Sentence examples for to entertain something from inspiring English sources

The primary goal is to entertain – something the book itself has often failed to do – but it's also intended as a (semi-) serious critique, for much of the fun is derived from clunky plot devices that don't work, pretentious stylistic tics, risible dialogue and an absence of big ideas.

Perhaps Descartes means that it would be mad for him to seriously entertain something for which he has no evidence whatsoever.

Would he want to do something like that and would the SEC ever entertain something like that?

It was thrilling to see somebody who knew how to entertain with something that was so poetic and verbally dextrous, but all of that was just grist to the mad energy of the performance.

He added that the live performances show the ability of the artists to entertain live, something that according to him, "Beyoncé has proven that time after time".

It is also a perfect space for entertaining, something the Taylors were surprised to discover they do more often than they did in the capital.

Jerk is so ingrained in Jamaican cooks that the notion of getting a recipe is entertaining, something like asking a Midwesterner for a hamburger recipe.

As my career progressed, and my itineraries for unavoidable business travel expanded from easy one-day round-trip flights to sojourns of several days or weeks, golf also evolved from being a good way to entertain clients to something of a savior.

You need to entertain them with something so put out things that aren't too important to you like some paper to draw and some crayons (assume that the crayons will break) and some toys that you don't care too much about (maybe some old McDonald's toys).

I then escaped that nightmare by buying a small Cape Cod, which doesn't comfortably lend itself to entertaining -- something I miss doing very much.

The director, who won the best-documentary Oscar for his 2003 film, Bowling for Columbine, suggested that documentaries should be judged as an entertainment product like any other – as something to entertain on a night out.