With their paralysed faces and mute performances, they communicate how one does when stunting in a nightclub, attracting potential sexual partners (or, in this case, judges) via subtly coordinated gestures, crinkling up the side of a mouth or glossing the lip with a tongue.
Mr. Pagliero's mute, evasive performance is hard to evaluate.
Prolonged storage can result in protein degradation and mute the performance of diagnostic protein tests on such samples.
Beautifully framed and not without humor (especially in the lively wedding preparations of Fausta's fussy cousin, which include a "mobile buffet"), "The Milk of Sorrow" is constrained by a rarefied screenplay and a near-mute central performance.
Though it did not provide a formal outlook, market pressures are expected to weigh on Verizon's performance, muting its share price.
It's not recommended to use this makeshift mute for a formal performance, especially if the con sordino (with mute) direction comes in the middle of a piece.
If you were to watch these performances on mute, you might think you had happened upon a public-access broadcast of an interpretive-dance recital rather than a song with more than a billion YouTube views.
Through extensive experiments, this proposed muting technique turns out to improve the performance of the reference muting mechanisms in the packet loss concealment algorithm of the G.722 Appendix IV under various experimental conditions.
Apparently she is meant to be viewed as a martyr, but the sight proves a major letdown and brings the actress Elena Borgogni's furiously intense performance as the mute girl to a dispiriting close.
Samantha Morton, much praised for her performance as the mute lover of Sean Penn in Sweet and Lowdown, was also nominated in the Golden Globes and faces competition from Chloe Sevingy who won the Globe for her part in Boys Don't Cry.
But the landscape that she traverses swamps her and her feelings, effectively muting Mr. Camp's nuanced performance.
