He lied to amuse himself, to excuse himself, to camouflage himself.
They're very aware of language and how it functions and its potential to amuse, its potential to set up expectation and to create surprises.
Into the chaos, the fumbling in the dark, an order is imposed as people form circles around performers, a troupe of acrobats, jugglers and escape artists, a comedian, a group of musicians, a story-teller... this is trial by public jury: if the performance falls flat, the tricks fail to amuse or the stories to amaze, the crowds move on.
But en route to its kitchen-sink climax, "Man" manages to both amuse and provoke, to cleave to convention and promote ideas.
His talent to amuse had been noticed in Lichfield, and when he arrived in London his determination to act was driven only partly by the failure of the wine merchant's business he ran.
The film may be humorless, unflustered by the need to quicken or amuse, but it feels unfashionably true to itself.
Adults may in fact come away thinking there is more to amuse them than there is for children.
At 16, George Parker invented a game to amuse his brothers on a wet afternoon.
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The two events may not be related, but their happening in the same week serves to amuse.
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The committee found that the material was an example of Clarkson "using outrageous behaviour to amuse his audience".
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"In many ways I wrote these plays to amuse this woman that I was in love with, " he says.
So to amuse yourselves, you start making predictions on what will happen next.
This brings up a point that never ceases to amuse me.
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It may be that Britain's wise politicians have solved all the big political and economic questions, leaving a largely contented population to amuse themselves with trifles.
While that developer used this power to amuse, a more disgruntled person could probably come up with pictures, or execute code, that might not be so funny.
Sometimes, she remembered him as he had been when they first met: his charm, his quiet sense of humor, the little games he had played to amuse her.
And the deal did not seem to amuse his U.S. teammate, Kevin Durant, the leader of Western Conference champion Oklahoma City Thunder, who mowed through the Lakers last season.
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Along the way, officially-sanctioned buskers and street entertainers are on hand to amuse the crowds, and music pumps from speakers -- though it can't drown out the cheers of fans inside the arenas.
Need to keep the amuse-bouches warm while you prepare the main course?
The Last Resort re-wrote the rules for photographers, placed colour photography in the UK on the map and even now, more than 25 years on it still has the power to shock and amuse all at the same time.
This little journalistic gem managed to simultaneously anger, amuse and puzzle me.
They come to help us, protect us, amuse us--and some even do floors.
College students sometimes amuse themselves by throwing JELL-O against the wall to see if it sticks.
With top notes of mandarin, grapefruit and neroli, it awakens the senses like an amuse-bouche, before revealing lingering notes of Iris pallida (a sweetly scented variety native to Italy).
What does rather amuse is that one of the reasons that France lost its AAA was because it had made such large contingent guarantees to the EFSF.
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