn’t bad enough to be excellent.” Friday File: Recalling Batman’s Star Turn at Shea Stadium in ’66 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

The Good Place” draws back the curtain of societal solipsism to point this out, amusing us as it indicts — but in a friendly way, and without judgment. None of us are getting in The Good Place: NBC's comedy exposes the impossibility of virtue today 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

So the public image of Keith as a political lightning rod is amusing to some of his collaborators. Toby Keith was a loud political voice in the Bush years. What about the Trump era? 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

And while all of the amusing oddness successfully depicts the madness of grief and the complexities of millennial relationships, it does so to the detriment of the play’s message and the production’s intrigue. Review: A Drowsy Night at ‘Grief Hotel’ 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

Marie is assigned to travel with her country’s prize kilo to an international conference on weights and measures in France, which sets up an amusing airport-security sequence. Review: ‘1001 Grams,’ by the Norwegian Filmmaker Bent Hamer, Mixes Levity and Gravity 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

The teased hair, tulle and tambourines of the Gypsies are amusing, as are the efforts to get the heartbroken Esmeralda to quit her moping for more stereotypical Gypsy behavior. Looking Fabulous at 40, and Still Happy to Step on a Few Toes 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

He relates her final moments soberly, lets her have the amusing lines, but once she dies, he destroys any trace of solemnity. A Year When Death Loomed in the Laughter 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

Hiding in famous art is an amusing idea; hiding in her comedy is a sharp political sense and, better, an undercurrent of deep sadness. Review: Michelle Ellsworth’s Provocative Protocols 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

In fact, he even finds amusing the namesake — somewhat egocentric — title the auction house chose for the sale of his cache of Calders, Warhols, Murakamis and others: “Adam.” Parting Is Such Sweet Spectacle: A Collector Sells His Hirst, Koons and Calder 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

There is a nice scene at a cookout where Harp races his horse, and an amusing bit has Cole playing basketball with Esha astride a horse, trying to block his shot. Idris Elba drama "Concrete Cowboy" brings audience along for a crowd-pleasing ride 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

In the courtroom, he audaciously peppers his narrative with some amusing and untrue digressions — like when the NSA turn up at a crime scene wearing diapers. Jack Kesy is a chatty hacker in comic thriller "Dark Web," in which the truth is loosely defined 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

But I really do wonder whether readers find puns as amusing as the subs. Memo to the editor of the Currant Bun: give the puns a rest 2010-10-04T08:10:00Z

It’s a frequently amusing, occasionally hilarious, rarely unpleasant grab bag of mild mockery and inspired lunacy, decked out with cameos from beloved comic performers and random celebrities. Movie Review: ‘Anchorman 2,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Steve Carell 2013-12-17T21:57:43Z

Peace and an unofficial spokesman for the North Korean regime, doesn't find the pitch so amusing. North Korea denounces James Franco and Seth Rogen's Kim Jong Un movie 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

It’s amusing, if a tad cutthroat, when she brings her ruthlessness to board games: “In her world, every game was a blood sport meant to be won at all costs,” Henderson explains. Review | TV writer Danielle Henderson finds the humor in her own harrowing life story 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

It’s among the most irascible and amusing bookseller memoirs I’ve read. A Critic Sells Books Down by the Seashore 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

“Russell and I soldier on,” she closed, “amusing the young sommeliers with tales from the past and refusing to tweet.” A Farewell to Becky Wasserman, a Great Sage of Burgundy 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

For example, when Homer Simpson says "Mmm… floor pie" on seeing a slice of pie on the floor, that is amusing and yet he is not being a positive role model. Homer Simpson isn't a positive role model for kids? Eat my shorts… 2013-06-15T23:05:26Z

Thither they would repair to drink and say amusing things — their drink of choice was the martini. David Mamet on Ricky Jay, a Great Astonisher and ‘Truest Friend’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

It is waiting to be discovered as either an amusing cult object or a bemusing case study in the self-protective ironies of our day. “Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas” Is the Most Eccentric TV Special of the Festive Season 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

But since they’re essentially oversized game shows, competition reality shows are generally straightforward and free of complicated subtext, amusing without the grating tone of sitcoms “made for kids.” Reality TV: Bringing Families Closer Together 2011-11-09T14:22:51Z

But it’s also amusing to see an actor explain that one of his old movies is in fact fiction. Karen Klein: YouTube’s most evil bullying video 2012-06-21T15:45:00Z

Each employment opportunity provides mind numbing repetitive but skilled work for low pay, as well as a series of restless co-workers that are both amusing and irritating. The 10 best Labor Day movies for folks who can't watch "9-to-5" one more time 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

But many of those who were watching online seemed to find the proceedings either amusing or boring. Did 'Sex Box' turn anybody on? 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

Hordley’s Cain Dingle is not a caring sort and being trapped with his heartbroken nephew Aaron leads to amusing moments and poignant scenes. British soap ‘Emmerdale’ leads in getting back to the set 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

“I don’t know who said it, but I find it amusing.” They always said Cher (and cockroaches) could survive the end of the world. Lately, she’s not so sure about that. 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

But at the same time, the established codes of modern movie comedy are scrambled and subverted in ways that are puzzling, amusing, horrifying and ultimately astonishing. | 'Young Adult': Charlize Theron in ?Young Adult? - Review 2011-12-08T13:00:01Z

All three books are affecting and all, at times, darkly amusing about the various forms of trauma their authors have endured. Best memoirs to read this month 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

“Opposites Attract,” which incorporates vintage photographs, is especially zany and amusing. Strange critters: In July, Seattle art galleries contain menageries 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

The verse selections vary from the light and amusing to serious, such as Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush" or Derek Mahon's joyfully nostalgic "The Bicycle". Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

But there are enough amusing bits, lively visuals, cute music cues and nice emotional beats to carry the day. 'Blended,' with Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler, is fun 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

An Australian and an American living in the UK have in-depth debates and banter that is actually amusing. The 50 best podcasts of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

They never strain for laughs but are consistently amusing. ‘Stan & Ollie’ Review: Laurel and Hardy, a Double Act as Romance 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

The most amusing involves James Caan as a pharmacist with a daughter in a wheelchair. New York, I Love You ? review 2011-02-06T00:05:53Z

It's surprisingly good fun and encourages you to capture a new face for each game, leading to an amusing collection of friends' slightly distorted noggins to pump full of cartoon lead. Games special: Nintendo 3DS launch 2011-03-26T00:06:00Z

And they are in fact highly amusing, in an spookily absurdist manner. Jim Jarmusch’s Collages Are Ready for Their Close-Up 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

And Finally: As an ardent admirer of B-movie-style stage flops, feigned patriotism and other theatrics, Mr. Wrap finds the World Cup an amusing diversion. City Light’s copper heist is pure-grade comedy gold 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Ms. Yorke starts off well, with an amusing scat solo in a nightclub number, but her stridency is unrelenting. Theater Review: Woody Allen Transforms His ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ 2014-04-11T02:00:16Z

Many of the descriptions are very detailed and amusing. The High Skies of Adventures by Blue Jay the Pirate by Scott Nash - review 2013-05-17T11:00:00Z

While it’s laced with amusing observations, intriguing historical footnotes and stimulating philosophical talking points, the York Shakespeare Company production, directed and performed by Seth Duerr, is stubbornly untheatrical. | 'The Punishing Blow': Randy Cohen?s History Lesson at Clurman Theater 2010-08-22T22:57:00Z

There are also some less aggressive, quite amusing squibs of absurdity. Review: ‘The Happytime Murders’ Has Puppets as Nasty as the Rest of Us 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

But head writer Charlie is bedeviled by a demanding daughter at home, a young nemesis at work and an Internet furor that drives the amusing crisis. ‘Leto Legend,’ saving the day for a woman trying to have it all 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

It was quite amusing because we were getting nothing down, and I told them before we went in here that it was very doubtful that it would ever happen that way. Reg Presley: 'I must learn to swear more often' – a classic feature from the vaults 2013-02-05T15:41:06Z

Between them they were unable to produce a single memorable, much less amusing, sentence, although their interviewer – presumably the director Patrick Forbes – could be heard guffawing off-camera like a DJ's sidekick. Rewind TV: Last Tango in Halifax; Homeland; The Aristocrats: Blenheim Palace; Gadget Man; Supersized Earth – review 2012-11-25T00:05:39Z

His heyday was the fifties and early sixties; after it, he released the inglorious single “My Ding-a-Ling,” weirding out a great many and amusing others. Chuck Berry at Ninety: Full Speed Ahead 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

A Horrible Histories theatre tour is doing the rounds, though be warned: it is based on Deary's mildly amusing original books, not the side-splitting TV series. Prom 20: Horrible Histories ? review 2011-07-31T17:06:00Z

“He was very, very funny, and amusing, and good company.” Hendrix and Handel Slept Here: A Museum’s Strange Bedfellows 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

In another stunt, £30,000 cash is left in a phone box, with amusing reactions. Eye Spy – TV review 2013-06-28T06:00:03Z

The scene is amusing because both men are so obviously arguing past each other, and are so obviously arguing about language and the role of metaphor. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z

With an amusing imitation of Dickens’s style, Clinch writes that the academy has “all the qualities of a prison but the warmth, all the qualities of a graveyard but the fresh air.” Review | Christmas comes early in Jon Clinch’s ‘Marley,’ a clever riff on ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

Adapted from Ms. Isaacs’s novel by Jon Maas and directed by Scott Smith, “After All These Years” is perfectly acceptable, lightly amusing Saturday night comfort viewing with a touch of self-awareness. Critic’s Notebook: Oh, Yes, Saturday TV Is Ladies Night 2013-08-22T20:35:42Z

This may not be a terribly fresh idea, but the two lead actors are nimble and unembarrassable enough to render the identity confusion amusing and even, sometimes, touching. Movie Review: ?21 Jump Street,? With Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum 2012-03-15T12:30:07Z

Well, Duh Hubby finds it extraordinarily amusing to tug on my sleeve every so often and ask, "What was Vietnam really like?" It was famous while it lasted: Celebrities as marital guest stars 2011-11-30T19:25:03Z

Wang could do likewise, because there is much that is charming, clever and amusing in the score. ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’: An affectionate comic opera look at the high court 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

On one level, the police operation was seen by many critics as risible and amusing. Police spy on campaigners at Glastonbury festival 2012-07-18T10:14:47Z

But it’s rarely more than mildly amusing, at least to someone who’s not a regular telenovela watcher. Review: ‘Superstore’ and ‘Telenovela’ Play It Safe on NBC 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

"At his very funniest, he is less amusing than finding blood in one's urine," decides Andrew Mueller. The Guide's 1,000th issue: 2004-2007 2013-01-05T00:04:00Z

It simply fails to exploit its assets: an amusing, revisionist take on the mythological strongman, and the charisma of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Brett Ratner’s ‘Hercules’ is actually entertaining in places

As for the most amusing moment in the episode, that comes from the couple’s son, Nick, now in his 20s and easily the wittiest and most interesting person in the family. ArtsBeat Blog: Channel Surfing: 'Gene Simmons Family Jewels' 2011-10-04T20:59:18Z

The review of the first episode in The New York Times was qualified, declaring the show “amusing in spots.” Sad Day for Gotham: Adam West, Who Played Batman, Dies at 88 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

These unique and amusing collages are well served by this beautifully designed and produced book, which is permeated by the sense of a half-remembered, half-postulated childhood. Review | You can’t really know John Ashbery’s poems until you’ve seen his collages 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Vulture went through the list of everyone who put themselves up for an Emmy and found some amusing items. Amazon takes on Warner Bros. Paula Deen is coming back. 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

At times, it is very funny, but at other times, only mildly amusing, meaning the show never quite finds the level of comic delirium – or post-Enlightenment debate – to make it compelling. The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society – review 2012-12-19T18:49:35Z

His autopsy of the current liberal ennui is not particularly trenchant or surprising, but it’s certainly amusing. The Plight of the Aggrieved, Rich Manhattan Liberal 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

It’s quite amusing that it’s so universal now. The Zombies resurrect their famous album 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Wes Anderson built a towering and beautifully balanced house of cards in "The Grand Budapest Hotel" that was as remarkable for its amusing imagery as its interlocking story. Daring films lifted the artform in 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

The play considers a heady range of topics — violence, racism, loyalty, religion, conscience, free will — before reaching an unrealistic ending that is cynically amusing just the same. | 'Any Given Monday': ?Any Given Monday? at 59E59 Theaters - Review 2011-10-17T23:17:13Z

The Lego figures are rendered with playful rigor; their limited movements and expressions generate some amusing sight gags. Review: ‘The Lego Ninjago Movie’ Sticks to the Instruction Manual 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

We know he’s the kind of casual revolutionary leader whose smirk and general nihilism made him an amusing player during crucial artificial battles. 10 Characters Who Could Run Things in Westworld's Season 2 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Yes, there are too many comedy dramas on TV at the moment and yes, they do allow writers to take a gently amusing look at life without actually having to write proper jokes. Have you been watching ? Stella? 2012-02-10T11:19:38Z

“It’s always amusing but heartening to hear liberals talk about the separation of powers, the independent judiciary and other inhibitions on executive action,” he said. ‘Charge the Cockpit or You Die’: Behind an Incendiary Case for Trump 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

The accounts I find perplexing are not those that exist to parody or satirise celebrities and those in power, or which operate as supposedly amusing comic creations. Fake Twitter celeb accounts: why do people bother? 2012-07-26T18:59:02Z

The amusing project spaces along the back wall of Basketball City are so minuscule, they’re like an art assignment for exhibitors. Art Review: Pope Chairs and Carpets at NADA NYC Art Fair 2014-05-08T21:51:09Z

Ray Romano, as American Century’s payola master, and J. C. MacKenzie, as its deeply compromised accountant, are consistently amusing. Review: ‘Vinyl’ Resurrects the ’70s Music Industry, Amid Proto-Punk Squalor 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

It’s an amusing twist that Lydia, who means to be a do-gooder, is really a classic carpetbagger, tone deaf to the needs of the town she once did everything she could to escape. Review: Anna Chlumsky and Adam Pally Paint the Town Red in ‘Cardinal’ 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Kate Hudson's Birdie Jay is not too bright, and an exchange she has about her sweatpants sweatshop is highly amusing. Cozy up to "Glass Onion," the droll "Knives Out" sequel that delivers all the murder mystery goods 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

It is a highly literate and amusing exploration of the glooms and possibilities of the condition, how it feels, what it offers or really lacks – as opposed to what younger people might think it does. Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being?Old by Jane Miller 2010-08-29T11:21:00Z

As my colleague Saba Hamedy reported in this amusing post, screenings were filled with titters, and then some. 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and the dawn of movie hate-watching 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

And they definitely didn’t find it too amusing when he declared that she “was hot enough to almost make me register democrat.” GOP official’s Facebook status: She’s “hot enough to almost make me register Democrat” 2013-04-25T16:44:00Z

Strident as Puck and affectionately caustic as Oberon, she put on an amusing Cockney accent for Bottom. Dudamel adds his dramatic touch to a night of Mendelssohn at Hollywood Bowl 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

He could be an amusing parody of the bad-boy chef if we weren’t supposed to take him so seriously. Review: ‘Feed the Beast,’ AMC’s Solemn New Restaurant and Crime Drama 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Jaison has demonstrated an amusing propensity for casting situations in defeatist terms. Will "Survivor" mastermind Russell reign supreme? 2009-12-13T01:30:00Z

The elder Crane's gaffer-taped lounger is one of the most amusing pieces of upholstery to ever grace television. Six to watch: TV's most famous chairs 2012-06-05T10:04:00Z

Who cares, though, because never has an amuse-bouche been so amusing, even secondhand. Heston's Feasts 2010-04-06T23:05:00Z

Formidable onstage and onscreen, Domingo was amusing, friendly and thoughtful when he paused for this edited conversation: The lives of Colman Domingo: acting in 'Fear the Walking Dead,' writing 'Dot,' now directing 'Barbecue' at the Geffen 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Dan dreams, as you see in an amusing Walter Mitty-like fantasy, that landing Oliver will turn him into the conquering reunion hero. Review: In ‘The D Train,’ Jack Black and James Marsden in a Steamy Bromance 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Her takes on the cliches of rugged masculinity are amusing, but a bit meek. Very well hung: the ICA's Keep Your Timber Limber exhibition 2013-06-19T06:30:03Z

Raylan is innocent, at least of what the attempted frame-up tries to accuse him of, and by the end of the hour he gets the heat off himself in amusing fashion. The Morning After: I Fought the Law 2012-03-07T15:14:54Z

At times her passion for quirks of character diverts her attention from the main thesis, but the lives of people such as De Quincey and Christie are often dramatic or amusing. “The Art of the English Murder” is a great read, but light on historical sources

The life of a freelance journalist is not a pretty one: As described by Mike Albo in his often amusing but slight solo show, “The Junket,” it’s filled with anxiety, insecurity and professional perils. Theater Review: ‘The Junket,’ Mike Albo’s Take on the Freelancer’s Life 2014-03-24T22:49:15Z

Amid the clash of sensibilities and amusing sights this show fruitfully unleashes, I realized, once more, my preference for design that is functional, affordable and capable of mass production. ‘Midtown’: That Chair’s Charming, but Can I Sit in It? 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

This brilliant, viciously amusing takedown of bourgeois complacency, gender stereotypes and assumptions and the illusion of security rubs your face in human frailty as relentlessly as any Michael Haneke movie. ‘Force Majeure,’ a Dark Swedish Comedy 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The rest of us, recognizing Christoph Waltz, will suspect other, less amusing dimensions to the character. ‘Big Eyes’ Casts Another Side of Keane Art 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

"By turns lyrical, dramatic, complex, amusing and poetic, this grand master of polyphony understood the challenges of his time and entertained us with great intelligence," he added. US composer Elliott Carter dies 2012-11-06T16:36:10Z

And while Alice is amusing when mocking other people’s wedding photos, she is not against being mischievous while posing for one. Cheers to Maya Erskine, flawless life of the "Plus One" party 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

Unspooling, Manchester The contemporary artists showing in this wryly amusing exhibition display an ambivalent attitude towards the history of film that shifts between homage and parody. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z

Edited by Nick Newman, himself a Private Eye cartoonist, the book combines amusing reflections on modern life with pointed observations on political themes. In pictures: Private Eye cartoons 2013-09-27T08:45:37Z

There are amusing sideswipes at the corruption and inanity of 21st-century TV, and a gleefully unsporting riff on drugs in athletics. Frankie Boyle 2010-04-20T22:00:00Z

One name-calling sequence is amusing, but it turns out to be an acting exercise Lola uses to prepare them for an intense scene. Penélope Cruz dominates in "Official Competition," a delightful satire about ego and filmmaking 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Because, really, what could possibly be less amusing than an episode of Great British Menu? Is The Great British Menu the most self-important show ever? 2013-01-29T12:43:56Z

There is an amusing three-way "phone sex" scene between Chuck and Franklin and Erica. Patton Oswalt talks lying, comic books and catfishing in his new cringe comedy "I Love My Dad" 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

The trailer doesn't make this explicit, but I'd imagine that to really make us laugh at our tragedies, the harp makes an amusing "SPROING!" noise as the planes hit. At last, the 9/11 musical 2010-09-08T07:54:00Z

One of the best songs is her wistful, amusing “A Summer in Ohio.” Review: ‘The Last Five Years,’ a Decoupling Starring Anna Kendrick 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

For most of the evening she was supremely relaxed, and amusing anecdotes poured out of her. Music Review: Barbara Cook’s 85th Birthday Concert at Carnegie Hall 2012-10-20T02:20:08Z

Stephen King's Joyland, the tale of a student whose visit to an amusement park proves far from amusing, will appear only in print. Stephen King reverts to type with new book Joyland 2012-05-30T13:34:21Z

Deliciously amusing when rancorous, she is even more irresistibly humorous when overcome with bodily urges. Epigrams and clothes fly in Taper's 'What the Butler Saw' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

While some other parts of the temple are amusing, intense vibes of savagery, sacredness or insanity are absent. Review: Faile Mines the Dark Depths of Modern Youth With Two Exhibitions 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

The story of its invention, distribution and updating is an amusing, invigorating, poignant and suspenseful story of an astonishing social network, and warrants a movie in itself. Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

If “Movie 43” is fitfully amusing, it brings Hollywood’s standards of comedy one step closer to the gutter. Movie Review: ‘Movie 43,’ Crude Vignettes With Big Stars and Directors 2013-01-26T00:08:39Z

And as faintly amusing and reminiscent of Tommy Lee Jones’ “Men in Black” turn as this might be, there’s no way these two smart guys didn’t see this was piffle on the page. ‘R.I.P.D.’ deserves to get ripped 2013-07-19T18:37:28Z

Aren’t even the best limericks just, you know, sort of amusing rather than properly poetic? There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

It’s amusing to speculate where copies of “Spoke” will reside. Review | The 1980s punk scene in Washington, D.C., brought to vivid life 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

But it's sporadically amusing and has a couple of outstanding moments both to do with acting. City Island 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z

Elsewhere in British broadcasting, the never knowingly amusing Radio 4 perennial The Now Show is to chronicle the London Olympics in thrice-weekly live broadcasts. John McEnroe and Daniel Tosh – you cannot be serious? 2012-07-11T15:54:40Z

Too often, though, the filmmakers try to squeeze humor from obscenities that, while initially amusing when lobbed in a story about knights and wizards, lose their sting with repetition. | 'Your Highness': They Huffed and Puffed and Waited to Exhale 2011-04-07T22:55:33Z

You also had to wrap your tongue around some highly complicated equations, and even those manage to be amusing. Geoffrey Rush Loves to Play Rogues and Fools. A Genius, Too. 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

That’s why, despite all the glib and amusing dialogue and flashy, funny cuts of Jon going about his various bits of business, the movie needs an intervention. Don Jon: Love, Lust and Loneliness 2013-09-27T00:00:44Z

Ms. Neuwirth brings an amusing touch of imperious asperity to her role as Malibran, but her naturally dry demeanor seems a strange fit for the character, who was famous for her tempestuousness. Theater Review: ‘Golden Age,’ by Terrence McNally, at City Center 2012-12-05T04:50:08Z

If nothing else, it’s amusing to imagine what he and Ms. Moore chatted about between takes and how each managed to keep from cracking up, more or less. ‘Seventh Son’ Stars Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore and Kit Harington 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

People who have worked with Mr. Marshall find it amusing that Disney pursued him for one of its most important film properties. Arts & Leisure: New Captain for a Series Becalmed 2011-05-11T16:45:46Z

She was great company, warm and found the whole set-up as amusing as I did. Blind date: ‘I asked if she’d ever been taken up the Shard before’ 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

Watch the video above to see the amusing finale and learn which surprising strut got the biggest laugh. Michelle Obama, Jimmy Fallon share a second 'Evolution of Mom Dancing' 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Not that some of this isn’t amusing, but you feel the considerable improvisational skills of the cast going to waste. Movie Review: In ‘Cuban Fury,’ Nick Frost Is a Former Child Salsa Star 2014-04-10T23:58:50Z

Nora’s became the nation’s first certified organic restaurant, and her accounts of tracking down organic salt and installing a biodegradable carpet are amusing, illustrating her single-minded commitment to the cause. The story behind the woman who helped make healthy eating cool 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

The now decade-long history of Marvel television series trended up recently with “Ms. Marvel” and “She-Hulk,” which tweaked the corporate formulas in amusing ways, but “Secret Invasion” takes it right back to the algorithms. ‘Secret Invasion’ Review: Marvel Welcomes Back Samuel L. Jackson 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

The courthouse’s transformation into a sanctuary for Lee’s novel is an amusing turn of events considering the unflattering, if affectionate, way she described the building in “Mockingbird.” My Harper Lee pilgrimage: Visiting Monroeville, in search of “Mockingbird’s” essence 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

Her exes, including a puppeteer who is shown in an amusing flashback bringing his puppet into bed with Ally as a third party, are a mostly pathetic lot. | 'What?s Your Number?': ?What?s Your Number?? With Anna Faris - Review 2011-09-30T04:23:03Z

Some of these details, at first glance, are amusing. In ‘Fear,’ Bob Woodward Pulls Back the Curtain on President Trump’s ‘Crazytown’ 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

"While he found his misconduct amusing, it only served to intensify my performance anxiety, disempower me, and alienate me from my peers." The 9 biggest grievances in Ray Fisher's interview about Joss Whedon's "Justice League" misconduct 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

Lost in the noise and the arena setting is some pretty amusing clowning. Circus Review: Where William Tell Is an Amateur 2011-03-04T20:53:17Z

Featured in other bits of shtick are fumbling elf jugglers and two robotic nutcrackers who malfunction in amusing fashion. Skipping Yuletide cheer, Pointless Theatre offers a dour, profane sendup of the holiday

That amusing tone is enough to sustain the novel for a while, but soon, like lonely, frustrated Eve, we want something more real, something more complicated. The most pleasant novel about pornography you’ll ever read 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

The episode was a real test for Ashley Johnson, who plays Patterson, a character who until last week was required mostly to be an amusing wonk. ‘Blindspot’ Season 1, Episode 10: All Your Idea 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

Another very amusing scene finds Old Scratch at an open-mike, griping to us about the lame ways he has been depicted, or referred to, in modern media. One-man show ‘The Devil in His Own Words’ offers an up-close look at the evil deity

Tender, amusing and tightly constructed, these miniatures, including another piece for children, were good within their limitations. Cora Dance Presents ‘Stories’ at BAM Fisher 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Which is kind of amusing, considering the fearlessness of his dramatic writing. Sam Shepard’s plays eulogized the American West’s pioneering spirit 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

Against this backdrop, what might otherwise have been a tale of petty strife and mildly amusing snark takes on deeper import. Second Thoughts in the Second City 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

And though Jimmy Fallon is the king of getting his guests into conveniently amusing situations, an impromptu song sesh during a commercial break on Wednesday night’s show seemed to be truly unplanned. Billy Joel, J.K. Simmons Sing Impromptu For the Longest Time 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Other than a proper singalong for Falling – the first I've heard at this year's festival – it was amusing to watch the audience slowly fall for Este's "bass face". Haim at Glastonbury 2013 – review 2013-06-28T14:14:32Z

Lots of amusing cameos add to the fun. Review: ‘The Jim Gaffigan Show’ and ‘Impastor,’ Comedies About Liars and Religion 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

His lurid autobiography of drug addiction and sex called "Dandy in the Underworld" was variously described as amusing and revolting. British dandy, author Horsley dies: report 2010-06-18T16:41:00Z

The use of some of Mozart's piano writings in the accompaniments is amusing but similarly gratuitous. Peter Brook reduces Mozart to bare essentials 2011-07-07T06:31:08Z

“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” is directed by Matt Reeves, who, unlike his predecessor, Rupert Wyatt, finds little that is amusing, curious, or surreal in the plight of his characters. Anthony Lane: “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” and “Boyhood” 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

But the bracing paradox of the evening is a play that knows its questing characters down to their “Noo Yawk” core, and a production that understands them every step of the amusing yet tremulous way. Theater Review: Clifford Odets's Dentist, Anything but Painless 2011-04-05T13:30:07Z

While acerbic and consistently amusing, “The Revolt of Man” nonetheless bristles with tendentiousness in its second half: Let women rule, Besant argues, and they will just squabble endlessly while society grows static and decadent. Review | What if women ruled the world? A Victorian writer gave it some thought. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

But it was more amusing than the case of the week, which really seemed to be there just to build to the lesson about accountability at the end. ArtsBeat Blog: 'Good Wife' Watch: A Season-Turning Moment 2011-11-21T06:00:40Z

Despite an aggressively formulaic nature and virtually no believable story momentum, this phony tale of a simultaneous bachelor/bachelorette party eventually glides into a second act of extremely amusing and well choreographed set pieces. Think Like a Man Too review: 'A Vegas wedding without the hangover' 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Ms. Silverman’s quip might indeed make an amusing opening to an article about powerful publicists struggling to articulate the ethos of their company, cheekily named after journalistic parlance for the enticing beginning of a story. They’re Some of Hollywood’s Top Publicists. Just Don’t Ask Them Why. 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Much of the special was simply Mr. O’Brien unscripted, making a connection with game strangers and turning that into an amusing scene. The Most Riveting Host in Late Night (and the Most Overlooked) 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

The hardest memory to return to was 2 a.m. in Quebec, because my vulnerability had never been contorted into an amusing story. Please tell me about your delayed flight 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

And whereas the ghastliness of The Apprentice candidates was once amusing, now it's just boring. TV review: Gary Barlow – On Her Majesty's Service; The Apprentice: The Final 2012-06-03T19:30:01Z

Do you find it amusing that people are so obsessed with your hair? 'The arts cuts are madness' 2011-01-09T00:05:28Z

But Mr. Sitt rapidly seems less amusing, as his corporate-minded plans for his Coney Island holdings gradually align with those of the city, prioritizing new businesses and hotels to achieve the area’s “unfulfilled potential.” Movie Review: Amy Nicholson’s ‘Zipper: Coney Island’s Last Wild Ride’ 2013-08-09T00:51:34Z

You and I are good chaps, his essays seem to say, with a lot in common — let’s take a half-hour and allow me to show you some things you might find amusing. Michael Dirda’s ‘Browsings’ offers meditations on the life of the mind 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Until Christina came into our lives, these joys, sorrows, milestones of development and amusing anecdotes were all mine to retell, quietly savour or even forget. Now we are three: me, my daughter and my new fiancee 2013-07-20T08:00:00Z

Mr. Geiss would repeatedly discover ways of amusing children while giving a wink to parents who were watching with them. Tony Geiss, 86, Writer for ?Sesame Street,? Dies 2011-01-30T17:25:53Z

Inevitably, the longer Gold stays in the apartment, the more these three lives intertwine, with consequences that are neither amusing or even palatable. Paris isn't enough of a diversion in weak 'My Old Lady' 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Park scatters several amusing nods to the Hitchcock picture throughout “Decision to Leave,” notably with lurid close-ups of eyes, rooftop chases and a gnarled tree jutting atop a treacherous precipice. ‘Decision to Leave’ Review: A Labyrinth of Desire 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

It’s slightly gnomic, this distinction, but it suggests that while Susiraja’s works can be amusing, unexpected and shocking, they are never at anyone’s expense. Iiu Susiraja: She Has Issues? No, You Have Issues 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

It would be pretty amusing just to watch the assertive Gina Yashere and the seemingly scatterbrained Ms. Firestone hold a conversation. Review: ‘Debate Wars,’ Where Nothing Is Too Frivolous for Argument 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

It’s a funny idea, and when it clicks, in the early episodes, “Vandal” is pretty amusing. Review: True Crime? When the ‘Family Jewels’ Are Painted on Cars 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Jep is entirely content with his shallow and amusing world; he is a connoisseur of its exquisite surfaces: an Italian flâneur, a botaniser on the Roman asphalt, happy with ephemeral absurdities. Cannes 2013: The Great Beauty - first look review 2013-05-21T07:10:06Z

But retiring to a “bar” to sniff flutes of fragrance not marked by brands but instead classified into four “flights” with names like Addictive or Playful, was amusing, albeit buzz-free. On the Runway Blog: The Perfume Project 2011-10-12T16:01:28Z

It was amusing to read that Huxley used a similar same device 70 years earlier. Michael Stanley's top 10 African crime novels 2010-06-30T14:27:00Z

We could do without Hound's constant prompts as to what to find amusing in all this. Isle of MTV 2010-09-04T05:45:00Z

She also features an amusing segment about her film, “One Hundred and One Nights,” a homage to cinema that featured a scene of Catherine Deneuve and Robert De Niro in a boat on a pond. “Varda by Agnès” is a poignant and joyous self-portrait of the remarkable late artist 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

It’s dumb kids in the woods, with the reasonably amusing wrinkle that instead of psycho hillbillies, the threat is anal-probing aliens. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Zombeavers’ and Other Midnight Offerings at Tribeca Festival 2014-04-17T22:08:08Z

But the story is engaging, the prose precise, the characters amusing, and the overall effect one of eccentric charm. Which out-of-print book would you like to see republished? 2012-05-24T13:59:06Z

Most people who watch it probably find it fairly amusing — and plenty gross. How Steve Bannon and Donald Trump Rode the Honey Badger Into the White House 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

The droll railroad veterans who turn their locomotives over to the newcomers are the most amusing thing about it. Television Review: ‘Owner’s Manual,’ a Reality Show, Makes Its Debut on AMC 2013-08-14T23:04:16Z

In the meantime there are still touches of the unbridled campiness that made the first season amusing. | ?Spartacus: Vengeance?: ?Spartacus: Vengeance? Returns to Starz Channel 2012-01-26T22:05:57Z

A scene called “The Tweedles,” which pairs Bollywood music with bobbling white baby masks, aims to be amusing; it comes off as clumsy and careless. Review: Momix’s ‘Alice’ Is a Rabbit Hole (or 22) Too Far 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

A charming “How we met” story, or at least a mildly amusing anecdote. Blind date: 'Things got a bit spicy around the main course' 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

A voting system means only the best survive, with less amusing clips democratically dispatched to the dumper. Internet picks of the week 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z

It’s confident, raw, amusing — a lot like her women. New Books by Shani Boianjiu, Michael Sears and More 2012-09-26T22:04:23Z

Black Dynamite assembles all the familiar verbal and visual cliches, mixes them with a heavy hand and ends up with an occasionally amusing, extremely dated brew. Black Dynamite 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

Just how amusing you find that conceit will largely determine how much you enjoy the book, winner of the prestigious German Book Prize. A Dark Comedy About Life at the Heart of the European Union 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

They accept an amusing back-and-forth as a normal course of events and press on hilariously, without a lot of ha-ha goofery. Hahaha vs. Hehehe 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

It was too amusing an option not to explore. The Getaway: This Is Las Vegas? 2013-11-29T18:29:41Z

Well acted and sporadically amusing — especially when Olivia Wilde’s profanity-spewing stripper is around — “Butter” alternates between looking down its nose at Midwestern passions and cooing over smugly liberal values. Movie Review: ‘Butter’ With Hugh Jackman and Jennifer Garner 2012-10-05T15:47:00Z

He is, though, surprisingly amusing when the script lets him be. Theater Review: ‘Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth’ at Longacre Theater 2012-08-03T02:00:00Z

It’s an amusing scene, this image of an older man’s vanity, yet it’s also significant because it’s a moment of narcissistic reflection with far-reaching implications. | 'A Screaming Man': A Pool Man in Chad, at the Intersection of the Personal and the Political 2011-04-12T22:43:09Z

Directed by Spencer Lott and developed in collaboration with preschoolers, this special camp will include stargazing, looking for exotic birds and amusing porcupines with a joke. Spare Times for Children for May 9-15 2014-05-08T21:59:09Z

In fact, I tend to become craven when anywhere near The Man, and The Man, in return, seems to regard my vocation as a mildly amusing indulgence. AL Kennedy: Typing on trains 2010-10-05T07:35:00Z

There’s a lot to follow and a great deal to look at, including an atmospherically embellished past that turns the movie into a veritable wayback machine of amusing and amusingly unfortunate colors and choices. Review: Advantage, Bobby, but Game, Set, Match, Billie Jean 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

It is, overall, an amusing little picture, with some inspired moments and some sour notes, a handful of interesting performances and the hint, now and then, of an idea. Review: In ‘Café Society,’ Rearranging Old Preoccupations 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

All in all, an amusing but second-rate novel from one of Britain’s funniest writers. Books of The Times: ‘Skios’ by Michael Frayn 2012-06-27T21:35:39Z

Finding his story charming and amusing, I laughed. Modern Love: Ready to Take a Faithful Leap 2011-07-14T20:19:03Z

But it offered a particularly amusing moment, when Andrew Schwartz, the principal bassoonist, demonstrated the contrabassoon that will be used at the concert. Cloning Yo-Yo Ma: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Moments 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

It sounded amusing yet plausible, everyone has faced some kind of situation where they are late for an important event and then it seems the world is against them. Witty or gritty? What ingredients make the best short films? 2011-01-14T16:29:46Z

There are, he added, “some touching and amusing zigzags on the way to the film’s sweet and affirmative conclusion.” What’s on TV This Week: The Oscars and a Greta Thunberg Documentary 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

Several Cage works were presented simultaneously: “45’ for a Speaker,” a reading of one of Cage’s amusing philosophical writings, permeated the second half of the concert. Music Review: So Percussion at Zankel Hall 2012-03-27T23:07:32Z

Venturi found Blake's disdain amusing, ironic and revealing all at once. Race, violence in Ferguson, Mo., cop killing play out on Main Street 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

The first ode to the confection sounds a lot like the next one and the one after that, and the mildly amusing jokes prompt slight grins rather than real laughs. Theater Review: ‘The Chocolate Show!’ Celebrates a Common Obsession 2014-03-05T20:33:34Z

Alex Wyndham narrates this revelatory, amusing, often poignant amalgam of science and family history in a dark, undulant baritone, a voice that could be that of a big, kindly eel. Review | Three audiobooks to listen to now 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

“Part of it I almost find amusing,” she continued. ‘Where do you think you’re going?’ Coronavirus is making millennials fearful for our parents 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

I am a typophile, and Garfield has written a very amusing book of typographic anecdotes and homages to the designers who subtly shape all the words we read. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z

Elsewhere, there's amusing but impersonal material about the credibility gaps in Hollywood action movies. Daniel Simonsen – review 2013-01-30T18:52:00Z

The responses were funny enough – the Homer voice is just intrinsically amusing – but nothing earth-shattering. The Simpsons – live! A remarkable stunt that proves Homer will outlive us all 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Even when his improvisations did not amount to much — in “Our Worst Tendencies,” a collaboration with Ms. Negrón and eight bell-playing volunteers from the audience — they were always amusing. Music Review: Ecstatic Music Fest With Sxip Shirey and Ang?lica Negr?n 2012-02-08T22:50:39Z

At best, you found me amusing and we were friends.  A letter to the woman I adored but was afraid to be with 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

Those moments can have an amusing visual wit. Dance Review: Aki Sasamoto’s ‘Sunny in the Furnace,’ at the Kitchen 2014-03-07T23:16:54Z

But there are some amusing incongruities as well. The Curious Case of Susan Estrich 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Another glaring addition: wild and colorful prints have been a phenomenon in Europe, beginning with Prada’s amusing dresses with ornery little monkeys climbing up the side. Paris Fashion Week: Spring Fashion?s Operatic Season 2010-10-06T21:56:00Z

It’s amusing, as the series opens, to see Mr. Williams playing to an audience of about 15 people, but it’s also a little suspicious. ‘A Very Barry Branson’ Follows Barry Williams’s Stage Show 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Williams’s impressive research is presented with a light touch throughout, bringing the reader into the amusing daily lives of English tradesmen, workers, merchants, clergymen, as well as their wives and daughters. When reading a book was a group activity 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Her lips suggested she knew her impact on the opposite sex and found it less empowering than amusing; her eyes lasered through a man’s ego and into his id. How Lauren Bacall Got to Dine with President Clinton at a TIME Gala 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

"Hard times is done gone!" she says at one amusing moment. In "Mama Weed," Isabelle Huppert is a stylish drug dealer with a twist: "She's a female Robin Hood" 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

Hollowing out a pumpkin and going "Boo!" can be quite amusing. Celebrate by Pippa Middleton – digested read 2012-10-28T18:30:01Z

If “The Conquest” aspires to be a Gallic answer to “The Queen,” it more closely resembles a diluted, somewhat less amusing French answer to “In the Loop.” | 'The Conquest': ?The Conquest? Sarkozy Made - Review 2011-11-10T23:13:46Z

In the last section, Reeber is freed from the amusing and unsettling video "forgeries" of herself. Dancer Amelia Reeber plays with puns and images in 'this is a forgery' 2010-04-23T18:24:00Z

It’s amusing — to me, at least — that the Wölffer is actually produced in the Hamptons. Rosé for All Seasons 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Certainly this goofily amusing screen fairy tale includes bloodshed, but it’s generally tamer than its often-gruesome source. | 'Red Riding Hood': The Girl Who Sighed Wolf 2011-03-10T22:26:20Z

With Trump steamrolling ever closer toward the G.O.P. nomination, the story, like the man himself, is equal parts amusing and terrifying. Mark Singer on the Perils of Profiling Donald Trump 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

“Upstate” is flecked with amusing if slightly worn comments about the country’s cheeriness, its obsession with weather and especially its outsize consumption. Review | What does a father most want for his children? James Wood’s novel shows us. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Iced coffee is also used as an amusing identifier among L.G.B.T.Q. people, with viral videos depicting their cultural claim to the drink. Does Anyone Drink Hot Coffee Anymore? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Vocally, Scholz’s soaring solo “The Lady Must Be Mad” is a highlight, and along with his amusing clowning, Stoltenberg is an impressive singer also. ‘Illyria’: Taproot Theatre gives ‘Twelfth Night’ a musical spin | Theater review 2013-07-18T21:01:26Z

Mr. Jones’s merry mash-up of Elizabethan language and the slangy talk of the time can be amusing, but the impishness eventually begins to pall. Theater Review: ‘These Paper Bullets!’ Opens at Yale Rep 2014-03-27T21:56:49Z

For their first series, they're an amusing window into a different and rather ridiculous way of life. Is time up for scripted reality shows? 2012-02-08T15:20:11Z

It's amusing enough, but there's an assumption that we care whether Robin Williams voices the Genie, or that we're fond of The Lion King's songs, which – in my case – isn't justified. Thom Tuck ? review 2011-08-28T17:30:01Z

She never swirls and sniffs, the ritual that non-wine drinkers alternately find amusing, affected or annoying. Red Wine Is the Drink of Choice on ‘Scandal’ and ‘The Good Wife’ 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

On Monday the classic show “Let’s Make a Deal,” on CBS, broadcast its 1,001st episode, turning the occasion into a rather amusing spectacle. ‘Labor Games’ Is a Brilliantly Absurd TV Game Show 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

This makes for an amusing chunk of heavy-metal décor, but is mostly resonant as a tepid joke about Mr. Keaton’s aerial acrobatics in “Batman” and “Birdman.” Review: Spider-Man (Again) and All That Sticky Kid Stuff 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

He would pick me up and carry me up the stairs like an infant, apparently expecting me to find this humiliating horseplay as amusing as he pretended it to be. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

During the rehearsals, he becomes a different man, amusing and vaguely sinister. Stephen King on Paul Theroux’s Portrait of a Truly Horrible Mother 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

An amusing montage shows how effective Coleman is at punching above her weight class. ‘My Spy’ Review: A Secret Agent Gets Outsmarted 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

Glew is an amusing screen presence, and his story, while unquestionably trivial, has some of the absorbing, low-stakes whimsy of a nice magazine feature. ‘The Pez Outlaw’ Review: Sweet and Lowdown 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Onstage, she swivelled her hips and made the kissy noise again, amusing herself and everybody else. Uptown Rapture: Debbie Harry at the Carlyle 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Comparing your choices from the pitch meeting with what the clients actually choose is moderately amusing, but over all, “Mad Men” without the sex or the drama or the historical perspective isn’t very good television. Television Review: ?The Pitch,? A New Reality Show on AMC 2012-04-06T23:32:51Z

And the Guardian's Michael Billington judged it "mildly amusing. ... a safe, conservative show for middle America." Broadway hit 'The Book of Mormon' lands in London 2013-03-22T16:16:05Z

He was featured in an amusing short film as the Head of Riot Suppression for the Luxury Prison, making light of the calm-inducing qualities of his music. Kenny G plays Seattle's Jazz Alley for the first time 2012-04-19T20:28:03Z

The performances were interspersed with appreciative comments from the musicians about the help they received from Young Concert Artists and amusing anecdotes from Ms. Wadsworth about her protégés. Music Review: Celebrating 50 Years? Worth of Promising Talent 2011-02-21T23:03:25Z

As a new father, I find that kind of amusing. Dads Are Taking Over as Full-Time Parents 2012-08-10T20:54:32Z

He's a good-looking, gifted, amusing man, less impaired than the French author with locked-in syndrome who wrote The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, but pretty immobile. The Sessions – review 2013-01-20T00:05:59Z

Springsteen played a blues rhythm as the bidding increased, and, in his amused, amusing, Zen-like way, kept piping up and sweetening the pot. A Night of Wise, Tortured Election Anxiety with Jon Stewart and Friends 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

It is all rather amusing in a desultory way, but to little effect beyond a casual mix of flippancy and good humor. Review: Spouses, the Antichrist, and a Shrink and Ex-Patient Meet in Summer Shorts 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

“Scarecrow Village” is both an amusing and eerie place. Few Americans know about this mysterious, remote valley in southern Japan 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

It is written in an amusing way with good descriptions. The Book Bunch - group review selection 2013-02-06T09:00:00Z

There are also copious contributions from readers, including such amusing ephemera as “latrinalia,” or bathroom graffiti. Andrew Sullivan, blogger extraordinaire, decides that it’s time to stop dishing 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

It feels so ridiculous, so surreal, that it’s almost amusing. Local campaign officials are becoming election-week celebrities. They’re too busy to notice. 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

The winner is Sunday’s hilarious musical episode of the USA series “Psych,” one of television’s most consistently smart and amusing shows. Critic’s Notebook: Using Song to Break the TV Episodic Monotony 2013-12-08T22:36:42Z

Later, the puppet characters get human embodiment, and then amusing sock-puppet treatment. Review | Pointless Theatre’s slapdash ‘Don Cristóbal’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

It hurt my feelings that she didn’t find my performance amusing, but the moment stuck with me because it confirmed something I long suspected. My sister’s perfect life 2012-07-04T00:00:00Z

In the fleet, amusing finale, which evolves in phrase chunks and keeps stopping and starting, Mr. Schiff displayed perfect comic timing. Review: Andras Schiff Turns Mischievous at Carnegie Hall 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

He didn’t just dress up in costumes — as amusing family photos illustrate — he seems to have willed himself over the rainbow again and again. Review: ‘Escapes’ Recounts a Hollywood Storyteller’s Inventive Life 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

He always wrote clearly and carefully; he was learned and erudite, but never intimidating and often amusing, with an inexhaustible supply of anecdotes. Jacques Barzun obituary 2012-10-29T18:27:35Z

Here, Olympia Stone dissects the methods behind Mr. Beck’s highly amusing madness. What’s on TV Friday: Woody Allen’s ‘Crisis in Six Scenes’ and ‘Marvel’s Luke Cage’ 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Though the show is scattered with suspenseful moments and amusing tidbits of sociological theory, it is too loosely strung to give us the willies. Orson Welles, Wonderettes and more on Seattle stages 2012-12-07T00:52:52Z

The results are predictably amusing, but in unpredictable ways. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: Amish: The World's Squarest Teenagers 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

I find him amusing sometimes, his “retro” spin paintings, for instance. David Bowie on His Favorite Artists 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

When you insist on a lot of white space between paragraphs and sometimes between single sentences, and if your work is humid, the effect can unintentionally verge on the amusing. Colum McCann’s New Novel Makes a Good-Intentioned Collage Out of Real Tragedy 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

The beauty of Boulle’s amusing idea, and of the best science-fiction ideas in general, is that it encourages us to take a longer view than we’re accustomed to; maybe longer than we’re entirely comfortable with. film: Apes From the Future, Holding a Mirror to Today 2011-07-27T12:00:09Z

The South loves families, and Atlanta is a shining example of a city dedicated to amusing children. Atlanta for Kids 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

There are inspiring, embarrassing, and amusing stories throughout this affable 73-minute film. Comedians remind viewers to "Call Your Mother" in hilarious and heartwarming Mother's Day special 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

“Step Up: High Water” is a surprisingly mature and textured extension of the dance-movie franchise, “Foursome” an amusing iteration of the standard AwesomenessTV teenage sex comedy. On Paid YouTube, Sci-Fi Comedy and the Grown-Up Karate Kid 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

Since then I have realised that readers often know far more than me and spot more amusing events, items, people, etc. Simon Hoggart's week: how tickled we are, missus 2012-07-20T16:44:08Z

“Lone Star” offers an amusing and novel television conceit, but in an age of Enron and Bernard Madoff, it takes a very persuasive actor to keep viewers rooting for a swindler. Television Review: Two Lives, Two Loves, One Con Man 2010-09-19T17:08:00Z

I suppose I was amusing myself, but for the adaptor, naming is a means to ownership. Thomas Hardy goes to the opera 2012-08-17T21:55:07Z

Fortunately, the acerbic Ethan, the cynical Reed and the tart Jessieare on hand to deflate the flowery rhetoric with amusing commentary. Theater Review: ‘Storefront Church,’ by John Patrick Shanley 2012-06-12T02:00:13Z

I’d thought it would be amusing to text, “Turns out I broke a couple of ribs and I’m pregnant!” Train wreck: Healing for two and parenting with PTSD 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

Mr. Jackson is a predictably crude, amusing instrument, even if his character’s ultra-conservative shtick is so familiar — Stephen Colbert mines much the same territory almost nightly — that the satire has no sting. Movie Review: ‘RoboCop’ Remake Arrives, Starring Joel Kinnaman 2014-02-11T23:09:06Z

Profanity can be amusing or dramatic or, on rare occasions, poetic, but used this obsessively, it simply becomes a distraction from what’s good about the book. ‘The Redeemers,’ by Ace Atkins 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

It started with a dose of the mildly amusing irony Glee is renowned for as Finn grilled himself a cheese toastie. Hall of TV Shame: #1 Glee 2011-01-26T12:54:17Z

Reviewing James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son” in The New York Times Book Review in 1956, Hughes called it “thought-provoking, tantalizing, irritating, abusing, and amusing.” ‘Selected Letters of Langston Hughes’ 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

The overwhelming response was “ridicule” — French for ridiculous and absurd, as well as comical and amusing. ‘Ridicule’: The French Reaction to ‘Emily in Paris’ 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

One of Mr. Silver’s most amusing tricks is to go off somewhere with the misbehaving dog and have a private chat. Critic’s Notebook: Dogs on TV, Beyond the Whispering 2012-05-29T18:19:29Z

Events like No Shave November and Movember are some of the more amusing developments in contemporary culture. Down with beard culture: An argument for old-fashioned shaving 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

The Waits recipe contains no artificial flavoring, and so no condescension toward the bleary characters who populate his night, threatening, amusing, comforting, sometimes loving. Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-08-07T16:41:06Z

That's how I felt as I read on in his work, through novels and stories, accepting the occasional ungainliness and unpleasantness because he gave me something consoling and amusing and even ecstatic. The shadow over David Foster Wallace's The Pale King 2011-04-05T11:39:47Z

‘One Hand Clapping’ This adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s 1961 comic novel, part of Brits Off Broadway, is moderately amusing but is more interesting for the perspective. Theater Listings for May 22-28 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

David Orr writes eloquent, amusing and circuitously disapproving commentary on the retching doggerel by Charles Bukowski, whose reputation far exceeds his literary accomplishments. Letters to the Editor 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

And just like that, a very chill Jesus appears, launching a series of amusing cameos by the man, er, deity. Controversial sitcom ‘The Real O’Neals’ is a charming ‘family, I’m gay’ story 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Shark Thriller is pretty amusing, but even that title isn’t perfectly descriptive; it doesn’t tell you if the sharks fight each other or eat humans or what. Cowboys, Aliens, Snakes and Sharks: In Praise of Literal Movie Titles 2011-12-06T09:58:38Z

It was followed by “Gesticulate,” an amusing paean to the power of theatrical body language from “Kismet,” which Mr. Mitchell physically illustrated as he sang. Review: Brian Stokes Mitchell Blends Songs and Theater in ‘Plays With Music’ 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

"Exceedingly amusing", yes – yet inside this ironic "ballad" lurks something more serious and, potentially, even more gripping. The Bloody Ballad – review 2013-04-06T23:05:26Z

As for the amusing Dr. Gómez, he may be an awful clinician, but he’s prone to sudden and surprisingly apt observations. Review: In ‘Hot Milk,’ by Deborah Levy, a Broken Life and a Frayed Maternal Bond 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

This is not nearly as amusing or interesting as it should be, and the lesson is that playing dumb is not easy to do at a high-quality level. Art Review: ‘Lightness of Being’ Group Show at City Hall Park 2013-08-22T22:01:07Z

As is becoming commonplace with food shows, there's a faintly ridiculous challenge at the end of it that makes it even more amusing. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-08-17T06:59:00Z

The two heroines aren’t parodies so much as amusing exemplars of human frailty. Television Review: ‘Doll & Em,’ as in Dolly Wells and Emily Mortimer, on HBO 2014-03-18T21:28:44Z

Being the boss makes for a lot of incredibly idiotic, highly amusing running amok, especially with a nasty new nemesis in Chris Pine, whose eyebrows and sense of entitlement are completely out of control. 'Horrible Bosses 2' has horribly funny moments, but too few 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

In one amusing exchange at dusk, Jackson announces that he loves this time of day; presumably he is also a Terrence Malick fan. ‘Jockey’ Review: Hit Hard and Still Riding 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

When it does, there’s a pretty tasty half-hour of inventive staging and amusing acting before things lapse back into predictability for the inevitable happy ending. | 'Once Upon a Time in New Jersey': The Very Familiar New Jersey of Snooki?s Grandparents 2010-10-06T21:46:00Z

“I have no regrets. I have enjoyed thinking about my mistakes, and the disasters. . . . It’s all amusing at this point. Ambition is gone. Thank you, Jesus!” Inside Garrison Keillor’s attempted comeback after his #MeToo downfall 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Balliol authorities seemed not to find this amusing, even with the coy little hyphens. Style Invitational Week 1372: Trash talk, 1880-style 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Of course there's plentiful humour at his expense, but there's also a limit to how many times we can find a dullard's dullness amusing. The Whispering Muse by Sjón – review 2012-06-22T21:55:06Z

The author covers every instructive angle of a deal but keeps the text light and amusing. Bridge: Pointers for a Favorite Player, in Books or 365 Days a Year 2009-12-17T06:10:00Z

And God, the view is so awful it’s almost amusing — at least for Araki. Review: White Bird in a Blizzard: Snow Job for Shailene Woodley 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

He is amusing on how, in many arrival cities, the cable-TV man — the “cable-wallah,” in Mumbai — is a man of power and influence. Books of The Times: Want a New Life? Wait Here 2011-03-17T14:45:49Z

People pursue lucid dreaming for all kinds of reasons: as a mental challenge, for therapeutic purposes or as an amusing hobby. So You Want to Have a Lucid Dream? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

Their colloquy is interrupted by a gruff-spoken officer of Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources, played with an amusing sense of his firm authority by Bob Davis. Review: ‘Nice Fish,’ Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins’s Quirky Ice Fishing Tale 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

The best that can be said of this cluttered mosaic is that it gives the actors in the prestigious cast some amusing comic moments. | 'Boogie Woogie': ?Boogie Woogie? With Alan Cumming and Gillian Anderson 2010-04-22T23:32:00Z

Not often does a critic get to employ the words “amusing” and “terrorists” in the same sentence. Theater Review: ‘Modern Terrorism,’ by Jon Kern, at the Second Stage Theater 2012-10-18T21:50:45Z

It's amusing satire, but instead of shouts of injustice, the meme gleefully separates from reality. Internet memes sprout around Occupy movement 2011-11-23T20:21:11Z

And at the moment, modestly amusing does not stave off that desire for a really great live-action family film after years of watching the terrain land-grabbed by animation. 'Alexander's' day isn't so terrible, film isn't so great 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

“Handbagged,” meanwhile, a satire at the Vaudeville Theatre about the testy relations between Queen Elizabeth II and former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, proved to be a slight, mildly amusing comedy stretched to a laborious two-hours-plus. In London, stages are set for pleasure

Some children don’t consider the return to academia even mildly amusing. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Growing up in the Netherlands, I also read stories about a fat boy called Dik Trom who stole apples from the neighboring orchard — an example of amusing mischief a long time ago. Ian Buruma: By the Book 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Chris Rock used his biting brand of comedy in "Top Five" to slice and dice fame, fans, romance and social media with amusing, stinging insight. Daring films lifted the artform in 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Despite its serious subject matter, the book is a rollicking read, full of amusing details and sarcastic humour. Mucky paps 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

It’s amusing to see people struggle to field questions like, “How do you occupy space?” Art Review: A Show Is All Cyber, Some of the Time 2010-10-21T22:17:00Z

The results make for amusing, if at times disconcerting, listening. This week's new live comedy 2013-03-09T06:00:15Z

This book tackles a lot of amusing questions. Shea Serrano was as shocked as anyone when Obama endorsed ‘Basketball (And Other Things)’ 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

It all begins innocently enough, with Anthony offering some amusing speeches on self-help and the multiverse while gradually introducing the serial killer narrative. Review: ‘Revenge of the Popinjay’ at Dixon Place 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

One of the most amusing finds is the short story about Fitzgerald as a fictional pugilist. What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

Which partly explains what is lacking in this amusing but formulaic man-in-crisis comedy. Sundance film festival 2013: ACOD – first look review 2013-01-25T18:13:00Z

Uninformed opinions are the easiest and most amusing to hold – they are not weighed down by uncertainty and their edges are firm, with no flicker of nuance or softening of affection. My verdict on books I haven't read 2012-07-29T20:30:01Z

Yes, he likes to torture kids — say, by popping their animal balloon with a pin — but only after amusing them: creating the animal balloon he intends to pop. Despicable Me Review: It's Pickable! 2010-07-09T09:05:00Z

He learns that Picard never cared about having a family and views the death of the man Jack is named after as an amusing story to be used to charm cadets. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 4 Recap: A Sinking Ship 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

Hiddleston’s strong heart demonstrates itself most dramatically with some highly amusing fancy footwork at the end. Video of Tom Hiddleston Singing and Dancing Is Hilarious 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

The performance is startling, amusing and appalling all at once. The Art of Being Bombarded by Watermelons 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

The jokes are solid and amusing, but there are no real laugh out loud moments, or innovation in terms of comedy or character. Welcome to Sweden: Amy Poehler’s brother takes American charm abroad 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

“It is most amusing after the dull healthy middle west.” The Home Where Fitzgerald Started Gatsby Is for Sale 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Though these guys are drop-dead amusing, the film never lets us forget that they can and will be completely ruthless if the situation calls for it. 'Life of Crime' is true to mayhem and humor of Elmore Leonard 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

The outcome looks cheap and is only mildly amusing. Review: Hiring an Exorcist? Get References First in ‘Another Evil’ 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Overall, however, the documentary doesn’t try to cram in nuggets of band history, save for several amusing anecdotes about Rush’s early tours with KISS. Rush’s final goodbye: “Time Stand Still” documentary is a loving lesson in navigating loss 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

It’s fascinating to see Ameira reflexively, protectively side with Demetrius against him, and amusing to watch the two passengers develop a rapport. Review: One-Act Highlights Find the Laughs in Political Anxiety 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Chanel ended up in jail briefly, arrested in the Bean killing, which led to some amusing bonding with hard-core inmates. 'Scream Queens' Episode 5 Recap: Dead Presidents 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

The parody is amusing but not deep: Kvarnström pops the cliches, but only by inflating them to start with. Danza Contemporánea de Cuba – review 2012-06-01T15:40:27Z

The opening scene in a karaoke bar was pretty amusing. 'Sleepy Hollow' Recap: Karoake and Henry Knox's Vault 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

"There's something amusing that we take ourselves so seriously that we think it merits official and scholarly debate," Berg said. `Curb Your Enthusiasm' sparks debate in encore run 2010-06-02T01:16:00Z

This was fashion as theater and an often amusing way to end Paris Fashion Week. On the Runway Blog: Thom Browne and Donatella Versace Both Put on a Show 2014-01-20T16:22:43Z

That bracing moment allows us to re-enter the world beyond the theater, where the stakes are high for political buffoonery, which suddenly seems less amusing than disgusting. Review: In ‘The Government Inspector,’ Dumb and Dumber, Deliciously 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

While the Nac Mac Feegle are consistently amusing, much of this novel concerns itself with death and life’s purpose, while also examining the claims of tradition against the need for change and progress. ‘The Shepherd’s Crown’ review: The final Discworld novel 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

Read More Philip French said: A fascinating slice of bizarre Americana … with the aid of Jack Black, Linklater has turned it into an extremely amusing, socially accurate docudrama. What films have you seen recently? 2013-04-29T14:38:43Z

Not if the book is David Shields’s “The Very Last Interview,” an amusing compilation of hundreds of short, random-seeming questions that come unaccompanied by answers. Everything We Wanted to Know About David Shields (and Already Asked) 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

My notebook was meant to be a temporary artifact, an amusing chronicle to look back on once life returned to normal in a few months. How I became the keeper of my mother-in-law’s spinach rice recipe 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

But he keeps the scatology slick and amusing, and tries hard to ensure that it comes from affection and good cheer, rather than misanthropy. Rob Delaney – review 2012-10-08T17:45:01Z

It probably wasn’t great table manners when he shouted: “I love sex, OK, Agnes?!” but it was quite amusing. Blind date: ‘I’d have preferred late and boozy to early and sober’ 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

Although tricked out in superfluous, often distracting 3-D, the remake doesn’t as much improve on the original as match it goofily amusing moment for moment. Movie Review | 'Clash of the Titans': Sam Worthington and Liam Neeson in a Greek Myth 2010-04-01T21:59:00Z

Her parents, now deceased, told their wedding-crashing stories often, she said, particularly her mother, who not only found them amusing but also believed their presence probably enhanced the functions. Wedding Crashers Just Want to Have Some Fun 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Joking apart, Richards's constant baiting of Jagger, far from being amusing, hints at a snide disloyal side. Is Keith Richards a 'good thing'? 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z

There were amusing historical references tucked into the proceedings. Music Review | Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy and Dave Malloy: Updating a Schubert Cycle, at Ontological-Hysteric Theater 2010-03-17T22:50:00Z

They’re a slightly amusing sight; were it another animal — an eagle, for example — they might seem sinister. In Leeds, England, searching for the city’s many owls is a real hoot

The TV special may also function as an amusing primer on art history. Naked No More: A TV Rodent Teaches Families About Tolerance 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

In this respect “The Ghost Writer” seems to be as much about Mr. Polanski’s life as, well, that of Tony Blair, which only means that there are amusing points of convergence. Movie Review | 'The Ghost Writer': Writer for Hire Is a Wanted Man 2010-02-19T05:58:00Z

It was fast, and amusing, and so forth, and then all of a sudden one realized what the infantry was for. Literary scholar Paul Fussell dead at 88 2012-05-24T01:58:08Z

If “P.O.V.” was ultimately less perspective shifting than amusing, it was a skillful apprentice exercise. Dance Review: Lee Serle?s ?P.O.V.? at New York Public Library - Review 2011-11-14T23:27:13Z

“This eccentric, downright lovable quintet,” John Rockwell of The New York Times wrote in 1978, “provides about the most amusing, danceable experience in town.” The Superbly Original, Gloriously Weird B-52’s Say Farewell to the Road 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

In “Movie of the Week,” an amusing piece she sang on Wednesday evening, Ms. Purl outlined enough travails experienced by her television characters to stuff several daytime dramas. Music Review: Linda Purl Sings at the Metropolitan Room 2010-06-10T22:16:00Z

Self-absorbed uncertainty is the order of the day, but not in a terribly amusing way. Star power of little use in "How Do You Know" 2010-12-15T22:46:31Z

Sitting out Covid-19 in Tennessee, near his family, he began posting vignettes on Instagram — simple, amusing moments from his life — and was surprised to find his number of followers balloon into the millions. Leslie Jordan, Comic Actor and Instagram Star, Dies at 67 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

It’s often amusing, on the strength of the duo’s screwball charm. ‘Based on a True Story’ Review: Only Murders on the TV 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

That exciting premise of corporate sabotage immediately devolves into a thinly plotted series of mildly amusing set pieces. Review | You won’t find Dave Eggers’s new book on Amazon. That’s the most interesting thing about it. 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

The American people are amusing themselves to death in a society where there are very high levels of loneliness but they are also "hyper-connected" to one another online. "Little Bird": The terrifying possibility of what a Christian nationalist America could look like 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

By my friends as hopefully someone who was a good friend, or at least amusing, but I don’t need to be remembered by people I don’t know. John Malkovich: ‘I am a constant source of embarrassment to myself’ 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

They brawl over whose turn it is to use the computer as the dial-up modem sputters to life, one of many amusing ’90s-era details. Review | In ‘High School,’ Tegan and Sara Quin reflect on coming out and hitting it big 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

In an amusing promotional video, the band plays at various places in town, to general disinterest. Music Review: Power of La La La and Lures of Ooh, Ooh 2011-03-25T22:53:49Z

Best of all was Rick Crom’s “Sunday in the Meadow With Curly,” an amusing pastiche of songs from “Oklahoma” translated into the language of Stephen Sondheim. Music Review: Jeff Harnar Cabaret at Laurie Beechman Theater 2013-01-23T22:05:05Z

I would describe them as mildly amusing and insightful, and they just don't grab me. Review: Wes Anderson’s Bleakly Beautiful ‘Isle of Dogs’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

The plot as a whole seems lodged in the conventions of a quaint and distant age, despite some amusing framing scenes set in the bleachers of Fenway Park in 2004. | 'Johnny Baseball': Babe Ruth Sings at American Repertory Theater 2010-06-09T21:49:00Z

He would spend the lunch hour playing with the kids, and they called him Louis the Yard Teacher, a nickname he found profoundly amusing. Louis Sachar returns to wacky Wayside School more than 40 years after ‘Sideways Stories’ 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Like a children’s bedtime story, those series addressed the faceless beast by giving it an identifiable, even amusing form. 2010-01-15T04:09:00Z

“The good news is the numbers are finally going down,” she says in her intermittently amusing hour, holding the beat before the punchline, “Of people pursuing their dreams.” Four Specials Take Outdoor Comedy in Unexpected Directions 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

It comes replete with amusing anecdotes of some of the hazards of fieldwork, including a fungus infection he caught wearing a borrowed loin cloth. ‘Noble Savages’: fierce tribes and occupational hazards 2013-02-13T22:32:44Z

Wood, with a half smile, and Newton, with an arched eyebrow, can give any line an amusing spin, but humor is otherwise a precious commodity in “Westworld.” Review: The Perfect Timing of ‘Westworld’ Season 3 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

I would love to read more of Caroline Juskus's books because this was quite amusing and it drags you in when you have to work out the codes and follow the riddles.' Reader reviews roundup 2013-07-08T14:00:00Z

Costello, a storyteller, spun out amusing lines that pleased him and us all night, producing them as easily as those faucets produced the chowder. Elvis Costello at the Beacon: Misery and Splendor 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Is Sir Ben Kingsley instructing the tyrant's female bodyguards, "Girls, show him your bosoms," amusing? 'The Dictator' uses its power for laughs 2012-05-14T22:41:03Z

Sometimes this exploitation is lightly amusing and good-natured, as when Max curses or goes gaga over a crush. ‘Good Boys’ Review: The Cruel Comedy of Lost Innocence 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

His owners found his paintings amusing, and so when he was a teenager, he was allowed to train as an artist in St. Petersburg. Antiques: Current Events Imperil Ukrainian Museum Show 2014-04-24T21:32:44Z

Daphne explained that supernaturals were unaffected, so is that a suggestion that there's something more to Andy than amusing buffoon? True Blood: season two, episode seven 2010-04-09T22:10:00Z

Dutton draws on quotations from Pepys’s diary to narrate an amusing interlude from his life: he was in a crowd when Cavendish’s carriage drove by, the mob shouting after it “Mad Madge! Mad Madge!” How Archival Fiction Upends Our View of History 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Anyway, it’s a funny premise that is sure to attract amusing guest stars as patients in the same way that Lisa Kudrow’s delightful “Web Therapy” did. Review: On Adult Swim, He’ll See You When You’re Sleeping 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

The most inventive and amusing feed is Jamie Newton's, a chronicle of improvised sculptures assembled from common studio tools, household objects, light and shadow. One bed photo per day, for years and years: Mesmerizing moments from an art show about daily life 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

On the one hand, these moonlighting broadcasters were every bit as amusing as plenty of professional comics I've seen. Comic Relief challenge: how hard can standup be? 2011-03-18T10:28:07Z

Collegial, but only intermittently amusing, their conversation had a throwaway quality, as if it were taking place in a bar after the cameras had stopped rolling. Craig Ferguson’s “The Late Late Show” Will Be Missed 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

All this talk, while witty and amusing, balances out the film's action, which is also witty and amusing, as well as extremely, excessively, and gleefully violent. Brad Pitt hops aboard the ridiculous, rollicking "Bullet Train" packed with gleefully violent stars 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

Its tepid satire of art world pretensions culminates with a visual dirty joke that is mildly amusing but still not worth the wait. Movie Review: ‘My Worst Nightmare,’ a French Film With Sexual Scrambling 2012-10-19T00:14:05Z

Finally, the Playgoerhas dug up an amusing anecdote about the state that British theatre existed in when it lived under the censorial quill of the Lord Chamberlain. Noises off: Forest Fringe is saved ? for the moment ? and cannibals aren't allowed to be gay 2010-12-02T15:47:00Z

Mr. Lucas gives Mat a stubborn heedlessness that’s past its sell-by date, while Ms. Owen brings an amusing officiousness to her dialogue, suggesting someone who hasn’t figured out as much as she lets on. Review: Hapless Brothers and Their Lovers Intersect in ‘The Mend’ 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Manley's twist on solving modern-day loneliness is amusing, until it gets creepy. Review: Robots we hate in 'Connecting Circuits' 2013-01-16T03:21:12Z

The results are as enlightening, thought-provoking and frequently amusing as the man himself. Stream These 9 Titles Before They Leave Netflix in April 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

There were some amusing differences in his and Juliette’s versions of events. ‘The Affair’ Season 3 Finale: A Day in Paris 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

Think Edward Albee Lite — shrewdly amusing, yes. Review: 'God of Carnage' at Seattle Rep is amusing but hollow at its core ? like the characters 2010-10-07T20:49:00Z

He also makes it clear that the senior Fangs can be amusing. Books of The Times: Mom and Dad and the Two Kids They Damage 2011-08-03T22:00:29Z

Chute wedges a great deal into “Why Comics?,” including history, content analysis, artist interviews, amusing asides and more than 100 pages of illustrations. The Hand of the Comic Artist 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

“The Rake’s Progress” is an ingenious, amusing and profound opera on its own terms. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Which 20th-Century Masters Will Make the Cut? 2011-01-12T13:43:50Z

We talk about things that are amusing in person but stupid the moment you type them into a celebrity profile. Parker Posey is really pleased to meet you. Yes, you. No, really. 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

They're interested in girls and social media rather than cutting hair and provide an amusing glimpse into a shoddy work place with defiant, young employees. Smokey's Barbers - review 2013-07-09T13:40:42Z

At first, this is amusing, as when the opening number explains that, for half-bloods, the gods “you learned about / but weren’t paying attention to / well, they don’t pay attention to you, either.” Review: ‘The Lightning Thief,’ a Far Cry From Olympus 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

He is both amusing and persuasive when he writes, “In a sonnet, the ratio of humiliation to uplift is 8:6.” Books of The Times: Shame on Me, and You for Taking Pleasure in It 2011-08-02T21:23:10Z

I remember an elderly couple who used to sit at different ends of the pub and shout at each other, with a sort of smouldering hatred that everyone found really amusing. ‘Passengers treat me like a therapist’: the cabbie, the hairdresser and others on the secrets they get told 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

It’s inspiring to learn about local communities and hear amusing stories about how ordinary things like a rake or a waffle-maker can suddenly help people find friends and improve their environment. Can lessons from Watergate prepare us for Trump? – best podcasts of the week 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

It’s all still amusing, and the notes of strangled romanticism and just-perceptible nobility are still in place. Review: It’s ‘The End’ of the World, and You’ll Know It 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

They also offer amusing glimpses into friendships and catty contretemps. Was She a Feminist? The Complicated Legacy of Helen Gurley Brown. 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

My boyfriend finds this amusing, but then struggles to climax, so I think he is baffled by the whole thing. I laugh maniacally when I orgasm – and my boyfriend can no longer reach climax 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

He was reflecting the truth that how we express identity in virtual worlds is actually a fraught and complicated question disguised as an amusing game of diversion. What to Wear in the Metaverse 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Was it called “Joke” because for some it was an amusing little cruise through the woods? Skiing Quebec, Where the Chef’s Table Is Just a Schuss Away 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

He’s amusing about his children, portraying the divide between his tougher youth and their private-school upbringing. Kevin Hart Is a Comedian Built for the Big Stage (and Screen) 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Ramon Tikaram narrates this vastly amusing, ultimately moving story in a superb medley of accents: British Indian, Northern English and West Coast American. Review | Audiobooks for your summer travels 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Having described the physical nature of our world and beyond, from the atomic to the intergalactic, in “The Body” he now turns inward to explain — in his lucid, amusing style — what we’re made of. Review | After explaining the universe, Bill Bryson turns his attention to the body 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

Goldstein showcases the continuing relevance of a classic philosopher in amusing ways and offers a more straightforward discussion of Platonic philosophy. 50 notable works of nonfiction

But "Miracle!"can be less crudely amusing, and it has a sentimental heart. Dan Savage's campy 'Miracle!': a delight to some, drag for others 2012-07-19T03:56:53Z

It could just be excellent technology, but when lowly technicians have the power to resuscitate a bird, it’s not out of the question that they could animate dead humans to become highly amusing saloon regulars. The 11 Most Interesting 'Westworld' Fan Theories 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Perhaps she found it amusing that the Westerner appeared unaware that eight is a lucky number in Chinese culture. Auctions: Seesaw Bidding Early in the Season 2011-09-09T11:00:09Z

They're all footnote shows: amusing and perhaps hilarious right now, but likely to be dated in five years, quaint in 10, and borderline impenetrable in 20. Will future generations understand "The Simpsons"? 2011-03-08T16:05:00Z

That made it all the more amusing when Mr. Bell, who didn’t exactly wow the judges Wednesday, was one of the first voted into the next round. ArtsBeat Blog: 'X Factor' Watch: We Want a Recount 2011-11-18T14:30:41Z

The hunter who tries to trap one under a small dome, in an amusing illumination on the margins of the minuscule 14th-century “Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux,” does not appear to be succeeding. Art Review: ‘Search for the Unicorn’ at the Cloisters 2013-05-23T22:00:41Z

But, for some reason, this prospect strikes him as deeply amusing. Lars von Trier on filmmaking and fear: ‘Sometimes, alcohol is the only thing that will help’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

Rango, Gore Verbinski's sophisticated, extremely amusing CGI animated movie, a cartoon for adults as opposed to an adult cartoon, is set in the American west, populated by all manner of animals and reptiles. Rango ? review 2011-03-06T00:11:21Z

Dorothy Braden Bruce, a 97-year-old former Virginia schoolteacher known as Dot, described the tense experience of decoding urgent data from Japanese supply ships and also offered up amusing and poignant details about wartime life. The Women Who Helped America Crack Axis Codes 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

Naughty but amusing festival behaviour of the week Madness apparently locked Calvin Harris in a chemical toilet and shook it about a bit at Camp Bestival. From Phil Mitchell on crack to chemical bog madness, this week's winners and losers 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z

But behind the facade lies a brutally perceptive study of not just a relationship but any relationship; horribly familiar, fantastically petty and darkly amusing. Cannibalism, bad dates and ice skating: the best movie moments of 2017 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

He might think it's amusing to vilify the Christian faith, but it permeates into the consciousness of people. UK comedy in crisis and Ant and Dec to go silent 2013-01-15T17:55:17Z

His wife, Charlotte, tries to curb his morbid fancies by bringing home an antique typewriter that proves to be an amusing distraction. Many Sinners, Very Few Saints 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

It is a genuinely engrossing, amusing and intelligent novel. Bedlam by Christopher Brookmyre – review 2013-02-14T09:01:01Z

Amid scenes of egotism and oafishness, the last qualities a footballer loses, there are variable attempts at cuisine and amusing ribaldry around the table. Stanley Park 2010-06-10T07:04:00Z

Irving’s poignant, sobering film does not portray McCollum’s antics as amusing or dangerous but more like the story of an addict who can’t help himself. Trainspotting, an inside job 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

“Vacationland” is consistently amusing in this dry, almost Dada way, though misleadingly titled and subtitled; it’s not a travelogue or even much of a themed collection. Propane, Peapods and Perplexities 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

She finds it amusing that, instead of being rock ’n’ roll, he’s very Zen. Kate Winslet Has No Filter 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

But then, several years ago, it circled the Möbius strip of asinine humor and landed on the amusing side: “my wife” was somehow funnier than ever. Please, My Wife, She’s Very Online 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

Short is his usual amusing self as Mulaney’s boss, but he hardly makes a case for his presence, even as a useful example of a comedy style that’s wearing thin. Fox’s ‘Mulaney’: When a bad sitcom happens to a great guy

Weighty passages about a fictional Ulm text are leavened by Paul’s unintentionally amusing recollections. Looking for a place called hope 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z

And Coffin, who co-directed both "Despicable Me" films, also excels at voicing the amusing polyglot nonsense language that is the essential lingua franca of Miniondom. 'Minions' has irresistible, wonky golden touch 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Diverting and often amusing as it can be to join Power on her George Plimpton-like adventure through some of the classics of self-help, readers won’t have trouble anticipating the happy ending. Can a Self-Help Book a Month Yield a Year’s Worth of Life Changes? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

These amusing scenes are contrasted with Kazim's "simmer to boil" approach, which allows love to take the time it needs to develop, which, of course, it does. "What's Love Got to Do With It?" director on dating today, from apps to setups: "Love is a mystery" 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

He wrote that the most epic landscape he knew before the Mojave was Mousehold Heath in Norfolk, which I thought was amusing, and certainly resonated for someone from Essex like me. Hari Kunzru: 'What's happened since 2008 is a class war based on faith and credit' 2011-08-07T19:00:02Z

This is balanced out by an amusing daydream in which he fantasizes about tomorrow’s critics lauding his unwritten future masterpiece. Michael Dirda’s ‘Browsings’ offers meditations on the life of the mind 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

The return of "Captain Underpants" may not be amusing to all. Brief this: Captain Underpants is back 2010-03-18T06:31:00Z

“Mr. Fullerton” also has the amusing verisimilitude of being produced, on the campus of Bard College at Simon’s Rock here, just 13 miles south of Wharton’s grand home, the Mount, in Lenox. Onstage, the Pen Is Usually Duller Than the Sword 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

That Classified’s voice belongs to the ubiquitous Benedict Cumberbatch is almost as amusing as any of the jokes. ‘Penguins of Madagascar,’ With Voice of Benedict Cumberbatch 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

I'll be flicking back and forth, I'll be rounding up reports from the field, I will be looking for interesting and amusing links. Glastonbury 2013: Mumford & Sons, the xx and Bobby Womack – live blog 2013-06-30T18:41:52Z

Mr. Nuttall introduces the works at hand with amusing but mostly pertinent commentary about the music and composers, but you never know what to expect from him. Music Review: New Works Enliven Spoleto Festival USA 2012-06-04T22:14:32Z

That has some basis in fact, but it's still an amusing statement. 'Grease' gets its grit back 2011-04-23T15:21:37Z

Such a deep well of eccentricity made Columbo amusing as well as incisive, not to mention a progenitor of later characters like Tony Shalhoub’s Monk. Peter Falk, Rumpled and Crafty Actor on ?Columbo,? Dies at 83 2011-06-24T18:55:12Z

Such descriptions of the abstract process of musical composition are beautifully balanced with more down-to-earth and amusing details of life on tour, especially of the other musicians Anna encounters. 'Wonderland' vividly captures a rocker's comeback struggle 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

It was meant to be an amusing and poignant recollection of suburban America in the Reagan era. How we made Donnie Darko 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z