Sentence examples for a strenuous performance from inspiring English sources

"Fractured Bones/Let's Get Lost" borrows from Godard's sci-fi noir "Alphaville" and the digression in "The Maltese Falcon" about Flitcraft, the man who leaves his family and life style for nearly identical ones, in a strenuous performance about tough-guy existentialism and the impulse to disappear.

But for every strenuous performance in the show (organized by Roxana Marcoci and Eva Respini, curator and associate curator in the photography department), there's a playful one.

But the doctor told her that given Mr. Jackson's age — he was 50 — and the "strenuous performance" he would be putting on, the doctor "needed to be sure that if something went wrong he would be able to have the CPR machine," she said.

He complemented her physically strenuous performance, stating "go on, Janet.

Their preparation for a strenuous physical style of performance includes distance running and rigorous calisthenics.

Jackson hired Murray to be his personal physician as he prepared for a strenuous series of comeback performances in London.

He gives a strenuous, at times shrewd and acid performance, which has been embedded, unfortunately, in a clumsy and ineffective movie.