Throughout her enticing performance, a display of awkward grace, her rigid bones loosen into liquid and harden again with a strange and subtle assurance.
Later, while pitching his idea for a Pawnee amphitheatre, Tom expresses hope it would entice performances from such rappers as Lil Wayne, Drake and Jay-Z.
As enticing as Kaufmann's performance may be, it does not come cheap.
And, like many contemporary artists, he was a master showman, enticing potential customers with bravura performances.
Judging by the attentiveness of the crowd -- especially, it seemed, during the most intimate moments of Verdi's drama -- the performance provided an enticing introduction.
The conundrums are as enticing as the romantic fencing, the performances, and the Italian locations.
Ms. Smallwood and her partner, another Ailey II alumnus, Troy O'Neil Powell, also stood out in the "Makin' It" duet in Ailey's 1980 "Phases" for a teasing performance as equal and enticing lovers.
As technology and increased production capacity make it cheaper to build products based on older specifications, companies lower the prices on existing products while introducing new features and better performance to entice high-end buyers.
In a passage set in 2008, the bar Goodbye Blue Monday (now closed) has a ceiling "busy with trinkets, scavenged streetlights, and paintings of gospel choirs in mid-performance," and entices all sorts of characters, "from random crusts to Steve Buscemi, who once broke up a fight there while catching a set by his son's band".
She exuded a level of excitement that I rarely experience in my conversations with tech people about not-so-enticing topics, such as performance reviews.
