Ninety nine per cent of people on the team, riders and staff, are not just performing, but over-performing.
Unfortunately, Mr Okada did not just perform badly before giving up his post.
On Saturday it was as if Mr. Schiff were channeling Bach, not just performing him.
Here's a radical thought: why not just perform the plots as written, and let the lines speak for themselves?
"Every week brings new examples of federal agencies not just performing poorly, but performing stupidly," said Paul C. Light, director of the Brookings Institution's governmental studies program.
The festival sought to have artists from every African country, not just performing but taking part in discussion forums on what the future identity of Africa should be.
"People always tell you when you're a rookie coming into the N.F.L., that you're not just performing for your team, you're performing for 31 other teams," said Pochman, who finished his B.Y.U.
"The conversations can get very spiritual," Bishop Untener said, "for example, how hard it is to pray, really pray, in front of other people -- not just performing prayer -- so that when Ken Untener says, 'O God,' it is really talking to God.
While the same tropes still hold, one can only hope that eventually the increasing female representation in rap will lead to women challenging the norms of the male-dominated space, not just performing in it.
