Sentence examples for moderately diverting from inspiring English sources

But it's moderately diverting, nonthreatening and nontaxing, which seem to be the main theatrical criteria at this time of year.

Directed by a Frenchman with the single, not uncatlike name of Pitof, "Catwoman" is a howlingly silly, moderately diverting exercise in high, pointless style.

"Tamara Drewe" is a moderately diverting movie that will seem like much more when set against other, bigger films of its kind.

Cat Simmons is just as bold but more sinuous and far more suspicious: she's a beauty with a disabled daughter and an absent partner, who tells the admirer she loves: "You been moderately diverting... Now.

After that it settles down into a moderately diverting psychodrama about a city mouse exiled to the country, where the inhabitants include a crusty old codger and an anxious policeman and his bored, sex-hungry wife.

Not so Despicable Me (2010, Universal, U), a passable production-line digimation which rehashes well-worn riffs from The Incredibles, Igor, Austin Powers and (peculiarly) Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events to no more than moderately diverting effect.

WHILE waiting about for new artistic directors to ignite two major theaters, audiences in New Haven are being momentarily and moderately diverted by a pair of old-fangled comedies, both by George Bernard Shaw.

Email him at [email protected] 5.43am: It's 27-27 in this beach volleyball, and I'm really hoping that this isn't recorded because I'm getting moderately diverted by it for nothing, if so.

That is, Trekkies who are willing to overlook brain-lockingly repetitive gameplay, unvaried design, thin storytelling, buggy client software and an almost complete dearth of meaningful social interaction in favor of a mildly diverting, moderately attractive, cleverly episodic collection of simple combat encounters among spaceships and soldiers.

As boilerplate thrillers go, it's mostly diverting, and moderately engrossing, but not quite worthy of the top-drawer cast that's been assembled in front of the camera (including Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Gal Gadot, and more).

On paper, this sounds diverting enough.