Sentence examples for lesser performer from inspiring English sources

Ken Tucker praised Hartman's performance as McNeal: "A lesser performer ... would have played him as a variation on The Mary Tyler Moore Show's Ted Baxter, because that's what Bill was, on paper.

Mr. Brady delivers a lengthy address to the troops that could sound awkward coming from a lesser performer.

But even the Academy recognized the movie's brilliant makeup, which assisted Eddie Murphy in portraying multiple roles (though, of course, those same prostheses affixed to a lesser performer would have had far different results).

— and of his co-star Tom Conti's way with middle-European shtick that would dry in a lesser performer's mouth.

Many lesser performers would have missed an entire verse at such a nasty fall.

With lesser performers, this 100-minute, intermissionless play would be pretty monotonous.

The roster continued to fill up with new names: future stalwarts like Bobby Murcer and Roy White but also lesser performers like Dooley Womack, Lou Clinton, Steve Whitaker and Horace Clarke.

One or two of the lesser performers overstayed their welcome, but the successes overshadowed the weaker moments.

His work is a gift, much preferable to that of lesser performers with warm and ingratiating personas.

The lesser performers might be free-riding; but they might be well-intentioned and vicariously satisfied by the high achiever's progress.

In Los Angeles County, for example, the best-performing network of medical groups is 20% cheaper and its quality scores are 20% higher than those of the lesser performers.