Tanner was careful not to endorse the idea that Pepys is "a mere literary performer", but he did describe the diary as "an indiscretion of his youth", and underlying his remarks was a preference for dwelling on the "great career" and an assumption - which others have shared - that official life and intimate experience are indeed far removed from one another.
It is the combination of qualities that is so astounding, and those who regard Pepys only as 'the most amusing and capable of our 17th-century diarists' - a mere literary performer making sport for us - do little justice to a great career".
By comparison, Dennis Keene's performance of the Te Deum, recorded live at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York in 1996 with a mere 400 performers, sounds a bit puny.
Front-line workers perceived themselves as mere performers.
Quality first documented in Nursing, where the minimum performance level or base has now increased and qualified for the presence in the so-called "modules" no longer mere performers but by professionals who graduated in Nursing.
America West's screw-up rate was 6.6; that of Alaska Airlines, the best performer, was a mere 3.7.
Working the 30-second clock on each possession like an antiquated, four-corner North Carolina team, they clogged the lanes, got back on transition and held Vince Carter and one of the greatest collection of open-court performers to a mere 4 points on the fast break.
In a July post on his blog Trichordist, Lowery wrote that despite one of his songs being played more than 1 million times on streaming site Pandora, his payment as songwriter and performer earned him a mere $16.89 -- "Less than I make from a single T-shirt sale".
That's why its diffident performance styles come off not as a reflection on the life and work of performers but as a mere directorial affectation.
Shanahan then saw the other Bausch shows, Bluebeard and 1980, and quickly had the sense she knew, intimately, the Wuppertal performers – though she was a mere audience member.
