Sentence examples for imitated performance from inspiring English sources

In Richard III, according to Billington, Olivier's triumph was absolute: "so much so that it became his most frequently imitated performance and one whose supremacy went unchallenged until Antony Sher played the role forty years later".

"NBC Nightly News" interviewed her; Stephen Colbert imitated her performance on his show (well, he tried).

When participants were explicitly instructed to imitate the stimulus velocity, imitation performance improved probably as a result of greater attention directed toward the kinematic features of the stimulus.

As a child, he is said to have appreciated and imitated the performances of wedding jesters and Brody singers to the degree that he acquired the nickname Avromele Badkhen, "Abie the Jester".

An R-W-W screening, however, revealed that the technology was aggressively patented, so no competitor could imitate its performance.

Factors such as similar time between actual execution and mental performance of a task, the increase of regional cerebral blood flow and also the vegetative activation, all suggest that mental practice imitates physical performance of a task.

Avanex's first day could easily imitate that performance.

Or Stephen Colbert trying to imitate her performance.

Nevertheless, one cannot help wondering to what degree Mr. Hoffman and Mr. Reilly learned from each other in developing their performances, imitated each other or consciously chose different methods of smashing the typewriter or drenching themselves with beer.

Taking Henri Cartier-Bresson's "humanitarian" photography as his model, Farrell specialised in taking portraits in informal situations – he preferred to photograph artists at home or in the studio, rather than in performance – and imitated the French genius's famed "invisibility".

"No attempt is being made to imitate Brando's performance — a wise choice, I believe, because Marlon's was arguably the performance of the century," he said.