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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College students sometimes amuse themselves by throwing JELL-O against the wall to see if it sticks.
And her revenge, however justified, and however much it may amuse the audience, is another horror.
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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They come to help us, protect us, amuse us--and some even do floors.
Their opinions and recommendations may surprise, and even in some cases amuse you.
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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.
The film may be humorless, unflustered by the need to quicken or amuse, but it feels unfashionably true to itself.
Though a servant that talks back may not be universally appealing, one that has some clever retorts would amuse anyone.
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The idea that serial marathoners may earn no cardiac advantage over couch potatoes will surely amuse serial viewers of "Seinfeld" reruns.
But en route to its kitchen-sink climax, "Man" manages to both amuse and provoke, to cleave to convention and promote ideas.
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.
Need to keep the amuse-bouches warm while you prepare the main course?
This little journalistic gem managed to simultaneously anger, amuse and puzzle me.
Dvorak's Slavonic Dances are familiar as individual numbers, often played as encores or musical amuse-bouches before the main event of a concert.
Two teenage boys amuse themselves with an unusual after-hours game of catch.
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He lied to amuse himself, to excuse himself, to camouflage himself.
This brings up a point that never ceases to amuse me.
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The Sulzberger anecdote was merely an amuse-bouche, as it turned out.
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.
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.
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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These incidents, embarrassing though they be, fall within the acceptable range of victimless embellishment, those exaggerations that burnish a humdrum existence, amuse our listeners or impress a potential employer.
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).
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.
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