Sentence examples for calling a performance from inspiring English sources

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.

By Richard Brody August 14, 2014 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.

Halo's set to join forces with, as it were, with Hatsune Miku, who's described by the festival's organizers as "the ultimate pop star," for a show that illustrates what they're calling a, "performance that draws us into the multiplying realities of a 21st Century pop star, and traces the dynamics at play between fans, corporations and social desires".

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

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

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.

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".

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.

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?