The phrase "able to entertain a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone's capacity or capability to engage or amuse someone or a group in a particular context.
Example: "She is able to entertain a large audience with her storytelling skills."
Alternatives: "capable of engaging a" or "able to captivate a".
PAGE D1 PARTIES AT YOUR WEEKEND HOME Being able to entertain a big group at a weekend home and actually doing it are two different things.
And if one in fact finds "malicious jokes" funny, "is one therefore morally complicit?" Pigliucci thinks the best way out of this conundrum is offered by Aristotle, who said with characteristic wisdom, "it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it".
However, Domgy may be able to entertain a dog or cat while their humans are away, and can recognize them, by face, as family members.
In the years since Dr. Berzins began performing sweaty quick-changes in high-school corridors, the entertainment industry seems to have discovered that although fat people may still be able to entertain an audience, the real money is in thin people — famously thin, professionally thin people — pretending to be fat (Courteney Cox Arquette, for example, on "Friends," seen in a teen-age flashback).
No problem keep a small coloring book and a few crayons and your child will be able to entertain themselves for a while.
"To be able to entertain people is a triumph, but the funny thing is that I never dreamed as a child about being a singer, never looked in the mirror and played at being a pop star," Ms. Sangalo, 41, said in an interview this week at a Manhattan hotel.
Not everyone is built for traveling the world solo, but being able to entertain yourself is a seriously underrated skill.
Although new in guise, especially in its close relationship to music, it is a typical Brown work, able to entertain while operating on a complex cerebral level.
I'm glad I've been able to entertain and hopefully help a few people along the way.
Indeed, more strongly, we must be able to entertain the concept of a smallest really existent Martian and to recognise that the property of "really existing" is part of this concept while nonetheless maintaining that there are no smallest existent Martians.
I do stay busy with it though- and truly all I've ever wanted was to be able to entertain people, to be a creative human in this world.
