amuse-gueule

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Examples

• 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?