be entertained by
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I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.
I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
He was just a young man who'd come to town on a donkey, bored to death or something, who'd taken advantage of the chance to be entertained by a small-town kid who was bored to death, too. That's the only way I could figure it out without accepting the general theory that he was crazy.
It is far easier to be entertained by a reality TV than to participate in our own reality.
Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.