What is "entertaining"

Usage examples of "entertaining".

There was a dining room spacious enough for entertaining on the first floor and another ample room that Adams made his office for public business.

Washington as noble as expected, Adams proved surprisingly entertaining.

The strict morality which so generally prevails where the Mussulmans have complete ascendency prevented the Sheik from entertaining any such sinful hopes as an European might have ventured to cherish under the like circumstances, and he saw no chance of gratifying his love except by inducing the girl to embrace his own creed.

They were Muslims, though one could scarcely have known it from their speech, which was Russian, though inflected with the singsong Azerbaijani accent that wrongly struck the senior members of the engineering staff as entertaining.

Mr Wilkinson, later to become a bishop, preached entertaining sermons to the lighthearted Belgravians and the organist regarded the service as an opportunity to play Mendelssohn.

Unlike Bolos, they are entirely capable of simultaneously entertaining mutually contradictory beliefs, and their capacity to question and doubt their past actions and decisions is .

The king of Prussia having cleared all his part of Silesia, except the town of Schweidnitz, which he circumscribed with a blockade, sent detachments from his army cantoned in the neighbourhood of Breslau, to penetrate into the Austrian or southern part of Silesia, where they surprised Troppau and Jaggernsdorf, while he himself remained at Breslau, entertaining his officers with concerts of music.

He is apt at illustration and application, and has a fine memory, stored brimfull of entertaining anecdotes, snatches of poetry, and those thousand nothings which tell for so much in society, and which it is so pleasant to find combined with much else that is valuable.

Once the Burrs moved, Esther was faced with even more entertaining as the ministers and trustees came to call.

Curtains, chairs, and sofas upholstered in yellow satin damask made the drawing room an attractive center where Dolley would do much of her entertaining.

In spite of the knot of fear deep down in her subconscious Dolley went about her tasks as usual, entertaining guests, superintending the household, nursing her patient.

Blood was near enough to the black van earlier in the day to hear Banish and Fagin and the sound man entertaining potential strategies.

Swiss officer, who is entertaining a party of friends to supper here this evening.

Some of the enthusiasts seeking to meet me were seeking to meet what they properly considered a Far Journeyer, but a great many wished to meet a man they mistakenly considered Un Grand Romancier, author of an imaginative and entertaining fiction, and others clearly wished only to ogle a Prodigious Liar, as they might have flocked to watch the frusta of some eminent criminal at the piazzetta pillars.

He thought that a couple of hours entertaining a pretty girl was exactly what the geriatrician ordered.