Sentence examples for entertainment palace from inspiring English sources

The old depot continued in its second career until 1889, when it was demolished for Stanford White's sumptuous entertainment palace, a new Madison Square Garden, itself demolished in the 1920s and succeeded by two namesake versions.

I always thought Rogano was one of those vintage entertainment palace names, like Alhambra, Locarno, Gaumont, but apparently it's the elision of the name of the original owner, Mr Roger, with "ANOther" silent partner.

But such are the ambiguities of portraiture: the man and woman are wax figures from a tableau in the Eden Musée, an "entertainment palace" on West 23rd Street in Manhattan.

The familiar question -- are museums becoming frivolous entertainment palaces?

All our major cities have these entertainment palaces where citizens can gather".

Now parks are entertainment palaces, telling us when to cheer and selling us overpriced food and merchandise.

LAS Vegas keeps growing and growing, and there are more than a half-dozen new hotels, resorts and entertainment palaces currently being built or planned.

The Yangtze cruisers are definitely not the entertainment palaces that Americans think of as cruise ships, and we thought the food was mediocre.

Are museums places to show things people didn't know they wanted or may not think they want to see? Yes, but they are also entertainment palaces.

From the United Center in Chicago to the Acer Arena in Sydney, modern sports and entertainment palaces are more likely to carry the names of banks, retailers, soft-drink makers or airlines than of cities, governors or teams.

Suetonius tells us that Caligula built two galleys with 10 banks of oars, but his further description of these as floating entertainment palaces, with saloons, baths, galleries, and even growing trees & vines, shows that they could not possibly have been "all engines," as a 10-banked galley would necessarily be.