As Holton puts it (2005, 74), Bridgman's drive in operational analysis was "to throw the spotlight on performable action, above all an action performed by himself.
I read some song lyrics that hadn't quite been turned into performable songs, and some other stuff, and I performed a couple of my big, illustrated rhyming books which I had brought along at Julien's request.
According to one common formulation, an action is right if it would promote a greater amount of happiness for a greater number of people than would any other action performable in the same circumstances.
But the readings drew on more permanent elements in him and his art: his remarkable histrionic talents, his love of theatricals and of seeing and delighting an audience, and the eminently performable nature of his fiction.
The viewing behaviour could include "an action performable by the viewer and detectable by one or more sensors, such as a depth camera".
In some respects, techno — and its variants and relatives — represents a kind of post-Cold War folk music, endlessly adaptable, performable by anyone.
But he has also been involved lately in creating performable editions of his older works, and in a surge of events last week fresh interpreters put their own stamp on Mr. Ashley's music.
Here her primary task was stripping dense studio confections to a performable core; this she did in collaboration with a cellist, Christopher Votek, and a percussionist, Corey Fogel.
More easily inspired than done, for the work has not come down in a readily performable version.
But consider the labor involved for Gene Scheer, the librettist, who had to pare down a leviathan novel to performable length while maintaining Melville's grand language and moralistic tone.
