Sentence examples for illusion performance from inspiring English sources

It's a fantastical 19th-century confection about illusion, performance and a deadly rivalry between magicians – rather than acrobats and dogs on bicycles.

The effect is not unlike a Botox operation gone terribly wrong.* "Past performance may be an illusion: Performance, flows and fees in mutual funds" by B. Phillips, K. Pukthuanthong and R. Rau.

One meaning is a deliberate play, as in drag, on the traditions of art as illusion and performance as impersonation.

Proceeding from left to right, the screens move from fact through process to fiction; from the mundane details of makeup, through the elaborate mechanics of staging and lighting, to the intensity and illusion of performance.

It's not important to me what someone's birth or perceived gender is it's gender illusion and performance".

It's not important to me what someone's birth or perceived gender is – it's gender illusion and performance". .

There's a chic emptiness to "Entertainment," undoubtedly, and anti-comedy constructs that may rub the wrong way, but there's also a spiky intelligence at work too, one that engages through the artifice of disengagement and the illusion of "performance". MPAA rating: Rated R for language, crude sexual material, a disturbing image and brief drug use.

Thirteen percent of all participants never consistently reported hearing the continuity illusion (their performance was either below chance or not significantly different from chance over all noise durations; see Figure 2b and Table S1).

If you've never wanted to run away and join the circus, if you have no interest in the arcane skills of tumblers, gimps, magicians, music hall and sideshow folk, if the art and craft and illusions of performance hold no appeal for you – then you probably won't like Funny Bones.

Rich Marotta, a stand-up comedian, and his wife, Tamara Marotta, aka the pink-haired and often bumbling Twila Zone, profess to combine laughter with illusions, creating a performance that offers magic and sends it up at the same time.

That is how the new audience for opera will be found, in a way simultaneously more artificial and more genuine than the seductive illusion of live performance in the HD series.