Sentence examples for in a single performance from inspiring English sources
A sly critical humor and a piercing pathos are qualities that rarely coincide in a single performance.
She had grown frustrated by classical's constraints, where months of work can climax in a single performance – and often to a sneery audience.
In a single performance for the benefit of the HB Playwrights Foundation, she played Martha once more in a staged reading on Broadway.
Fusing the parts in a single performance, impossible in live theater, involves, for the singer, new technical hurdles, not to mention a certain metaphysical frisson.
The plays are shown in groups of three on separate evenings, but the box office has been under siege for the marathon sessions when all are played in a single performance lasting just over 10 hours.
"The Mary Shelley Opera," which had its premiere in a concert version in a single performance on Thursday evening at the Society for Ethical Culture in Manhattan, is no exception: it has a linear narrative structure, lines up its numbers like ducks and is so steeped in tonality that it seems almost preserved in it, like fruit in sugar syrup.
The troupe, the Opera Company of Brooklyn, touched off protests from the musicians' union in August when it used virtual music in presenting a single performance of Mozart's "Magic Flute" at the Voorhees Theater.
Taken in isolation, a single performance tells little about the state of doping — there are simply too many factors, like wind, race situation, rider preparation and injury, that influence performance to prove that the sport is cleaner based on one climb alone.
His name is usually raised in connection with a single performance on a Sunday afternoon at the Polo Grounds in October 1952.
In terms of a single performance there was nothing to compare to Barcelona's 5-0 destructiof of Real Madrid.
White Bird began in 1997 with a single performance of the Paul Taylor Dance Company; this season it has presented a dozen companies in two subscription series, concluding with "Spirits".
