Sentence examples for calls a performance from inspiring English sources

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.

Audiences treated them like rock stars, waiting in lines for days for tickets, scalping them at record prices and showering them with more than 20 curtain calls a performance.

Up front there is what Ford calls a "performance-inspired grille in black mesh," a description that invites juvenile comments involving undergarments.

"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.

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.

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?

A few years ago, Lowe decided that he would try to restore the chapel's aura, by creating what he called a "performance of the Caravaggio, with me as the conductor".