Though, when conservative commentators take her limited role in the fight to raise rich people's taxes seriously enough that they decided to speculate that she is too rich to be the poster child for the downtrodden, she'd have to be amused, if she wasn't going to get annoyed.

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Some Democrats say they don't know whether to be alarmed or amused.

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Both during his thirty years as a revolutionary and his subsequent thirty years as a resister, Einstein remained consistent in his willingness to be a serenely amused loner who was comfortable not conforming.

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He would be amused and touched and delighted to know he's back where he belonged.

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However, what actually has me rather amused is that they seem to be getting very confused about what it is that they actually want Google to do.

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' 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.

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Still, the Internet was not amused -- which didn't stop some social-media users from trying to be amusing.

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For these reasons I was amused and, yes, even pleased to learn that another, under-hyped tradition will be making women smile this year.

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The room was then much less amused as the journalists realised that an eloquent Scot demanding no wages would probably be an attractive proposition to their salary-conscious editors.

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