Sentence examples for fake performance from inspiring English sources

"Black Swan" is a deepening of that of Aronofsky's previous film, "The Wrestler," in which a fake performance was seen to entail a high and real physical price.

Inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner, which monitors brain activity, a subject worked on difficult arithmetic problems while a fake "performance monitor" indicated a dismal success rate compared with other subjects.

Don't try putting on shades and playing the saxophone -- that's not you and everyone will see through it as another fake performance.

The effect, then, is that this artifact seems no more real than the fake performances on all the other channels.

But a new Durex ad urges us to quit the fake performances in another arena: the bedroom.

In the video, we faked a performance over and over again and it was the first time she didn't feel totally uncomfortable with the three of us behind her while she sang.

He is not saying (as is sometimes implied) that experimental subjects are, as it were, consciously faking their performances in order to please the experimenter.

Brushing off Mr. Rubio's pugnacious turn, Mr. Christie derided it as a fake, consultant-driven performance.

For best actress, the award went to Nicole Kidman, who had been widely expected to win for her performance, fake nose and all, in "The Hours" as the writer Virginia Woolf.

Bruno Bleckmann, a dean at the university, said Ms. Schavan's failure to attribute certain information properly had "resulted in the general conviction of the faculty council that the former doctoral student systematically and deliberately faked a mental performance throughout the entire dissertation that was in reality not her own".

The show pushed boundaries of subversive drag, complete with fire, fake blood, and performances that were more political than pretty.