Sentence examples for lightly entertaining from inspiring English sources
Vanessa's confessional remarks read as if they're from a high school health textbook with a chapter on "Understanding Your Gay or Lesbian Loved One". Nothing much is risked; nothing fresh is illuminated — that's the feel of much of "Sing You Home". It's a lightly entertaining melodrama, which skims through and then wraps up some messy dilemmas.
But there are pleasures to be had from books beyond being lightly entertained.
Encouraged by invitations to appear on Newsnight et al into believing their ability to lightly entertain gives their views some intrinsic interest and authority.
I don't speak Russian, and, while Pushkin's short stories are entertaining and lightly ironic in translation, in his great poetic works — "Onegin," "The Bronze Horseman," and "The Gypsies" — the language barrier seems to prevent a complete union of reader and poet: the sense of Pushkin's words is inevitably being adjusted to facilitate the rhyme.
With his team hosting Porto on Tuesday in the last eight, Klopp is not entertaining the notion that taking that tournament lightly will help Liverpool stay above Manchester City on the domestic front.
Still, despite the flaws, this is still Star Wars, and, as such, represents a couple of lightly-entertaining hours spent with characters we have gotten to know and love over the years.
