Sentence examples for odd entertainment from inspiring English sources

Instead, this "odd entertainment," as Mann called it, went on to become one of his greatest successes.

Carmen is a political activist, not a tramp, in the odd entertainment that a Spanish company, La Cuadra de Sevilla, is presenting at City Center as "Carmen, an Andalusian Opera With Bugles and Drums".

One of the film's beauties, Ms. Dargis said, "is that all the furry and floating animals are no more wondrous than the bipeds tramping through and around McMurdo: the linguist turned philosopher, the banker turned bus driver and the female adventurer who, for drama and odd entertainment, likes to have herself zipped up in a carryall bag.

One of the beauties of "Encounters at the End of the World" is that all the furry and floating animals are no more wondrous than the bipeds tramping through and around McMurdo: the linguist turned philosopher, the banker turned bus driver and the female adventurer who, for drama and odd entertainment, likes to have herself zipped up in a carryall bag.

While some Tea Party candidates have provided unintentional entertainment — odd remarks and hobbies, financial problems, reclusiveness — Democrats have by no means come up empty.

Close Races at the Top The hybrid category "special theatrical event" gives some indication of what an odd range of entertainment can end up on Broadway.

Spolan has been an actor, promoter, producer, manager, investor, backer, and holder of odd jobs in the entertainment business all across the country.

Four years later, in the odd setting of an entertainment show, she spoke about it on television, though Mr. Strauss-Kahn's name was removed; then a year later, she revealed his name.

That will not be the only possible source of entertainment; the odd configuration of a bowling alley necessitated building other rooms with similar dimensions, so Mr. Boberg decided to build -- alongside the alley -- a lap pool and an indoor shooting range.

Some religious types may object that, except for a few carol concerts and the odd Messiah, all this entertainment is faith-free – but it's still surprising that even secular Christmas shows remain so popular, to the extent that they have now reached the venue where Osborne's Jimmy Porter revolutionised theatre.

Meyer assumes the role of the lone Westerner among Dazhalan's 57,000-odd residents, which provides entertainment of a distinctly early-21st-century sort: the authentic cultural immersion experience.