Let's start with the wine writers, the people who contribute observations like "It is a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption, " at least in the imaginations of James Thurber and Monty Python (a fine Australian fighting wine, indeed).

FORBES: Faking It

It's one thing to be amused by whether Marv Albert had to remove his hairpiece when being booked on charges he bit a woman in his hotel room and quite another matter to make sexual allegations grounds for court-martialing B-52 pilots, winnowing potential political candidates and crippling a President.

CNN: Margaret Carlson On Sex And, ...Honesty. Honestly

She said that if her father were alive, "he would not be amused" by the buyout.

FORBES: Magazine Article

He would be quietly amused by all the attention now generated by these important film discoveries.

BBC: Rare Alfred Hitchcock film footage uncovered

One may be horrified or amused by this couple, but one is also mightily impressed by their talent for survival.

NEWYORKER: Crazy Love

' He is amused by my desire to help, tolerant as all Solcavsko folk seem to be of the outsiders who come and homestay at local farms, with their strange enthusiasm and astonishment at such simple matters as churning butter or making salami.

BBC: Snowbound Slovenia