(n.) The state of being amused; pleasurable excitement; that which amuses; diversion.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was amusing: he's still working away and this picture of him is hanging in a gallery somewhere.
(2) Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver is amusing himself by trying to take a puff of a cigar in his saddle.
(3) Students have been amused by the amount of public response to this action.
(4) But she is determined to reassert her authority and appears not to have been amused by the remark.
(5) In La Shish, the beloved local halal restaurant where Wanda Beydoun has worked a minimum wage managing job for 16 years, these stereotypes are a source of amusement.
(6) In a tent for those recovering, a talkative man wearing a heavy gold chain played up to amused doctors during the lunch break.
(7) Israeli media reports said the rocket came down near an amusement park in sand dunes on the edge of the city.
(8) He tells an amusing story of how exhilarated, if stunned, he was by completing three skeleton runs at Lillehammer.
(9) Tech entrepreneurs will keep expanding into increasingly diverse niches, so it will be amusing to try and pick out the most obscure market being disrupted in 2014.
(10) King notes with some amusement that he has been around so long that kids who read and loved him in the 1970s now run publishing houses and newspapers; he is revered, these days, as a grand old man of American letters.
(11) She added that the superstore would have pulled business from the local high street and brought big lorries and heavy traffic to the site which sits next to Dreamland, Margate’s derelict amusement park which is being revived.
(12) But my amusement should be a problem for movement conservatism.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest We are most amused … The Windsors, starring Harry Enfield and Hadyn Gwynne, centre.
(14) In Brussels, the reaction was more bemusement than amusement.
(15) It’s something that has always baffled and amused me about my grandmother.
(16) It amuses me that he calls his new material "songs" when they are so unsingable.
(17) The joke, the uncontainable amusement, the gleeful satisfaction, was that most rational people had thought that he was too disabled to walk 26 miles, that he was too sick.
(18) The tribunal ruled: "The comment having been made, other people in the room, including other supervisors, laughing and finding it amusing, was inevitably conduct that any gay police officer would reasonably consider … degrading."
(19) "The part in the film is small, I thought it would be amusing.
(20) Now tell us this, Robbie, when you collected your MBE from the queen, did you exchange amusing chitchat with the woman who most of us only ever encounter on stamps?
Playbook
Definition:
(n.) A book of dramatic compositions; a book of the play.
Example Sentences:
(1) The company effectively put itself up for sale in August amid a heavy losses from its failed PlayBook tablet and a decline in its handset business and subscriber numbers and revenues.
(2) But his capacity to digest playbooks is unrivalled – allowing Manning to lead the Colts offence in a way quite unlike other NFL quarterbacks: operating almost exclusively without a huddle and calling his plays at the line.
(3) And there she was in the autumn, playing beautiful damaged goods alongside the likes of Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro in Silver Linings Playbook , the year's best rom-com, and our fourth best film of the year.
(4) They orginally had lofty ambitions of talking about the economy but since they have lost that argument so catastrophically, they have reached for the Ukip playbook to create fictitious stories to scare people about immigrants and release video nasties about Turkish people”.
(5) Clothes worn by Jennifer Lawrence while filming her Oscar-winning role in Silver Linings Playbook have sold for an impressive $12,000 at auction , confirming the young actor's newfound Hollywood cache.
(6) After tensions erupted between the campaigns on Monday, Cooper took issue with a source in Burnham’s campaign for suggesting that her tactics were “straight out of the Ed Balls playbook”.
(7) Another potential Oscar-hoover is Silver Linings Playbook from David O Russell.
(8) Therefore, we still have to wait and see if this is a real case or not.” Earlier this year, in a response straight from the Blatter playbook, he also led the charge against “racist” media allegations of bribery against the Qatar 2022 World Cup bid.“We will face all these racist attempts and attacks and will stand with Qatar,” he declared.
(9) Last year 12 Years a Slave trod this path ; in the past Slumdog Millionaire, The King’s Speech and Argo (which was runner-up to Silver Linings Playbook at Toronto) also followed suit.
(10) As Abbott and others see it, social conservatives in the UK have been borrowing from the tactical playbook of the US Christian right, establishing a network of organisations across a range of fronts and rebranding their traditional "pro-life" language (Dorries and Field's campaign to change the law on abortion is called "right to know").
(11) Cooper was Oscar-nominated for his acting work on 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook and last year’s American Hustle , both of which were directed by David O Russell.
(12) "Twitter will learn from Facebook's flawed playbook and do the opposite," said PrivCo's chief executive, Sam Hamadeh.
(13) After 12 days of wide release, David O Russell's latest has grossed an impressive £6.78m, which compares with £2.71m for Silver Linings Playbook at the same stage of its run.
(14) "His comments about clerical sex abuse [in the interview] make it clear that he is using the same tired and irrelevant playbook the bishops have worn out over the past few years," wrote priest and victims' supporter Tom Doyle in the National Catholic Reporter.
(15) Since filming last year's blockbuster dystopian action movie the 23-year-old star has picked up the Academy Award for best actress for her work in the acclaimed David O Russell comedy drama Silver Linings Playbook and risen to the top of the Hollywood A-list.
(16) Irrespective of which will win, four of them can be categorised, as austere arthouse ( Amour ), the higher whimsy ( Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Life of Pi ), and customary US family angst ( Silver Linings Playbook ).
(17) The incredible success of Isis in both Syria and Iraq has more to do with the Syrian civil war and Iraq’s divisive politics than anything else, but the core ideology of the group is straight from the bin Laden playbook.
(18) This represents a remarkable success for Russell, who pulled off the same four-way feat last year with his romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook .
(19) When assailed, Trump is known to favour a playbook of hitting back harder, even against seemingly no-win targets such as Khizr and Ghazala Khan , the parents of a US soldier killed in Iraq; Alicia Machado , a Miss Universe winner; and Meryl Streep , the Oscar-winning actor.
(20) Her three Oscar nominations to date and a win last year for indie romance Silver Linings Playbook have made her one of the most powerful actors in Hollywood at a remarkably young age.