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That&aposs one of the more amusing parts of all this.

Also, you've probably never heard a more amusing description of p-hacking.

The original music has been stripped, making the exchange even more amusing.

Many more amusing incidents should be left for the reader to discover.

The idea of government running anything and everything was more amusing than horrifying.

"Marcel" and "The Art of Laughter" are more amusing and instructive than hilarious.

One of the more amusing examples is how Rodin said good night to Rilke.

There has been another, more amusing reaction — marriage proposals on her Facebook fan page.

Turns out watching people trotting along beside invisible dogs is more amusing than the real thing.

It was a hilarious moment made even more amusing because we could both speak to each other.

But I must admit these little semi-porn drawings are more amusing than a stuffy New Yorker cartoon.

Generally speaking, they're pretty cute, which makes Google's latest experiment—teaching them to honk—all the more amusing.

A slightly more amusing and interactive take on the grasshopper milkshake, for those who prefer to drink their dessert.

Before joining the band, he used to work as a waiter, but he finds this job way more amusing.

If there is an animal at a wedding, the photographs will probably be more amusing when viewed years later.

Several news outlets published displays of Mr. Trump's more amusing grip-and-grins on Weibo, a Chinese microblogging site.

Or, as a more amusing punishment, you'd be quarantined to a really bad forum with all the other idiots.

If I wanted to find a Vine more amusing than it actually is, I'd probably see about developing a personality.

In one of the self-proclaimed king's more amusing moments, he corrects Davos on his misuse of the world 'less.

The tragicomic story of Al Jazeera America would be more amusing if it weren't for all the good journalism it produced.

So I would draw my cats driving the car or whatever with just a little caption underneath, because it was more amusing.

It's even more amusing to see Susie navigating the school's fun-house interior, with its secretive mirrors and boxes-within-boxes design.

As American infrastructure continues to decline, the endless debate whether "public" or "private" infrastructure is "cheaper" is much more amusing than substantive.

Now, digital consultant Dan Hon wants to use those same neural networks to help Britain come up with even more amusing place names.

" But, the president's comments surrounding Comey got much more amusing when he retweeted an exchange from December in which O'Donnell wrote, "FIRE COMEY.

It is about as diverting as having a porcelain sink broken over your head (one of the more amusing things that happens onscreen).

The video, which is clearly sped up to be more amusing, shows a snail on its back spinning a carrot around with its foot.

Second, all attendees are treated to alcoholic refreshments throughout the broadcast, making the bits between award categories (and the ensuing Snapchats) all the more amusing.

The downside to Chucky's mainstream appeal was that the villain, once the stuff of nightmares, had clearly become more amusing than menacing to many people.

One of the more amusing ones, "July 20 1969," depicting man landing on the moon, is housed in a vintage portable television of the era.

There's even a whole section on planning the Met Gala and judging a fashion-designer competition, which is honestly more amusing to watch than educational.

"It is about as diverting as having a porcelain sink broken over your head (one of the more amusing things that happens onscreen)," he writes.

But, he added, "it is about as diverting as having a porcelain sink broken over your head (one of the more amusing things that happens onscreen)."

Such flourishes might have added up to something more amusing had Luc's rape and murder of a black woman not also been played for a laugh.

Though it may be more amusing than relevant, Belichick was even 29093-29083 against the Dolphins in his years as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns.

They range from very obvious to something a little more subtle, and the dirtier mind you have the more amusing this journey of simulated self-love will be.

So while these verbal slip-ups are more amusing than they are important, they do point to a larger concern some Democrats have with Biden as a candidate.

It's more amusing, unfortunately, than most of what happens in the central story, involving Kinnaman's and Dorman's buddy astronauts and their wives, played by Shantel VanSanten and Sarah Jones.

And Ms. Choy-Kee brings an easy radiance to her performance as Marie-Belle, making her giggling suggestions of continued sexual relations with her dead husband more amusing than distasteful.

In a more amusing — and rock 'n roll — way, with The Long Black Veil, the artist Jeffrey Docherty creates an intangible map of the 1980s Punk and New Wave scene.

Much of the panel transcript consists of the same type of dry business logistics as the rest of this document, but Keenan eventually steers the discussion into far more amusing territory.

I prefer a more amusing possibility: that the Brazilian committee is lobbying to include a new sport in this year's Games, a kind of tennis to be played with electric mosquito swatters.

When the lawyers become involved, things get even more amusing, especially when Nicole hires a sophisticated attorney named Nora (Laura Dern) who is dressed in impeccable stilettoes and skinny jeans when they first meet.

The former New York mayor appeared this morning on Good Morning America to offer up one of the more amusing excuses for Trump's apparent incitement of "Second Amendment people" to stop Hillary Clinton from picking federal judges.

"It turns a situation that is often fraught with extreme emotions — excitement, anxiety, fear, and potentially shame and embarrassment — into one that is 'cartoony' by literalizing the runaway heart, thus making it a bit more amusing," he said.

But the Great Buttock Controversy of 2015, in addition to producing one of the more amusing corrections in The Times's recent history, reinforced for me just how closely "Downton" viewers were watching — and just how ardently they felt about getting it right.

You drive too fast, get caught, and if you wind up with a paper in your hand and a need to spin it to somebody, what apter (or more amusing) way to do so than to declare it an AWARD FOR FAST DRIVING?

They came back and scratched the itch later in the show, with a slightly more amusing gag in which Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel deplored the no-host decision, before being replaced as presenters by the voice of Amazon's personal assistant, Alexa.

Perhaps that would have been a bit more amusing, but in a world where the Department of Defense invites white hat hackers around the United States to come help us better secure our technology and warfighters… we played it safe and opened it up the day before.

Their ongoing negotiations also produced one of the more amusing moments, with Snow's aide Davos (Liam Cunningham) observing that he perceived Snow might have a romantic interest in her -- something for which there's little time, Snow noted, what with the fate of their world hanging in the balance.

He protests that it's a harmless joke—though his predicament is more amusing for Assayas's viewer, who has already learned that the offending blow job is drawn from his life; it actually took place during one of the later Star Wars movies, which certainly makes more intuitive sense, and Léonard has only veiled it with the Haneke in a vacuous bid to seem hip and arty.

"Arnold, Kevin (December 14, 1975). "Exploring Old Age With Lewis And Clark". Los Angeles Times. 54. Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called the film "more amusing than one might have expected, probably because Walter Matthau makes a surprisingly funny and plausible old coot.

San Francisco Chronicle. 2006-08-14. Retrieved 2009-06-19. The A.V. Club cited ONTD as a "favorite time-wasting website" and wrote that "the comments section can sometimes be more amusing than the posts themselves". In December 2009, the users of ONTD were derisively referredLeins, Jeff.

Saunders congratulated Ollivier for the humorous and witty campaign and remarked that "he had not heard a more amusing speech at a nomination than that of Mr Ollivier". The by-election was held on 16 January and was won by Saunders with 676 votes to 332.

But subjects of humor were his forte. In these, he had an exhaustless fancy, fertile and ever-creative. Nothing can be more amusing than his masks, representing quarrels, dances, and such scenes as form the subjects of comedy. Giovanni's son, Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, was an artist and art biographer.

In late November the literature tutor, Furusawa, takes him to a local coffee-house and tells him a political parable about the nature of suicide and authority. Tōru suddenly feels dislike for him and engineers his dismissal. Relishing the feeling of power this gives him, he casts around for a more amusing victim.

Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote that the film "gets by if you don't mind an essentially passive, poky approach to adventure", and called the accompanying featurette Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too "a livelier and more amusing film."Arnold, Gary (December 26, 1974). "Tame Adventure for Preschoolers". The Washington Post. B15.

She described Ange is a "serious" character who needed the "light relief" Fletch's characterisation provides. She thought it was positive writing for Ange who never "had much to laugh about". When Ange decides to confide in Fletch over her worries that her children will not forgive her for keeping secrets, he reassures and supports her. Writers also use the pairing as an outlet for Ange to have more amusing scenes.

The largest, the "Zoo" sundae, was delivered with great fanfare by multiple employees carrying it wildly around the restaurant on a stretcher accompanied by the sound of ambulance sirens."Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour, the Zoo Returns". Orange County (California) Register, November 3, 2009. One of the more amusing highlights of their original menu was a "Low-Calorie Diet" recipe sheet you could theoretically "adopt" to if you ate too much ice cream.

Indignant, Seymour retorted, 'By God's precious soul, I mean no evil, and I will not leave it!' At first, Catherine dismissed the behaviour as just innocent fun, and even joined in the "romps" on a few occasions. Elizabeth's feelings regarding this behaviour are unknown, but it was said that she bore Thomas some degree of affection. And though her governess, Kat Ashley, "bade him go away in shame," she found him more amusing than dangerous.

In one of the more amusing dispatches, Pollitt (1936) informed his Soviet contact about a recent visit to France to make campaign appearances for candidates from the French Communist Party. "At great inconvenience went to Paris to speak in the election campaign". Pollitt went on to complain that he was "kept sitting two days and comrades refused to allow me to speak. Such treatment as I received in Paris is a scandal".

Maeda began meeting with Toba and Aniplex on a monthly basis and the story started to gradually progress. Aniplex wanted Maeda to write a screenplay that would be very "Key- like, with touching moments of laughter and tears," but initially Maeda found himself at a loss to write a story more amusing than Little Busters!, because he thought that he had reached a limit with Little Busters! in regards to a "Key-like story".

The Bystander called The Bat "most exciting from first to last". When it was revived on Broadway in 1937, reviewers said that the play had not aged well due to many imitations by subsequent plays. For the New York Times, Brooks Atkinson wrote that it was "not quite the shriek show it was originally" but still entertaining. According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Arthur Pollock, The Bat showed its age and was more amusing than frightening.

John Olliver Terrace in Halswell Ollivier stood for parliament again late in his life. On the first occasion, the resignation of Arthur O'Callaghan from the electorate on 9 November 1888 caused the 16 January between Ollivier and Alfred Saunders. Saunders congratulated Ollivier for the humorous and witty campaign and remarked that "he had not heard a more amusing speech at a nomination than that of Mr Ollivier". Saunders won the election with 676 votes to 332.

Some also discovered that the system is unable to render palm trees, making them into obelisks "jutting forth from the pavement like so many teeth." The TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida has also been misrendered as an office building with grass roofs. Despite this, Tom Warren of The Verge said that "the glitches are more amusing than they are game breaking." Many users on the Flight Simulator support forums also report instability and game crashes without due cause.

Iemma rebuffed Debnam's repeated demands for a second debate. But while Debnam struggled, his deputy, Barry O'Farrell and Nationals leader Andrew Stoner cemented their credentials as formidable media performers, the latter mounting an impassioned defence of the Liberal leader in the closing days of the campaign. The Liberals suffered a more amusing distraction after details emerged of a lewd SMS Wyong candidate Brenton Pavier had sent to friends at Christmas. While he backed Debnam's decision to dump him, Pavier briefly considered running for Wyong as an independent.

Mordecai Richler wrote in 1987:Richler, Mordecai. "Paperbacks; Batman at Midlife: or the funnies grow up", The New York Times (May 3, 1987). > I have a hunch that Gary Larson, no stranger to irony, is more amusing if > his cartoons are caught one at a time rather than gathered in a fat > collection, as in THE FAR SIDE GALLERY and THE FAR SIDE GALLERY 2 (Andrews, > McMeel & Parker, $9.95 each). The problem is that once you have tuned into > his humor it becomes somewhat predictable.

Barcelona: Editorial Ariel. In 1466, the Catholic Church under Pope Paul II revived customs of the Saturnalia carnival: Jews were forced to race naked through the streets of the city of Rome. "Before they were to run, the Jews were richly fed, so as to make the race more difficult for them and at the same time more amusing for spectators. They ran ... amid Rome's taunting shrieks and peals of laughter, while the Holy Father stood upon a richly ornamented balcony and laughed heartily", an eyewitness reports.

The Pilgrim's Progress was much more popular than its predecessors. Bunyan's plain style breathes life into the abstractions of the anthropomorphized temptations and abstractions that Christian encounters and with whom he converses on his course to Heaven. Samuel Johnson said that "this is the great merit of the book, that the most cultivated man cannot find anything to praise more highly, and the child knows nothing more amusing." Three years after its publication (1681), it was reprinted in colonial America, and was widely read in the Puritan colonies.

In 1724 he published History of the Remarkable Life of Sheppard and A Narrative of All robberies, Escapes, &c.; of John Sheppard, portraying the famous robber as a refined criminal exchanging jokes and performing clever tricks. Defoe was captivated by the criminal life, especially when it involved witty stratagems and subterfuges, and as it is clearly shown in his fictions, like Moll Flanders and Colonel Jack, his intent often seems more amusing than didactic. Nevertheless, whenever Defoe deals with social and moral problems he always tries to reach his reader with clarity and practical proposals.

Its initial reviews were generally positive.Watch this McLean, Gareth; The Guardian; 11-06-2007; Accessed 13-06-2007A Good Sauce of Amusement North West Evening Mail; 12-06-2007; Accessed 13-06-2007 The show's "raunchy" and "lascivious" nature was noted by many of the critics, with almost all of the sketches involving characters whose main interest was "sex". Although described as potentially a "one-trick pony", the show was also lauded as "really, really funny" and "more amusing than the last eleventeen sketch shows you can think of".

As a news journalist, Smith has covered a wide range of stories, from hard news, talking to victims of crime or circumstance, to the more amusing items. In 2008, Smith sailed around Britain in his yacht (a Sadler 32, designed by David Sadler) 'Wild Rover', a voyage of some 2,000 miles which raised over £15,000 for Leukaemia Research. In 2012, he cycled at Brands Hatch for the 2012 Cyclothon. In 2014, Smith was the compere of the Top Choir Competition on 12 April at the Shirley Hall in Canterbury.

A recent study of communalism in contemporary Ahmedabad sought to unravel the wider theoretical underpinnings of the role of ethnicity in politics. Others of his students have examined the making of regional identity in Orissa, the politics of Tamil Muslims, and childhood and child labour in India. Through his students Chandavarkar not only mentored a new cohort of historians but stimulated scholarship in wide-ranging and eclectic fields, embracing the most diverse aspects of South Asian history. On a more amusing note Chandavarkar had a reputation as a draconian taskmaster.

Ardrey originally conceived of the play while "pushing through snowdrifts one long hard winter on a door-to-door survey in West Side slums." He wrote that his experience of the turmoil of the Great Depression "had been anything but unique. For me, the creative consequence was the conviction that the Polish-American characters of my first play were far more amusing and meaningful than the personnel of a normal theatrical penthouse." The artistic concern with portraying folk voices would be a consistent theme throughout Ardrey's career, including in his most famous play, Thunder Rock.

Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote: "Unlike the vast majority of rude bigscreen comedies these days, "Prison" may actually improve with repeat viewings, since its best aspects are offhand enough to be missed the first time around." Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter did not find the film funny "the few laughs this purported comedy contains are fully displayed in its far more amusing trailer". Box Office Mojo reports that the film opened in 11th place with a meager take of $2,220,050. It closed with a domestic gross of $4,630,045.

But it was negative in his review writing that "the film was made in a hurry, with little money and relative commitment, the set design is very bad and there is only one minute of external". The dialogues are extremely bad and bland. won a few more amusing phrases was Claudia Raia, in the role of Snow White Stepmother, which at least has a few moments of brilliance, the rest falls in the common grave. Writing to the Uol Site, the same critic considered Abracadabra, a bit less bad than the previous one.

As it stands, the saga seems incomplete, for a promise is made that the tale will return to King Gautrek of Götaland and his sons, to "the same story as told in Sweden", and that promise is not kept. Indeed, other than the reference to Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar, no sons are mentioned. But it seems that Gautrek was noted in many tales for his generosity and bravery, but not for deep thinking, according to a passage near the end. It is probable there were more amusing anecdotes to that effect that the author planned to include.

He is occasionally helpful if it serves his own interests, such as obtaining apples or furthering his own amusement, but for the most part will jokingly ask Light what his next move will be or have Light explain to him the point of a certain action. He tells Light in the first volume he doesn't always look at what Light writes because he finds it more amusing. Light describes Ryuk as a "crazy-looking, supernatural creature with these wicked eyes" who becomes ("surprisingly") a "moral compass" for Light in the film version of Death Note."SFIAAFF: Death Note ." sfist.

Cricket of the period did feature numerous great names such as Grace, Trumper, Blythe, Wilfred Rhodes, Jack Hobbs, C. B. Fry, Ranjitsinhji and Frank Woolley, but that in itself is not unique as any period in cricket history can boast its great players. As David Frith pointed out, the nostalgia "needed someone to put a perspective on it". In his 1939 autobiography, Fry wrote: "I have a notion that the cricket of the nineties and early nineteen hundreds was more amusing to watch, but I am not at all sure that the game of today is not more difficult to play".

Belford Regis, another series of literary sketches in which the neighbourhood and society of Reading were idealised, was published in 1835. Her description of village cricket in Our Village has been called "the first major prose on the game". Her Recollections of a Literary Life (1852) is a series of causeries about her favourite books. Her talk was said by her friends, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Hengist Horne, to have been even more amusing than her books, and five volumes of her Life and Letters, published in 1870 and 1872, show her to have been a delightful letter-writer.

" Others media publications were more critical of the show. Television critic Rob Owen of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that Stewart was more "amusing than funny". He added, "Many of his jokes fell flat with the stars in the Kodak Theatre, and his tendency to bow down before celebrities quickly grew tiresome." Tom Shales from The Washington Post commented, "It's hard to believe that professional entertainers could have put together a show less entertaining than this year's Oscars, hosted with a smug humorlessness by comic Jon Stewart, a sad and pale shadow of great hosts gone by.

"Always delicately moving" along the upper walks of Creole society, she makes no attempt to vie with "Jack Lafaiance" in rendering the humbler and more amusing aspects. But especially in 'The Price of Silence', she has given some striking impressionistic sketches of the Creole temperament and peculiarities, and has introduced into the conversations certain Creole idioms and pronunciations, unobtrusively, but with fine artistic effect. Here, as elsewhere, she has held a tight rein upon herself, has offended no propriety, carefully observing due metes and bounds and remembering the ancient wisdom. No sectional feeling shows itself in Davis's writings.

Debuting in the Eric Mittleman short film The Pitch as a pathetic kiss-ass employee, Gary went on to host The Helmetcam Show and Stripsearch, both on Playboy TV. His quick wit and sarcasm were the cornerstones on his on-camera persona as he interviewed and explored the multitude of adult stars and strippers that populated his programs. One of the more amusing aspects of his live performances were the frequent occasions when he'd talk "above the heads" of his often clueless guests. As an offshoot of his Playboy work, he occasionally appeared on E! Entertainment Television’s Wild On series.

However, when they recorded a new dub for uncut home video releases, they switched to using the original Mr. Satan. In 2009, Toriyama revealed his real name to be , a pun on the Japanese word akuma, which means devil or demon. Japanese fans voted Mr. Satan the eleventh most popular character of the Dragon Ball series in a 2004 poll.The character has received some criticism; Theron Martin stating that he may be the most obnoxious major character in the entire series, although his antics later in the series were more amusing compared to his earlier appearance.

Furniture was mainly made out of wood, often walnut or willow, and was usually rich in style, with many inlays of ivory, gold, stone, marble or other precious materials, often decorated with marquetry. Much furniture was also relatively grotesque (a French variation of the Italian word grottesco), often creating sculpted odd-looking gargoyles and monsters to make these items seem more amusing. Caryatids became popular at the time, and were made out of marble (the rich people used them as legs to their dining tables). Chairs such as the sgabello were considered symbols of wealth, and the wealthiest families had them made very sumptuous and grand.

He is well known for his love of "buttery" toast, and one of his more amusing behaviors is an apparent inability to say the word "buttery" without wiggling his fingers in front of his mouth. The phrase "buttery" was first mentioned by him when offering toast to the Yellow S.P.D. Ranger, Z, who formed a firm friendship with him; as evidenced when she defended him, when Sky blamed Syd's confusion and Bridge's ramblings. While thinking, he will sometimes do a handstand to help him think, or so he says. He is also Jewish since in "Walls" he tells Jack that he celebrates Hanukkah when Jack says that Christmas has come early upon Bridge and him receiving new patrol bikes.

Karthik Pasupulate from The Times of India gave the film three out of five stars and commented that "The movie has enough in it for Allu Arjun fans to dig into it, the others might not find it as amusing." Pavithra Srinivasan from Rediff criticised the film and felt it to be a "no brainer which loses steam because of the glaring lack of logic" and "gaping plot-holes". She lauded Allu Arjun for "carrying the film on his capable shoulders, hurling punches (both verbal and physical), bashing up goons and going gaga for his girl." CNN-IBN declared the film as "lackluster" and noted that the film was "more amusing than intelligent".

The crunch decision of his political career could well be having to choose between IDS and DD in a leadership contest" Buckley concludes that "His first diary is slight, the election being no more interesting in Henley than elsewhere. But the months and years to come, as our man struggles over whether to accept a job as PPS to Bill Cash and frets over the decline of his once great party, should provide sufficient material to write further diaries which are even more amusing, and insightful, than Clark's." In the book Johnson is interviewed by Jeremy Paxman, telling him that "he is motivated 30 per cent by public service, 40 per cent by 'sheer egomania' and 30 per cent disapproval of 'swankpot journalists'. Paxman snorts.

Katherine Talbert, a young country girl from good origin, is invited by her uncle, the Mad Duke of Riverside, to come as a guest to his house in the capital, where he decides it would be more amusing for his niece to learn swordplay than to follow the usual path to marriage. As her world changes forever, Katherine must navigate into a world filled with secrets and scoundrels. It is not immediately clear what her Uncle really wants from her. She was always told that the Duke hated her family, so when he makes her look ridiculous in front of the City by letting her dress like a boy and swing a sword, Katherine is determined not to let him ruin her future.

He also was an accomplished pilot and flew his own plane. In 1977, referring to computers used in home automation at the dawn of the home computer era, Olsen is quoted as saying "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." Olsen admitted to making the remark, even though he says his words were taken out of context and he was referring to computers set up to control houses, not PCs. According to Snopes.com, "the out-of-context misinterpretation of Olsen’s comments is considered much more amusing and entertaining than what he really meant, so that is the version that has been promulgated for decades now". In 1986, Fortune Magazine named Olsen "America's most successful entrepreneur",The war lost, Digital surrenders Boston Globe, January 27, 1998, p.c1.

The Observer's Ivor Brown praised Olivier's "magnetism and muscularity" but missed "the kind of pathos so richly established by Mr Gielgud". The reviewer in The Times found the performance "full of vitality", but at times "too light ... the character slips from Mr Olivier's grasp". The Old Vic (photographed in 2012), where Olivier honed his skill as a Shakespearean After Hamlet, the company presented Twelfth Night in what the director, Tyrone Guthrie, summed up as "a baddish, immature production of mine, with Olivier outrageously amusing as Sir Toby and a very young Alec Guinness outrageous and more amusing as Sir Andrew". Henry V was the next play, presented in May to mark the Coronation of George VI. A pacifist, as he then was, Olivier was as reluctant to play the warrior king as Guthrie was to direct the piece, but the production was a success, and Baylis had to extend the run from four to eight weeks.

The Races of Europe, Chapter XIII, Section 2 Coon considered the European racial type to be a sub- race of the Caucasoid race, one that warranted more study. In other sections of The Races of Europe, he mentioned people to be "European in racial type" and having a "European racial element."The Races of Europe, Chapter 7, Section 2 Coon suggested that the study of some major versions of European racial types was sadly lacking compared with other types, writing, > For many years physical anthropologists have found it more amusing to travel > to distant lands and to measure small remnants of little known or romantic > peoples than to tackle the drudgery of a systematic study of their own > compatriots. For that reason, sections in the present book that deal with > the Lapps, the Arabs, the Berbers, the Tajiks, and the Ionians may appear > more fully and more lucidly treated than those that deal with the French, > the Hungarians, the Czechs, or the English.

By contrast, throughout the early sixteenth century, humanism became very popular, and within this movement, Latin literature was valorized, particularly poetry and satire, some of which included views on witches that could be combined with witch lore massively accumulated in works such as the Malleus Maleficarum. Baldung partook in this culture, producing not only many works depicting Strasbourg humanists and scenes from ancient art and literature, but what an earlier literature on the artist described as his satirical take on his depiction of witches. Gert von der Osten comments on this aspect of "Baldung [treating] his witches humorously, an attitude that reflects the dominant viewpoint of the humanists in Strasbourg at this time who viewed witchcraft as 'lustig,' a matter that was more amusing than serious". However, the separation of a satirical tone from deadly serious vilifying intent proves difficult to maintain for Baldung as it is for many other artists, including his rough contemporary Hieronymus Bosch.

Contemporary reviews had comparatively little to say about Oldbuck. The British Critic offered the opinion that “If his blunders cause amusement, his learning will afford instruction”. The British Lady's Magazine and John Wilson Croker in the Quarterly Review agreed in thinking him a repetition of a character from an earlier Scott novel, though they differed as to whether this was the Baron of Bradwardine from Waverley or Counsellor Pleydell from Guy Mannering. The Edinburgh Review’s initial impression was that Oldbuck, as an “oddity”, was the great blemish on the novel, but later found that he “is so managed as to turn out both more interesting and more amusing than we had any reason to expect”. Lockhart agreed better with the second thoughts of the Edinburgh reviewer, Francis Jeffrey, than his first, going so far as to say that Scott had “nowhere displayed his highest art, that of skillful contrast, in greater perfection…than the oddities of Jonathan Oldbuck and his circle are relieved, on the one hand by the stately gloom of the Glenallans, on the other by the stern affliction of the poor fisherman”.

That&aposs one of the more amusing parts of all this. from Fox News
Also, you've probably never heard a more amusing description of p-hacking. from Gizmodo
The original music has been stripped, making the exchange even more amusing. from Mashable
Many more amusing incidents should be left for the reader to discover. from The New York Times
The idea of government running anything and everything was more amusing than horrifying. from The Hill
"Marcel" and "The Art of Laughter" are more amusing and instructive than hilarious. from The New York Times
One of the more amusing examples is how Rodin said good night to Rilke. from Hyperallergic
There has been another, more amusing reaction — marriage proposals on her Facebook fan page. from The New York Times
Turns out watching people trotting along beside invisible dogs is more amusing than the real thing. from Mashable
It was a hilarious moment made even more amusing because we could both speak to each other. from The Verge
But I must admit these little semi-porn drawings are more amusing than a stuffy New Yorker cartoon. from Hyperallergic
Generally speaking, they're pretty cute, which makes Google's latest experiment—teaching them to honk—all the more amusing. from Gizmodo
A slightly more amusing and interactive take on the grasshopper milkshake, for those who prefer to drink their dessert. from Vice
Before joining the band, he used to work as a waiter, but he finds this job way more amusing. from Vice
If there is an animal at a wedding, the photographs will probably be more amusing when viewed years later. from The New York Times
Several news outlets published displays of Mr. Trump's more amusing grip-and-grins on Weibo, a Chinese microblogging site. from The New York Times
Or, as a more amusing punishment, you'd be quarantined to a really bad forum with all the other idiots. from Vice
If I wanted to find a Vine more amusing than it actually is, I'd probably see about developing a personality. from Vice
In one of the self-proclaimed king's more amusing moments, he corrects Davos on his misuse of the world 'less. from Mashable
The tragicomic story of Al Jazeera America would be more amusing if it weren't for all the good journalism it produced. from New Republic
So I would draw my cats driving the car or whatever with just a little caption underneath, because it was more amusing. from Refinery 29
It's even more amusing to see Susie navigating the school's fun-house interior, with its secretive mirrors and boxes-within-boxes design. from The New York Times
As American infrastructure continues to decline, the endless debate whether "public" or "private" infrastructure is "cheaper" is much more amusing than substantive. from The Hill
Now, digital consultant Dan Hon wants to use those same neural networks to help Britain come up with even more amusing place names. from Gizmodo
" But, the president's comments surrounding Comey got much more amusing when he retweeted an exchange from December in which O'Donnell wrote, "FIRE COMEY. from Refinery 29
It is about as diverting as having a porcelain sink broken over your head (one of the more amusing things that happens onscreen). from The New York Times
The video, which is clearly sped up to be more amusing, shows a snail on its back spinning a carrot around with its foot. from Gizmodo
Second, all attendees are treated to alcoholic refreshments throughout the broadcast, making the bits between award categories (and the ensuing Snapchats) all the more amusing. from Refinery 29
The downside to Chucky's mainstream appeal was that the villain, once the stuff of nightmares, had clearly become more amusing than menacing to many people. from Buzzfeed News
One of the more amusing ones, "July 20 1969," depicting man landing on the moon, is housed in a vintage portable television of the era. from Hyperallergic
There's even a whole section on planning the Met Gala and judging a fashion-designer competition, which is honestly more amusing to watch than educational. from Business Insider
"It is about as diverting as having a porcelain sink broken over your head (one of the more amusing things that happens onscreen)," he writes. from The New York Times
But, he added, "it is about as diverting as having a porcelain sink broken over your head (one of the more amusing things that happens onscreen)." from The New York Times
Such flourishes might have added up to something more amusing had Luc's rape and murder of a black woman not also been played for a laugh. from The New York Times
Though it may be more amusing than relevant, Belichick was even 29093-29083 against the Dolphins in his years as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns. from The New York Times
They range from very obvious to something a little more subtle, and the dirtier mind you have the more amusing this journey of simulated self-love will be. from Mashable
So while these verbal slip-ups are more amusing than they are important, they do point to a larger concern some Democrats have with Biden as a candidate. from Vox
It's more amusing, unfortunately, than most of what happens in the central story, involving Kinnaman's and Dorman's buddy astronauts and their wives, played by Shantel VanSanten and Sarah Jones. from The New York Times
And Ms. Choy-Kee brings an easy radiance to her performance as Marie-Belle, making her giggling suggestions of continued sexual relations with her dead husband more amusing than distasteful. from The New York Times
In a more amusing — and rock 'n roll — way, with The Long Black Veil, the artist Jeffrey Docherty creates an intangible map of the 1980s Punk and New Wave scene. from TechCrunch
Much of the panel transcript consists of the same type of dry business logistics as the rest of this document, but Keenan eventually steers the discussion into far more amusing territory. from Vice
I prefer a more amusing possibility: that the Brazilian committee is lobbying to include a new sport in this year's Games, a kind of tennis to be played with electric mosquito swatters. from The New York Times
When the lawyers become involved, things get even more amusing, especially when Nicole hires a sophisticated attorney named Nora (Laura Dern) who is dressed in impeccable stilettoes and skinny jeans when they first meet. from Washington Post
The former New York mayor appeared this morning on Good Morning America to offer up one of the more amusing excuses for Trump's apparent incitement of "Second Amendment people" to stop Hillary Clinton from picking federal judges. from New Republic
"It turns a situation that is often fraught with extreme emotions — excitement, anxiety, fear, and potentially shame and embarrassment — into one that is 'cartoony' by literalizing the runaway heart, thus making it a bit more amusing," he said. from The New York Times
But the Great Buttock Controversy of 2015, in addition to producing one of the more amusing corrections in The Times's recent history, reinforced for me just how closely "Downton" viewers were watching — and just how ardently they felt about getting it right. from The New York Times
You drive too fast, get caught, and if you wind up with a paper in your hand and a need to spin it to somebody, what apter (or more amusing) way to do so than to declare it an AWARD FOR FAST DRIVING? from The New York Times
They came back and scratched the itch later in the show, with a slightly more amusing gag in which Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel deplored the no-host decision, before being replaced as presenters by the voice of Amazon's personal assistant, Alexa. from The New York Times
Perhaps that would have been a bit more amusing, but in a world where the Department of Defense invites white hat hackers around the United States to come help us better secure our technology and warfighters… we played it safe and opened it up the day before. from TechCrunch
Their ongoing negotiations also produced one of the more amusing moments, with Snow's aide Davos (Liam Cunningham) observing that he perceived Snow might have a romantic interest in her -- something for which there's little time, Snow noted, what with the fate of their world hanging in the balance. from CNN
He protests that it's a harmless joke—though his predicament is more amusing for Assayas's viewer, who has already learned that the offending blow job is drawn from his life; it actually took place during one of the later Star Wars movies, which certainly makes more intuitive sense, and Léonard has only veiled it with the Haneke in a vacuous bid to seem hip and arty. from New Republic
"Arnold, Kevin (December 14, 1975). "Exploring Old Age With Lewis And Clark". Los Angeles Times. 54. Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called the film "more amusing than one might have expected, probably because Walter Matthau makes a surprisingly funny and plausible old coot.
San Francisco Chronicle. 2006-08-14. Retrieved 2009-06-19. The A.V. Club cited ONTD as a "favorite time-wasting website" and wrote that "the comments section can sometimes be more amusing than the posts themselves". In December 2009, the users of ONTD were derisively referredLeins, Jeff.
Saunders congratulated Ollivier for the humorous and witty campaign and remarked that "he had not heard a more amusing speech at a nomination than that of Mr Ollivier". The by-election was held on 16 January and was won by Saunders with 676 votes to 332.
But subjects of humor were his forte. In these, he had an exhaustless fancy, fertile and ever-creative. Nothing can be more amusing than his masks, representing quarrels, dances, and such scenes as form the subjects of comedy. Giovanni's son, Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, was an artist and art biographer.
In late November the literature tutor, Furusawa, takes him to a local coffee-house and tells him a political parable about the nature of suicide and authority. Tōru suddenly feels dislike for him and engineers his dismissal. Relishing the feeling of power this gives him, he casts around for a more amusing victim.
Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote that the film "gets by if you don't mind an essentially passive, poky approach to adventure", and called the accompanying featurette Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too "a livelier and more amusing film."Arnold, Gary (December 26, 1974). "Tame Adventure for Preschoolers". The Washington Post. B15.
She described Ange is a "serious" character who needed the "light relief" Fletch's characterisation provides. She thought it was positive writing for Ange who never "had much to laugh about". When Ange decides to confide in Fletch over her worries that her children will not forgive her for keeping secrets, he reassures and supports her. Writers also use the pairing as an outlet for Ange to have more amusing scenes.
The largest, the "Zoo" sundae, was delivered with great fanfare by multiple employees carrying it wildly around the restaurant on a stretcher accompanied by the sound of ambulance sirens."Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour, the Zoo Returns". Orange County (California) Register, November 3, 2009. One of the more amusing highlights of their original menu was a "Low-Calorie Diet" recipe sheet you could theoretically "adopt" to if you ate too much ice cream.
Indignant, Seymour retorted, 'By God's precious soul, I mean no evil, and I will not leave it!' At first, Catherine dismissed the behaviour as just innocent fun, and even joined in the "romps" on a few occasions. Elizabeth's feelings regarding this behaviour are unknown, but it was said that she bore Thomas some degree of affection. And though her governess, Kat Ashley, "bade him go away in shame," she found him more amusing than dangerous.
In one of the more amusing dispatches, Pollitt (1936) informed his Soviet contact about a recent visit to France to make campaign appearances for candidates from the French Communist Party. "At great inconvenience went to Paris to speak in the election campaign". Pollitt went on to complain that he was "kept sitting two days and comrades refused to allow me to speak. Such treatment as I received in Paris is a scandal".
Maeda began meeting with Toba and Aniplex on a monthly basis and the story started to gradually progress. Aniplex wanted Maeda to write a screenplay that would be very "Key- like, with touching moments of laughter and tears," but initially Maeda found himself at a loss to write a story more amusing than Little Busters!, because he thought that he had reached a limit with Little Busters! in regards to a "Key-like story".
The Bystander called The Bat "most exciting from first to last". When it was revived on Broadway in 1937, reviewers said that the play had not aged well due to many imitations by subsequent plays. For the New York Times, Brooks Atkinson wrote that it was "not quite the shriek show it was originally" but still entertaining. According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Arthur Pollock, The Bat showed its age and was more amusing than frightening.
John Olliver Terrace in Halswell Ollivier stood for parliament again late in his life. On the first occasion, the resignation of Arthur O'Callaghan from the electorate on 9 November 1888 caused the 16 January between Ollivier and Alfred Saunders. Saunders congratulated Ollivier for the humorous and witty campaign and remarked that "he had not heard a more amusing speech at a nomination than that of Mr Ollivier". Saunders won the election with 676 votes to 332.
Some also discovered that the system is unable to render palm trees, making them into obelisks "jutting forth from the pavement like so many teeth." The TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida has also been misrendered as an office building with grass roofs. Despite this, Tom Warren of The Verge said that "the glitches are more amusing than they are game breaking." Many users on the Flight Simulator support forums also report instability and game crashes without due cause.
Iemma rebuffed Debnam's repeated demands for a second debate. But while Debnam struggled, his deputy, Barry O'Farrell and Nationals leader Andrew Stoner cemented their credentials as formidable media performers, the latter mounting an impassioned defence of the Liberal leader in the closing days of the campaign. The Liberals suffered a more amusing distraction after details emerged of a lewd SMS Wyong candidate Brenton Pavier had sent to friends at Christmas. While he backed Debnam's decision to dump him, Pavier briefly considered running for Wyong as an independent.
Mordecai Richler wrote in 1987:Richler, Mordecai. "Paperbacks; Batman at Midlife: or the funnies grow up", The New York Times (May 3, 1987). > I have a hunch that Gary Larson, no stranger to irony, is more amusing if > his cartoons are caught one at a time rather than gathered in a fat > collection, as in THE FAR SIDE GALLERY and THE FAR SIDE GALLERY 2 (Andrews, > McMeel & Parker, $9.95 each). The problem is that once you have tuned into > his humor it becomes somewhat predictable.
Barcelona: Editorial Ariel. In 1466, the Catholic Church under Pope Paul II revived customs of the Saturnalia carnival: Jews were forced to race naked through the streets of the city of Rome. "Before they were to run, the Jews were richly fed, so as to make the race more difficult for them and at the same time more amusing for spectators. They ran ... amid Rome's taunting shrieks and peals of laughter, while the Holy Father stood upon a richly ornamented balcony and laughed heartily", an eyewitness reports.
The Pilgrim's Progress was much more popular than its predecessors. Bunyan's plain style breathes life into the abstractions of the anthropomorphized temptations and abstractions that Christian encounters and with whom he converses on his course to Heaven. Samuel Johnson said that "this is the great merit of the book, that the most cultivated man cannot find anything to praise more highly, and the child knows nothing more amusing." Three years after its publication (1681), it was reprinted in colonial America, and was widely read in the Puritan colonies.
In 1724 he published History of the Remarkable Life of Sheppard and A Narrative of All robberies, Escapes, &c.; of John Sheppard, portraying the famous robber as a refined criminal exchanging jokes and performing clever tricks. Defoe was captivated by the criminal life, especially when it involved witty stratagems and subterfuges, and as it is clearly shown in his fictions, like Moll Flanders and Colonel Jack, his intent often seems more amusing than didactic. Nevertheless, whenever Defoe deals with social and moral problems he always tries to reach his reader with clarity and practical proposals.
Its initial reviews were generally positive.Watch this McLean, Gareth; The Guardian; 11-06-2007; Accessed 13-06-2007A Good Sauce of Amusement North West Evening Mail; 12-06-2007; Accessed 13-06-2007 The show's "raunchy" and "lascivious" nature was noted by many of the critics, with almost all of the sketches involving characters whose main interest was "sex". Although described as potentially a "one-trick pony", the show was also lauded as "really, really funny" and "more amusing than the last eleventeen sketch shows you can think of".
As a news journalist, Smith has covered a wide range of stories, from hard news, talking to victims of crime or circumstance, to the more amusing items. In 2008, Smith sailed around Britain in his yacht (a Sadler 32, designed by David Sadler) 'Wild Rover', a voyage of some 2,000 miles which raised over £15,000 for Leukaemia Research. In 2012, he cycled at Brands Hatch for the 2012 Cyclothon. In 2014, Smith was the compere of the Top Choir Competition on 12 April at the Shirley Hall in Canterbury.
A recent study of communalism in contemporary Ahmedabad sought to unravel the wider theoretical underpinnings of the role of ethnicity in politics. Others of his students have examined the making of regional identity in Orissa, the politics of Tamil Muslims, and childhood and child labour in India. Through his students Chandavarkar not only mentored a new cohort of historians but stimulated scholarship in wide-ranging and eclectic fields, embracing the most diverse aspects of South Asian history. On a more amusing note Chandavarkar had a reputation as a draconian taskmaster.
Ardrey originally conceived of the play while "pushing through snowdrifts one long hard winter on a door-to-door survey in West Side slums." He wrote that his experience of the turmoil of the Great Depression "had been anything but unique. For me, the creative consequence was the conviction that the Polish-American characters of my first play were far more amusing and meaningful than the personnel of a normal theatrical penthouse." The artistic concern with portraying folk voices would be a consistent theme throughout Ardrey's career, including in his most famous play, Thunder Rock.
Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote: "Unlike the vast majority of rude bigscreen comedies these days, "Prison" may actually improve with repeat viewings, since its best aspects are offhand enough to be missed the first time around." Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter did not find the film funny "the few laughs this purported comedy contains are fully displayed in its far more amusing trailer". Box Office Mojo reports that the film opened in 11th place with a meager take of $2,220,050. It closed with a domestic gross of $4,630,045.
But it was negative in his review writing that "the film was made in a hurry, with little money and relative commitment, the set design is very bad and there is only one minute of external". The dialogues are extremely bad and bland. won a few more amusing phrases was Claudia Raia, in the role of Snow White Stepmother, which at least has a few moments of brilliance, the rest falls in the common grave. Writing to the Uol Site, the same critic considered Abracadabra, a bit less bad than the previous one.
As it stands, the saga seems incomplete, for a promise is made that the tale will return to King Gautrek of Götaland and his sons, to "the same story as told in Sweden", and that promise is not kept. Indeed, other than the reference to Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar, no sons are mentioned. But it seems that Gautrek was noted in many tales for his generosity and bravery, but not for deep thinking, according to a passage near the end. It is probable there were more amusing anecdotes to that effect that the author planned to include.
He is occasionally helpful if it serves his own interests, such as obtaining apples or furthering his own amusement, but for the most part will jokingly ask Light what his next move will be or have Light explain to him the point of a certain action. He tells Light in the first volume he doesn't always look at what Light writes because he finds it more amusing. Light describes Ryuk as a "crazy-looking, supernatural creature with these wicked eyes" who becomes ("surprisingly") a "moral compass" for Light in the film version of Death Note."SFIAAFF: Death Note ." sfist.
Cricket of the period did feature numerous great names such as Grace, Trumper, Blythe, Wilfred Rhodes, Jack Hobbs, C. B. Fry, Ranjitsinhji and Frank Woolley, but that in itself is not unique as any period in cricket history can boast its great players. As David Frith pointed out, the nostalgia "needed someone to put a perspective on it". In his 1939 autobiography, Fry wrote: "I have a notion that the cricket of the nineties and early nineteen hundreds was more amusing to watch, but I am not at all sure that the game of today is not more difficult to play".
Belford Regis, another series of literary sketches in which the neighbourhood and society of Reading were idealised, was published in 1835. Her description of village cricket in Our Village has been called "the first major prose on the game". Her Recollections of a Literary Life (1852) is a series of causeries about her favourite books. Her talk was said by her friends, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Hengist Horne, to have been even more amusing than her books, and five volumes of her Life and Letters, published in 1870 and 1872, show her to have been a delightful letter-writer.
" Others media publications were more critical of the show. Television critic Rob Owen of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that Stewart was more "amusing than funny". He added, "Many of his jokes fell flat with the stars in the Kodak Theatre, and his tendency to bow down before celebrities quickly grew tiresome." Tom Shales from The Washington Post commented, "It's hard to believe that professional entertainers could have put together a show less entertaining than this year's Oscars, hosted with a smug humorlessness by comic Jon Stewart, a sad and pale shadow of great hosts gone by.
"Always delicately moving" along the upper walks of Creole society, she makes no attempt to vie with "Jack Lafaiance" in rendering the humbler and more amusing aspects. But especially in 'The Price of Silence', she has given some striking impressionistic sketches of the Creole temperament and peculiarities, and has introduced into the conversations certain Creole idioms and pronunciations, unobtrusively, but with fine artistic effect. Here, as elsewhere, she has held a tight rein upon herself, has offended no propriety, carefully observing due metes and bounds and remembering the ancient wisdom. No sectional feeling shows itself in Davis's writings.
Debuting in the Eric Mittleman short film The Pitch as a pathetic kiss-ass employee, Gary went on to host The Helmetcam Show and Stripsearch, both on Playboy TV. His quick wit and sarcasm were the cornerstones on his on-camera persona as he interviewed and explored the multitude of adult stars and strippers that populated his programs. One of the more amusing aspects of his live performances were the frequent occasions when he'd talk "above the heads" of his often clueless guests. As an offshoot of his Playboy work, he occasionally appeared on E! Entertainment Television’s Wild On series.
However, when they recorded a new dub for uncut home video releases, they switched to using the original Mr. Satan. In 2009, Toriyama revealed his real name to be , a pun on the Japanese word akuma, which means devil or demon. Japanese fans voted Mr. Satan the eleventh most popular character of the Dragon Ball series in a 2004 poll.The character has received some criticism; Theron Martin stating that he may be the most obnoxious major character in the entire series, although his antics later in the series were more amusing compared to his earlier appearance.
Furniture was mainly made out of wood, often walnut or willow, and was usually rich in style, with many inlays of ivory, gold, stone, marble or other precious materials, often decorated with marquetry. Much furniture was also relatively grotesque (a French variation of the Italian word grottesco), often creating sculpted odd-looking gargoyles and monsters to make these items seem more amusing. Caryatids became popular at the time, and were made out of marble (the rich people used them as legs to their dining tables). Chairs such as the sgabello were considered symbols of wealth, and the wealthiest families had them made very sumptuous and grand.
He is well known for his love of "buttery" toast, and one of his more amusing behaviors is an apparent inability to say the word "buttery" without wiggling his fingers in front of his mouth. The phrase "buttery" was first mentioned by him when offering toast to the Yellow S.P.D. Ranger, Z, who formed a firm friendship with him; as evidenced when she defended him, when Sky blamed Syd's confusion and Bridge's ramblings. While thinking, he will sometimes do a handstand to help him think, or so he says. He is also Jewish since in "Walls" he tells Jack that he celebrates Hanukkah when Jack says that Christmas has come early upon Bridge and him receiving new patrol bikes.
Karthik Pasupulate from The Times of India gave the film three out of five stars and commented that "The movie has enough in it for Allu Arjun fans to dig into it, the others might not find it as amusing." Pavithra Srinivasan from Rediff criticised the film and felt it to be a "no brainer which loses steam because of the glaring lack of logic" and "gaping plot-holes". She lauded Allu Arjun for "carrying the film on his capable shoulders, hurling punches (both verbal and physical), bashing up goons and going gaga for his girl." CNN-IBN declared the film as "lackluster" and noted that the film was "more amusing than intelligent".
The crunch decision of his political career could well be having to choose between IDS and DD in a leadership contest" Buckley concludes that "His first diary is slight, the election being no more interesting in Henley than elsewhere. But the months and years to come, as our man struggles over whether to accept a job as PPS to Bill Cash and frets over the decline of his once great party, should provide sufficient material to write further diaries which are even more amusing, and insightful, than Clark's." In the book Johnson is interviewed by Jeremy Paxman, telling him that "he is motivated 30 per cent by public service, 40 per cent by 'sheer egomania' and 30 per cent disapproval of 'swankpot journalists'. Paxman snorts.
Katherine Talbert, a young country girl from good origin, is invited by her uncle, the Mad Duke of Riverside, to come as a guest to his house in the capital, where he decides it would be more amusing for his niece to learn swordplay than to follow the usual path to marriage. As her world changes forever, Katherine must navigate into a world filled with secrets and scoundrels. It is not immediately clear what her Uncle really wants from her. She was always told that the Duke hated her family, so when he makes her look ridiculous in front of the City by letting her dress like a boy and swing a sword, Katherine is determined not to let him ruin her future.
He also was an accomplished pilot and flew his own plane. In 1977, referring to computers used in home automation at the dawn of the home computer era, Olsen is quoted as saying "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." Olsen admitted to making the remark, even though he says his words were taken out of context and he was referring to computers set up to control houses, not PCs. According to Snopes.com, "the out-of-context misinterpretation of Olsen’s comments is considered much more amusing and entertaining than what he really meant, so that is the version that has been promulgated for decades now". In 1986, Fortune Magazine named Olsen "America's most successful entrepreneur",The war lost, Digital surrenders Boston Globe, January 27, 1998, p.c1.
The Observer's Ivor Brown praised Olivier's "magnetism and muscularity" but missed "the kind of pathos so richly established by Mr Gielgud". The reviewer in The Times found the performance "full of vitality", but at times "too light ... the character slips from Mr Olivier's grasp". The Old Vic (photographed in 2012), where Olivier honed his skill as a Shakespearean After Hamlet, the company presented Twelfth Night in what the director, Tyrone Guthrie, summed up as "a baddish, immature production of mine, with Olivier outrageously amusing as Sir Toby and a very young Alec Guinness outrageous and more amusing as Sir Andrew". Henry V was the next play, presented in May to mark the Coronation of George VI. A pacifist, as he then was, Olivier was as reluctant to play the warrior king as Guthrie was to direct the piece, but the production was a success, and Baylis had to extend the run from four to eight weeks.
The Races of Europe, Chapter XIII, Section 2 Coon considered the European racial type to be a sub- race of the Caucasoid race, one that warranted more study. In other sections of The Races of Europe, he mentioned people to be "European in racial type" and having a "European racial element."The Races of Europe, Chapter 7, Section 2 Coon suggested that the study of some major versions of European racial types was sadly lacking compared with other types, writing, > For many years physical anthropologists have found it more amusing to travel > to distant lands and to measure small remnants of little known or romantic > peoples than to tackle the drudgery of a systematic study of their own > compatriots. For that reason, sections in the present book that deal with > the Lapps, the Arabs, the Berbers, the Tajiks, and the Ionians may appear > more fully and more lucidly treated than those that deal with the French, > the Hungarians, the Czechs, or the English.
By contrast, throughout the early sixteenth century, humanism became very popular, and within this movement, Latin literature was valorized, particularly poetry and satire, some of which included views on witches that could be combined with witch lore massively accumulated in works such as the Malleus Maleficarum. Baldung partook in this culture, producing not only many works depicting Strasbourg humanists and scenes from ancient art and literature, but what an earlier literature on the artist described as his satirical take on his depiction of witches. Gert von der Osten comments on this aspect of "Baldung [treating] his witches humorously, an attitude that reflects the dominant viewpoint of the humanists in Strasbourg at this time who viewed witchcraft as 'lustig,' a matter that was more amusing than serious". However, the separation of a satirical tone from deadly serious vilifying intent proves difficult to maintain for Baldung as it is for many other artists, including his rough contemporary Hieronymus Bosch.
Contemporary reviews had comparatively little to say about Oldbuck. The British Critic offered the opinion that “If his blunders cause amusement, his learning will afford instruction”. The British Lady's Magazine and John Wilson Croker in the Quarterly Review agreed in thinking him a repetition of a character from an earlier Scott novel, though they differed as to whether this was the Baron of Bradwardine from Waverley or Counsellor Pleydell from Guy Mannering. The Edinburgh Review’s initial impression was that Oldbuck, as an “oddity”, was the great blemish on the novel, but later found that he “is so managed as to turn out both more interesting and more amusing than we had any reason to expect”. Lockhart agreed better with the second thoughts of the Edinburgh reviewer, Francis Jeffrey, than his first, going so far as to say that Scott had “nowhere displayed his highest art, that of skillful contrast, in greater perfection…than the oddities of Jonathan Oldbuck and his circle are relieved, on the one hand by the stately gloom of the Glenallans, on the other by the stern affliction of the poor fisherman”.