Sentence examples for diverting exercise from inspiring English sources

Directed by a Frenchman with the single, not uncatlike name of Pitof, "Catwoman" is a howlingly silly, moderately diverting exercise in high, pointless style.

You need to take a step back, or 5 or 10, and look past this extraneous (if diverting) exercise to assess the actual show and its legacy.

Moira Buffini's "Dinner," at the National, is a mildly diverting exercise in skewering the rich and shallow that invokes (to its detriment) classic films like "The Rules of the Game" and "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie".

It's a diverting exercise, though, and the railroad is an excellent starting point.

In any case, their litany of reciprocal grievances turns into an operatic war that may be either the real thing or merely another diverting military exercise.

His first American studio effort, "Wanted" (2008), is a modestly diverting if finally tedious exercise in which the stylized violence almost upstages its star, Angelina Jolie.

Some pop genres have traditionally held a licence to thrill, to divert and to exercise the mind.

Volunteer crews from Happisburgh on a training exercise diverted to the area and found the dog on rocks on a reef.

Strictly as an exercise in visually diverting button mashing, Prototype is adequate.

Intestinal hypoperfusion occurs during exercise both in healthy relatively untrained volunteers and in highly trained athletes, which stresses the abdominal vasodilator reserve by diverting blood flow from the splanchnic circulation to the exercise muscles [3] [5].

And he admitted that exercise wasn't always pleasurable or diverting.