The divertissement is a happy coda to the drama, and a standard device of 19th-century classical ballet.    From Wordnik.com.  [ABT's Disneyfied <i>Sleeping Beauty</i> Shorter But Broken] Reference

À quel divertissement Marc-Antoine se livrait-il souvent?.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Conversation and Composition] Reference

It had been an interruption, a divertissement-noth-ing more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chronicles of Riddick]

It always makes trouble, and it is a very expensive divertissement.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON] Reference

We found your little divertissement enchanting, didn't we, Captain?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whom Gods Destroy] Reference

It was like a slow-motion divertissement, studied and programmed into their act.    From Wordnik.com.  [Give Us Forever]

The sport, which was dreamed up in the '30s as a Depression divertissement, regularly has booms and busts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ladies' Choice: To Be A 'Doll On Wheels'] Reference

I should be simply heart-broken if your spring of divertissement should ever run dry -- especially if you held me in any way responsible.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Ashes] Reference

At all events, it was very bright in her to think of this unusual divertissement for our guests when dancing was beginning to lag a little.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference

This little divertissement quite took their fancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olla Podrida] Reference

"Album Leaf" is a divertissement of contagious enthusiasm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference

The fixed round of delirious divertissement unfolded as per schedule.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lone Wolf A Melodrama] Reference

"It is for the divertissement at the Louvre tonight," he was answered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series] Reference

Seizing the poker, she stirred the fire, and created a divertissement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elster's Folly] Reference

"Aïda" and ballet divertissement, benefit of the Legal Aid Society, March 15.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference

Of course, the officers were constantly inventing new schemes of divertissement.    From Wordnik.com.  [A woman's war record, 1861-1865,] Reference

This 1935 divertissement, conceived by playwright Moss Hart and composer-lyricist.    From Wordnik.com.  [SF Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference

Comme les images vallent milles mots, voyez par vous même! bon divertissement.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Madonna's daughter Lourdes turns cover girl] Reference

The people are a merrier divertissement than the theatre with its hackneyed stories.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mountain Woman] Reference

As a divertissement, compared to a tone poem; as a curtain-raiser to a three-act play.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Winter Comes to Main Street] Reference

He generously praised the clever combination of "a deep tragedy with a divertissement.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays] Reference

After the concert a divertissement was to take place which must excite the public curiosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Robert-Houdin]

As for the staging, audiences who anticipate an ornamental divertissement along the lines of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

There was an extra performance of "Hänsel und Gretel," and ballet divertissement on Christmas day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference

Brehanne's request for the divertissement of "quelque belle batterie à coups de couteau" with Didier's answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference

And what, you are doubtlessly tearing your hair out wondering, is the high-brow divertissement of choice for DF?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Losanjealous] Reference

There's nothing wrong with a little divertissement now and then, and The Valet couldn't be seen as anything but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playback:stl Syndication] Reference

For her there was no longer anticipation of joy, or present companionship, or any divertissement in the whole world.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mountain Woman] Reference