Sentence examples for ordinary entertainment from inspiring English sources

Music, as William Maxwell has pointed out, has its origins in worship (unlike writing), and the engagement with their songs and instrumental pieces that the Punch Brothers display, at least for me, enlarges the boundaries of ordinary entertainment.

In Time magazine, Richard Corliss wrote, "John Carpenter is offering this summer's moviegoers a rare opportunity: to escape from the air-conditioned torpor of ordinary entertainment into the hothouse humidity of their own paranoia.

"Kabuki is entertainment for ordinary folks, but modern Kabuki seems to hold in contempt the spirit of entertainment," Mr. Degawa said.

Lately, I've come to wonder what it would feel like if, instead of seeing a dozen or so such films in my lifetime, I had the option, at any moment, of seeing several new releases lionizing my gender's superpowers, if lady Bonds and Spiderwomen became the ordinary fare of my entertainment and imagination.

Thus they are enabled to enjoy the antics of Charlie Chaplin and other heroes and heroines of the 'movies,' like their more fortunate comrades, who can move about and attend the ordinary type of cinema entertainment.

Just as Hollywood wonders what direction entertainment will take, ordinary people who make their own cultural statements each Halloween will have to ask: Do we take a temporary break from the gruesome?

In The New York Times, Frank Rich called it "a very ordinary and at times very irritating entertainment," but Mel Gussow called it "a show with a heart about our minds".

In this performed autobiography, focusing on the comedian's personal rather than professional life, she offers up her memories, her relationships and her sense of self for our entertainment, rendering it completely ordinary and epic at the same time.

What does it mean when an ordinary man's life is transmuted into entertainment?

But how ordinary is a man who dominates the entertainment industry for decades, amasses a fortune, masks his ambition even from himself and achieves universal popularity?

At the confluence of the ordinary and the spectacular are both beauty and entertainment.