What this looks like: No more performance-related pay, no more top-down appraisals that punish and find fault rather than support, challenge and develop.
In reality, the sex you tend to see in pornography is often no more than a performance, whereas perhaps 'good sex' is about feeling connected with someone.
According to American Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of two books on Shakespeare, 1599 and 1606, "there were probably no more than 500 performances of all Shakespeare's plays before the war of independence".
A victory in the high jump with a clearance of 1.89m, 6cm shy of her British record, was deemed no more than "an OK performance".
This would have allowed the study to have a 81.3% power to conclude non-inferiority if the silicon knife's performance was no more than 5% worse than the diamond knife's performance and a 86.6% power to conclude superiority if the silicon knife's performance was at least 10% better than the steel knife's performance in the characteristics measured.
It was no more than their second-half performance merited after McPake made up for his earlier error to halve the deficit with a close-range volley.
At Eton, Allen played many sports, but his academic performance was no more than respectable, and he later admitted to laziness.
Those clichés that say you get a lot of actors whose performance is no more than 3 feet in front of them, and that it's all in their face and not in their bodies.
Participation in the fMRI experiment required performance to reach a percentage measure of the hit rate minus the false-alarm (FA) rate of 60 90%, with a no more than 5% difference in performance across the two target-detection tasks.
The effect, then, is that this artifact seems no more real than the fake performances on all the other channels.
BEIJING — As nearly 190,000 dancers, politicians, soldiers and fighter pilots prepared for the highly synchronized extravaganza marking the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China on Thursday, perhaps no one was feeling more performance anxiety than Guo Hu, Beijing's chief weatherman.
