Sentence examples for a competent performer from inspiring English sources

"She was clearly a competent performer," said Sig Harac, who was the concertmaster.

Malcolm Bruce was the only outright loser from the changes, which is somehow characteristic of a competent performer who has never caught the party's imagination.

Not as good as Trent Boult, but a competent performer, who knocked over Joe Root and James Taylor just when England were sensing a big first innings lead in Sharjah.

This isn't a miracle machine, it's a competent performer with an unexpected price and form factor. Chances are it's going to be revised relatively soon with improved hardware, some tweaks to the design, and maybe an external Blu-ray drive as an option.

I was not the most famous, sought-after and highly paid actor on Earth--but I was a competent performer who could work as much as he wanted and take an occasional flyer into directing and producing.

As for Ms. Hilty, she has registered as a likable and competent performer in the unfortunate musical adaptation of "9 to 5" (2009) and on the current Broadway-theme television soap opera "Smash," but never as much more than that for me.

The competent performer uses a plan, or chooses a perspective, which then determines which elements of the situation are to be treated as important and which ones can be ignored.

Woolfe is best known to voters as Ukip's migration spokesperson, an MEP for the north-west region and a competent media performer.

Evans, while a competent media performer, lacks the star quality and charisma that propelled Farage's party to victory in the European elections, won him two Tory defectors and attracted around 3.5m votes in the general election.

Mr McLeish was regarded as a competent parliamentary performer, and was seen as a safe pair of hands to take over the reins following the death of Donald Dewar.

Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer easily walk off with the honors in a cast of uniformly competent performers.Being actors with hearts and minds as well as personality, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison draw the last ounce of interest and emotional effect out of a screen play by Nunnally Johnson which is first-rate, except for a conventional happy resolution of their dilemma.