The ability to write clearly and entertainingly is, however, crucial.
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Schopenhauer's vision of life is sensationally pessimistic — indeed, entertainingly so.
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It's an entertainingly desperate joust, playing out beneath defiantly unattractive lighting.
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It's not long before the plan skids entertainingly out of control.
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But "Billions" has played meaningfully and entertainingly with mankind's more fundamental conflicts.
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Journalistic experience is not necessary; the ability to write clearly and entertainingly is.
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Ms. Bennett manages to convey a remarkable amount of substance briskly and entertainingly.
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Of course, people complain, entertainingly, on Twitter and all over the internet, endlessly.
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Original thinking and the ability to write clearly and entertainingly are, however, crucial.
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What follows is a series of creative murders, all entertainingly annotated by the killer.
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Russian mainstream entertainment is bright, loud, sentimental and second-rate — without becoming entertainingly third-rate.
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Most have one layer of strands (at chest or pelvis level) that fly out entertainingly.
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"Anna" is entertainingly put together, but it might be hard to be entertained by it.
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Even more entertainingly, though, Baywatch served as an early acting credit for many rising young stars.
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These people want to blow up their world, and in a way they do, most entertainingly.
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The well-executed Netflix movie entertainingly extends the "Breaking Bad" cinematic universe without really adding to it.
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They were just three blokes trying to entertainingly review family hatchbacks that happened to evolve into something special.
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The manuscript that Random House published was, depending on your perspective, either entertainingly insightful or shamelessly self-aggrandizing.
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What ensues is a brisk, well-mounted children's fantasy, with Cornish giving the story an entertainingly apocalyptic spin.
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The language is as entertainingly robust as their characters are outsize, even if some of the metaphors don't land.
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She also provided one entertainingly dizzying response as to whether her show could be described as a reality show.
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But the key to the books isn't the entertainingly sick premise with all the flashy child-on-child murder.
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Lorraine has just the answer: her gay thespian soul mate, Ronny (an entertainingly flamboyant Nico Santos, of "Crazy Rich Asians").
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Wedged between floor and ceiling, this inflatable head delivers a sculptural encounter more entertainingly absurd than any artwork in recent memory.
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Bitcoin is becoming more and more valuable, but only to people who see it as a wise—or entertainingly risky— investment.
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Robbie is entertainingly plucky as Jane, and Christoph Waltz is appropriately snivelly as the Belgian drip of a villain Leon Rom.
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That point becomes even more entertainingly incorrect and ironic if Vulture's source is right about Adams getting paid more than Cavill.
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My friend Nathan Rabin, for example, writes movingly and entertainingly about being a stay-at-home dad at the website Mom.me.
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Rachel McPhee, who plays Ms. Shanley in this solo show (and is married to Mr. Benson), is very personable and entertainingly physical.
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He's a secularist skeptic who entertainingly urges a circumspect view of any and all simple solutions to the mysteries of the universe.
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As I learned when I interviewed her last month, she can be entertainingly animated even when speaking about some dry, obscure fact.
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Mostly, directors are there to serve the play and keep the bodies moving in space as clearly, effectively, and entertainingly as possible.
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Osman is responsible for other entertainingly divisive tournaments like the World Cup of Crisps 2016 and the World Cup of Christmas Films 2016.
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Adrienne Mayor entertainingly re-examines the various versions of these myths that survive in written and visual form and speculates about their origins.
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The duo's new show — a entertainingly awkward comedy called Back about a dysfunctional extended family — kicks off on Channel 4 on Wednesday night.
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Sure, impossible financial situations and generous definitions of what "middle-class" means can make for more exciting, enviable characters and entertainingly outlandish plotlines.
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That's the magic practiced so affectingly and entertainingly in "The Cursed Child," and it turns everyone in the audience into a sorcerer's apprentice.
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The issues the movie would entertainingly raise — society's deep-seated chauvinism, the gender pay gap — would still have resonance, but not too much.
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Colin Quinn always seems like a barstool philosopher, some guy you'd see holding forth — entertainingly, pint in hand — down at the corner pub.
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Compared to the hassle of using a pump filter, it sounded great, and the early-bird pricing was an entertainingly low $10 per bottle.
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"Teach Me Tonight" (season 2, episode 19) Rory and Jess are at their most entertainingly flirty when they go on their ice cream run.
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The fact is that making fun of Americans' entertainingly awful, entitled behavior abroad is a fine premise, one that indeed provides laughs in the movie.
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Occasional pelting rain that would have been an annoyance in a resort became an entertainingly furious spectacle on the water, followed by a bonus rainbow.
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We got Chrissy and asked her about the extremely busty video she posted of herself trying -- unsuccessfully though very entertainingly -- to squeeze into a one-piece.
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Over the past year, the transformation of Donald Trump from entertainingly gauche loudmouth to serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination has astounded — and frightened — America.
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But in the course of the opera, which Mr. McVicar has garishly and entertainingly studded with vaudeville comedy, Mr. Alagna built up impressive momentum and ardency.
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Lionel Shriver, because she will tolerate my convictions, and because her take on me would be entertainingly acidic, which I, like almost everyone else, probably deserve.
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But somehow it all comes together in an entertainingly madcap story that asks what it means to be a citizen and what equality really looks like.
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Mr. Nichols published an autobiography, wryly called "Feeling You're Behind," in 1984; in 2000 he published the entertainingly acerbic diaries he kept from 1969 to 1977.
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Until recently, he ran the kitchen at Ms. G's in Sydney, Australia, which specializes in entertainingly mongrelized dishes like cheeseburger spring rolls and masala fried rice.
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Bad writing is hard to do entertainingly, and while some of this stuff is sort of funny, much of it is just tiresome — Nemens's one serious misstep.
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For instance: any given credit card transaction requires systematic coordination between five different parties, as entertainingly related in this recent video from noted cryptocurrency champions Andreessen Horowitz.
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Enter the Sex Pistols, controversy, success, failure and more success, a trajectory that Ms. Tucker entertainingly illustrates with a rush of talking heads and colorful archival material.
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And the entertainingly Mad Libs-y variety of the three names involved means the story has cast a wide net, from the gossip press to the business papers.
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I won't give anything away (plot really does count here), but I will say it's got two of the most entertainingly wicked villains in all of English literature.
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He goes to work on a farm, organizes a meal for a camp full of children, and interns at a restaurant full of entertainingly sullen Russian line cooks.
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When Alex's boss (an entertainingly smarmy Tim Heidecker) assigns him to a ceremony at a seaside Mexican vacation spot, Alex recruits Justin to assist, despite Justin's complete inexperience.
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"Camino Island" contains leisurely passages in which Cable gasses on entertainingly about collecting first editions by writers ranging from Virginia Woolf to J. D. Salinger to John D. MacDonald.
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That's tricky to describe but gorgeous to observe; it proved entertainingly tricky for others to execute — then spectacular to see as, slowly multiplied, it turned into motionless group choreography.
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The Brahmins invariably went to Harvard, and in the foggy milieu that Mr Collins entertainingly evokes, suspect, victim, lawyers and many of the witnesses all came from that social subset.
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While he isn't its best player, he has a knack for talking entertainingly over his play: he is funny, brash, and filled with stories about his delinquent childhood in Newark.
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There are bad films that entertainingly fail on every level, like The Room, or bad films made with high technical competence that are borderline unwatchable, like Michael Bay's Transformers movies.
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In this version, the women's new and unloved sister-in-law (an entertainingly overripe Ronke Adekoluejo) isn't just a pushy parvenu; she's Yoruban and may even be an enemy spy.
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Less entertainingly but perhaps more importantly, he also used a foundation fundraiser, which was nationally televised a few days before the Iowa caucuses, to promote his presidential bid in 2016.
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William Bibiani, IGN: The didactic quality of McKay's Oscar-winning The Big Short, which frequently broke the fourth wall to explain complicated economic theories (as entertainingly as possible) returns in Vice.
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The game also spawned a tower-defense sequel called My Life as a Darklord, which I never actually played, but King is an entertainingly chill addition to the Final Fantasy oeuvre.
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Williams, a contributing editor at Outside magazine, presents the benefits of spending time outdoors — "the more nature, the better you feel" — entertainingly but with enough scientific detail to satisfy the expert.
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"Beach House 2" was vital and entertainingly sleazy, far more innovative than the pretty but haphazard retro collection helmed by Mr. Remi, the producer who gave Amy Winehouse her throwback swing.
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In a nutshell, the main character (an entertainingly badass guy called Richards) enters a gameshow where the aim is to evade capture from a team of "Hunters" for as long as possible.
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There is plenty of kinky sex, too, with Maggie Siff as Wendy Rhoades, a therapist, who—ridiculously but entertainingly—is both Chuck's wife/dominatrix and Axe's employee, guru, and maybe soul mate.
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He's awkward, a bit self-deprecating, and at times entertainingly dry and deadpan — he's the younger generation's answer to Ron, and he's the perfect off-set to the more world-weary Albus.
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The film, written and directed by the series's creator, Vince Gilligan, is a well-crafted postscript that entertainingly extends the "Breaking Bad" cinematic universe by two hours without really adding to it.
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While there's little explanation as to the steps of the cooking itself, the POV vibe is complimented with plenty of abrupt zooms, flashes of text on the screen, and some entertainingly hectic cuts.
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Betty Buckley has a slightly meatier role as Kevin's therapist Dr. Fletcher, but again — apart from a few entertainingly tense exchanges during their sessions together — she doesn't have a great deal to do.
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Infographics show which characters and factions were the most talked about, which plots received the lion's share of the attention, and — most entertainingly — which emoji were most used when mentioning any given character.
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So I hope the book, apart from telling a great story very entertainingly, I hope that if someone's suffering from that type of thing, they can read it and go, you know what?
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Sheet masks and hydration masks always moisturized wonderfully, but clay masks remained entertainingly garish and lavish (so, more mentally helpful) rather than actually noticeably improving the clarity, texture, and tone of my skin.
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The self-crowned dean of rock criticism is Robert Christgau, who for decades wrote devastating, entertainingly incisive capsule-length reviews that could singe or shank and edited the reviewers at The Village Voice.
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Here — for the sake of science (and technology) — are some educated guesses and entertainingly speculative hypotheses about who will be there, what's on their agendas, and how they may behave behind closed doors.
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The other dramatis personae, given similar-sounding names (Mamie, May, Merry, Miriam), become women of different times and places, and are entertainingly embodied by Gabby Beans, Lucy Taylor, Marceline Hugot and Ismenia Mendes.
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For her entertainingly inventive if not quite next-level show, this New York-born sculptor used wood collected from around her Woodstock studio and a special clay she developed that barely shrinks when fired.
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Rundle, as the high femme to Jones's stone butch, gives an entertainingly arch performance: her head cocked like a blond bird, she's a fragile, melancholic figure, in need of protection, which everyone offers up.
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I'd also hate to omit Patriot (Amazon), whose vision of a weary, worn-down America struggling to maintain global hegemony is one of TV's most entertainingly dreary — there's a descriptor you don't hear every day!
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The image — bizarrely comic and mildly menacing — occurs during the later stages of "Damsel," but it handily encapsulates the tone of a movie that turns the classic western into something wackily eccentric and entertainingly original.
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Ben Kuchera at Polygon writes that Far Cry 221 gestures toward serious issues like religious extremism or gun culture but gets nervous and pulls its punches, stopping short of being either entertainingly apolitical or seriously timely.
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Even at his most entertainingly diabolical, he is no longer the most compelling figure on screen — that title would go to Claire, who may well be surpassing her husband as House of Cards' center of gravity.
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As Jennifer's reach expands, the show turns entertainingly bonkers, satirizing not merely rape culture, sexual harassment, and the fashion world but every arm of the "global dissatisfaction industrial complex," including its " Lean In " and self-help manifestations.
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If you follow actor Mark Hamill's entertainingly quirky Twitter feed — and really, if you clicked on this story, you probably are — you may have seen him tweeting Tuesday about an unusual game of online Yahtzee involving Darth Vader.
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There are 12 people onstage: the six performers of Dance Heginbotham (four women, two men); the four musicians of the Knights; and Ms. Kalman and Daniel Pettrow, who both speak (entertainingly, touchingly, melodiously) and occasionally dance (rather well).
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Both parties call on an array of witnesses, including the entertainingly bumbling Eugene Roberts (Joshua David Robinson), who was Malcolm's bodyguard for a while, but also an informant for the F.B.I. and the New York City Police Department.
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LONDON — Poor old Iwan Rheon — not only did his character lose the Battle of the Bastards and get killed off in an entertainingly horrific manner on Sunday, but apparently he also got punched in the face twice during filming.
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Here's my take: Mr. Wells does his job responsibly and often entertainingly, and it's completely legitimate for The Times to pay attention to restaurants, including the most expensive ones, just as it does to high culture of all kinds.
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He also constructed friends, rivals and venues, all on display in his latest show, in a busy, eager-to-please installation; wrote and recorded songs; and made an entertainingly silly animated concert video, which screened at the installation's opening.
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It's a game that makes the most of its conscious limitations, in other words—and while the enemies and bosses are all familiar, finding the most efficient ways to beat them means they're an entertainingly different kind of challenge here.
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When a character today preaches about the apocalypse, though, it feels frighteningly close at hand, and Far Cry 5, an entertainingly absurd game where cultists fly fighter jets and you have a pet bear named Cheeseburger, seems adrift in this climate.
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"The Telephone" is a delightful half-hour farce, and it was entertainingly delivered on Saturday afternoon by Aine Hakamatsuka, a soprano, and Clayton G. Williams, a baritone, with no great vocal distinction but loads of personality, especially from Ms. Hakamatsuka.
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Bana has been stuck in grim, humorless roles for most of his career, but he excels here as the kind of merciless egotist Gervais loves to write: the pompous alpha male whose cruelty and self-interest are entertainingly pure and uncompromised.
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Five writers actually put their names on the script, including Mr. Emmerich and his longtime collaborator Dean Devlin, and the results are predictably predictable if rarely entertainingly risible, with swaths of exposition and dialogue that sounds like ads ("one people, one world").
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But passive aggression, as a sly and infuriating art, has surely never been practiced as entertainingly as it is in a certain high school faculty lounge in Garrison, Ohio, where a group of teachers are doing their teeth-gritting darnedest to get along.
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When she returned, rather than engaging the political zeitgeist in any way, she released the lead single for 2017's Reputation, "Look What You Made Me Do," which was all about her: She entertainingly reclaimed the feuds, the image, and the controversies on her terms.
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When one gunfight ends with a member of the central cluster battling for her life (and, entertainingly, using her sensate ability to mentally talk another member of the cluster through saving her physical body), the finale leaves behind violence and tacks hard toward love.
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RED PRIEST, APRIL 27 The wildly virtuosic little band — recorder, violin, cello and harpsichord — that sports Vivaldi's nickname played his "Four Seasons" in entertainingly eccentric fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and filled out the program with charming pieces by lesser-known Baroque composers.
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There's a touch of L.A. noir in the way Joe obtains his new identity (stolen from a con artist who's entertainingly played by Robin Lord Taylor of "Gotham"), and in the latter stages of the season, Joe's tangential involvement in a movie project becomes a canny symbol for the show itself.
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Part of the reason science fiction writers have been obsessed with time travel for so long is because it lets people live out a fantasy of being able to fix the past with perfect hindsight, taking back choices and making new ones — hopefully better ones, but often entertainingly worse ones.
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This band of sisters to Jordan's sororal brother is made up of the brashly self-centered Kiki (entertainingly played by Sas Goldberg, in the style of Megan Mullally's acerbic socialite in "Will & Grace"); the moody Vanessa (Rebecca Naomi Jones); and Jordan's alter ego and former college roommate, Laura (Lindsay Mendez).
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This is entertainingly articulated in the three works from Scratching on things I could disavow, a project Raad began in 2007, along with a series of photographs from Sweet Talk: Commissions, a "new" trove of documents from The Atlas Group, and a look at his collaboration with Bernard Khoury Preface (2016-2036).
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Chabon entertainingly details the efforts of the A.C.L.U. co-founder Morris Ernst, a lawyer for "One Book Called 'Ulysses,'" to get reluctant customs officials to play the role of villain — to actually seize Joyce's novel — in order that he might stage his anti-censorship drama for the benefit of the federal courts.
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Around the same time, M&B debuted a more rounded "knit shirt hanger" for polos and the like, now one of three-dozen varieties (along with the Ultimate King Shirt Hanger and Extreme Ultimate Shirt Hanger) that can be ordered or, more entertainingly, viewed in 3-D animations on the company's website.
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As embodied by an entertainingly irritating Timothy Olyphant in "Hold On to Me Darling," which opened on Monday night at the Linda Gross Theater of the Atlantic Theater Company, Strings is a walking, whining confirmation of our suspicions that the rich and famous really are different from you and me: They're a lot more shallow and needy.
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In his fine new book, "Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts," the New York Times deputy general counsel David E. McCraw thoughtfully (and entertainingly) addresses this state of affairs as he takes us behind the scenes of the venerable (or failing, depending on your perspective) New York Times.
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Kudlow served as a staffer in Ronald Reagan's Office of Management and Budget, but he's never been a high-level policymaker, and his job in recent decades has been to loudly and entertainingly insist upon his own opinions, not to manage a sprawling staff dedicated to researching and surfacing the best information about complex policy topics.
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In the course of making the case for Algren's neglected work, Asher does something else nearly as valuable, which is to reframe—and to free from myth and obfuscation, much of it Algren's own—the life: a life not just entertainingly full of incident but also inspiring and exemplary in a time when questions of art's role in resisting the enemies of democracy and economic justice are newly immediate.
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A large part of the work of "The Little Drummer Girl" is stage management — coherently and entertainingly navigating a complicated narrative that involves Charlie and her handlers; the Israeli, German and British intelligence services that help and hinder them; and the Palestinians, who gain prominence in the later episodes when Charlie becomes fully embedded, training at a camp in Lebanon and inching closer to the terrorist leader Kurtz and Gadi are pursuing.
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Surviving his own author's attempts to kill him, he has caught the imagination of each new generation, which has either faithfully continued to read his exploits in the original (sales have never flagged since the first novel, "A Study in Scarlet," appeared in 1887) or updated him (the BBC's "Sherlock" a notably successful version of this, but Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce did the same thing in 1942) or reinvented him, most entertainingly, perhaps, as Dr. Gregory House, in the eponymous series in which, for many seasons, Hugh Laurie played an irascible, drug-addicted surgeon of preternatural analytical penetration, solving apparently hopeless medical dilemmas.
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