Sentences with phrase «mere entertainment»

It, as a vehicle for an experience, pushes the right buttons in a way that goes beyond mere entertainment.

As he once wrote, «We viewed the arts not as mere entertainment, but like the sciences, as ways of under - standing and even of constructing our environments, and thus looked upon arts education as a requisite and integrated component of the entire...

Modern football is business not mere entertainment.

Mere entertainment leaves an insipid taste unless it surreptitiously leads us into questioning the purpose of existence.

Church is now reduced to mere entertainment rather than where souls are reconnected to God and where lives are changed for the better.

What was considered mainstream fact (witchcraft) is now mere entertainment.

Knowing they had support seemed to make students less concerned about depleting their mental energy on mere entertainment.

Every so often a show transcends mere entertainment value and becomes truly artful.

When a shirtless, gorilla - imitating man enters the gilded ballroom of a museum donors» dinner, stalking the space on all fours and pawing at the monied art lovers, it first seems like mere entertainment, a bit of culture before the salad course.

Porter juggles a complex plot and a large cast of well - developed characters with aplomb, but it is his depiction of the dying days of East Germany, and the massive reach of the secret police required to maintain a country set to implode, that raises Brandenburg Gate above the level of mere entertainment.

Art Dynamics Pertujukan Bali Tourism Culture in Context In general, the performing arts of Bali can be categorized into three: wali (sacred performing arts), which only made when the ritual worship; bebali performances are dedicated to the ceremony but also to visitors; and Balih - balihan nature for mere entertainment in public places.

We talked to Love about why hip - hop shouldn't be treated as mere entertainment, how civics education can be integrated into curricula to power positive change, and why she doesn't think there's a crisis in black education.

Ready Player One is pure Spielberg: fun and slick and perfectly constructed, filled with melodrama, spiced with a bit of self - aware hokeyness, and striving for relevance beyond mere entertainment.

In Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy (Pantheon, 1996), James Fallows writes that «journalism is not mere entertainment.

I resonate with the general view that many Christians tend to approach movies either by measuring them up to their preconceived notions of what is Biblical or by consuming (and dismissing) them as mere entertainment.

As the denizens of K - Ville move among the ruins of the city, the real and the fake merge until you forget that this is mere entertainment.

As mere entertainment, its lack of action left us slightly bored, but contemplative.

The public funded, by - the - bootstraps programming of the»80s and»90s, produced a seemingly endless wonderland of high - caliber, star - studded productions that, oh - so - cleverly, had education, not mere entertainments, at its core.

End of Watch is a deeply affecting, powerful film that goes beyond mere entertainment.

Last winter, while at the Ed School, Burch starred in Milk Like Sugar at the Huntington Theatre Company which — like her most recent work as a facilitator for the American Repertory Theater's production of Anna Deavere Smith's Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education — explored important social themes, striving to go deeper than mere entertainment.

Finally and most importantly you get the warm cozy feeling of being part of a movement that the Copenhagen Game Collective stands for — you help demonstrating that games are a medium that can go far beyond mere entertainment.

Such a trend, which almost always leads to a blurring of the line between art and demonstration - between something of beauty and mere entertainment - is the hallmark of postmodernist art.

Like the written word, whether or not people actually like, link to and share your your information graphic depends on whether it supplies their demand (whether it be for information or mere entertainment).