Sentence examples for kind of audition from inspiring English sources

He was willing to sign the minor league deal and play one season as a kind of audition, confident that he could prove his value to teams.

In retrospect Holmes sees his Chatterton portrait (like Boswell's sketch of Zelide) as "a kind of audition" for his subsequent career as a biographer.

Sara admired Mona — her impeccable taste, how quickly she connected with other women — but she also sensed that the parties were a kind of audition.

His invocations of Reagan reflect a kind of audition for the Hollywood role of avuncular, common-sense Republican embodied by Reagan in the 1980s.

The audition came up, and for the first time I said I'm not altering my life for any kind of audition or show business".

His bizarre virtual publicity tour - which has taken him to a half-dozen talk shows and even his own live stream online - has operated as a kind of audition.

Many orchestras, especially in the US, are now auditioning blind, with participants playing behind screens, and there has been an exponential increase in women being hired as a result – one study shows the likelihood of progressing beyond the preliminary round increases by 50% for women in these kinds of auditions.

He would go for all kinds of auditions, but did not get any good opportunities, while only getting calls for minor roles: "Everything was so bleak.

There are different kinds of auditions.

The extract from Private Lives sits uneasily, and is exposing, too, as if it's some kind of public audition for a full production.

Starting at the MCG on Sunday Giles has in front of him a five-month stretch in charge of the England cricket team across two formats and at least 18 matches, that could be styled as a kind of shadow audition for the man who would – pending a series of thorough strategic reviews – be king.