In the 20 months it took to conduct his investigation, Mitchell produced an uneven but earnest document that, while naming at least one name associated with each of the 30 teams, was top heavy with Yankees and Mets, almost amounting to a performance-enhancement Subway Series.
Van Badham went to see the show, and left feeling that it didn't quite amount to a performance.
He noted that the time between first place and fourth place in the 15-kilometer cross-country ski race at the 2006 Turin Olympics amounted to a performance differential of less than 1percentt.
The professor said suggestions that in England the scheme would amount to a performance list of doctors was not the case in Wales.
At the same time, Idris Elba could have won it; arguably, he could have been nominated in the best actor category – having given what amounted to a lead performance in Beasts of No Nation – and won that too.
The result was a multicultural and multigenerational take on the relationship between performance and technology, amounting to a visually and structurally impressive display.
Writing in The New York Times, Manohla Dargis said that Treadwell's adventures with grizzlies amounted to "a kind of performance, built on lies and truth and played out on the stage of celebrity".
In many cases, the artist has inscribed his own poem on the surface of his painting in what amounts to a virtuoso, multimedia solo performance.
And, yet, Sissy may as well be clothed for all that is revealed about her character, despite her physical nudity, her painfully slow rendition of "New York, New York," and what definitely amounts to a genuine and wrenching performance.
I suppose, but at least we stopped that offense on a few other occasions in what amounted to an adequate defensive performance.
