The phrase “derive entertainment” is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase can be used to describe someone obtaining enjoyment from a certain activity. For example, one might say, “I derive entertainment from playing video games.”.
Re "As Bullfighter Gains Honor, Peers Perceive a Grave Loss" (Madrid Journal, March 19), which describes several bullfighters' disapproval of a Spanish Fine Arts award given to a wealthy torero: It's sickening that there are still people who derive entertainment from watching steel daggers being plunged into living flesh and blood.
Just as I could never watch Dancing With The Stars and derive entertainment out of it, I'm not too keen on this motion stuff.
At night, boats in the waters off Mill Island, Brooklyn, might derive some entertainment from the onshore play of lights switching from green to yellow to red.
That truly private shame of yours, meanwhile, probably requires too much context to be particularly negotiable, and the only three people who will care enough are not very likely to derive much entertainment from it.
If you don't like FPSs, odds are you're not going to like Modern Warfare 2 or BioShock or Left 4 Dead 2. If you are a fan of the genre, then it's pretty much guaranteed that you'll derive some entertainment out of said games.
Concentrate on where you are, deriving your entertainment from immediate stimuli, the tangible world around you.
The last few years have seen a huge increase in the transfer of coloured architectural lighting, derived from entertainment and theatre, into the urban and exterior environment.
And it's that disparity, between the imagined and the real, that has us hooked on violence as a means of deriving both entertainment and pleasure.
Because the reader wants to be entertained and that entertainment derives, at least in part, from a sense of uncertainty.
The networks are owned by enormous media conglomerates whose primary profits and values derive from the entertainment business.
Some machine is always showing us Mind; some entertainment derived from the machine is always showing us Non-Mind.
