Sentence examples for life performed from inspiring English sources

For many Mexican-Americans, mariachi remains the emotional soundtrack of daily life, performed at baptisms, weddings, birthday parties, funerals.

It had just been through a theatrical evocation of Shostakovich's life performed by the Theatre de Complicite, which Mr. McBurney heads.

He skated to the Beatles' "A Day in the Life," performed by Jeff Beck, as the crowd watched, at times hushed, at other times cheering wildly.

The captain screamed into his radio, "Officers down!" Detective DiForte, thinking he saw a glimmer of life, performed C.P.R. on Detective Andrews, pumping and pumping until another detective pulled him off.

This is an entirely reasonable approach, though anyone taking it should know that this year it will require you to seriously consider "Joan of ArPpo," a tragicomic parable of contemporary life, performed by a Swiss clown.

"Wedding" often has the energy of a Bollywood spectacle, with its ingratiatingly incongruous shuffles of genres; we even get a handful of musical numbers, including a warm, offhanded song on the pleasures of married life performed by a group of women.

He spent his life performing, responding, reacting.

So I live out my life, performing these modest rituals.

But what he is doing is what he has done all his life: performing himself.

If we didn't know how to breathe then she'd spend her entire life performing to blue-faced corpses.

He was the last survivor of America's great sideshow era, having spent his life performing in circuses and freak shows of every size and reputation.