Sentence examples for cease performing from inspiring English sources

One day, seemingly without cause, he leaves the stage in mid-performance and retreats to his abandoned childhood home "to cease performing and simply be", or to "cease becoming and merely be" as he echoes later.

Mr. Malt's letters stated that the carried interest "is subject to forfeiture if I cease performing services for the partnership".

Clements said Brendel's decision to cease performing was typical of a man who was "intensely self-critical".

It didn't cease performing under canvas until July 1956, when television and other alterations in the public's taste put it out of business as a big-top spectacle.

When Krystian Zimerman, the great Polish pianist, halted proceedings at his recital in Los Angeles on Sunday to lament US foreign policy - and announce his intention to cease performing in the country - he was certainly going against the grain.

But the text on sanctions in the JCPOA explicitly notes: "Iran has stated that it will treat … such an imposition of new nuclear-related sanctions, as grounds to cease performing its commitments under this JCPOA in whole or in part".

"Look at that!" Since the demise of Talking Heads, David Byrne has never ceased performing.

Discouraged when the band was dropped by its record company, Baker ceased performing.

Although it was once New Jersey's insurer of last resort, it ceased performing that role in 1992.

Pinnock eventually ceased performing with the English Concert – the pioneering group he founded with violinist Simon Standage in 1972 – because he grew weary of incessant touring.

His show stayed within the eastern U.S. until he ceased performing in 1917.