There are many great mysteries of our age; one of them is how a man who is so patently artificial can still deliver an entirely genuine performance.
Then Bella Kerridge – born Bella Zuckerman 89 years ago – a woman with eyes that sparkle, sings a Yiddish song, acting out the story, delivering a genuine performance.
As the song builds her voice starts to fray with emotion – again, not another trait associated with TV talent shows – and the moment moves from straight cover to genuine performance, those final vocal runs basically winning her the entire show.
The set — vertical blinds that open and close in various configurations — feels cold and somewhat hokey in comparison with Maxwell's warm, genuine performance, but not enough to detract from it.
Bonuses are not inherently evil — indeed, they are probably a sensible way to encourage risk-taking — so long as the bonuses reward genuine performance and calculated risk-taking, rather than the smoke-and-mirrors lunacy of the past few years.
"It isn't a personal thing between myself and Dwain, or between anybody here and Dwain, this is about what athletics needs to do to push forwards and to reassure the confidence of the public that when they see a performance, that they are seeing a kosher, genuine performance.
But if European firms are reluctantly offering incentive pay, they at least want the formulas to create a reward for genuine performance.
On twisting roads, the computer game aspect of the IS gives way to genuine performance, and the all-independent suspension and crisp steering add up to taut handling and very little body roll.
The genuine performance of judgment, for Rickert, is all contained in the 'yes' or 'no' that we could answer to the question, thereby taking a stance with regards to the represented content.
However some would argue that due to the volatility of stock markets and the good or bad fortune of the timing of grant and exercise dates, the alignment of reward and genuine performance in public companies is seldom perfect and often arbitrary.
