Sentence examples for abandoned performance from inspiring English sources
Mr. Acconci, who abandoned performance art in the 1980s for sculpture and installations, said in an interview that he believes performance art to be, by definition, ephemeral, that he questions whether it should be done again at all, and that he wonders if building an institute to celebrate the medium even makes sense.
Edwards played violin and trumpet through grammar school and high school but abandoned performance for conducting.
The idea of abandoning performance management as an activity in an organization is absurd, of course.
Far from abandoning performance-enhancing drugs, they say, some players have switched from steroids to drugs like human growth hormone.
For both Moon and Gould, the performer's life was short: Gould abandoned concert performance at the age of thirty-one; Moon was dead by the age of thirty-two, and had not played well for a long time.
Mr. Saunders said that before he hooked up with Ms. Hennebach, he had all but abandoned live performance for nearly 10 years.
But by 1975, Rainer had abandoned live performance altogether, devoting herself to film-making with the same adversarial determination that she had shown in dance – and attracting as much attention in the art world.
The faster that fans boosted attendance and the more hastily they abandoned poor performance indicated fans who were less loyal.
On September 2, 1970, he abandoned a performance in Aarhus after three songs, stating: "I've been dead a long time".
Kutik, who seems a model of controlled passion on disc, becomes almost abandoned in performance--not unduly so, but he looks and sounds like someone perfectly willing do anything, whatever it takes, to tell you what this music is saying to him, and the occasional wooly attack or lapse of intonation be damned.
As a result, organizations are hesitant to abandon their performance appraisal systems and "leave it up to" managers to effectively manage the performance and development of their direct reports.
