Sentence examples for describe a performance from inspiring English sources

It may be trite to describe a performance as a revelation, but this one really was.

Sometimes, in the rarefied world of opera, you have to resort to jargon to describe a performance.

Esquire magazine summed up the views of many: "Imagine a Samuel Beckett play in which a slick circus-master gets four retired clowns to describe a performance to punters stuck outside the Big Top.

NEW YORK — "Historic" is an adjective I've rarely used to describe a performance, but a review that does not invoke it for Ben Platt's incandescent turn in the ravishingly bittersweet "Dear Evan Hansen" would be doing it less than justice.

It would be harsh to describe a performance as masterly as the Emersons' as arbitrary - the command of the playing, its purity and eloquence are totally compelling - but it does not grow naturally out of the dramatic context already established with any sense of inevitability or certainty.

Rendall Harris — how do you describe a performance that manages to create for the audience the wholeness, the life of a man, not just "in character" for the duration of the play but what he might have been before the events chosen by the playwright and how he might be, alive, continuing after?

"The David Luiz comment was a moment in time, describing a performance within a game.

One version of the ad describes a performance fee as a tax that could "bankrupt local radio stations".

This paper both demonstrates and describes a performance analysis of the Semantic Reef knowledge system.

An earlier version of this article erroneously described a performance on Saturday as the Vail Dance Festival's first venture into material by the choreographer Merce Cunningham; an arrangement of his choreography was presented at the festival in 2016.

The term 'prima donna' can be used to mean two things: in everyday parlance, it is a woman inclined towards hubris; in the world of opera, it simply describes a performance's leading lady.