Sentences with phrase «not as an entertainment»

Evelyn Waugh himself thought of his novel not as entertainment but as a camouflaged sermon, a case study of mercy being rejected and then accepted in the end.

Evelyn Waugh thought of his novel not as entertainment but as a camouflaged sermon, a case study of mercy being rejected and then accepted in the end.

They are intended to be used only with their owner and not as an entertainment toy, for when dogs are left alone.

Not exact matches

Digital media is an ever - growing source of entertainment, news, shopping and social interaction, and consumers are now exposed not just to what your company says about your brand, but what the media, friends, relatives, peers, etc., are saying as well.

I wouldn't even think of us as an entertainment couple, but I don't know,» she said.

Since Inc.'s world eschews flash, pure entertainment, and publicity in favor of thoughtfulness and helping others entrepreneurially, you'll be forgiven if you don't know our community's internet influencers quite as well.

Although NBCUniversal's theme park revenue was strong compared to the previous year, the entertainment unit's movie business didn't do so well, thanks to some weak releases such as Ride Along 2 and Hail, Caesar!

Critics of C - 11 have said the DRM protection isn't required by treaties such as WIPO and that it's just being pushed by U.S. entertainment companies.

Although Netflix did not win any major Emmys this year, the network has been brazenly touting itself as the entertainment of today — and that claim is getting stronger every year.

In his view, a few of Tinder's recent decisions — particularly the introduction of a monetized feature that allows users to «hop to a city they aren't even in» and browse local user profiles — have crystallized the app's primary purpose as a generator of entertainment, rather than actual connections.

Instead, comic books are completely legit entertainment as long as it's factored into the travel and entertainment budget and they are not overspending on it.

The deal comes not long after Bell teamed up with Rogers (which owns Canadian Business) to buy a majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment for $ 1.32 billion, largely as a play for valuable sports programming.

It's not as good or comfortable to type on as a laptop and it doesn't have the same breadth of entertainment options or comfort of use as a small tablet.

Cord - cutting, instantly - available highlights on social media, increased viewing options and changing viewing habits... all those factors and more make «business as usual» an untenable strategy not just for sports but for the entertainment industry in general.

If the box's channels don't have your entertainment options covered, you can easily copy video onto a USB stick and plug it in, with a number of channels / apps such as Plex also helping with streaming from a computer.

He said to keep in mind that entertainment is not real life, and that seeing people's lives only as they want them presented is not reality.

In an era when information and entertainment sources are unlimited, hijacking attention spans with something as mundane as an ad isn't going to happen.

«We held back some inventories across the entire retail channels in order to ensure our new initiatives weren't caught up in the liquidation, and then we'll begin to ship those as we move forward with great entertainment initiatives,» Goldner said.

David Tisch and a pedigreed list of fashion and tech investors believe «shopping as entertainment» need not be only an analog exercise.

But both Entertainment Weekly and The Guardian cite his favorite film as «Home Alone» — a selection you probably never would have guessed, especially since it didn't come out until years after he left the presidency.

Entertainment One Group, which owns Peppa Pig, had not responded to a request for comment as of publishing time.

While Microsoft and Sony trip over themselves trying to position their consoles not merely as consoles but as «entertainment centres» (movies, music, games, etc.), modern TVs are to a large extent already doing this natively through telecom companies.

Games and entertainment leading in app volume shouldn't be a surprise, as the larger screen is a natural fit for both categories.

Another Electronic Entertainment Expo is upon us, which means the nerd news cycle of the next week will be dominated by a steady stream of video game information and hype, not to mention a decent share of child - like squealing as the latest alien - shooting, terrorist - killing, football - throwing, aristocrat - stabbing and Italian plumbering titles are announced.

As intended, the entertainment properties — TV shows built around some of the company's toy brands — allowed Spin Master not only to make inroads in new international markets, but also attract the attention of toy inventors, who would pitch ideas and prototypes to the company's R&D team.

As if that weren't enough to keep him busy, he inked a deal last spring with Hollywood producer Joel Silver, best known for the Matrix and Die Hard franchises, to create Silver Pictures Entertainment.

The sites, which often act as launching pads for smear campaigns against entertainment properties that users don't like for one reason or another, are being credited for sinking films before they even see the light of day.

Made In China: Innovation Showcase Location: Tian Lu From starting new trends in mobility and health care to integrating new technologies into appliances and entertainment, products are not just «made in China» anymore but are designed and incubated in China as well.

But, as we've outlined, financial entertainment is not the same thing as news.

As the article correctly noted elsewhere, it is the Entertainment Software Association, not the Electronic Software Association.

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It is hard to believe, for example, that Canada could not in the end find common ground with the US on some extension of patent protection for pharmaceuticals, since it was able to do so in the just - completed negotiations with the EU, or that an extension of the term of copyright protection from 50 to 70 years from the agreed baseline would have much if any real practical impact on Canada although it would be seen as a gain by the US given the heavy copyright portfolios of US entertainment companies, allowing them an additional period of time to exploit their copyrighted content.

Emerging - market consumers are not only demanding goods, but also services such as banking, health care and entertainment.

As the cost of goods continues to rise, so should the investor's dividend payments which in turn allow them to buy the same amount of basic goods such as food, shelter, clothing, and entertainment as they have in the past — if not morAs the cost of goods continues to rise, so should the investor's dividend payments which in turn allow them to buy the same amount of basic goods such as food, shelter, clothing, and entertainment as they have in the past — if not moras food, shelter, clothing, and entertainment as they have in the past — if not moras they have in the past — if not more.

«It's important to remember that lifestyle expenses such as entertainment, dining, and gifting are all not likely to diminish, and may even increase, in retirement,» Wimbish noted.

There are other examples of speculation such as some European junk bonds trading at yields so low that no company should ever have to suffer the indignity of bankruptcy but for pure entertainment value you can't beat Jesus coin.

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But that stuff is for debating, for entertainment, for story - telling, etc., not as, by the way of contrast, taking as an apostolic witness.

Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the kind that too often turns people into commodities, and I believe Christians can speak into that culture in a unique, life - giving way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive at the expense of the dignity and value of our fellow human beings or our planet.

As my friends, family, and readers already know, I have an opinion about nearly everything — religion, politics, theology, entertainment, lifestyle, college football, driving, world affairs, and whether or not that coffee mug in the kitchen cabinet is light gray or light blue (it's light blue, I say!)

I don't think we have to choose between embracing and shunning popular entertainment as a whole.

«The first «N» stands for «news,» says Plante, gesturing toward the network logo with his thumb, «as opposed to the domestic entertainment networks down the hall.»

Yes, there is an entertainment value, but entertainment is not covered by insurance as something of medical value is.

Values such as tradition, reality, obligation, beauty; nature, transcendence, nature, mystery, hope — the things whose power makes a society work — are not operational in typical postmodern institutions, the workplace, the government, the media, the entertainment industry.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

To perhaps reframe Hanson's concern so it is more in line with Jacques Ellul, what we now understand as «entertainment» has become so radically alterted by our technical rationality and the deep problems associated with it that it is deadening in ways that we do not realize.

Just as the charismatic movement introduced the musical influence of mainstream American Christianity back into Pentecostal circles, the new, respectable Pentecostals could not help absorbing the entertainment tastes of Silent Majority America.