Sentence examples for call a performance from inspiring English sources

"It's definitely what I call a performance art," Mr. Gowdy said.

They say there's no such thing as a small role, but then what do you call a performance in a short film?

But then there's "Blue Car," a Greg Brown tune in blues form, which elicits something you'd almost hesitate to call a performance.

"You cannot call a performance or a work of art avant garde unless it gives the audience that uncomfortable, perhaps even painful feeling," he said.

And what can it even mean to call a performance a work of genius when, of course, the genius of Bach is, in turn, an altogether different order of creation?

"American Idol" has also given us an Oscar winner, a new generation of divas, the Kardashian family franchise -- yes, we can blame thank "Idol" for them -- and the ability to call a performance "a little pitchy".

The tracking objective is described by a set of admissible reference trajectories, called a performance tube.

She gave what Cecil Wilson in the Daily Mail called "a performance of heartrending simplicity which is at once childlike and mature in its emotional force".

There's no fixed standard for performance in a movie, and the shorthand of calling a performance "good" usually applauds a banal naturalism that fits the traits of a scripted character as closely as a death mask.

After a run of eight league games unbeaten before Christmas, three consecutive defeats have seen the Hornets drop to 18th, and Dyche is looking for what he calls "a performance" from his players.

This is the second issue that WordPress has had in the past week, with this one being called a "performance issue" or "service disruption".