amuse-gueule

The purpose of art,” Bemelmans once said, “is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

A purse can impress and intimidate, bewilder, berate, or amuse.

The Embassy produced a short video in advance of the trip, which, in the spirit of our times, is meant to both inform and amuse.

His masters would then amuse themselves by pelting him with bones.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork—reading, writing, thinking—can.

It did not amuse me, nor, so far as I could discern, was Monsieur de Tressan greatly taken with it.

You think that if a man's charming, that's the end of him, and that all he's good for is to amuse a few old ladies at a tea party.

When he was in a good humour he used to amuse himself by saying, 'It's the first time a pipe has changed into a shoe.'

It is a big world she sees, big enough and beautiful enough to amuse a little girl for some while.

You, who love to amuse yourself in all depths, will you not make an excursion into the depths of Edgar Poe?