Sentence examples for perform a sort of from inspiring English sources

Wall Street's core function is to perform a sort of financial alchemy, an incredibly complicated method of giving a lot of people what they want.

I would also argue that such frank titles perform a sort of public service as they remove any risk of a puritanical viewer attending the play and claiming that they hadn't expected graphic language.

Instead the components of the inner ear perform a sort of Fourier transform to untangle the composite pressure wave, teasing out each specific frequency and their associated amplitudes in order to covert them into a spectrum of electrical signals which is sent to the brain.

Each time, mom chased her partner, who would flee and occasionally perform a sort of cartwheel to evade her.

"Although Rowling was referring to the stone of alchemy supposedly able to turn base metals into gold, her novels also perform a sort of literary alchemy".

But there is, in Seward, a precedent for how Senator Clinton might perform a sort of alchemy on her disappointment, on her certainty that she'd make the better commander-in-chief.

Accordingly, it was not considered appropriate to perform a sorting of leukocytes.

There's also a naked figure, performing a sort of swan dive across the harp's strings.

And then there's George W. Bush, who passed out in the process of eating a pretzel stick, performing a sort of auto-Heimlich.

The most important intervention of all is the capacity of nuclear weapons for ending human life-in effect performing a sort of abortion on the entire species.

For someone whose mind usually races ahead of everyone else's, performing a sort of mental parkour, it's fitting that Brin should prefer wheels to shoes.