Sentence examples for of being entertained from inspiring English sources

Art is always at some level entertainment, and the idea of being entertained, however skilfully, by this particular set of horrors seems inherently objectionable.

I wish I could say I was still able to be a part of that group that can engage fully with entertainment for the sake of being entertained.

"We're not just competing against race tracks," he said, "but we're competing against baseball and football, and we're competing against all aspects of being entertained".

Maybe people are still watching this show, about a vapid family that has done nothing to earn its fame, because they have been numbed into a sort of trance that creates the illusion of being entertained.

Filmed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, "Music From the Big House," Bruce McDonald's loosely built documentary, yields the cognitive dissonance of being entertained by performers convicted of rape, murder and other offenses.

Primates that we are, we presumably learned long ago that our nature at its most essential consists of being able to entertain someone, and of being entertained in return.

But booze works on small talk like ecstasy on rave music – it gives something oppressive and repetitive the illusion of being entertaining.

We are, of course, accustomed to being entertained, amused and distracted.

Thinking requires merely the logical possibility of what is being entertained.

How does such a set of beliefs come to be entertained in the first place?

Remember, the judges of competition want to be entertained, not bored!