Sentence examples for as a performance it from inspiring English sources

As a performance, it's one that's unconvincing in its hectic extremes (as if Blanchett had to figure out the gestures that made the character make sense) but utterly chilling in its quiet moments.

But as a performance it was pure star material.

"As a performance it is right up there," the victorious manager said.

Even at its peak this wasn't memorable music, per se; but as a performance, it was to be savored.

As a performance, it requires a range, from a soft, almost folky bridge to some brilliantly ragged falsetto leaps, and Danny did a decent job holding it all together.

As pop archaeology it's hopeless, but as a performance it's pretty sharp.

And, potentially even more confusingly, despite her time as Mort largely being a performance, it doesn't change the fact that Maura had a legitimately male privilege.

And what a performance it was, as cannily staged as any red carpet promenade.

Miranda July: It started as a performance; I didn't have any of the pressures of thinking it was my second movie.

As a literary performance it takes its place alongside works such as Alec Waugh's The Loom of Youth and Cyril Connolly's Enemies of Promise – to which Orwell likely intended it as a sort of reply or companion piece.

On the instrumental side, we sampled Duke Ellington Duke Ellington 's legendary live performance of "Diminuendo in Blue and Crescendo in Blue" at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, which had always sounded to us, as brilliant a performance as it is, to have a muffled quality, in part because of problems with the recording at the time.