And he couldn't offer up a single amusing anecdote from his 34 years in management.

Eventually, they will sit down again, and you will resume your amusing anecdote, but then another wasp will come along.

An amusing anecdote can help, too.

I heard an amusing anecdote the other day.

But beyond its many amusing anecdotes, it also makes a polemical point.

There was one nearly amusing moment.

Despite the odd amusing moment, he felt it rather let down the well-loved original.

The day was not without its amusing moments.

The contrast between his saloon-bar style and the more considered views of the politicians made for some amusing moments.

It's a breezily good-natured picture with a few mildly amusing moments, but mainly it relies a little too heavily on its own inoffensive cuteness.

It's a mildly amusing story now: most of my friends have more lurid ones.

She had an acute eye for detail and an ear for an amusing story.

He performs in shiny suit and stylish shoes, and nobody could seem more relaxed on stage, more likely to break off and tell an amusing story.

It was not the best, but it was an amusing story.

She tells a supposedly amusing story about when she went for a disastrous audition, and explains to her barely amused listeners that it was 'humiliating but funny'.

This seemingly slight, amusing tale changed my life.

Everyone who knew him has an amusing tale.

The price and allure of the white truffle have spawned amusing tales.

My nonagenarian grandmother reminisced in exactly the same way about past loves, smells, gardens, songs, dresses, holidays; amusing tales rather than regrets or unpleasantness.

Amusing tales, well-constructed whimsy and a bit of grumbling.