| 单词 | amusingly |
| 例句 | He had gotten quite close to her words, but still he was amusingly wrong. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Things which were odd, by Julian’s definition, often turned out to be amusingly mundane. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “How interesting. I have my servant here. His name is, amusingly enough, Logi. Would you like an eating competition with him?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The big oblate could barely contain his enthusiasm, and he recounted his history very amusingly. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z "This one's for the grannies," she sings on Include Me Out, amusingly enough over the album's crunchiest beats. Robyn: Body Talk Pt 2 2010-08-26T14:30:00Z In Eugenio Mira’s gaudy, amusingly preposterous new thriller, “Grand Piano,” the world’s foremost young classical pianist returns to the concert stage after a five-year sabbatical and finds himself in a deadly line of fire. Movie Review: In ‘Grand Piano,’ an Unknown Stalks a Musician Making a Comeback 2014-03-07T01:12:49Z Dunham’s knack for writing amusingly self-destructive women and dopey men remains intact, and her own turn as the mother caught in the middle is as thorny and complicated as the movie surrounding it. ‘Black Bear,’ ‘Sharp Stick’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z This week: Explain — inaccurately but amusingly — how a real word is a combination of two or more words, with an illustrative sentence, as in the examples above, or some other funny way. Style Invitational Week 1236: Portmanteaux faux 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Their journey is amusingly botched as they head to Turkey, where they steal a jet and fly to Israel and then India. David Duchovny’s first novel is a witty, madcap fable starring troubled cow, a Jewish pig and a suave turkey 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The pair were fundamentally and amusingly mismatched, their comic and temperamental sensibilities in diametric opposition. Oscars 2019: who should be the host? 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Maybe that’s a good sign that Zach Grenier will manage to take some time off from “Man and Boy” at the Roundabout Theater to film some scenes as the amusingly unprincipled Lee. ArtsBeat Blog: 'Good Wife' Watch: Will's Inner Rat 2011-10-17T05:00:08Z Brooks hasn't lost his gift for dreaming up heroes and heroines who worry amusingly, and for creating a rom-com marplot — the other guy — who is attractive and seductive, pursuing his own understandable if borderline-amoral logic. How Do You Know: Well, I Like It 2010-12-17T09:15:00Z That’s a shame because Mr. Mitta stages some nifty fantasias, like a shadowy bathhouse brawl that amusingly doubles as a physical debate over Western portrayals of the human body. Review: In ‘Chagall-Malevich,’ Two Painters Clash in Revolutionary Russia 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z A less caricatured Mary might have added additional nuance to the play, but Hawkins' officious air and handbag-snapping authority do make her an amusingly obnoxious Sister From Hell. Review: 'Mauritius' at Seattle Public Theater is a taut, twisty thriller 2010-10-07T21:32:00Z King's wealth of elastic facial expressions convey degrees of embarrassment and delight, while Michael Patten is her amusingly yahoo spouse and Mary Kae Irvin is a no-nonsense nurse, with her own hidden needs. ACT's 'In the Next Room' is a romp offering more than good vibes 2011-08-05T22:04:06Z He abandoned academia for a time to be a model, which the memoir amusingly explores. In the Gritty New York of the ’70s and ’80s, Not Exactly a Model Life 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Together, they deepen the feelings that swirl around a woman who with a sharp tongue and a vast imagination invents her world amusingly, foolishly, enduringly. ‘Emma’ Review: Back on the Manor, but Still Clueless 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z All of these details are entertaining for the viewer who’s seen the ridiculous but amusingly creepy original. Review: In ‘Damien,’ a Photojournalist Resists His More Devilish Side 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z The motion is both circular and amusingly eccentric. Dance Review: Aki Sasamoto’s ‘Centripetal Run,’ at the Chocolate Factory 2012-11-30T22:51:52Z It’s an amusingly perverse choice for Valentine’s Day, given that it is, after all, a film about a man first seen in a clinic recovering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime,’ Explores Time and Memory 2014-02-13T23:06:59Z “Backstage in Biscuit Land” — so named because, amusingly, Thom’s most repeated tic word is “biscuit” — unfolds in what is known as relaxed performance, sometimes called sensory-friendly performance. Skirball's 'relaxed performance' makes a place in theater for Tourette's, autism and more 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Patten and the other Gob Squad members — Sarah Thom, Nina Tecklenburg and Simon Will at the performance I caught — use their own names as they banter and bicker aimlessly but amusingly. | 'Gob Squad?s Kitchen (You?ve Never Had It So Good)': ?Gob Squad?s Kitchen,? Inspired by Warhol, at Public Theater 2012-01-24T03:01:11Z But it is also misleading: anyone lulled into expecting a proto-Minimalist meditation would have been startled by the wild, amusingly cacophonous outbursts that drive the piece. Music Review: ?Sudden Music? at a Festival for Composers 2010-06-17T22:19:00Z “Raising Hope” manages the more difficult task of tapping into the rich inner lives of poor characters who are amusingly weak and childish. Television Review: From Cleaning Pools to Changing Diapers 2010-09-20T16:32:00Z Ms. Lewis-Evans is amusingly dry as the curmudgeonly Dr. Evers, who plainly announces that she’d rather be running a research lab than dealing with people. | 'Sleeping Beauty Wakes': A Fairy Tale, Updated Without Ambien 2011-05-23T21:11:06Z Ives quickly and amusingly delineates the six with specific and almost universally obnoxious traits. ‘Here We Are’ Review: The Last Sondheim, Cool and Impossibly Chic 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Gummer, who played an amusingly ditzy lawyer in a few episodes of “The Good Wife,” shows a little more individuality and suppleness as Mina, an insecure but ambitious doctor. | 'Off the Map': Doctors Operating Abroad, With Lots of Body Language 2011-01-12T00:12:29Z Mr. Sanchez got into it, amusingly so, arching his back in exaggeration. Dance Review: Clarinda Mac Low and Simone Forti Recall Judson Dance Era 2012-09-16T21:39:37Z Even the wacky hide-and-seek machinations in the laundromat, into which Ebony Marshall-Oliver’s silent clerk is amusingly drawn, have their joyful payoff. Review | Shakespeare returns to Central Park with a ‘Merry Wives’ that lives up to its title 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z The amusingly loquacious Mr. Church, 57, was speaking by phone from the working Texas ranch west of San Antonio that he left Hollywood for in 2001. Thomas Haden Church Is Keeping That Mustache 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z But when a friend’s 50th-birthday party turns amusingly violent, life’s niggling disappointments explode into vivid relief, and some serious navel-gazing ensues. Sarah Jessica Parker Returns to HBO With ‘Divorce’ 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Blunt amusingly spoofs some of her serious films, such as "The Young Victoria," while O'Dowd and Segel achieve a farcical rivalry. "Gulliver's Travels" relies too much on effects 2010-12-23T00:26:57Z In many of the most popular clips, these whippersnappers engage in adultlike conversations, amusingly given their babyish voices. Kids Make the Darndest Viral Videos 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z His mother is amusingly apathetic about his welfare, and his girlfriend is similarly unimpressed. A dark fable of love, adventure and redemption 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z “I’m a bad person!” he spits out, an exclamation that starts things off amusingly, since few would argue that the conniving Edmund of the original was a moral paragon. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z “The Rose Tattoo” does not provide any of the anguished catharses of Williams’s celebrated dramas, but there’s something refreshing in the play’s bright colors and Serafina’s amusingly overripe emotional extravagance. Review: Marisa Tomei, in Extremis, in ‘The Rose Tattoo’ 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z When the nurses argue, they do so, amusingly, in gibberish based on Icelandic. Review: ‘The Hospital’: 3 Nurses, No Patients, Dark Ritual 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z This leads to some amusingly realized visual gags, including a race with a lawn mower. Movie Review: ‘Turbo,’ From DreamWorks, Shows One Way to the Finish Line 2013-07-16T22:28:39Z I found the comments amusingly accurate and also unfair. On Artists and Audiences at American Realness 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Drawing from Flickr, YouTube, other websites and data streams, the works all enact shifts in context and structure that trigger a sense of instability, a dislocation that ranges from amusingly benign to psychologically daunting. This police video, 'Time Machine' and the scent of 'Apocalypse' will linger in your brain 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Still, this is an enjoyably acted trifle that, despite some slowing in its second half, holds interest as it amusingly considers how an act so simple for some can be so tricky for others. Entertaining 'Olivia Experiment' tests theories of attraction 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The imposing “Fat 12 Point Carbon Fiber Star,” its 21 feet amusingly stuffed into an undersized gallery here, distends the star’s twelve points like overinflated balloons. In Frank Stella’s Constellation of Stars, a Perpetual Evolution 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z But when a friend’s 50th-birthday party turns amusingly violent, existential navel-gazing ensues. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Divorce,’ ‘Insecure’ and the Second Presidential Debate 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Bell’s installation amusingly sets up a staring match between Akio Takamori’s monumental ceramic “Boy” and Storm Tharp’s “Sister” on the facing wall. ‘A Closer Look’ at more of Paul Allen’s art collection at Pivot 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z He was focusing on a popular genre, which he characterized as a waste of time but also, amusingly, did read himself. ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ and the Modern Comic Book Movie 2012-06-27T16:13:49Z The Peace of Mind: Big Apple Yoga FranceFor a restorative pick-me-up, the amusingly christened Big Apple Yoga offers vinyasa, relaxation and strength training — all in English. | What’s Happening off the Runway During Paris Fashion Week 2014-02-25T18:21:07Z They carefully lay a giant egg down in the middle of the vast space, and perform amusingly absurd rituals around it. A French Festival Focuses (Timidly) on English 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z The response will be amusingly familiar to parents of young children everywhere. Dark lord and shouting tot pick up Roald Dahl prize 2012-11-06T13:50:17Z The animal arrives via floating pod, explores the extraterrestrial shopping mall and later reappears, amusingly, in a section of the tale set in what appears to a model upscale apartment in outer space. In the galleries: Shiny fantasy worlds, undercut by body parts and company logos 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z More amusingly, it is a record of his efforts to find a boyfriend, or at least a successful in-person hookup. Review: Seeking a Date but Finding Hypocrisy in ‘Hi, Are You Single?’ 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Still, the magpie score amusingly flits around various pop styles, as if Mr. Sullivan was fiddling with the dial on a vintage AM radio. Review: New York Musical Festival Is a Smorgasbord 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z And in that split second, the attitude of Kirsten Wyatt, doing an amusingly over-the-top approximation of Tammy Faye’s lachrymose personality, shifts magically from blubbering to bubbly. ‘Born for This’: Still an embryo of a musical 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z While there’s the occasional amusingly idiosyncratic section of dialogue that sounds like a series of stagily poetic non-sequiturs, much of the couple’s bonding feels straightforward and unremarkable. ‘Cicada’ Review: A New Relationship Buds as Old Wounds Reopen 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z But then, you're relying on rappers to answer questions, if not accurately, then at least, amusingly. Summer TV season high on comedy shows but sadly short on actual comedy 2012-05-29T17:33:08Z My museum outing the next morning was amusingly different. Brussels: The Chocolate Trail 2011-12-23T17:57:07Z 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 Their contrasting natures continue to amusingly expose and amplify Raleigh and May’s wildly divergent roots. Mining the drama of everyday life in 'Gulf View Drive' 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z These are amusingly hyperbolic performances until, like the rest of this movie, they grow tedious and dispiriting. Movie Review: Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Back in ‘Sabotage’ 2014-03-27T22:49:41Z And Mrs. Perelman, who has struggled with her own weight, amusingly expresses her weakness for naughty foods. A Cooking Blog Yields a Franchise and a Husband 2012-12-12T19:11:10Z The company members didn’t do too much better in capturing the Capulet-Montague animosity, often settling, amusingly, for rude gesticulations and angled chins. Dance Review: Herman Cornejo in Ballet Theater?s ?Romeo and Juliet? 2010-07-06T21:27:00Z The same goes for the amusingly named Self-Important Potatoes, a dish of simple fried spuds that get a boost — and a jolt of deliciousness — from the addition of tiny prawns. Choice Tables: Where Madrid Chefs Go for ‘Real’ Spanish Food 2012-10-12T18:41:55Z As a boyish but foxy Nick, Mr. Iveson is amusingly flexible. Review: George and Martha Redux in ‘Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Here, he recalls his childhood in detail, plainly, movingly, sometimes amusingly, but without a trace of self-pity or bitterness. This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson – review 2013-05-02T13:00:01Z Encased in drab suits — some of them amusingly animate, turning their wearers into marionettes — they struggle to escape. Suspended in Air, Searching for Connection in Two High-Flying Shows 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Attempts to decode the nongender politics of “The Hunger Games,” to place it in the real-world ideological landscape of tea parties and occupiers, have been predictably and amusingly all over the map. Arts & Leisure: Katniss Everdeen, a New Type of Woman Warrior 2012-04-04T12:00:00Z So while the book’s organization may be a bit random, the information itself is often valid and amusingly packaged. Cutting the Cord: What Parents and Teenagers Need to Know 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z And the trademark Hitchcock cameos turn up in a few of these films; most amusingly in the director’s interaction with a meddling child on a London subway in “Blackmail.” Early Hitchcock silents provide glimpses of a master in the making 2013-07-18T17:18:57Z Perhaps most amusingly, at one point the actors burst into a chorus of meows and chants of “I can haz cheezburger?” ArtsBeat Blog: New York Fringe Festival Report: 'Technodoulia Dot Com' 2011-08-25T15:15:45Z In exposing the crime writer's fell trade so amusingly, Sutton deserves a wide new readership, though without descending to Slavitt's depths to attain it. My Criminal World by Henry Sutton – review 2013-05-18T10:01:01Z Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman — amusingly portrayed as paranoid, nihilistic and “often slightly ill” — has penned a heady Mao Zedong biopic that could be the actor’s Oscar vehicle. Review | Jim Carrey the actor-writer deconstructs Jim Carrey the character in ‘Memoirs and Misinformation’ 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z The second movement begins, amusingly, with the instruments simulating tuning, then turns poignantly dirge-like. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW at Zankel Hall 2014-05-11T20:28:02Z Some dialogue is amusingly familiar to any Bond fan. ‘The Spine of Night’ Review: Cosmic Forces at Work 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z This is a fittingly mystical epigram from a writer whose characters strive for ostensibly reachable goals and, tragically or amusingly, never manage to get any closer to them. What if We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped? 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z An amusingly precocious letter the author typed on her father’s typewriter at 7 begins, Review | Deborah Tannen’s ‘Finding My Father’ pays tribute to a man whose many jobs became his life story 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Christopher Dinolfo proves amusingly hammy at times, as a histrionic gentleman of the company whose status is diminished after women begin assuming the female leading roles that belonged to him. Review | Oh, Nell, you deserved better! ‘Nell Gwynn’ is a disappointing new play at the Folger. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Be vigilant for such phrases as “Rob commuted to his job,” with its amusingly jarring inadvertent rhyme. Meet the Guardian of Grammar Who Wants to Help You Be a Better Writer 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Now that RP and what it tried so hard to signify is less of a big deal, I find even the accent that likes to insist it is not an accent at all amusingly quaint. What's the future of the Union? 2011-08-27T23:05:40Z The sofas were a little worn and the staff amusingly cheeky; we borrowed rusty bikes and rode unsuitably enormous horses, played in hay barns, searched for still-warm feather-spotted eggs. Memories of Myrtle Allen, the Matriarch of Irish Cookery, and of Family Holiday Idylls at Ballymaloe 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z She writes very amusingly about the one time she had to buy a skirt for a job; when she left that position she ceremonially drowned it in the Hudson River. Ingrid Sischy’s Genius: Portraits of Contemporary Culture 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z He was very charming, very low-key and amusingly deadpan in his delivery. ‘He Missed Nothing’: Nathan Lane, Chita Rivera and Others on Joe Allen 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Like American anti-Communist films of this period, it amusingly paints such characters as true believers in the revolution, who at the same time take pleasure in their applied malevolence. Review: ‘This Can’t Happen Here,’ the Film Ingmar Bergman Tried to Bury 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z He spoke about “Song Cycle” and “Songs Cycled,” and offered other amusingly cantankerous observations during a recent visit to New York. A Word With: Van Dyke Parks: ‘Smile’ and Other Difficulties 2013-07-22T21:48:53Z Look it up: the examples he cited are both amusingly archaic, but also appropriately gruesome. George Orwell's critique of internet English 2013-05-20T09:55:44Z Norman Mailer is quoted, amusingly, on how his success changed what Jewish mothers desired from their ambitious sons. Books of The Times: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Take Me In 2011-08-16T16:57:42Z Somebody is white Huck and somebody else is his amusingly dim black sidekick, Jim. Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Gottlieb amusingly details the making of the movie in his essential account “The Jaws Log.” ‘Jaws’ Is Still Devouring Us. SOS! 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z The final scherzo movement sees the classical man set upon rather amusingly by the modern woman. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z And Mr. Martinoty amusingly charts the rejected Donna Elvira’s decision to enter a convent, so that by the Epilogue she wears a nun’s habit. Opera Review: In Austria, Stellar Cast Makes Strauss's 'Frau' Shimmer 2010-12-22T13:28:52Z In “The Lesson,” an amusingly taut British thriller playing now in American movie theaters, two novels result from the same events at an opulent country estate. In ‘The Lesson,’ It’s a Bad Writer Who Steals 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Mr T's misgivings are in line with the original TV show's refusal to show anyone dying on screen, which some consider one of its most amusingly silly traits. Mr T pities the fools who made The A-Team film too violent 2010-06-09T10:10:00Z Mike and Traci are trying to conceive; amusingly, we hear them at it in the tent. Fading into the woods with D’Amour’s mysterious ‘Cherokee’ 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z And Mr. Abu-Assad handles the childhood scenes well, letting the young actors deliver nervy dialogue in an amusingly matter-of-fact fashion. Review: ‘The Idol,’ the Underdog Story of an ‘Arab Idol’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Rather less amusingly, she discounted the deaths of several thousand Palestinians in this year’s war with Israel by fuming, “They started it. We now don’t count who’s dead. You’re dead. You deserve to be dead.” Remembering Joan Rivers: As If She'd Let Us Forget Her 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Turning War and Peace into a musical is a stage challenge, to say the least, and Natasha, Pierre is amusingly self-aware of that. Natasha, Imelda and the Great Immersion of 2013 2013-05-20T13:00:23Z The misunderstanding persisted for the rest of the evening, as the competing concepts amusingly bumped against each other. Review: ‘Too Blondes,’ a Cabaret of Comic Confusion 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The amusingly proud young man resembles a scrawny tabby himself. Movie Review: ‘2013 Sundance Film Festival Short Films’ at IFC Center 2013-12-26T19:03:34Z But Loretta's songs, she would be horrified to know, make for easy listening, and Evans uses the alter ego to supply amusingly barbed remarks on the music industry and neurotic young womanhood. Loretta Maine 2010-08-13T13:01:00Z “I was talking to my breast pump like he’s Wilson in ‘Cast Away,’ ” Lina says, one of dozens of quips Dina Thomas spins amusingly in her earthy comic turn. Review | Metzler’s comic ‘Cry It Out’ sings the new-parent blues 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Rainn Wilson, only slightly less worked up than on "The Office," plays a Pacific Northwest police detective of the brilliant yet disheveled, impolitic and amusingly self-destructive sort. Capsule reviews of midseason shows The long-suffering mother, for example, is played primarily by Lucy Taylor, an amusingly brittle actress who haunts the stage in a droopy nightgown, but also by a couple of men. Signifying something 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Where to Invade Next, in which he amusingly highlights how America compares unfavourably with other nations, was met with warm – not glowing – reviews, but it’s among the most purely entertaining documentaries this year. Oscars 2016: a look at early frontrunners after the Toronto film festival 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z That amusingly lugubrious cello anchors the high anguish of “Later” in “Now/Later/Soon” from “A Little Night Music.” Instrumental to Signature’s success, orchestra shines in Sondheim revue 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Or at least the video does, expressing amusingly some of the philosophy embedded in cricket's traditions. Readers recommend: songs about cricket – results 2013-07-25T14:52:05Z Somewhat amusingly, Jean-Luc does not express any concern or mention Laris throughout any of this season, another example of the team behind “Picard” trying to erase the first two seasons of the show from existence. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Series Finale Recap: Saying Farewell 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z You get more laughs in “Oh, God”: The late playwright Anat Gov’s setup is old school in its high concept, and Mitchell Hébert is pretty divine as an amusingly fallible Heavenly Father. Review | Politics and religion are juicy topics in two 90-minute comedies on D.C. stages 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z The script that Madonna wrote with longtime colleague Alex Keshishian — 20 years ago he directed her amusingly scabrous backstage doc Truth or Dare — is all heat and no light. Madonna's W.E.: The Woman She Loves 2011-12-08T22:43:59Z The book is peppered with parents’ voices commenting cryptically and amusingly about whatever it was. In ‘Big Little Lies,’ Liane Moriarty Finds New Complications 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Then Ms. Revlock’s character, while awkwardly sharing embarrassing moments from her childhood, hit up the audience for money, offering amusingly cheap gifts as incentives. Review: In ‘The Dance Apocalypse/Solos,’ the End is Full of Questions 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Played with amusingly grotesque hauteur by Ms. Steen, Benedikte, who fantasizes that she and Philip have always been in love, provides the movie’s heartiest laughs. Movie Review: ‘Love Is All You Need,’ Starring Pierce Brosnan 2013-05-02T23:44:26Z It's an amusingly twisty conceit, developed with DIY props and audience participation. Simon Munnery ? review 2011-02-14T22:30:01Z For the opening of the first part, the singers amusingly broke out into partying. L.A. Master Chorale's 'Alexander's Feast' is a treat for the ears and eyes 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Another play revives an amusingly prophetic 1950 radio drama about humans turning to machines called Logics to answer practically any question, Siri-style. Sci-Fest L.A. gives one-act science-fiction plays a spotlight 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Like the character he plays on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Mr. David is amusingly and crabbily obsessed with the minutiae of life. Larry David on Broadway Theater, ‘Seinfeld’ and Death Etiquette 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Never has scorn for Darwin been more amusingly phrased. Ten of the best religious zealots in literature 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z The scenes set in the rink are amusingly staged by the director Jackson Gay, employing life-size cardboard figures drawn in comic-book style to represent the extra derby players. Theater Review: ‘The Jammer’ by Rolin Jones at Atlantic Theater Company 2013-01-23T23:19:07Z Guardians must absolutely not be viewed as an amusingly ersatz X-Men. Russia’s new movie superhero: a bear called Arsus that looks like Putin 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z But as he bickers amusingly with his old friend Roger, the kindly grump who owns the store, she is too bone-weary to engage. ‘Dig’ Review: At This Shop, Nurturing Plants and Weary Souls 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z His idealism is only sincere in the sense that he believes his own manufactured hype, which is an amusingly familiar failing shared by a lot of Hollywood people. ‘Jurassic Park’: Where the Wild Things Are 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z The women, who have amusingly little difficulty handling their generally well-behaved johns, are in control but only up to point. Lizzie Borden’s ‘Working Girls’ Is About Capitalism, Not Sex 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Riordan has come up with a clever conceit, which is amusingly sustained. The Percy Jackson Problem 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z In its current amusingly smutty state, the movie, which was picked up for distribution here, will probably face its own ratings battle. Critic’s Notebook: Highlights of the Sundance Film Festival 2013-01-24T23:19:23Z She is aided by the broadly appealing performances of her stars, particularly Jonas, whose character grandly strives and sacrifices for her daughter in amusingly high style. ‘The Sky Is Pink’ Review: A Story Told From the Grave 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The next morning he sees the “other guy,” his amusingly bandaged boss, and ribs him about being on the losing end of the fight against a woman. 'The Americans' Recap: Mother Russia and Her Children 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z After some amusingly depicted obstacles, true love naturally prevails, and the love-struck pair is happy ever after by the final pas de deux. Dance Review: No Mozart, but Plenty of Whimsy 2010-10-01T22:59:00Z His brutishness and unbowed egoism are conveyed with ferocious humor by Mr. Belushi, who can pivot from amusingly doltish to truly menacing without so much as shifting the cigar clamped between his teeth. | 'Born Yesterday': Daffy Blonde Gets Wise to Washington 2011-04-25T02:01:07Z He mentions a friend who gave him an amusingly apposite definition. Lonely? It’s time to brush up your intimacy skills 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z The show lacks the wildness of Leguizamo’s earlier solo offerings that mined his amusingly checkered past for material. Latino history with professor John Leguizamo, the CliffsNotes edition 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Early on, Wake strips — as if to bathe in the lighthouse’s radiance — and the story takes a turn for the amusingly perverse as trouble starts creeping around the edges. ‘The Lighthouse’ Review: Dark Nights, Troubled Souls, Hairy Men 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Jenny is an amusingly drawn gorgon of greed. Review: ‘Dry Powder,’ a High-Finance Comedy Drama 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Breakfast at Tiffany's managed it, finding what the Evening Standard critic described as "an amusingly torpid specimen" to play Holly Golightly's feline friend. Theatre is alive with the sound of super furry animals 2011-03-09T17:00:58Z And as the scene makes amusingly clear, a brand-new pair of Jordans isn’t cheap — even in 1989. Air Jordans on the Big Screen: When the Sneaker Is the Real Star 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z "What has to happen in a person's life," Riggan amusingly snarls to a prominent theater reviewer, "for them to become a critic?" In 'Birdman,' Alejandro G. Inarritu takes his doubts and lets them fly 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z The play launches with the adrenaline of celebrity, and Gilbert amusingly basks in the attention. A mod ‘Marie’ in bikini and wigs at Woolly The humor is often crass, and the lead characters have exceedingly foul mouths, but over all the series is an amusingly caustic variation on both the teenage comedy and the bromance genre. The Best TV Shows of 2016 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z The empire’s subsequent decline is amusingly compared to a company’s struggling with a franchising problem. | 'Long Story Short': Colin Quinn Performs at 45 Bleecker Street 2010-08-16T21:32:00Z An amusingly telling thing about talking to people who run New York comedy clubs is how often they resort to Mafia lingo. New York Comedy Clubs Caught in a Turf War 2012-11-28T17:01:00Z James Vanderbilt’s amusingly topical screenplay sets the stage — with, among other details, a new, cooperative Iranian president and a former intelligence whiz gone off the reservation — that Mr. Emmerich rapidly begins to demolish. Movie Review: In ‘White House Down,’ Channing Tatum Rescues the Nation 2013-06-27T20:33:58Z Balances were off, with some amusingly out-of-whack emphases in the woodwinds, timpani, bass drum and tuba. A confusing but striking ‘Firebird’ comes to life at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Their comeuppance has, let’s say, an amusingly unappetizing flavor. Review | ‘Timon of Athens’ is tricky Shakespeare. A fearless director gets it right. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Tovey also introduced the performance by amusingly summarizing the ballet’s plot. It's an old-school night at the Hollywood Bowl with Stravinsky and Joshua Bell 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z It was Samuel Johnson who said, wrongly but amusingly, that no one except a blockhead writes for any reason but money. Mary Gaitskill Looks Unhappiness Straight in the Eye 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z The menacing Sister Jude is, oddly and amusingly, a proto-feminist who resents her secondary status as a nun subordinate to “patriarchal males.” Television Review: ‘American Horror Story’ on FX Begins Second Season 2012-10-16T23:27:18Z He even brings a sense of breezy fun to Fox that suggests everyone will soon be amusingly skewered. ‘Bombshell’ Review: Blind Ambition and Blond Sedition at Fox News 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Claudius amusingly garbles the names of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, more than once, and there’s a funny interpolated reference to the “student union lounge bar.” Theater Review: Michael Benz in ‘Hamlet’ at the Schimmel Center 2012-10-03T21:57:28Z More and more these days, the role of Jack’s cow is being assigned, amusingly, to an actor; in the original production, Milky was inanimate. Review | ‘Into the Woods’ is one of Sondheim’s most popular musicals. A delightful revival at Ford’s Theatre reminds you why. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z A view of them in black socks is most amusingly countered by Ms. Clayton with an image of an untitled abstract painting by Myron Stout. An Exhibition Worth Thousands of Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z As Carey and Simon run through baby names and ultrasounds even as Carey seems increasingly ambivalent about her impending motherhood, the rather mild invectives mount, at times amusingly. Fringe Festival in Review 2010-08-18T21:22:00Z It’s less cluttered, if a bit less amusingly chaotic. Reviews: Sunset Overdrive, This War of Mine, Super Smash Bros. and Civilization 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z The comic timing of the cast members was commendable as they accentuated the amusingly grotesque flaws of their characters without resorting to mere caricature. Music Review: Objects of Operatic Desire: Abundant Money and Men 2011-04-28T21:35:05Z To many in the audience, this is exciting: “Naharin’s Virus” wins immediate whoops and cheers, while the “Offending the Audience” monologue is treated as a form of amusingly provocative entertainment. With Batsheva, Politics Inside and Outside the Joyce Theater 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Phoebe Robinson, a petite comedian from Cleveland who has the wry smile of your kid sister, delivers amusingly dry observations about dating, catcalls and Facebook. Critic?s Notebook: Female Comedians Are Confidently Breaking Taste Taboos 2011-11-15T21:38:24Z Almost amusingly, Norm’s crew wear construction safety vests between brutal shakedowns. ‘Bull’ Review: Vengeance Is His 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z It was amusingly familiar to look at, but slightly off-kilter, as is the piece. The Rake's Progress: when Hockney met Hogarth 2010-08-02T20:30:00Z Do I select Papers, Please, the amusingly drab, playfully tedious computer game that put me in the role of a border agent in a fictional Eastern European police state? ArtsBeat: Game Theory: The Best of 2013 2013-12-31T13:01:14Z Its breathless climactic presentation of the ethical threats of cloning aptly conjures a major cultural fixation of 20 years ago; now, though, it feels amusingly overhyped. Review: Traces of Anachronism in an All-Steve Reich Evening 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z At a time when most television journalism is moving in the opposite direction, I wonder why he decided to move away from amusingly wacky celebrities and crazies, towards more meaningful and mature films. Louis Theroux: 'I'm not that comfortable doing polemic' 2011-01-30T20:30:00Z But in Denmark, he noses around, gumshoe-like, asking questions and supplying helpful information — often amusingly, in Mr. Lewin’s solid and clear performance. Review: To Be or Not to Be? Oh, Who Cares? A Different ‘Hamlet’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z They are amusingly neurotic types who begin to overstay their welcome as their skit-like scenes multiply rather than deepen. 'Stage Kiss' elicits lots of giggles but not much emotion at Geffen Playhouse 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z More respectably, he works as a focus puller at a film studio, where, amusingly, a director is having trouble getting an actress to faint, despite having a covert master of shock on his crew. Want a Halloween Thriller as Daring as ‘Psycho’? Try ‘Peeping Tom’ 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z But instead of that film’s representation of an amusingly dorky socialist state, Mohammed and Nour live and play among the tensions of Gaza. Review: ‘The Idol,’ the Underdog Story of an ‘Arab Idol’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Only Julia, amusingly hysterical one instant, calculating the next, is a character worth considering, especially in Ms. Graves’s furious portrayal. Theater Review: ?The Philanderer,? From the Pearl Theater Company 2012-01-31T22:21:13Z From the show’s first moments, in which garbage bags amusingly gather to greet Ms. Gyselbrecht, “32 rue” establishes a tone of weightless weirdness. Review: Six Dancing Eccentrics in Search of Some Seriousness 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The first joins the surviving members for a whistle-stop bio as they regroup with Brian Wilson for their current tour, and it is a briskly informative, polite, if at times amusingly strained affair. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 26-30 November 2012-11-26T07:00:00Z A few months ago, I was swept off my feet by “Aria Code,” from WQXR, a wondrous narrative podcast about opera with an amusingly ridiculous name. Three Podcasts to Listen To in May 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Less amusingly, Ferrar and his friend are confronted on the street by five drunken SS thugs who force them to give the Nazi salute and shout “Heil Hitler.” Book World: ‘Midnight in Europe,’ by Alan Furst A woman is also on the verge of a breakdown, but far more amusingly, in Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville.” At the Salzburg Festival, Riches, Retreads and Notes of Caution 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Never before have the effects of new tech – and intergenerational envy – been articulated so amusingly as in Noah Baumbach’s latest movie, which also happens to be his best, and funniest, in a decade. While We're Young: Ben Stiller has a hipster replacement in brilliant comedy 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Agent Clarice Starling, does an amusingly thick version of her strained Southern accent. | 'Silence! The Musical': ?Silence! The Musical? at P.S. 122 - Review 2011-11-23T22:31:43Z So — amusingly — Lully appeared as a character to call a halt to the proceedings. Critic’s Notebook: A Boston Biennial Celebrates the Baroque Tradition 2013-06-18T21:16:06Z Blanchett’s amusingly mannered turn is the tangiest thing here, though it’s hard to defend the surprise Golden Globe nomination she won for this. Streaming: where to find the best Richard Linklater and Xavier Dolan films online 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z Washing her hair and keeping a job are challenges for her; only video games, amusingly rendered in the most analog way imaginable, are not. Three Dramas Explore the Margins of the Digital Form 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Swift and amusingly brainless, “Hatchet II” more than delivers on splatter expectations. | 'Hatchet II': An Homage to Slasher-Movie History 2010-10-01T00:39:00Z “Tube” is as amusingly diverting as a jukebox musical — and far more similar in intent than I suspect its creators would like to admit. Theater Review: Van Cougar Re-enacts Videos at St. Mark’s Church 2012-12-05T21:51:20Z His piece looks in on one such collection, with gently sliding strings and ringing bells coalescing amusingly as a series of chirping, burbling and aggressively blaring ring tones. Music Review: Students Interpret Kafkaesque Score 2010-09-26T21:26:00Z The parents are a hilarity: Carol Kane is a hoot as Matt's nattering mother and Rebhorn is amusingly cantankerous as the domineering dad. Review: 'Sleepwalk' is crowd-pleasing comedy 2012-08-21T13:11:10Z Ms. Silverman’s character has little to do, but she at least gets off a couple of amusingly barbed remarks. Review: ‘Ashby’ Pairs a Retired C.I.A. Killer With a High School Nerd 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z "Go Away, Stop, Turn Around, Come Back" and "Jubilation Day," which Martin sang, enlivened the crowd with barbs about amusingly impaired relationships. Steve Martin plays banjo but still cracks wise 2011-07-22T17:13:04Z I found the snippet from “The Bachelorette” amusingly apt when first heard on the CD of the music, but on repetition, it quickly became tiresome. WikiLeaks at the Opera: What Chelsea Manning-inspired music says about government secrets 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Well he doesn't now, but doubtless he'll be in the same job at the Sunday Sun, or whatever the amusingly cynical News of the World replacement will be called. Did the News of the World target Amanda Holden before giving her a job? 2011-07-07T17:30:03Z There’s even a descent into the underworld realm of Hades, amusingly played by Darrell Larson as a clueless Olympian chauvinist unable to control his piggish nature. Prove humans are worth salvation? In 'Liana and Ben,' that's not so easy 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Included here mainly for the New York mayor's amusingly awkward attempts at call-and-response chants in the first few seconds. 2012's 'best' commencement speeches. So far 2012-05-24T15:05:00Z It’s an amusingly harebrained scheme, but there’s nothing in this moviefilm that matches the elegant social experiment of the first, which sought to explore where precisely American civility departs from morality. ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ Review: More Cultural Learnings 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Yet the trials that he describes so amusingly in “Joyriding in Riyadh” reveal as much about one of the world’s least understood societies as do the kindness and friendship he also receives. Fast and furious 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Resistance proves particularly futile when the production in question is as amusingly fascinating as "Monkey Kingdom," the latest entry from the ever-engaging Disneynature series of wildlife documentaries. Disneynature's 'Monkey Kingdom' swings with the best of them 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The only lead performer to wiggle free of Mr. Singh’s heavy hand is Nathan Lane, who plays the Queen’s henchman, Brighton, and whose amusingly tremulous, cagey performance owes much to Bob Hope. Movie Review: ?Mirror Mirror,? Tarsem Singh?s Snow White Story 2012-03-29T21:36:25Z “Daytona” brimmed with colorful stories about paranoia, pleasure, and empire, and it featured amusingly petty jabs at Pusha T’s rival, Drake. A Year in Marking the Time with Music 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z His approach is disarmingly self-deprecating; when the stutter that occasionally stops him in mid-sentence first becomes apparent, he puts an audience at ease by dealing with it head on and amusingly. Review | Go on, get inside Daniel Kitson’s head. You’ll find it a strange and funny place. 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Later Theresa’s self-consciousness about her back is amusingly made literal by having her cavort on the disco floor with a curved sculpture strapped to her back, suggesting a twisted external spine. | 'Goodbar': ?Goodbar? at Under the Radar Festival - Review 2012-01-05T22:43:47Z When the rebooted Dallas aired on Channel 5 the following week, it proved amusingly similar. Top TV spoofs: 'Don't I know you from Lark Pies To Cranchesterford?' 2012-10-11T14:27:05Z As Holmes, Gregory Wooddell is dashingly handsome and amusingly half mad, curling up in a leather chair and quivering with excitement as a new mystery lands in his lap. The adaptation game’s afoot: Ludwig’s five-person ‘Baskerville’ opens at Arena 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z In his review of “The Prom” on Broadway, my Times colleague Jesse Green amusingly reassured readers that this wouldn’t happen, deeming it “a joyful hoot.” ‘The Prom’ Review: Showbiz Sanctimony, and All That Zazz 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z A wonderful novelty in Grazinyte-Tyla's interpretation was to emphasize the amusingly flatulent weirdness of low strings and winds in the dances for the Sage and Ancestors. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights up the San Diego Symphony with sparkling sonics 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z The finale plunges further into the abyss, and amusingly implicates the audience in the sisters' plight. Toby: Lucky 2011-08-16T18:15:02Z Everyone, host included, is amusingly uncomfortable, mumbling, talking over one another, unsure where to be when. Buzzr Presents the Evolution of Game Shows and Ourselves 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z And at nearly every moment, reference is made to the larger “Trek” universe in the amusingly earnest manner of toons who know they’ll never get to make a crossover episode with the live-action shows. Catching Up With ‘Star Trek,’ the Quiet Franchise 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z In “The Visit,” an amusingly grim fairy tale, floorboards creak, doors squeak and lights lower and sometimes shriek to black. Review: ‘The Visit’ Is ‘Hansel and Gretel’ With Less Candy and More Camcorders 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The queen’s ravenous chasing after the latest styles in hairdressing is amusingly depicted when the towering wigs worn by her and her frenemies suddenly shoot from their heads like rockets. Theater Review: David Adjmi’s ‘Marie Antoinette’ at Yale Repertory Theater 2012-11-12T17:08:56Z Surprisingly, the research also found that it takes eight months to share a Netflix/Hulu account, which is, amusingly, three months longer than it takes the average couple to shower at their significant other’s house. Survey reveals average time couples are comfortable crying, being naked, and using the bathroom in front of each other 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z En route to its hopeful denouement, a bustling piano passage at one point amusingly represents the motion of a factory sewing machine. Review | Telling her mother’s war story on stage with a piano 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z As for the question he regularly fielded while on the show about whether he himself was gay, Mr. Rhys mastered an amusingly diplomatic reply: “Only on Sundays at 10 p.m.” Arts & Leisure: Matthew Rhys in ?Look Back in Anger? on New York Stage 2012-01-22T01:47:19Z The seasons were, as McGegan amusingly told the audience, all mixed up, like California weather. At Hollywood Bowl, Nicholas McGegan is the man for all seasons The movie shows him laboriously recording many takes of some amusingly inane commercials and introductions, supervised by an unseen director. | 'Hello Lonesome': Among Lonelyhearts, a Meeting of Minds 2011-05-26T21:01:44Z But a visit to Downing Street with the deputy leader, Harriet Harman, amusingly recounted in this book, ended with Straw merely telling Brown to "widen the political circle involved in election planning". Last Man Standing by Jack Straw - review 2012-10-02T11:29:00Z But only if punctuated, as on Road Wars, by amusingly drawn-out footage of a confused van driver repeatedly failing to provide an adequate breath sample. TV OD with Sam Richards: The Plane Crash 2012-10-05T12:00:00Z But very amusingly so...but the most important: IS IT OVER? ‘Downton Abbey,’ the Good, the Bad and the Forgotten 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z More often, an opera 150 years old, that has been performed hundreds of times in the past 10 years, appears on the schedule, this time amusingly set in a nuclear bunker. A History of Opera by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker – review 2012-12-13T07:53:01Z The alternation between these two modes, though amusingly rendered by Anyanwu, is somewhat schematic, and might be even more so were it not for bold staging choices by the director, Patricia McGregor. Review: In ‘The Last of the Love Letters,’ Passion Is Inescapable 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Assisted by his friends Gordon, an amusingly foul-mouthed white bruiser, and Maz, an Asian with a way with a motor, Bane navigated between clubland and crack den with an instinct born of the streets. Chamber Music by Tom Benn – review 2013-01-14T15:59:15Z Cinematically speaking, the transitions into and out of Malkovich are amusingly literal, and the actor's point-of-view is rendered with an old-fashioned vignette. 'Inside Out,' 'The Matrix' and more: Ranking cinema's notable head trips 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z No one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more uncomfortably than Francine Prose. An Aspiring Editor Meets a Thorny Dilemma 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Belle, from “Beauty and the Beast,” is here, amusingly played as a sort of mad housewife by Alison Burns, who doubles as Rapunzel and a drunken Little Mermaid. 'Disenchanted!,' a Musical Comedy About Princesses 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z These scenes look very staged, but amusingly so, and Combs is particularly good. Film review: I'm Still Here 2010-09-16T21:59:00Z Maybe because he thinks he is that melancholy soul whom others find amusingly odd. Robin Williams: The Comic Who Was Hamlet 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z And she can be amusingly wry when Bishop reveals her gin-dry sense of humor. Review: In ‘Dear Elizabeth,’ Two Solitary Poets Commune 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z It all culminates at an amusingly fraught family birthday bash that nicely paves the way for the film's warmly equitable conclusion. The ethnic wall is steep in the engaging but uneven 'Anita Ho' 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Incredible transforms into Mr. Indignant, declaring that they didn’t start the fight, which is an amusingly self-serving way to jump-start a sequel. Review: ‘Incredibles 2’ Is a Fast Blast (With Red Flags) 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z The formality of these uniforms, though, is amusingly undercut by the fact that almost all the performers are barefoot, as if they’d just been strolling on a beach. ‘David Byrne’s American Utopia’ Review: Opening a Wide, Wonderful World 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Airing in the recent wake of the fall of Roe, the film takes an "amusingly dreadful approach" to pregnancy and motherhood, the Wall Street Journal writes. From “Evil Dead Rise” to “Clock,” motherhood is horror, but how we talk about it is worse 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z As Jon Stewart amusingly diagnosed last week, Williams appears to suffer a low-grade case of “Infotainment Confusion Syndrome,” but the disorder evidenced by the massive media pile-on is far worse. Downfall of a simulated celebrity: Brian Williams, Max Headroom and the performance of credibility 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z The 1963-64 design, which was originally made by Kartell in molded, lacquered plywood, looked both amusingly retro and perfectly up-to-date in black and clear plastic. | The Wrap-Up, Part II 2011-04-22T18:13:31Z Later we returned to Duomo for a Sicilian blowout, amusingly reinterpreted by Mr. Sultano. In Sicily, Tasting Seafood With a Skeptical Son 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z They’ve been on the trail of the man Winnie’s grandmother amusingly refers to as an “evil banana,” and sing of their distrust in a jaunty number with a string of clever jokes: Review: ‘Tuck Everlasting’ Swaps Out the Circle of Life for an Eternally Unspooling Ribbon 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Discussing how actors were better in the old days, he cracks, absurdly if amusingly: “In the 1930s, Joaquin Phoenix wouldn’t get the girl, he’d get the luggage.” Books of The Times: ‘His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir,’ by Dan Jenkins 2014-03-04T20:04:03Z Although the misery is universal, this story is uniquely, and often amusingly, French. In ‘Adèle,’ a Young Woman Pounds Champagne, Spurns Hermès and Destroys Lives 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Foley, played with amusingly smarmy self-righteousness by Mr. Burton, is seen lamenting the digital trail he left behind when exchanging instant messages with a young page. Rachel Dratch in ‘Tail! Spin!,’ a Political Comedy of Errors 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z An entire episode covers Dr. Teeth's origin story and the nascency of his relationship with Floyd Pepper while amusingly delving into the ways his parental drama informs his creative source. Lilly Singh is making "Muppets Mayhem": "No matter where you are in life, they mean so much" 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Shabbily dressed in clothes that look inadequate for the fast-approaching night, he greets the aid workers, inaugurating an amusingly absurd, confusing conversation. ‘Intregalde’ Review: Oh, Be Good! 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Like Will Eno, Ms. Gibson puts amusingly off-kilter, slightly stylized exchanges in the mouths of her everyday characters with convincing grace. Review: ‘Placebo,’ With Carrie Coon, Opens at Playwrights Horizons 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Even when Diamond’s script bites off more than it can chew, its vibrant realization of Stone as an amusingly unassuming trailblazer — and Santoya Fields’s effortlessly appealing lead performance — compensates. Review | ‘Toni Stone’ takes some big swings in Arena Stage’s winning return to live theater 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Available on YouTube, that century-old film is amusingly of its time and Ruth is an amiably persuasive screen presence — a movie star. When Athletes Go Hollywood 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z As Argene the soprano Ruby Hughes, who amusingly tended to a stuffed sheep on rollers, sang with bright sound and feistiness. Music Review: Garsington Opera’s ‘Olympiade’ by Vivaldi, in England 2012-06-24T22:11:06Z But she also makes amusingly dry little jokes. ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 2: Exit Through the Gift Shop 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Last month, when the soon-to-be canceled CNN anchor Piers Morgan told her she tweeted amusingly, she coldly replied, “I wish you did.” The TV Watch: David Letterman’s Place in a Rather Kindly Landscape 2014-04-04T21:57:25Z You know this because throughout this amusingly, precisely choreographed encounter, the camera remains fixed on the lower part of their bodies, cutting off just above their knees. ‘What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?’ Review: But I Digress 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Strings shriek, too, and the camera tilts with nausea: the show erupts, briefly and amusingly, from an unpersuasive love story into a spinster’s personal horror film. Amazon’s New “Vanity Fair” Turns Becky Sharp Into an Endearing, Plucky Go-Getter 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Then, the slings and arrows of feckless journalism hit: The Independent — a British newspaper — rebukes the New York Times’s Sunday Magazine London supplement for getting some things “amusingly” and “spectacularly wrong.” | The Empire Strikes Back 2012-03-15T18:53:51Z In his most recent film, "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold," he told a story that skewered product placement in entertainment, and he financed it, rather amusingly, by product placement. "Super Size Me" director gets original on Hulu 2011-08-17T00:00:45Z Mr. Marías, 63, taught translation theory at Oxford and speaks in an amusingly punctilious English that is dotted with fusty Britishisms. Javier Marias Finds Popularity on the Rise in Britain and the U.S. 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Sundance is a producer, but this is a BBC series that is excellent and also amusingly solipsistic: It’s as preoccupied with the waning of British power as it is with today’s conflagration. ‘The Honorable Woman,’ Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Ugyen’s aspirations to a singing career are amusingly unremarkable in Lunana, where locals croon songs to the valleys as spiritual offerings. ‘Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom’ Review: Remote Learning 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The list of food they are planning to provide grows to amusingly staggering proportions, considering the guest list runs to just a dozen. Review: David Ives, in ‘Lives of the Saints,’ Mixes Gags and Philosophy 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z It goes slowly, at times amusingly, as he insists to the bewildered, frustrated cast that they focus on the text. ‘Drive My Car’ Review: A Director Takes Your Heart for a Spin 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Naturally, Joseph Fuqua’s amusingly lily-livered marshal is of no help in the impending showdown between Valance and Foster. Gregory Harrison takes the reins of 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z A refreshingly direct and amusingly tactless interrogator, he neither sentimentalizes nor canonizes his feisty models, who handle their variously truncated limbs with casual practicality. | 'NoBody?s Perfect': The Devastating Legacy of Thalidomide 2010-04-16T00:54:00Z It’s amusingly apt that the first special that films Buress in a way to make him look like a glamorous star is on a site known for homemade cat videos. Hannibal Buress Meets the Moment 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Gold then softens the transition from real life to drama by having Michael Patrick Thornton, who otherwise plays Lennox and one of the assassins, deliver an amusingly potted prologue like a Catskills tummler. Review: In a New ‘Macbeth,’ Something Wonky This Way Comes 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Anderson supplies color and bite as the sarcastic Jamie, but outside of James Fouchard’s amusingly designed, deliberately cheesy sub shop, there’s not much else to watch. ‘Milk Like Sugar’ is the cream of this week’s crop of class-themed plays 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z This creates an awkward new dynamic that is expressed in the amusingly banal dialogue that this script maintains. Theater Review: ‘Space//Space’ by Banana Bag & Bodice at Collapsable Hole 2012-06-17T22:09:07Z The Times’s steadfast avoidance of all things four-lettered – and its mad asterisking and underscoring in the attempt – could just be written off as an amusingly old-fashioned stand for propriety. The New York Times’ F-word problem 2012-08-10T20:15:00Z And hardly any of the demonstrations work, although they often fail amusingly. Festival of the Spoken Nerd – review 2013-01-25T14:52:26Z Mr. Kahane played Beethoven’s own cadenzas but he touched up the one for the finale, amusingly adding a hint of the “Emperor” Concerto just before the orchestra brought the piece to an end. Music Review: New York Philharmonic With Jeffrey Kahane - Review 2011-11-23T23:13:03Z And Elizabeth — amusingly played by Portman as a self-absorbed actor all too aware of her own beauty — isn’t exactly a neutral observer. Review: Todd Haynes' 'May December' is both engaging and uncomfortable 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Actually, it's a "an amusingly quirky show," wrote Rolling Stone critic Alan Sepinwall, highlighting an "arch tone that acknowledges how weird so much of this is". Netflix's One Piece: Is Hollywood finally doing anime right? 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z SEOUL, South Korea — Fans of North Korea’s state media should brace themselves for fewer images of a beaming Kim Jong-un and less focus on matters that, to Western eyes, are amusingly weird and wacky. An unsmiling Kim: North Korea’s media step up their game 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Along the way, Audrey’s most shortsighted assumptions — the way she shies away from the locals she can’t understand and gravitates toward the white English speakers she occasionally encounters — are productively and amusingly upended. Review: The exuberantly rude 'Joy Ride' gives its stars the raunch-pad they deserve 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z He’s even gracious enough to cede some of the spotlight to his co-stars this time around, spending a fair chunk of the movie’s endgame amusingly on the sidelines. Review: Tom Cruise is out to save the movies. Is ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ enough? 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z It can correct my errors, I tell him, and it's able to give me regional variations in Spanish, including Mexican Spanish, Argentinian Spanish and, amusingly, Spanglish. Students switch to AI to learn languages 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Still, the whole enterprise is as far-fetched as they come as it amusingly plies the belief that love can conquer all — even world domination. Review: Chris Evans and Ana de Armas rely on chemistry in the silly yet amusing 'Ghosted' 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Asked if he heard the chatter, Jokic amusingly responded: “Yes, of course. I mean, it’s true.” Analysis: Giannis docked a rebound, stat padding a hot topic 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z The message is clear, and pretty inarguable: With “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” itself an amusingly blatant love letter to Yeoh’s stardom, academy voters have a chance to address a major past oversight. 'Crouching Tiger' brings back beauty, exhilaration and a never-better Michelle Yeoh 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z True to their domineering character’s name, both Thompson and Largess floridly and amusingly hog the spotlight, badgering poor, worn-out Clov to situate their character’s chair-on-wheels precisely at center stage. Perspective | In a world on the brink, there’s always room for Beckett’s ‘Endgame’ 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Oldenburg was famous for his giant, inflated sculptures of amusingly common, everyday objects. Perspective | I wanted to love the new Boston MLK statue. But it’s just awkward. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Consider me a casual observer and commentator on what I find alarmingly and amusingly stupid from those willing to walk into the public arena and drop their diaper in a bid for that attention. A nation of attention junkies: Trump and Elon are the perfect symbols of America's predicament 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z “Glass Onion” doesn’t need to be an infraction point to be amusingly, entertainingly and unfortunately all too relevant. Review | ‘Glass Onion’: Another fun, and scathing, Knives Out mystery 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Surrounding them are family, friends, associates, nemeses, competitors, officials, clerks and strange strangers, who range from amusingly quirky to actively threatening. How 'Atlanta's' ambition changed the face of TV forever 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Mostly the story follows these two guys as they’re making the movie, having amusingly prickly creative disagreements while they gradually get to know each other better. Review: Made by inspired and excited filmmakers, 'Something in the Dirt's' mood is infectious 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z This is an old-fashioned melodrama and fast-paced adventure — infants switched at birth! girl disguised as boy! abduction! midnight flight! — and an amusingly ludicrous love story. Review | 3 new audiobooks to kick off your fall playlist 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z George is amusingly obtuse about most everything — work, family, political beliefs — in a way that speaks to the cold calculus that converts humans into numbers on a spreadsheet. Review | Signature’s ‘No Place to Go’ finds its way thanks to its charming star 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Ryder is perfectly cast as a typical Gen Xer, who observes all these machinations with an amusingly wry wariness, knowing from experience that when the dust settles, she’s sure to be overlooked yet again. Review: Catch this 'Prey' on Hulu. 'Lightyear,' 'Luck' and more in our new streaming movies roundup 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z Caldwell drills down on character, and so the improbable plot better serves Bioh’s amusingly driven personalities. Review | Hooray for ‘Nollywood’! Jocelyn Bioh’s Nigerian satire is a pleasure. 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Metal and stone do appear in “Sculpture Now 2022,” but most often in amusingly deceptive guises. Review | In the galleries: Delicate dominates at annual sculpture show 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Unassumingly electrifying and amusingly elusive, this modern-day fable focuses on the marks we leave behind in others when paths diverge and physical distance grows. Review: 'The Girl and the Spider' muses on farewells, people and the places we loved 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z The amusingly humane stitching for “Take Me Out” is provided divinely by Ferguson, whose illumination of a new fan’s cerebral affection for baseball’s elegant choreography could not be better played. Review | ‘Take Me Out’ loads the Broadway bases with wit and incisive drama 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z When Gadsby amusingly circles back to that childhood diversion hundreds of pages later, she reminds the reader that she knows her way around a setup and punchline. Review | Hannah Gadsby gets the last laugh in ‘Ten Steps to Nanette’ 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z This variation on the formula has fewer crocodiles and more explosions; it also has a bonus extended cameo by Brad Pitt, briefly and amusingly sending up his own guy’s-guy nonchalance. Review: Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum go enjoyably neo-screwball in 'The Lost City' 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z In a recent interview, Jude amusingly compares his film’s discordant elements to a Pizza Hut salad bar: “There’s food like tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, mustard and mayonnaise. And you make the salad yourself, right?” Review | ‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’: Silly title, excellent movie 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z If anything, with its mismatched props, barnyard animals and flat beige cyclorama, it depicts a group of attractive people amusingly failing to make a music video. The Emily Ratajkowski You’ll Never See 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Only four out of 15 studios we contacted gave us a yes despite the “just a few clicks” promise — and EAC owner Epic Games itself, amusingly, was not among them. Valve says supporting the Steam Deck with BattlEye anti-cheat is as easy as an email 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Going into the long-delayed, amusingly titled “No Time to Die,” the death of Daniel Craig’s James Bond always seemed like a real possibility. 'No Time to Die' says goodbye to James Bond, for now. We break down what worked, and what didn't 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z In 2013, she earned her first Tony nomination as a plucky factory worker in “Kinky Boots,” opposite Billy Porter, and played an amusingly candid sex worker in Showtime’s period drama “Masters of Sex.” Annaleigh Ashford gets why Paula Jones slammed 'American Crime Story' 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Bose uses voice prompts to tell you which mode you’re in, and the “quiet” one amusingly sounds like you’re being scolded to shush. Bose QuietComfort 45 review: comfortably familiar 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The consequences are already being felt, as the AP reports in an article amusingly headlined, "Exodus of Election Officials Raises Concerns of Partisanship": It's not voter suppression, stupid. The GOP's new — and old — weapon is vote nullification 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Bristol City are heading down and, in amusingly on-brand news, Manchester City have missed two penalties. Aston Villa 1-3 Manchester United: Premier League – as it happened 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z So long as it’s just Cage silently clobbering mechanical humanoid bears and birds, this picture is amusingly absurd. Review: Horror-comedy 'Willy's Wonderland' isn't nearly wacky enough to deserve Nicolas Cage 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z The most lively moments of “On the Rocks” don't belong to Jones or Murray but to Jenny Slate, who pops up throughout the film as an amusingly self-involved mom-friend of Laura’s. Review | ‘On the Rocks’ has all the right ingredients: Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, Sofia Coppola. But it’s a flavorless dish. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Bad girl Gail, slithering around with her tango partner on the dance floor, is amusingly likened to “an octopus with rhythm.” With a grieving physician and a ship of fools, novel ‘Swan Song’ sets sail on a journey worth taking 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Our entry into the filmmakers’ invented setting of sleepy, isolated Easter Cove, Maine, is bifurcated, amusingly, by traditional gender roles. Review: ‘Blow the Man Down’ offers a gritty snap of modern noir with a feminist bent 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z We are sitting at an amusingly named diner-type location in the Bay Area. Susan Fowler on life after Uber: "I’m always looking over my shoulder" 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z As it happens, equilibrium seems a strange word, as applied to a film that feels constantly, yet amusingly, off balance, until its final moments. Review | In ‘The Gentlemen,’ Guy Ritchie returns to his raunchy, rambunctious roots 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z He looked back on 36 months ago and said, almost amusingly, “I was young and immature,” a puny 19 next to the 22 of today. Clemson is back in the College Football Playoff, which is remarkable by any measure 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Instrumental solos leaped to life, so many so that Dudamel became amusingly flustered at the curtain call trying to remember everyone to acknowledge for a hand. Review: Dudamel channels American cowboys, indigenous Mexicans, ethnic groups of South America 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Their response is amusingly ambivalent, and when I query whether he takes himself seriously, their reply is equally equivocal. 'Thirty years of freedom!' Why David Hasselhoff remains an icon for German unity 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Less amusingly, Yanomamo men from different villages also attacked each other in lethal raids. My Regrets about Controversial Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon (RIP) 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z The book doesn’t just amusingly collect magazine-length anecdotes; it’s in Holland that the most important goals of the book begin to coalesce. Review: What a family learned by ditching their smartphone-addicted lives to roam the world 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z You may recall that in the previous episode, the pigs stole and nearly ate all the birds’ eggs, an episode of attempted mass child murder that is amusingly shrugged off here. Review: Exuberantly silly 'The Angry Birds Movie 2' flies higher than the first 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z The aforementioned male skinny-dipping contrasts amusingly with the prim Victorian bathing costume Charlotte dons for her own ocean plunge. Sex and nudity spice up Jane Austen drama 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Fairuza Balk is amusingly irritating as the neighbor, but everyone else is just a drag. Reviews for Polly McIntosh’s ‘Darlin’’; ‘Trespassers,’ ‘Saving Zoë’ and more 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z The amusingly low stakes and the abundance of teen melodramatics are part of the movie’s stealthy charm. ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ often soars, though not as much as it twists 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z At an isolated writers retreat, struggling scribes argue and vent as their emerging crime thrillers and rom-coms spring to life in over-the-top enactments, amusingly exposing their personal foibles and creative limitations. Hollywood Fringe Festival kicks off three-week marathon of 400-plus shows 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Instead, the "Insecure" and ColorCreative chief channeled the hubristic attitudes of her favorite hip-hop artists and delivered an amusingly arrogant speech upon accepting the inaugural Emerging Entrepreneur award. At Women in Film gala, Issa Rae gave the most hilarious, arrogant speech 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Is Mike Moh’s amusingly cocky Bruce Lee impersonation a gratuitous touch or a key piece of foreshadowing? Quentin Tarantino shocks Cannes again with epic ‘Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood’ 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Johnson is judged supremely able to connect with people emotionally – amusingly, given he is personally incapable of any non-ironic emotion other than self-love. Is there a single blue-rinse Tory who doesn’t fancy a knee-trembler with Boris Johnson? | Marina Hyde 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z It is hand-embroidered in a style inspired by the 11th century Bayeux Tapestry that contrasts amusingly with the show’s premium cable story lines. The North remembers: In Northern Ireland, ‘Game of Thrones’ leaves a lasting legacy 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z First there’s what I am amusingly dubbing “the Butterfly Effect”. I love swimming, but I’m sick of the sexist behaviour in British pools | Ellie Mae O’Hagan 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z And the emergence of protected categories creates no-go areas for criticism: witness the steep decline in one-star reviews that amusingly trash a movie. Avengers: Endgame may well be brilliant – but the pressure to say so isn’t | Catherine Shoard 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Guendouzi, an amusingly snide player at times, especially for one so young, is lucky not to pick up a booking, Arsenal v Newcastle United: Premier League – live! 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z "By coincidence, and rather amusingly, they recognised each other in the sauna," he was quoted as saying. Naked policeman arrests criminal in sauna 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z He has yet to accept this, amusingly, and on Thursday leaked to the Sun an advance look at his speech telling Theresa May to make way for the next generation of Tories. Worried about Brexit? What, with these geniuses in charge? | Marina Hyde 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Her quietly puzzled reactions to the world around her — as in the frequent shots of her waiting in someone else’s foyer, framed between two absurdly large statues — tilt the movie amusingly toward satire. Review: ‘The Heiresses’ is a perceptive study of class, sexuality and personal awakening 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Another party-scene number, “The Blob,” casts its swells as dressed-up mannequins and amusingly ghoulish skulls in wigs. Stephen Sondheim and Lynn Nottage Revivals Time-Travel Through Artists’ Lives 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z The father in the video amusingly takes the son through the process. Would-be channel surfer gets Dad's help, through the doorbell cam 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Curly fries are delicious – crispy, assertively seasoned and amusingly shaped – but they almost feel like cheating. The official fast food French fry power rankings 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z He argues the song is "clearly meant as an amusingly rendered seduction," though admits that it's controversial. 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' Christmas song controversy isn't new: A brief history of the lyrics debate 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z If nothing else, “The Church” proves something: Better an amusingly terrible, eye-catching horror movie than a slick, nondescript, boring one. Review: Though crummy, retro low-budget horror film 'The Church' wears its location well - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Matt Orduña plays two gentlemen, included largely as plot devices, with amusingly clueless jocosity. Review: This multicultural 'Sense and Sensibility' re-imagines Jane Austen's portrait of the foolish but redeemable heart 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Regina O’Connor’s deep-seated respect for the social hierarchy created a gap between her and her daughter, and Flannery wrote amusingly in letters to friends about Regina’s efforts to bridge it. Flannery O’Connor’s Revelatory Honesty 2001-01-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Goldberg in private sometimes takes an amusingly ironic view of the pieties of P.C. culture. When the Twitter Mob Came for Me 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z It's a witty and lively show, fast-paced and suspenseful when it needs to be but not afraid to slow down and let people talk, or to bumble amusingly. Spy vs. assassin? It's a pure and perverse matchup in BBC America's 'Killing Eve' 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z At the final whistle Mourinho turned and directed an amusingly petulant shushing finger into the nearest TV camera. José Mourinho revels in the brutal beauty of sticking to his principles | Barney Ronay 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z Few lexicographers are lucky enough, then, to have both endlessly pleasurable work and the talent to write amusingly about it. A history of slang charts the change in taboos 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The history being told in court also will be somewhere between amusingly incomplete and outright dishonest. It's time for the government to get off Lance Armstrong's back 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z With his hair dyed blonde and cut as short as his temper, Joe Bang looks so little like the James Bond actor who plays him that his on-screen credit amusingly reads "Introducing Daniel Craig." Steven Soderbergh returns from 'retirement' to amuse himself with 'Logan Lucky' 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Zoe also amusingly gives lessons to the soccer-crazed villagers, many of whom would rather kick a golf ball than hit one. Swing Away: A yipped putt, a Greek philosopher's assist and a story of redemption - Golf Digest 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Translated into English by Christopher Hampton, the play features an amusingly pompous performance from Abraham in a role that plays on his status as a distinguished veteran. Homeland star F Murray Abraham uncowed by terror attacks - BBC News 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z What level of televisual event – on a scale from “amusingly shaped vegetable on That’s Life” to “World Cup final” – made it acceptable to have dinner in front of the box? Is our smartphone addiction damaging our children? | Rowan Davies 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Aside from the amusingly grumpy Bautista, no one here develops much personality — not even Jack. Shiny parts can't elevate latest Luc Besson pastiche 'Enter the Warriors Gate' 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Suffice to say Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” Abraham Lincoln and the George Michael tune “Freedom” all amusingly factor in. 'Speech & Debate' has winning team in three high school misfits 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z And I was perfectly fine with Damon in “The Great Wall,” in which he’s not really a white savior at all, and is in fact amusingly upstaged by director Zhang Yimou’s make-China-great-again production design. Justin Chang and Jen Yamato debate 'Ghost in the Shell' and the dangers of Hollywood whitewashing 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Fresh off a long-haul flight from the UK, it’s amusingly tricky to keep up. Reggae legends on their Soul of Jamaica album: ‘This is what freedom is’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z At 11pm, only an hour into the party, there were already more naked, though amusingly decorated, people walking around than I had seen on the entire last Mardi Gras Day. My night in naked New Orleans: the Mardi Gras party I'll never forget 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z With his amusingly patient, maddeningly effective running style, Bell followed up a stellar wild-card effort against Miami with 170 yards rushing at Arrowhead Stadium. Bell carries Steelers into AFC title game in New England 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z The video goes on to tackle the film’s amusingly civilized fight sequences. The Princess Bride Honest Trailer Proves It's the Best 'Swashbuckling' Love Story 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Much less amusingly, alas, we must return once more to Fifa, and inquire: franchise killer or genre killer? Gianni Infantino and Fifa seem to have a new plan: to kill the World Cup | Marina Hyde 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Abramović challenges the reader to “keep a small meteorite stone in your mouth”, “wait until your tongue becomes a flame”, and perhaps most amusingly, “mix fresh breast milk with fresh sperm milk”. 'Male gaze macarons' feature in the Artists' and Writers' Cookbook 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z The answer was amusingly obvious, a three-way tie. California Chrome's star power keeps growing as he runs Saturday at Santa Anita 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Other inclusions, such as Muhammad Ali’s boxing boots with swinging red tassels – bought and sewn on by the Adidas rep the night before a big fight – are amusingly idiosyncratic. The sports shoes that helped Muhammad Ali and Serena Williams become champions 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z The amusingly grumpy officer running the police morgue calls it a drug overdose. ‘In Order of Disappearance’: Revenge story aims for laughs amid gory lunacy 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z When Ray coaches him during a fight, Roberto gets amusingly touchy about criticism, but the two form a bond with some sporadically funny repartee. In ‘Hands of Stone,’ Robert De Niro returns to the boxing ring — as a coach 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Three Olympics, three time trial gold medals, and in between, two amusingly unsuccessful retirements for the now 43-year-old cyclist. Rio 2016: 15 Olympic Stories That Aren’t Ryan Lochte 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Or the way a paper chicken, created by Kubo, amusingly explodes into a shower of tiny paper squares. ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ review: Animated tale a visual stunner 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z In those days, Schwartz recalls, Trump was generally affable with reporters, offering short, amusingly immodest quotes on demand. Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Byrd’s Baldwin, amusingly cajoling her along at first, eventually gets a word in — sharp words initially, anguished words by the end. Dancing to James Baldwin and Margaret Mead in the roiling ‘A Rap on Race’ 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z “Hello Mr President,” he giggles in amusingly un-chill fashion as the president offers his congratulations. Tim Howard stayed at Everton too long but he was brilliant in his prime | Tim Hill 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z It was an amusingly violent scene, one that the Twitch chat room ran with, turning her into a Hannibal Lecter with an apron. Flinging Emojis, Twitch Chatters Revel as Julia Child Cooks 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Levin assumes the role of semi-hip uncle—cool for his age but amusingly out of step with his younger colleagues’ fads and jokes. TMZ Redefines Celebrity Dirt 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z The playwright amusingly illustrates the increasing chemistry between the men as they occasionally throw personal riddles at each other: “How is Wyeth like the K.G.B.?” and “How is Nureyev like a fish?” Review: In ‘Nureyev’s Eyes,’ a Bond Between a Painter and a Dancer 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Of all the later novels, this is probably his most major, though it was attacked upon its release as going “too far” — but when a novel is this amusingly depraved, isn’t that the point? My 10 Favorite Books: Bret Easton Ellis 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z B.o.B is obviously and amusingly wrong in the things he's saying, but he's free and able to say them. The fundamental importance of letting people be wrong on the internet 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z As Mary Shepherd, the irascible, imperious, often amusingly confounding title character, Smith summons an impressive amount of the Dowager Countess of Grantham’s native hauteur. ‘The Lady in the Van,’ with Maggie Smith as its eccentric title character 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Performances are naturalistic and engaging, with period references to nascent Internet use and the future of mobile phones subtly, amusingly incorporated. 'Yosemite' is a low-key coming of age drama 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z A little more than 20 years ago, Bill Bryson wandered the green and pleasant lands of his adopted home, Britain, and found amusingly cantankerous things to say at nearly every turn. Wandering around Britain with a good-natured grumbler 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z That same elite-dominated strategy that had me worried in the first place, amusingly enough. Reform’s perilous moment: Why an elite-driven strategy may sink Obama’s push to fix the justice system 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z One of her first teachers is, amusingly, a Jesuit.” Lifting the Veil on the New York Public Library’s Erotica Collection 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Michael Moore was up to his old tricks in the amusingly instructive “Where to Invade Next,” in which the troublemaking Michigan agitprop documentarian shows Americans some ideas we might adopt from our European friends. Top 10 films of 2015 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z One of "The Good Dinosaur's" zanier ideas is that the dinosaurs would end up amusingly duplicating the lifestyles of characters in classic movie westerns. 'The Good Dinosaur' is a wondrous, wacky Jurassic world for tykes 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Refugees – amusingly called "migrants" by sympathetic news outlets trying to finesse that they are generally both illegal and immigrants – have swept through Europe and permeated the national media, as well. Obama's Dead Wrong About the Paris Attacks 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Most amusingly, scroll down to the bottom of the Amazon Video page, and you’ll find recommendations to buy things on Amazon.com, because of course there are recommendations to buy things on Amazon.com. A six-week search for the best place to watch TV online in 2015 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z It’s also amusingly educational with its inventive animation explaining how DJs inspire audiences to dance by illustrating how the human circulatory system responds to various beats-per-minute. Review: ‘We Are Your Friends’ an entertaining musical romp 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z It really makes his insufferable smirk while delivering the line all the more amusingly ironic. Bill O’Reilly doesn’t give a damn about “life” — and this is what proves it 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z The narrator is a little gimmicky — a Lego man voiced sardonically by Jason Bateman — but he amusingly relays the history of the company, which started in Denmark in 1932 as a carpentry workshop. ‘A Lego Brickumentary’ provides a fun peek at the toy juggernaut 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Exactly how a stock Kevin James character became president isn't really explained, and the movie does amusingly treat it kind of just like any other job. 'Pixels' never comes into focus as a real picture 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z This situation is amusingly similar to another comic book entry that dropped around this time two summers ago. 'Ant-Man' Is No More A Flop Than Was 'The Wolverine' 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Historian Rick Perlstein amusingly illustrated the phenomenon of the engaged suburban movement conservative of the time with this quote: Ted Cruz loses his wingnut welfare: How the New York Times smacked down a decades-old conservative racket 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z The improbable plot is amusingly narrated by Michael Urie, who energetically portrays Car, Beane’s counterpart both at age 15 and in the present. Review: Patti Lupone takes the limelight in ‘Shows For Days’ 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z With the dress being compared with a giant omelette, social media memes, amusingly doctored photos of the dress, spread thick and fast on the internet. Guo Pei: Pop star Rihanna's fashion designer of choice - BBC News 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z The mostly young men and women of the ensemble pass credibly — or at least amusingly — as gray-haired women using walkers in “Along Came Bialy,” one of Mr. Brooks’s many inspired cockamamie concepts. Get-Rich Scheme Goes Comically Awry in ‘The Producers’ 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z That premise is amusingly visualized in the trailer as a herd of dinos watch a huge comet-like asteroid blaze overheard. The first teaser for Pixar's The Good Dinosaur is here 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The statue, amusingly entitled Winds of Change, depicts the elder Bush with his jacket over his shoulder and his bronze tie flying back in the wind. Texas pride? There's nothing quite like it. Just don't mention politics, ever 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Fifty years ago this month Gordon Moore published a historic paper with an amusingly casual title: “Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits.” Computing after Moore’s Law 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z Now the characters talked, amusingly, right past each other: The Man Who Makes the World’s Funniest People Even Funnier 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z A new Is This The Next? website from Samsung's Norwegian team introduces us to a set of amusingly exaggerated concepts for what the Galaxy S6 might look like. Samsung builds the Galaxy S6 hype by poking fun at it 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z This one clearly and amusingly establishes the premise as well as the “characters” that will be representing the respective emotions of its young girl protagonist. Pixar's 'Inside Out' Puppy Bowl Ad Plays On Your Emotions 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z An amusingly weird, if not quite successful, attempt. 60 Versions of Leonard Cohen’s 'Hallelujah,' Ranked If moralists then were troubled by the emergence of what they called “permissiveness with affection” — that is, the belief that love excused premarital sex – such concerns now seem amusingly old-fashioned. What Every Generation Gets Wrong About Sex 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z In many ways his signing still looks like an act of mild debauchery for this lopsided Arsenal team, with its amusingly insistent excess of attacking midfield talent. Will the real Mesut Özil stand up? Very possibly at Arsenal this season 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z That picture told a painfully generic “underdog wins the race because he believes in himself” story which oddly enough felt amusingly similar to DreamWorks Animations’ Turbo which opened weeks earlier. Review: Disney's 'Planes: Fire And Rescue' Offers Kid-Sized Thrills 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z First there was his amusingly odd trip to Denver, featuring men in animal masks, free weed, and a game of pool. Texas BBQ cashier makes gay sex joke, gets Obama fist-bump in return 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z I miss the amusingly explicit NeoCon politics, if only because it’s traded for more generic “little guy versus evil government” shtick. Review: 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' Is (By Default) The Best One Yet 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z These zip together, causing a friend to amusingly refer to them as the Command Module and the LEM. Tamrac Zipshot Review: An Excellent Travel Tripod 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The younger Judge Baer was known for being amusingly cantankerous off the bench and colorful under it — at least in terms of the socks he wore. Harold Baer Jr., Judge Whose Civil Liberties Rulings Drew Fire, Dies at 81 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z From biblical times through the Renaissance, the blind were generally regarded either as pariahs or as amusingly clumsy buffoons. ‘For the Benefit of Those Who See’: The Life of the Blind 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Cole, for example, is amusingly depicted by actress Victoria Elliott as a scatterbrained clothes' horse with an often impenetrable 'Geordie' accent. Musical has the X Factor, critics say 2014-03-27T12:15:44Z Most amusingly, the camera caters to selfies by adding a bright white background to the screen, creating soft light for your pretty face. It looks more promising, at least, than LG’s curvier endeavors. 10 Phones and Tablets to Watch 2014-02-27T05:35:24Z On one side of the road, there was a group of clearly pro-regime demonstrators who, amusingly, carried almost identical printed signs written in English. Cameron in Northern Sri Lanka 2013-11-15T11:52:00Z True, but amusingly this is starting to matter less and less. Analyzing the Ara Project Of Google's Motorola Subdivision 2013-10-30T16:19:00Z Measuring these “cognitive biases” established the new field of “behavioral economics”—its name amusingly emphasizing what’s been lacking—dedicated to describing the everywhere evident ways in which we often aren’t rational. What Rational Really Means 2013-05-17T14:45:03.173Z His unit organized what he amusingly dubbed a "scrap shura" last month south of the capital Kabul where businessmen were invited to learn about steel and scrap. Afghan scrap yards eye unwanted U.S. gear for steel industry 2013-05-15T06:44:32Z Broad's earliest cricketing memory, somewhat amusingly, is his father Chris making him watch a VHS highlights tape of the 1986-87 Ashes, when his three centuries went a long way to winning England the series. Stuart Broad: From playing in the back garden to Lord's 2013-05-14T13:19:55Z Racing for a team whose co-owner's favourite practical joke is to jump out on his colleagues with a blowtorch and brake-cleaner, Patrick's reaction to an attempted flaming was amusingly idiosyncratic. Danica Patrick's pole at Daytona 500 puts a few more noses out of joint 2013-02-20T13:10:46Z Golf is a game of rules, sometimes amusingly so, and in what other sport would a rule change be announced that goes into effect more than three years from now? Ron Sirak: Let The Long Wait Begin 2012-11-28T05:00:00Z Dyer, however, took to football and grew up following Manchester United because, rather amusingly, "my mum fancied Bryan Robson". Nathan Dyer offers warm welcome to Brendan Rodgers on Swansea return 2012-11-24T22:00:04Z Neither of the boys opposite him he amusingly described as "pretty" caused him much bother, but neither did he them. England 14-20 Australia: how the Twickenham teams rated 2012-11-17T18:17:30Z Kyle Brown and Amanda Rose contrast nicely as a married duo, while Jeffrey Pew, playing Don, the guy who started in burlesque revues, amusingly evokes a jock more than a dancer. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘A Chorus Line,’ at the Paper Mill Playhouse 2012-10-14T03:00:02Z Here's an amusingly sideways take on what sort of carnage we can expect today... Best and worst deadline day deals 2012-08-31T05:52:24Z The legacy hopes of the sport were amusingly mocked in this tweet from @stebax, and our readers were largely unimpressed with the spectacle. London 2012 readers' diary: Day 13 2012-08-09T19:29:38Z An emcee with apparently limited knowledge of hoops exclaims somewhat amusingly: "That was some excellent jumping and good shooting!" Who's got time for sports at the Olympics? 2012-08-05T14:16:08Z The traders sit in the front office of a trading floor, amusingly nicknamed "the dark side" by its inhabitants. Too much testosterone, too much confidence: the psychology of banking 2012-06-29T23:05:36Z Maxon Davis cuts a dashing figure as the spirited yet not-so-helpful Scottish rebel, the Earl of Douglas, while Drew Dix blusters amusingly as Glendower, the mystical Welsh chieftain. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Henry IV, Part 1,’ at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey 2012-06-16T03:29:05Z It is amusingly enraging now to go back and look at the hype the business press poured on Castro-Wright as he ascended the ladder. Wal-Mart?s shame grows worse 2012-04-25T16:30:00Z I also thought it would be kind of cool – OK, not cool, but amusingly geeky – to be photographed with my iPad at each location. On the trail of Steve Jobs in California 2012-05-19T23:05:28Z It was on the latter of these journeys that he had the interview with Goethe which was so amusingly described by him in later years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z For all his amusingly plaintive air, this young man could be vindictive if he chose. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z In a recent number of that best of American magazines, the Atlantic Monthly, the woes and trials of one poor Joseph Primrose, a well-meaning minister who went out to America in 1742, are amusingly recounted. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z This comes out amusingly in some of the Killarney letters, e.g.:— Edward Hoare, M.A. A record of his life based upon a brief autobiography 2012-03-28T02:00:25.040Z He has been bred a gentleman, and is amusingly exclusive. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z He certainly makes some very elegant classical allusions to flowers and fruits, and some amusingly vague ones as well. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z “Some of us are crazy,” she said, adding that the 2000 comedy film “Best in Show” was sometimes amusingly close to the truth. Westminster Dog Show: Glossy Photos and Well-Groomed Hair 2012-02-14T01:03:17Z One of the songs found in the mouths of little girls all over the Peninsula is amusingly expressive of the childish aversion to so dull a destiny. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z But the subtlety of suggestion which seemed to possess Crabb’s particular little comedy was to be still more amusingly developed. The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z We do not believe that there was a direct intention to tell falsehoods, but that they often deceived themselves very amusingly. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z He has a happy and often amusingly quaint way of describing the incidents and surroundings of frontier life. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z It was curious—to a philosopher it was amusingly curious—to see how much excitement it gave some of these people to expose or behold a shoulder or a shin more than one ordinarily did. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z The present state of Spanish politics was amusingly expounded to me by a spirited young philosopher of Cadiz. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Provisions were hard to come by; the larder really needed a brace or two of birds; it was the least they could do in return for what she called amusingly her “Armistice hospitality.” The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z How strong this desire to examine everything for himself became, is amusingly illustrated by a story told by his medical adviser, Dr. Ransome. Heroes of Science Chemists 2011-12-09T03:00:21.047Z But Rome and Naples are also described in Gray’s letters, sometimes vividly, always amusingly, and in his notes are almost catalogued. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z This is a capital book to peruse among the woods and fields; the peasants talk very amusingly, and the scenery is well described.”—Globe. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z Miss Braddon wrote amusingly about the exploits upon it of a certain gallant colonel, identified by Colonel Barrow with himself. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z Standing handsomely by her side was the new Siegfried, Jay Hunter Morris, replacing tenor Gary Lehman, whose mystery virus, judging by amusingly contorted press bulletins, will keep him from the Met for some time. Understudy Triumphs as New ‘Ring’ Rolls In: Manuela Hoelterhoff 2011-11-01T00:57:28Z She found Billy on the following evening, still etching, the humorous fellow, but amusingly grave too. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z They would play around in the yard very amusingly and pick at each other much like children and afforded me much amusement and many pleasant moments in the course of a week. Rambles with John Burroughs 2011-10-22T02:00:31.317Z A story of Irish life, free from burlesque and partizanship, yet amusingly national.... For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time 2011-10-13T02:00:45.883Z He gives an amusingly naive account of their course of action, and the reasons for it, substantially as follows:— The Democratic senators acted upon a system, and with a thorough organization and a perfect understanding. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z He is bending low in an elaborate bow, in which mock-humility and glowing self-satisfaction are amusingly blended, his folded hands forming the Florida peninsula, his coat-tails projecting into lower California. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z Contemporary descriptions, that seem amusingly cautious today, included such statements as “... all Annette Kellerman Bathing Attire is distinguished by an incomparable, daring beauty of fit that always remains refined.” Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States 2011-10-03T02:00:33.640Z Orinda had really some curiosity to see a specimen of Jenkins's poetry: supposing that, like the poor cadet's, it might be amusingly bad. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z She never failed to rejoice, for our sakes, whenever a new piece of furniture came into the house in Well Walk, but for herself, her attitude was piously and amusingly penitential. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Sat out one dance with a Dice-box, who rattled away most amusingly. Puppets at Large Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show 2011-09-19T02:00:13.900Z "Le Ca�d," in which the composer amusingly parodies the absurdities associated with the now happily obsolete Italian opera style of the period, would nowadays pass muster as a high-class op�rette. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z "Do you know that I have a young gum tree?" said Lady Dromard amusingly, as though it were a young opossum. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z He would run after Arseniy anywhere, in the garden, orchard or yard and would jump amusingly and wave his wide-open wings, performing a characteristic crane dance, which always made Anton Pavlovitch laugh. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z And now, far less amusingly, known as the man accused by police of killing her. For social opportunists, Washington scene offers fertile climate for reinvention 2011-08-19T00:20:08Z But in truth the kind of charity which you ask of me so amusingly can be found everywhere. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z Fergusson is also amusingly dismissive of other co-op modes in the shooter genre. Gears of War 3: hands-on with the single-player 2011-08-15T13:00:15Z At one of these a slight disturbance occurred, which, as it serves to illustrate amusingly the manners of the times, is worth describing. Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:23.870Z It is, of course, unfair to suggest that a parochial self-satisfaction underlies this utilization of personal experience as the sole test of linguistic propriety; but the procedure is amusingly illogical. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z The next morning he left for Italy, and he amusingly describes his experiences of travel in a primitive conveyance hung very low, without any springs whatever. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z So, alongside an amusingly arranged cucumber and a couple of sprouts, what would you insert into Room 101? Small Talk: Mark Lawrenson 2011-07-28T23:06:01Z The difficulties of finding domestic servants begin, however, to make themselves felt, and are amusingly discussed by such writers as Defoe and Swift. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z Next, this band of brothers was joined by George Michael, whose amusingly unsparing Twitter updates have apparently forced the Met to scramble to interview him as a whistleblower. Time for Sky's football stars to join the anti-Murdoch Justice League 2011-07-13T21:55:00Z The “Clara Matilda poets” of the Keepsake time are also amusingly parodied in some short poems, which, with comic advertisements, occasionally very humorous, fill up the literary portion of the “Fiddle-Faddle Fashion-book.” John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z The resulting tragedy, or comedy, for the unyielding playwright, Mr. Archer states amusingly. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z The answer was amusingly uncandid, but disproved neither patriotism nor intelligence. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z This would seem amusingly childish to us were it not for the fact that in radium we, too, seem to have discovered a philosopher's stone—a substance that transmutes elements. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Were the “Rhimes” not good enough for the nonce, and “the Reason” amusingly convenient to be remembered? Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Lynch then goes on a brief but amusingly nasty rant…She says The Daily, the News Corp. iPad-based publication…never heard of it, never seen, so clearly I will be shutting that down. D9: Live, It's Google Chairman Eric Schmidt (And Jane Lynch!) 2011-06-01T01:52:38Z This interrogation evidently struck Challoner as amusingly superfluous, for he laughed aloud; but the laughter had a note of aching bravado. The Red Mouse 2011-05-30T02:00:14.700Z While the interior minister urged his countrymen to unite against terrorists in their midst, Malik was almost amusingly evasive on the slain attackers' identities. Details Emerge of Deadly Raid on Pakistani Base 2011-05-23T22:10:00Z It seems, however, to have excited the suspicions of your acute reporter, who amusingly presents me to your readers in the light of a confidante of the doctor. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:15.900Z Dr. Heriot gave an amusingly graphic account of the feast afterwards to Mildred, and his old housekeeper's astonishment at 'them nasty and Frenchified dishes.' Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z Afterward he talked amusingly about something else, and half an hour had passed when he got up. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z This was obvious to the wise Boisrobert, of whom Balzac himself amusingly said that he was "circomspectissime" in the smallest actions of his life. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z His diary amusingly relates how he very nearly tumbled off the loosely-girthed saddle of the 'fiery little Arab belonging to the Minister of War,' on which he rode to the Pyramids. The Earl of Mayo Rulers of India 2011-04-11T02:00:13.067Z Those of us who knew little of Quirós until this week were delighted to find ourselves in the presence of the most engaging, amiable, amusingly modest and generally civilised of men. Masters 2011: Boom time for Alvaro Quir?s, the smiling Spaniard 2011-04-08T22:20:14Z His contemporaries still describe him as the model of a man of fashion, and amusingly lament over the degeneracy of an age which no longer produces such men. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z In regard to the troubles concerning the production, much has been amusingly written by Wagner. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z I just write this to tell you, how amusingly near to life, and near to home, your story is. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z My mind drifted to an amusingly shocking window display I had seen at the opening of a new butcher shop downtown. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z Madame de Gandry and Mrs. Ferguson thought the article very amusingly written--not that they would ever have said a word about such a piece of imprudence--for really no one was safe! Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z That was illustrated — amusingly — by the radar gun at the Twins’ Hammond Stadium. Bats: Pelfrey's Fastball Doesn't Seem So Fast 2011-03-17T02:13:36Z Perhaps nothing exemplifies Ecclestone's modus operandi as amusingly as the apparently coincidental publication, a couple of weeks before No Angel, of another biography. No Angel: The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone by Tom Bower ? review 2011-03-05T00:07:10Z Like most people of his class, his folly was made amusingly conspicuous, by his assumption of an intellectual superiority over the rest of his companions. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z Hearn rolls around amusingly at the thought, inadvertently faking a heart attack similar to the one that nearly killed him a decade ago. Barry Hearn: Apart from Leyton Orient, everything is turning a profit 2011-03-01T00:06:01Z You dress your minds a little to talk amusingly, you spread your minds out to backgrounds, to households, picturesque and delightful gardens, nurseries. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z One of Ferguson's interviewees is Charles Morris, author of The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown, who amusingly discusses the effects this mega-windfall has on the individual banker's mind. Inside Job ? review 2011-02-17T14:59:01Z After this Sidney went every day to see Tom, and told him, as amusingly as she could tell anything, of everything that was going on, no matter whether he listened or not. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z Though all these lodges seem nearly alike to a casual observer, I was soon aware of differences and gradations in the particular arrangements, which are amusingly characteristic of the various inhabitants. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z With our local traditions in relation to the grandiose chieftain above described, one or two stories are in circulation, in which his young kinsman Allan amusingly figures. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z Others were illogical, or were painfully simple, or amusingly trite. Memoir of Queen Adelaide Consort of King William IV. 2011-02-07T03:00:25.780Z Its coverage has been amusingly schizophrenic, actually, because a revolution against a dictator is a pretty feel-good story, but the entire channel is terrified of Islam and foreigners. Egyptians prepare for the worst as protests rage 2011-01-31T16:51:00Z Their coverage has been amusingly schizophrenic, actually, because a revolution against a dictator is a pretty feel-good story, but the entire channel is terrified of Islam and foreigners. Cairo airport a scene of chaos as foreigners flee 2011-01-31T15:14:00Z On one occasion he turned coachman, with a rather disastrous result, which is amusingly told by Ludlow, whose genuine republicanism prejudiced him against Cromwell after he had assumed the supreme power. London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2011-01-28T03:00:22.900Z "Good morning, madam," said Pierre, slowly, and with a bow, whose genuine and spontaneous reverence amusingly contrasted with the sportive manner that had preceded it. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z This has been amusingly emphasized by an anecdote told of Charles Lamb. The Century Cook Book 2011-01-04T03:01:10.367Z Except for the part devoted to the furnaces, the place was decorated and the only light came from large pumpkins, amusingly cut and containing the customary candles. Betty Lee, Sophomore 2010-12-24T03:00:29.270Z Of course, the ad was filmed in Philadelphia, the guys are professional actors, and the casting call was amusingly insulting to real West Virginians. Two Republicans caught airing ads with fake locals 2010-10-07T16:01:00Z Rather than congratulate him for the team's style and formation, he reckons the media instead concentrated on his touchline antics and drew a caricature of him as an amusingly unhinged dicator. The Joy of Six: Football's surprise packages 2010-07-30T10:00:00Z Perhaps amusingly, given Terry's difficulties against the Germans in Bloemfontein on 27 June, she owes her success to a horse called Diamond Fritz. England central contract impasse could derail Ashes campaign 2010-07-19T23:06:00Z There isn't even the vaguest suggestion that Terry tried speaking to Beckham before his amusingly ill‑advised little outing – which is a crying shame, what with the latter's experience in leading players in radical action. World Cup 2010: David Beckham the 24th man ? without a job description 2010-06-21T17:17:00Z These days, the side of North Korea's World Cup team bus reads "1966 again", making them the second most amusingly maudlin team in the tournament. Marina Hyde meets the North Koreans 2010-06-14T16:44:00Z You may have been born a fancy-spectacled Italian martinet, but in the end you will make a series of amusingly poor, luckless decisions that give your supporters a powerful sense of deja vu. World Cup 2010: Saturday was the night Fabio Capello became an England manager 2010-06-13T16:24:00Z In a charming reference to old-fashioned horror movies, these ghosts are simply actors in cheap gorilla suits, replete with blazing red eyes to distract from the amusingly ordinariness of their costumes. Winning reviews? 2010-05-24T03:52:00Z Notwithstanding these tender passages, and some amusingly one-sided episodes in the garden between Roger and the Countess, for the lady made him kneel down whilst she washed his face, there was little time for love-making. The Great Mogul Mr. Robinson at once began to scrutinise the studio on all sides with amusingly deep interest. An Engagement of Convenience A Novel He watched the cars in the street, so amusingly compact and small, each designed in the fleeting style of the year. The Secret of the Ninth Planet And so say-ing, his Highness rode away, thinking pleasantly over his adventure, and fancying a hundred ways in which it might be amusingly carried out. The Fortunes Of Glencore One of them rather amusingly illustrates the modesty and moderation of the landholders. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 The writer amusingly imagines the hero and heroine actually swinging by the rope until he can get back to his desk and finish writing about how they escaped. Stories from Tagore Gregarious and sociable by nature, he was amusingly secretive about his methods and times of work. Aubrey Beardsley With the long overhanging ears of the larger dog are amusingly contrasted the small sharp points standing upright on his companion's head. Landseer A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation Mixed with this constant procrastination there was a personal activity which was amusingly misleading. East Angels Such is the farce of Folle Bobance, in which the tendency of various classes to loose and light living is satirised amusingly enough. A Short History of French Literature The author here amusingly pretends that the child's way of getting out of his lessons was too shocking for young boys in the junior school to read about. Stories from Tagore The efforts of two of their acquaintances to find them, in the puzzling intricacies of the place, are thus amusingly described. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 The look she gave me was amusingly resentful and contemptuous. A Veldt Vendetta Justice herself appears naïvely and amusingly to the witches as Queen of the Fate, who are indeed all spirits who have been good witches in a previous life. Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series The latter is the idea developed in Mr Ritchie’s volume, and cleverly and amusingly it is done. The Night Side of London Then, of course, were the Haratin serfs, of mixed Arab-Negro blood, and the Negroes themselves, until recently openly called slaves, but now—amusingly—named servants. Black Man's Burden How clever, how vital, how amusingly irreligious, how careless whether he hurt her or not. Command Colonel Haggerstone proceeded to load the pistols with all that pomp and circumstance so amusingly displayed by certain people on like occasions. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life This was pronounced with an amusingly affected gravity. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 Artie is a character, and George Ade has limned him deftly as well as amusingly. Checkers A Hard-luck Story Sometimes this habit of mind reacted very amusingly upon himself, as the following will show. James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports A book in which modern men are amusingly abused. 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