Sentence examples for glossy performance from inspiring English sources

Instead of trying to unearth an explanation, Sprewell has routinely slipped out a side door of the locker room after a glossy performance by Carter and disappeared down the hallway with a scowl on his face and confusion in his head.

Glossy achieves its superior performance over tree-based wireless sensor networks by exploiting identical concurrent transmissions.

Auditions and casting calls are traditionally filled with touching stories of hungry actors waiting in line, glossy photos, tapes of performances and the occasional favor of a studio executive.

A scholar of rare critical flair, he spent much of his lecture questioning the glossy perfection of recent performances, saying that the score's darker energies have been "resisted, rejected, repressed".

There may be a slickness to his performances, a glossy showmanship that calls to mind old-school entertainers such as Michael Barrymore, but McIntyre marries the slickness with a warmth that has won him fans in the kind of numbers that fill sports arenas.

Specially-made outfits tight and glossy PVC were designed for the performance.

Glossy and bristling with fine performances, this adaptation of the 1960 Harper Lee classic gets the Aaron Sorkin treatment.

Natalie Portman gives a great bilingual performance in Zlotowski's glossy historical fantasy about the French movie industry of the nineteen-thirties.

Best known for his Broadway classics, conductor John Wilson has a similar effect, hence the glossy confidence of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's performance of Vaughan Williams' overture The Wasps (broadcast on BBC Radio 3 today at 2pm).

But the claims in carmakers' glossy marketing literature bear little relation to actual performance.The basis for fuel-efficiency claims and the regulation of CO2 emissions are results obtained under "type-approval" tests.

West also warned that foundations had to be more transparent about their own performance: "Foundation reports can be like glossy marketing magazines … just because you're doing good doesn't mean you're doing it well".