Sentence examples for painful performance from inspiring English sources

He's played by Stanley Townsend in a brilliantly painful performance, tics and broken language hinting at a hard-luck history we can only guess at.

In fact, whether or not a deal is done, that is what we are seeing, and it is a painful performance.

EAGLEBANK BOWL Riley Skinner found a perfect way to obliterate the miserable memory of his painful performance against Navy earlier this season.

"If you want Ethel Barrymore to give you an incredible, heartfelt and painful performance, that comes from the soul of the actor," he said.

He's a master of the dry bon mot – who can forget his way of interrupting Mary's painful performance on the piano ("You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit")?

But missing cuts at majors, which Woods did with a painful performance Friday, is another matter.

Kicking off its 11th season Wednesday night with an audition show filmed in Savannah, Ga., American Idol kept things light and hopeful, relegating most of the painful performances to montages and sketching out a few of the storylines of the standouts who made it to the next round.

Thus, with painful irony, the terrible performance of online charter schools ends up bolstering reformers' claims that our public schools are failing — and that this failure is best addressed by offering parents more "choices" like online charter schools.

In Montgomerie's stellar career, his failure to win a major championship is a painful void, and his dreadful performance in the British Open is baffling.

The bigger the stocks, the less painful the performance during the last quarter.

As a result, sloth bears in India are no longer poached from the wild and forced into painful "dance" performances on the streets of India.