Sentence examples for mortal performance from inspiring English sources

MELBOURNE, Australia — He has been Roger the Great for so long that when Roger Federer turns in a merely mortal performance, as he did Tuesday in the first round of the Australian Open, people start to wonder: what's wrong?

With Uncle Mo turning in a mortal performance and the West Coast challenger Premier Pegasus out with an injury, the Toby's Corner camp was not only talking Derby, but even believing it might have a chance to win.

It is piling high for Federer as he continues to devolve from a ruthless closer with a killer forehand into an edgy mortal with performance anxiety.

But it is good to feel a hint of turbulence, of mortal fear, in performances such as Blue Heron's and Ensemble Organum's; with that quiver of passion, the music inspires even greater awe.

Major League Baseball, once thought to be in mortal danger because of performance-enhancing drugs, is actually doing quite well.

At the least, an open discussion about the heavy athletic reliance on medications -- both legal and illegal -- would give the public a more honest assessment of human possibility in elite international sport, said John Hoberman, a doping expert and professor at the University of Texas who authored the book, "Mortal Engines: The Science of Performance and the Dehumanization of Sport".

The design and the performances illuminate the mortal threads in Shakespeare's rich tapestry of public and private lives.

But if you're not a mere mortal when it comes to computing performance, then make sure you check around the various benchmarking tests that are sure to follow in the coming weeks.

As the recording played again and again on cable TV, convincing the political class that Trump's candidacy had suffered a mortal wound, Chaffetz made a morally narcissistic performance of rescinding his endorsement.

A performance that might destroy other mortals might not do so to Trump.

In performance, I become, somehow, like not a mortal.