Collateral attack of a judgment of a court-martial was early entertained.
The president visited his ancestral homeland in the Irish Midlands earlier and entertained distant relatives as they enjoyed a drink in a local bar in Moneygall.
Early Christianity entertained an ambivalent attitude to the classicizingly 'correct' language inculcated by the pagan educational system, which finally collapsed in the wake of the Germanic invasions.
That said, it was not taken seriously by big teams at first, with the result that few early winners entertained the possibility of picking up anything else.
There, in the great baronial banquet hall, Hearst liked to seat Mankiewicz on his left, so that Mankiewicz, with all his worldliness and wit (the Central Park West Voltaire, Ben Hecht had called him a few years earlier), could entertain the guest of honor and Hearst wouldn't miss any of it.
One day some months earlier I had entertained a passing fantasy that my mother would get hit by a bus.
Earlier, they had entertained with a bravura display by the percussion section, brought to the front of the stage for Rick Dior's Science Fiction, an unashamed celebration of the trashiest sci-fi movies of the 1950s.
The difference is that many of the characters in this volume are older now, and there is a sense of irrevocability to these narratives: a sense that choices have been made, that antidotes to the solitariness of life are unavailable, that the hopes so many earlier Shepard characters entertained -- that they could continually reinvent themselves -- are slipping out of reach.
Lear was a funny man from early on, entertaining with songs even the family of the Earl of Derby, whose son later served three separate terms as the British Prime Minister.
Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture at Tate Modern will trace the works of the groundbreaking US-born sculptor, born in 1898, from his early years entertaining the bohemians of inter-war Paris with works such as Calder's Circus.
