Sentence examples for entertaining lectures from inspiring English sources

(Helpful hint: You can download free and entertaining lectures on the Divine Comedy from Yale University, taught by one of the world's leading Dante scholars).

For those who watched him carefully, this mayor was perhaps most himself during his budget and state-of-the-city speeches -- didactic but entertaining lectures of up to two hours that he delivered without notes, controlling the stage like the prosecuting attorney he used to be.

Why entertain lectures from someone whose only attempt at job creation was the boondoggle he shamelessly awarded his former best man?

He also entertains lecture audiences with satirical ditties on the piano — he once aspired to be a Broadway composer — while informing them about the latest gadgets.

No chemistry department would extend an invitation to an alchemist; no reputable department of psychology would entertain a lecture espousing phrenology.

As reported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the understanding is that "… audiences wanted to be entertained, not lectured or told 'how guilty I should be for being white"'.

"At the end of the day, most of us really just want to be entertained, not lectured to," she said.

In a live classroom, it is important to keep the lecture entertaining, while also striving to create an interactive atmosphere.

In 1843, a deacon of her church was recommended for expulsion because of certain antislavery activities, including giving countenance to Abby Kelley's anti-church views by driving her to lectures and entertaining her at his home.

Eleanor Roosevelt As the longest-serving First Lady in history, Eleanor Roosevelt is known for her very public persona, entertaining, holding press conferences, giving lectures and even serving as American spokesman in the United Nations after her husband's death -- but she was also thought to be an introvert.

Done without great subtletly, perhaps – he does like to… emboss; and his ethic of wanting to entertain rather than lecture, and the part the seaside town has played in this, came through strongly – but always done with eventual compassion.