Sentence examples for insistence on performance from inspiring English sources

The doctor assured us it was merely hyperventilation (read "overacting") caused by the ludicrous demands set by my text and Vicky's insistence on performance.

Nevertheless, his innovative productions and insistence on the highest performance standards ensured his reputation as one of the greatest of opera conductors, particularly as an interpreter of the stage works of Wagner and Mozart.

Insistence on perfect sexual performance is a different kind of repression.

The placement of the fogging machine between Madonna's legs were seen as symbols for the phallus and ejaculation, and was deduced as an example of the singer's insistence on masculinity as "performance".

The first scene, in which the defense attorney Johnnie Cochran helps O. J. into his shirt, cuff links, and suit preparing him for the appearance of a lifetime echoes the show's insistence on the primacy of performance and celebrity in the case, up to and including its waning moments.

Ferrara's John Cassavetes-esque insistence on the authenticity of performances also had it's beginnings in The Driller Killer.

Was it the insistence on a one-year contract?

But he also disagrees with Mr. Zamansky's insistence on entrance exams and high performance.

The administration's insistence on applying benchmarks to the performance of the Iraqi government is not new and will be hard to implement.

But the institution of Remembrance, its insistence on unthinking conformity and its vain performance of remembering, is not about respect.

A more diabolical method of protest would be to take Major League Baseball up on its insistence on treating its product as a private performance, and to cover the games in that spirit.