Sentence examples for a performance style from inspiring English sources
Buddy Holly's catalog is one of the sturdiest in early rock, and it's also one of the most inviting for cover artists: he wrote wonderful melodies with simple lyrics and performed them energetically, but he didn't live long enough to create a performance style as definitive as Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, or Chuck Berry.
Trained as a dancer, Ms. Sherman, 48, has created a performance style that incorporates elements of mime, martial arts, juggling and acrobatics.
Of course, "The Godfather" isn't about ordinary people but about potentates of crime, modern-day Borgias, whose psychology and tactics are boiled down to a visual and textual language and a performance style that renders them transparent to ordinary viewers.
The band has only two acoustic guitars, a stand-up bass and a fiddle, and a performance style straight off the front porch, but the singers' voices put the band on the hard-edged end of the country scale.
Guthrie, now living in New York, challenged the commercial aesthetic of the pre-rock era through a performance style that was not merely plaintive, like that of countless singing cowboys in the movies, but almost combatively anti-musical.
It is a sucrose feelgood/feelsad drama or revenge weepie – always chivvying you to smile through your tears – about an adorably smart and caring 11-year-old kid called Henry, played by Jaeden Lieberher with a teeny little savant I-see-dead-people voice, a performance style pioneered almost 20 years ago by Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense.
Then, in a performance-style act of destruction, he demolished the piece by throwing himself against its walls until they collapsed, leaving behind only a cardboard footprint and photo documentation.
Each is a period evocation, a study of a bygone performance style, full of peculiar details of very precise flamboyance.
The company also preserved, for over a century, what The Times called a "unique performance style, which may be summarised as a combination of good taste and good fun".
McCreadie is all muscled grin and puppy-dog eyes, and the production sucks the audience in with an indie-pop soundtrack and a physical performance style that owes something to Steven Berkoff, but has an edgy contemporary punch of its own.
The Eagles are consummate arena rockers: They have a repertoire fans adore, an extroverted performance style that flaunts their prowess as a band and a great sense of how to put a set together.
