Sentence examples for innocent entertainment from inspiring English sources

It all seemed innocent entertainment, before 2008: tales about a far-off country where boys behaved badly, scandalously even, but above all, reassuringly far away from the comfort and safety of our own homes, something like watching a Quentin Tarantino film or an episode of The Sopranos.

The Nazi death camps are not an aberration, nor are mindless studio movies innocent entertainment.

Patiently Salvatierra and his assistants went on their chosen task, erecting missions, gathering the Indians in pueblos under trustworthy native alcaldes, teaching them agriculture, stock raising, saddlery, and shoemaking, improving on the native fashion of weaving, and — for the beautifying of the church services and for their own innocent entertainment — instructing them in music and singing.

What started as innocent entertainment for delegates soon became group-participation exercises, and the rest is history.

Sometimes, though, the innocent aim of entertainment is enough, and here it just about is.

This is about people who believe in ghosts for their own innocent, spine-tingling entertainment and wouldn't necessarily need them to be proved or disproved.

But it is quality Friday night entertainment: the innocent pleasure of the week.

"How to turn the death and suffering of innocent Syrians into mindless entertainment," read one tweet.

Sony believes the superbox will sneak into the living room in the guise of a non- threatening consumer appliance…In one swoop, Sony will place a supercomputer in an innocent-looking piece of entertainment hardware and drop it into the home, leading couch potatoes painlessly to their digital nirvana.

It's simultaneously a celebration of a more innocent, eclectic era of home entertainment, a nugget of narrative tenderness, and an impish subversion of a broadcasting institution.

To watch the biggest stars of their time in casual conversation, trading riffs and passing bottles (Canadian Club seems to have been the tour's unofficial sponsor), without benefit of publicists, handlers and security goons is to relive an innocent, anarchic time in the entertainment business when music, not marketing, was at the center of the enterprise.