The playwright's fitfully amusing off-center observations for one or the other of his lost souls are too slight to accommodate the range of such fine actors.

Behind the alienization of America - with the playwright's odd and fitfully amusing observations - there is a play about contemporary family problems.

However, O'Rell published only six front-page articles between 24 October 1901 and 4 February 1902, mostly containing amusing observations on American society.

On the other hand, in a January argument in a statute-of-limitations case, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy made an amusing observation about the absurdity of modern life.

Kelton has all the best lines, surprisingly wicked and amusing observations that would never be allowed in an American film after the Hollywood Production Code was adopted.

Her recollections of marching for civil rights were punctuated with amusing observations about the similarities between Dolly Parton and Mae West.

In his first novel, Norwood (1966), he showed his preference for travel narratives with deadpan dialogue, combined with amusing observations on American culture.

The review in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called it a "succinct, short and comprehensible volume...full of sharp, almost aphoristic, amusing observations".

Among other amusing observations he makes is the statement that Las Vegas is just an unimportant whistle stop town--"always was, always will be."

"Have you no other amusing observations it would please you to make?"