Sentence examples for serious entertainment from inspiring English sources

George Bernard Shaw said of Ibsen's work that it established tragicomedy as a more meaningful and serious entertainment than tragedy.

SoHo Through Aug. 19 The comic book as serious entertainment -- as art, even -- has its passionate devotees.

After the controversy over Fox's "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?" Mr. Grushow promised more serious entertainment, and it looked briefly as though "reality" programming might go away.

BACH VESPERS AT HOLY TRINITY Serious entertainment on a more modest scale can be found at this Lutheran church, which for forty years has been presenting Sunday-afternoon performances of Bach's cantatas, timed to coincide with the liturgical calendar that the composer followed.

Some may sniff that Madame (who, by day, masquerades as the stage director, writer and vocal coach IRA SIFF) is not serious entertainment, to which you could answer: that's the whole point, or, honey, she knows more about opera than most serious singers have forgotten.

I can still see it in my mind's eye: a small color TV with long insectoid antennae; an alien device to a kid who had spent most of his childhood with no running water, who considered watching goats climb onto cars and houses serious entertainment.

Among other serious entertainments, Stephen King published a collection of four long stories in Full Dark, No Stars, and Karen Joy Fowler offered What I Didn't See, short stories written in a mode somewhere between Argentine short-story writer Jorge Luis Borges and American science-fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin.

It may not have the depth and resonance of other early cinematic chillers like Nosferatu or Frankenstein, but it's a high-end slice of serious studio entertainment, roaring 1920s style, with plenty to recommend it.

Finally, Anderson [S61] presented a classification of scripting systems for serious and entertainment games, and Cai and Chen [S62] explored scene editor software for game scenes.

James Cameron's recreation of the 1912 sinking of the 'unsinkable' liner is one of the most magnificent pieces of serious popular entertainment ever to emanate from Hollywood".

Then again most entertainment, serious or otherwise, appears rather silly when you view it from afar.