Sentence examples for the entertainments from inspiring English sources

It is possible to see this kind of performance as deriving directly from the street entertainers of folk culture and from the entertainments that took place between courses during medieval court banquets.

Laughter has been present at the entertainments of public executions and torture.

By contrast there was local content in the entertainments section the Biggleswade Chronicle site.

Stoppard adds that he detects "a Graham Greene-like dichotomy between the entertainments and the more heartfelt, serious stuff.

In a minute the khozyain joined me, looking a bit rusty from the entertainments of his journey, and confirmed that we had arrived.

In 1511 he accompanied the Queen to Aberdeen and celebrated in the verse "Blyth Aberdeen" the entertainments provided by that city.

At the outbreak of the Second World War Dean left ATP and became the head of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA), the organisation that provided entertainment to the British Armed Forces.

Sellers became a member of the Entertainments National Service Association ENSAA), which provided entertainment for British forces and factory workers during the war.

The Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) was formed in 1938 in order to provide entertainment to the British Armed Forces; Terry-Thomas and Patlanski signed up in 1939 and during the Phoney War were posted to France, where they appeared in a variety show.

During the Second World War Formby worked extensively for the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA), and entertained civilians and troops, and by 1946 it was estimated that he had performed in front of three million service personnel.

He took Cooper's advice to join the Entertainments National Service Association (Ensa).