But technological advances and the changing habits they've engendered — we watch television on tablets, pull video off the Internet onto our flat screens — have led us to discriminate less between sources.
I've just read Michael Billington's very interesting review of last night's show, and am slightly cowed by his amazing knowledge of Shakespeare engendered by years of attentive watching and reading.
But it also — if you've been smartphone watching for long enough — engenders a distinct feeling of déjà vu….
Witnessed up close, the campaign engenders a creeping unease: the discomfort of watching an anesthetized body politic struggling to revive itself.
Watching an Ingrid Bergman movie engenders this: "I don't know why, nor how to express it: this actress, this actress's body moves me, touches something in me which reminds me of maman: her complexion, her lovely, simple hands, an impression of freshness, a non-narcissistic femininity".
Bailing out the bankers with no strings attached in order to save an economy that didn't seem to most people to be very well saved, then watching the banks get record profits and bonuses the very next year while the rest of the economy was in the toilet didn't engender much good cheer about whether justice had been done.
The eminently crafty Martha Stewart, 70, does not prepare special props or foods for watching "Downton," but the show did engender a recent craving for cucumber sandwiches on white bread.
It's just that the hopes engendered by the savagely dynamic success of Black Watch, its beautifully authentic take on the language and obsessions and heroism and stupidity of Fife squaddies in Iraq, quite fail here to even sprout wings, let alone fly.
Intimidating even when he is just standing up, Mr. McRaney engenders the proper level of tension, reminding us that we're watching a show about spies.
I'd just watched "The Queen" and its prequel, "The Deal," and Michael Sheen had engendered more sympathy for the beleaguered former head of New Labour than Blair probably deserves.
