Sentence examples for performance alternately from inspiring English sources

And his performance alternately perplexed and pleased.

Luckily, Ghostface Killah (now known as just plain Ghostface) fits the bill perfectly, and his performance alternately mesmerized and incited an audience that just a half-hour earlier was decorating the stage with plastic cups.

Mr. Ma is a known commodity in this work, as in most of the standard concertos, and he gave a typically virtuosic performance, alternately probing and dazzling, with sure support from Mr. Dutoit.

If the BAM performance, alternately gripping and monotonous, left some in the audience bewildered, it succeeded in driving home her unconventional achievement, combining promiscuous collaboration (both engagements featured the prodigious twenty-one-year-old pianist Jonathan Batiste) and determination to rethink the jazz songbook.

Former governor Mike Huckabee and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson gave meandering performances, alternately railing about transgender people in the military, the dangers of a nuclear Iran, and the evils of abortion.

Perhaps influenced by her previous work with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Twyla Tharp opened her 1980 "Brahms Paganinii" with an astonishing male solo, a tour de force of invention and technical virtuosity, danced at its first performances alternately by Richard Colton and William Whitener.

Until that scene, Ms. Zellweger's performance is alternately subtle and reptile; she can still win the day.

At Wednesday night's performance, billed alternately as a press preview and a dress rehearsal, the audience included a large number of high school students.

It's a performance that alternately smolders and flares, as Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee (as the boy) trudge through a gray, desolate landscape, trying to maintain their humanity and stay alive, while dodging others who have succumbed to the Darwinian imperative.

The performances were alternately vibrant (some beguiling Strauss waltzes and an exhilarating account of a new work by Kaija Saariaho) and flat (a stodgy performance of Beethoven's Opus 131 String Quartet arranged for strings and a limp Schubert Second Symphony).

Enlivened by amateur pyrotechnics and the presence of Shin-Yu, a Japanese band member whose solitary function appeared to involve staring at the audience while drinking lager, their performances were alternately unsettling and hilarious: at one juncture they took to playing in front of a giant funeral wreath - of the kind that usually spells out Dad or Mum - that instead read Fuck Off.