Sentence examples for a deliberate performance from inspiring English sources

"It is a deliberate performance," General Carter said.

Burroughs published only one full-scale journal previously, "The Retreat Diaries" (1976), the record of two weeks of Buddhist meditation, but that is a deliberate performance compared with this one.

Ruth Ansel, the former Harper's Bazaar design director who worked with Liberman on Vanity Fair, House & Garden, and Vogue, sums things up when she describes him as controlling and egotistical, but notes that "his was a deliberate performance — to charm and intimidate.

Mr. Maazel interpreted the national anthem in a beefed-up, slowed-down, exacting and deliberate performance that quickly encapsulated his brilliant, willful and often exasperating artistry.

A deliberate under-performer?

The difference in tyre performance is a deliberate move by new supplier Pirelli, which was asked to produce tyres that degrade quickly to provoke more pit stops and more overtaking.

Early fears of a studentlike performance raised by a deliberate tempo in the C minor Prelude proved unfounded.

This is presumably a deliberate choice, but it robs the performance of the frissons that make such characters compelling.

The performances, too, are a deliberate clash; Belvaux plays Bruno with such grumpy flatness that you scarcely believe him capable of murderous acts, while Dominique Blanc kicks off her portrayal of Agnès at maximum intensity and takes it from there.

The purpose of this study was to establish the efficacy of a deliberate practice intervention designed to enhance levels of clinical performance in senior baccalaureate nursing students.

One meaning is a deliberate play, as in drag, on the traditions of art as illusion and performance as impersonation.