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Such lurching isn't necessarily bad and could have proved entertaining.
(The walk between the churches over lower Broadway sidewalks crowded with tourists took about eight minutes and proved entertaining, as musicians in concert dress crossed paths, often with instruments or music stands slung over their shoulders).
A test run of Sportcaster during Monday's Jets-Giants game proved entertaining — or as entertaining as anything related to a lackluster preseason game in a nearly empty stadium can be.
The composer-speakers, reading a text updated to set the story on Long Island and in New York City — and to rename the Soldier Elliott and the Devil Milton — proved entertaining as well, not least because Mr. Carter's rendering was dramatic, Mr. Babbitt's deadpan, and Mr. Harbison's straightforward.
The 2013 NBA offseason -- with the Dwight Howard saga, massive draft night deals and deep free agency class -- has proved entertaining, even if it lacked the cadre of superstar talent that's expected to arrive next summer.
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Two extra characters are introduced, the Englishman Smith (comedian Chris Addison) and the Frenchman Dupont Jean-Luc Vincentt), whose choric comments and interventions, though not really necessary, prove entertaining.
I'm not one to "hoard" too much information while sitting in front of my computer—I have zero bookmarks set on my current Firefox installation, as crazy as that sounds but the idea of having a sort of depository for my mobile could prove entertaining.
In the hands of an erudite and witty bookworm – Anne Fadiman, say – the revelation of these secret stories could have proved eminently entertaining without leaving the reader feeling as if he has watched a neighbour undress.
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