Sentence examples for broad performance from inspiring English sources

The revue's solution to the debatable issue of caricature and at what point a broad performance becomes a demeaning minstrel-show parody is to rein in the extremes.

His broad performance as an escaped convict in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000) suits the movie's stylized approach, although the portrayal is essentially about maintaining a bug-eyed look.

Machining of hard workpiece materials and heat-resistant alloys have been enabled with such coated tools but further broad performance improvements are sought.

Indeed, the more than one million users of Alpha-based systems will be offered speedier Alpha chips this year and a broad performance upgrade in 2003 even as Intel and Compaq, which is based in Houston, work feverishly to prepare a smooth transition for them to the next generation of Itanium, a chip known as McKinley.

Mr Lieberman's bill sounds many of the same notes as Mr Bush's, consolidating the 50 current federal programmes into five broad categories, offering states far more flexibility in how they spend their money in return for hitting broad performance targets and including penalties for schools that fail to spend their money wisely (such as being turned into charter schools).

Second, we should be evaluating models and the individuals who claim to have these models based on broad performance, not single events; if your approach (say) predicted the housing crash but then also predicted runaway inflation from Fed expansion — I assume everyone knows who we're talking about — it's not a good approach.

Likewise, the cast are mostly old hands at Ayckbourn's work, their broad performances threatening to become caricatures of the writer's familiar character types.

With cheap-and-cheerful design and overly broad performances from some of the cast, the production too often topples into pantomimic excess as it knocks religion but respects belief.

It led to a succession of low-grade British horror pictures where he usually played the leading nasty, often giving colourful and broad performances that resulted in him being unfairly typed as a poor man's Peter Cushing.

I don't always like broad performances, but every single time she took center stage I laughed.

Like other family friendly fare (The Sound Of Music et al), it's often damned with faint praise but this is a great movie from its production design to broad performances (Dick Van Dyke keeps the romance between Bert and Mary Poppins at precisely the little boy crush it should be, for example) to those songs.