Sentence examples for almost entertaining from inspiring English sources

"Of course it's unpleasant when they drink too much and it all comes out," Mr. Franzen said, adding that for those not directly involved, the gladiatorial scene can be almost entertaining.

The lights are dimmed, and seated around a large boardroom table, we watch a work of such hyperbole and exaggeration it is almost entertaining, if it weren't also a little disturbing.

It was almost entertaining at first, but then it just became scary.

"[2012 is] fundamentally terrible, but almost irresistibly entertaining.

His sins are usually only offenses to the gods of etiquette — and they are almost always entertaining.

The commotion was fun, and Eurovision -- an annual riot of light, sound, dominatrix costumes and badly faked American accents -- is almost embarrassingly entertaining.

In fact the book reads like a long, editorial rant against Mr. Bush's political record, a rant that's sometimes persuasive, sometimes unfair, if almost always entertaining.

The same might well be said of Mr. Amis, whose reviews and essays in this volume are consistently cogent, often illuminating and almost always entertaining.

Sometimes splendidly funny, sometimes poignant, the bearded, boyish Mr. Smirnoff, whose career has taken him to films, television, the White House and ownership of a 1,400-seat 1,400-seataring his name in Branson, Mo., is eager theaterse and almost always entertaining.

Though rarely seamless, their combined delivery is almost always entertaining.

At the same time, he was writing many film scripts and entertaining almost nightly friends passing through town as well as local Californians.