Sentence examples for purpose of entertaining from inspiring English sources

The traditional religious music and dance of shrines were performed for the purpose of entertaining and appeasing kami, rather than to praise them.

This supposedly "ancient" piece of architectural whimsy was created around 1810 by Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, as a folly, a decorative, extravagant creation, for the purpose of entertaining his friends and hosting parties.

The party scene in Chapter 2, in the New York apartment rented by Tom Buchanan for the purpose of entertaining his mistress, Myrtle Wilson, becomes a sordid office gathering, with sheaves of documents scattered over the floor, drunken assistants disporting themselves inappropriately, loud music playing, and Shepherd valiantly clinging to his paperback amid the chaos.

I have no interest in making R-rated studio comedies with the sole purpose of entertaining teenagers.

Enter the Gentlemen Host™ Program, a placement agency operated through Compass Speakers and Entertainment Inc., that hires unmarried men ages 40 to 68 for the express purpose of entertaining the ladies on 11 cruise ships.

That never panned out, but when Long agreed to play for San Francisco Warriors owner Franklin Mieuli in a four-team women's league he organized for the purpose of entertaining before NBA games, Eckerman was paid a fee to fly out to the West Coast and conduct tryouts.

So, too, did Stevens's discovery that, in the absence of streaming video, she has access to only one movie for the purposes of entertaining herself, one that she had downloaded to her computer sometime earlier and forgotten about: "Eat Pray Love," the adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir about travelling the world after her divorce.

The Underwriting, in the midst of entertaining the reader, never forgets its real purpose: to puncture entitlement with the nastiest sting in the tail available.

"Home was west African, lots of entertaining.

That is, with increasing age, the propensity of entertaining misconceptions about TB rises.

Schindler's List and Philadelphia, like 12 Years a Slave, are works of art told for the purpose to entertain, inform, and provoke to engage.