Sentence examples for empty performance from inspiring English sources
The phrase "empty performance" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe an action or presentation that lacks substance, meaning, or genuine effort. Example: "The actor's portrayal was criticized as an empty performance, failing to convey any real emotion."
Soon enough, a member of the office staff has leapt to let me in.It's not my first empty performance hall.
The ultimate lesson of maturity, the anti-wisdom insufficiently grasped by traditional novels, may indeed be that all great literature is vanity, all of it "empty performance".
I am praised for my services, counseling, teaching, etc., and I receive glowing reports in staff reviews, but it is a futile, empty performance.
Rahman's "In the Light of What We Know" circles around the haunting memory of a technically adept but emotionally empty performance of the Chaconne from Bach's second violin partita.
The filmmakers hold up for derision the rabbis on hand, their Hebrew school, the rote learning that goes into the Bar Mitzvah ceremony, and the sentimental but empty performance that it becomes — but at the same time, in a parallel plot line, they turn their adult protagonist, Larry Gopnik Michael Stuhlbargg), the boy's father, into a modern-day Job.
Jerry Blake (a seamless, expressively empty performance from Terry O'Quinn, now a regular on "Lost") is a suburban real estate salesman with a beautiful home, a loving wife (Shelley Hack) and a teenage stepdaughter, Stephanie Jill Schoelenn), who hates him with every ounce of her being.
Such empty performances engender a particular type of desperation, especially for those who see a lot of shows.
Parks relates meeting with a former mentor who, retired and confined to a wheelchair, confessed that once-beloved novels by Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Elizabeth Bowen, Henry Green, and others had come to appear like "empty performances".
It depicts empty, cynical performance by two straight women.
When there is a high level of correlation between two variables and when one of four cells is empty, the performance of Cohen's kappa declines.
After President Obama's empty-chair performance last week, his running mate had to remind voters that liberals can fight, and he did, deploying the word "friend" like a slur.
