Sentence examples for lesser performers from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

The portfolio managers then eliminate the those with the worst emissions, de-emphasize the lesser performers and overweight the better ones.

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.

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

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).

An artist's vision is lived, emotionally and physically, so that while a lesser performer will signboard motives and big moments, a subtler talent will experience the not always predictable flux of his character's emotions as the larger dramatic pattern unfolds as though on its own.