Sentence examples for extravagant performance from inspiring English sources

Of course there is no better way to deflect one's worries about seeming vain and petty than to give an extravagant performance of both.

"The fairground showman is very much the character I take on in the productions I create," he says, and this interest in theatrics is an important part of how Neurosis will operate: as an extravagant performance, with Walker as its questionably benign director.

She could put on the most extravagant performance you've ever seen and play this way for hours on end.

Three years later she moved to New York (she now lives in Los Angeles) and began working on the ever more extravagant performances — involving usually nude models remaining still for hours — that has defined her work as an artist.

But even his most extravagant performances could not be considered, as those of his peers often were, as the last traces of the 19th-century theatrical impulse, immense and lit by lightning.

James took Street Songs - including the hit single Super Freak - on tour, and his extravagant performances included eight-foot-high reefer-shaped pillars and a skit in which two prostitutes and their pimp kicked a policeman mercilessly.

No extravagant performances?

Less extravagant, the performance was on its own terms admirable: thoughtful, moderate, touching.

Kirk Peterson went over the top and triumphed with an extravagant burlesque performance on Friday.

"Do they actually show a film?" was a question posed to me by an understandably confused attendee at this year's extravagant Secret Cinema performance.

Deborah Bruce's production works well on its own terms, driven by an extravagant star performance from Penny Downie in the title role that seems to take its cue from the cascade of curls tumbling giddily from her head.