Sentence examples for distressing performance from inspiring English sources

It was another distressing performance by the pitchers who pursue the precious outs before Mariano Rivera appears.

Playing in public became completely impossible for Beethoven following his disastrous, and deeply distressing, performance of his Fifth Piano Concerto, The Emperor, in 1811.

For these politicians, many of whom are black, it has been doubly distressing to denounce the performance of the only black district attorney in the state.

It opened on Broadway with no director or choreographer listed and closed after eight performances, the distressing experience prompting Gelbart to remark: "If Hitler is alive, I hope he's out of town with a musical".

When David Robertson first conducted at the Metropolitan Opera in 1996, he had the distressing experience of leading a performance of Janacek's "Makropulos Case" in which a tenor died onstage.

Symptoms of thyrotoxicosis due to long-term thyroid hormone suppressive therapy were variable, but when present, palpitations, mood changes, and difficulty concentrating were distressing and sometimes upset relationships and work performance.

If a stock or fund trails the benchmark's performance for only a quarter, a distressing number of investors sell.

The subject is so interesting and so distressing that I wanted to applaud before I saw the performance.

What is distressing to me about many of the recent articles on performance management is their lack of familiarity with what we already know about performance management: talk about reinventing the wheel and failing to be guided by what we know!

That's not a distressing mark in relative terms, and it's not really a performance worthy of one of James' pep talks.

I'm relieved that I saw a performance the day after the press night and its distressing distractions reportedly involving a giant of the English theatre.