entrainment

Example Sentences

• "Carlo Antonio Bertinazzi, he whom the French stage knows under the name of Carlin, was the gayest of all comedians; he knew a thousand ways of amusing his audience, and would make them die with pleasure and laughter by his affecting performance of the Vingt-six infortunes d’ Arlequin; the entrainment of his gaiety and bonhomie were everywhere extolled."
• "A philosopher, through indolence and carelessness before the Revolution, superstitious afterwards, through weakness and entrainment [translating entraînement], he threatened the Revolution with his sword from a distance."
• "At page 60, and elsewhere, the English general is only spoken of as a mere nobody, carried away resistlessly by the “entrainments” [translating entraînements] around him."
• "The reviewer had to recognize [Thomas Babington] Macaulay’s talents; the entrainment of his picturesque, vivid, and pregnant execution could not be escaped."
• "For Longinus, it is the rhetor’s public capacity to bring out the whole audience’s entrainment to sublimity that is most important."
• "An experienced officer will be placed in charge at each station which is to be used for the entrainment of volunteers near Windsor and at the Waterloo and Paddington Termini in London."