Sentence examples for a performance of self from inspiring English sources

In the second of three performances in Cheryl Pope's Just Yell : From Within exhibition, Pope leads a team of young poets through a performance of self defense training and poetry practice.

You once told an interviewer that people will tell you more in a few seconds on a bus about themselves, yet they are, in a sense, hiding behind a performance of "self".

George Manahan, City Opera's music director, led a performance of self-effacing excellence; the orchestra is a much sharper unit than it was a decade ago.

It is a performance of exaggerated self-pity, of course, but easily the best thing in the exhibition.

In many ways, as Richard Brody wrote recently over on The Front Row, "Girls" is a performance of one self-absorbed young person's initiation into maturity and adulthood.

Laurie I remember rehearsing Hickey's first entrance, which is so crucial, when he gives a performance of his old self to put everyone in the bar at ease.

And the moment they find one, they launch into a performance of such deranged, self-assured haughtiness, the Daily Mail seems hopelessly amateur by comparison.

This is expected to result in a better performance of self-titration of insulin and consequently in the improvement of glycaemic control.

Rainey takes up a lot of oxygen; her performance of self is as much an act of psychological revenge as it is a show of power.

They are images that subtly seek to question why a body tends to pose before a camera lens, presenting a performance of an idealized version of self and family that doesn't necessarily reflect reality.

Shakoori, born in Tehran and based in Los Angeles, is an artist and illustrator who incorporates Iranian philosophy, poetry and mythology into her dreamlike images, which address the influence of native and adopted cultures on a person's psyche and performance of self.