Sentences with phrase «especially amusing way»

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playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way.

Each volume takes me longer to read than most because of the text and panel heavy pages, which I quite like in a series that uses all that space to fill up with amusing character interaction, manga serialization education and a lot of artistic trials that will speak to any artist one way or another, especially when working to appeal to the masses at large.

But with «St. Sebastian,» a blank - slate approach was unexpectedly easy, primarily because, for all the image's familiarity, I realized how different the painting looked, or rather felt, in the flesh... It's the painting's endearingly strange comedy — especially the bottom half of the body, which seems to flap away (and bring to mind the flagellation of St. Bartholomew)-- that rescues it from post-adolescent self - pity and actually, in an odd way, ennobles it, as if invested with an amused stoicism.»