Sentence examples for clever performance from inspiring English sources

In fact my impression last night was that his audience was disappointed by his clever performance.

It's a clever performance that makes us root for Pat and worry for him too.

He's an old TV hand, and surely knows a clever performance when he sees one.

Doyle's technique and influences are worth close analysis, however, because this is a very clever performance.

This part is played by Austin Trevor, who gives a clever performance and it is therefore a pity that the sound recording is so poor.

The disease being cured by Gary McNair, in this sneakily clever performance lecture, is our over-reliance on money, and as people pop their notes into the shredder the look on their faces is often beatific.

She is known as Narcissister, a lithe 41-year-old performance artist who has intrigued the cultural cognoscenti the past few years with clever performances (contorting her body to look like a four-faced doll) and avant-porn (performing a "reverse striptease" by pulling her clothes out of her private parts).

Though it's hard to imagine Ewan McGregor and Renée Zellweger filling such shoes, Reed elicits clever performances from them which help him reveal, with self-aware winks, both the conventions that the earlier comedies ran on and the realities that these conventions concealed.

One of the cleverest performances comes from Aaron Neil, who is implacably dopey and complacent as police commissioner Sully Kassam.

From the festival's inception, its programming has been creative and clever, performed by musicians specializing in period performance.

It is here that Mr. Grant's insouciance begins to seem like a clever dramatic performance.