Sentence examples for entertaining eccentric from inspiring English sources

Turner, always the entertaining eccentric billionaire, claimed to know nothing about the clause which said an owner couldn't manage the team.

Seventy years ago this summer, in June of 1940, an aging British politician, who for the previous twenty years had seemed to his countrymen to be one of those entertaining, eccentric, essentially literary figures littering the margins of political life, got up to make a speech in the House of Commons.

Opinions on Ives have always been split, with some listeners regarding him as, at best, an entertaining eccentric, and others lauding him as the most influential American composer of his age (a view offered in the current edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians).

Over the course of those seven final weeks of the season, Di Canio charmed and entertained with eccentric news conferences and his touchline antics.

From singing dogs to the Schrobenhausen Asparagus Queen, erotic performers to chefs, Eurotrash combed the continent (and occasionally the world) for the outrageous, the eccentric and the entertaining.

The tone that emerges from its liberal, eccentric smorgasbord is both generous and entertaining.

He was being entertained by the fabulously eccentric Marchesa Luisa Casati and her rococo menagerie of monkeys, parrots and snakes.

So entertaining.

Hugely entertaining.

Fabulously entertaining.

There was a time when I thought that some slightly eccentric mayors were being elected in large American cities partly because the voters, figuring that large American cities were ungovernable anyway, decided that they might as well put someone in city hall who was at least entertaining.