Sentence examples for detached performance from inspiring English sources

And the littling down process hasn't been helped, particularly, by the film's star, Hugh Grant, who gave a cheerfully detached performance on television with Jonathan Ross, indicating that he wasn't exactly pinning Oscar hopes on it.

The collapse of President Bush's popularity — brought on most directly by his detached performance during Hurricane Katrina, the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandals, and public displeasure with the mismanaged war in Iraq — is working to the Democrats' advantage.

With halting, unsure steps, most of them more awkward than able, the Giants defeated the Washington Redskins, 23-9, today with a detached performance that seemed to suit the mood at Giants Stadium.

Cumming came up with the idea that the Eternals would not blink and cast actors who she believed could provide detached performances.

Conducting assessment under this assumption allows test professionals to detach student performance from tasks and develop inferences regarding student ability (Deville and Chalhoub-Deville 2006).

Both Ms. Michelson, 36, and Mr. Gutierrez, 29, embody that approach with wonderfully detached yet forceful performance styles.

Finnie's conductor, Neeme Jarvi, is comparatively detached, though the performance finds the Scottish National Orchestra on tremendous form.

It's a value-free technical performance, detached from anything you could call a critical cultural position".

The following year the retina in Ms. Alonso's right eye detached during a performance, and she had to have surgery.

After experiencing what he described as "a strange anxiety jetting through me that I can only imagine is the sixth sense one feels before their last moments alive," he went onstage and found himself, for what he said was the first time, detached from the performance – more taken with how blue and vast the ocean looked than with the large audience.

You look at the corporate governance issue of "how did compensation get so detached from true performance?" The board of directors were not doing their jobs.