Sentence examples for performance hardly from inspiring English sources

While his performance hardly proved critical to the final result, he again left fans talking officials.

Samuel Beckett would have laughed, even if McNamara's performance hardly ranked alongside Billie Whitelaw's Happy Days.

Ms. Bergen's character doesn't unravel, but the film does -- it is so awful that her satiric performance hardly makes sense.

THE Nigerian army is said to be one of the most capable in Africa, but its recent performance hardly justifies that claim.

Yet Mr. Boulez's lucid and incisive conducting of the craggy Seventh proved a revelation, and the performance hardly lacked for sweeping energy and clarion brilliance.

"If it's me and my method I take responsibility but we haven't changed our game plan, so why the difference in performance?" Hardly words to ease the battered spirits of a young side in need of something to feed off.

Mr. Romney's performance was hardly flawless.

On paper, the company's recent performance is hardly thrilling.

But Charlotte's encouraging performance has hardly been attributable to Kidd-Gilchrist alone.

Weak hedge fund performance is hardly Cooper Union's only financial problem.

Among Mr. Ballmer's generation of tech executives, his post-2000 stock performance is hardly the worst.