Tenth of December George Saunders (2013) Winner of last year's inaugural Folio prize for fiction, Saunders is, according to Entertainment Weekly, "the master of joy bombs: little explosions of grin-stimulating genius that he buries throughout his deeply thoughtful, endlessly entertaining flights of imagination".
These books are very entertaining, and the scope of imagination needed to create this universe is staggering.
It is a dead zone, a film without interest, wit, imagination or even entertaining violence and special effects.
In the 1950s and '60s the tournament's attacking, entertaining style of play seized the imagination of African fans and attracted European talent scouts, agents, and journalists.
It is also quite entertaining in the way Trek's imagination put the dinosaurs into the world now.
Rather he has sought to place the clandestine underbelly of war in perspective, to wrest it from the popular imagination as some sort of entertaining shortcut to victory.
There is one notion he doesn't introduce, perhaps understandably: that the original "Star Wars," the skeleton key to the geek imagination, was skillfully assembled, viscerally entertaining and (spoiler alert!) not very good.
Imagine: deep and entertaining.
This elegant work is a mordantly entertaining reflection on the uses of literature and imagination; alert readers may be inspired to apply its lessons to the text at hand.
Narrative, according to Carroll, is something akin to guided imagination, a process he describes as entertaining thoughts or holding propositions non-assertively (Carroll 1990).
