Sentence examples similar to defying performance from inspiring English sources

Innovation is a driving force of performance development and technology will need continuous research development in order to produce materials with higher energetic efficiency and to defy performances stagnation.

But this is a special occasion: David Gordon's 50th year as an influential maker of category-defying performance.

This excursion into dreamland is a lovely condensation of what Mr. Kelly has achieved again and again in his three decades as a boundary-defying performance artist.

The point arose at the end of last week, when I attended the opening events of American Realness 2013, the festival of experimental dance and category-defying performance that is now in its fourth annual season.

At a heft befitting its subject, his long-awaited "Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman" is a consistently nimble and buoyant performance, defying what might in a lesser writer's hands prove a deadly undertow of exhaustively researched historical facts.

Maslany's was not the only performance defying preconception.

It is, to be sure, an odds-defying performance.

Few would bet with confidence against Scolari coaxing another odds-defying performance from his side.

Despite Daunt Books' recession-defying performance, many eyebrows were exercised over Daunt's new position at Waterstones.

While hardly a financial pundit, Dostoevsky's words accurately describe the sense-defying performance of the stock market this year.

"Leo," a solo show featuring a gravity-defying performance by Tobias Wegner, above, is the winner of the 2011 Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh award, to be presented at a ceremony Friday in the Scottish capital.