But the Joyce program, Mr. Mallette said, is calculated to show the company's emergence in a "serious technical and artistic way".
The conductor Seiji Ozawa had provided a progam calculated to show off what everybody was most interested in that night - the hall's acoustics.
The food is rustic yet precisely modern, calculated to show off the produce rather than the dish as a whole.
Last year, they, along with Steve Deace, a popular and inflammatory talk-show host, endorsed Cruz, and their presence was calculated to show Iowans that the hard right was solidly behind his candidacy.
Much of what we see during our reporting trips is calculated to show the bright side of a nation suffering from chronic economic hardship.
But bringing Pascal Canfin, the French development minister, one of only two Green party members in the Socialist-led government, is calculated to show that the trip is not just about military operations, but longer-term reconstruction.
But there has been so much publicity about the reconstructed Gore images that the move seemed calculated to show him in a more casual light and to distinguish him from the president.
The program consisted of four segments from the "Chiffre-Zyklus" ("Cipher Cycle") for chamber orchestra, pieces seemingly calculated to show how much music can be written without serious resort to melody.
The flurry of announcements, senior administration officials said, is calculated to show a president who is determined to keep pushing on jobs, regardless of resistance from Congress to his broader legislative proposals.
But when Mr. Allawi proposed an amnesty for insurgents -- a move that was obviously calculated to show that he wasn't an American puppet -- American officials, probably concerned about how it would look at home, stepped in to insist that insurgents who have killed Americans be excluded.
They are calculated to show the accuracy of the results.
