Sentence examples for performance lost from inspiring English sources

Was Elba's impressive performance lost under all that makeup?

At times, in a striving for nobility, the performance lost tension and seemed subdued.

Bass-baritone Matthew Brook seemed to struggle to catch her eye and, for a moment, the performance lost its intensity.

Mr. Simons's famed Medallion fund, which has rarely had a down month during nearly two decades of incredible performance, lost 8.7percentt in early August.

Penn is 5-12 after Wednesday night's 80-64 loss at Temple, and in a particularly poor performance, lost by 30 points to Florida Gulf Coast.

It spoke of Cameron as "the principal loser" who, despite a "a polished performance", lost control of a key issue of foreign policy and therefore suffered "an almost unprecedented failure".

"The performance loses authenticity through a screen.

On the competitive front, I turned in a disappointing performance, losing 3 of 4 doubles and 3 of 6 singles matches.

But, as the evening progresses the performance loses focus and, in the terrifying scene of Othello's epileptic fit, textual accuracy.

Nikolaus Lehnhoff's forceful, if extreme, staging updates the scenario to suit present gender obsessions: Salvago (Robert Brubaker, in an eloquent, if unsubtle, performance) loses his hump but likes to cross-dress, and the unfortunate girls are literally children, of both sexes.

The BMW 330i, a close competitor on specs and performance, loses just about the same amount of value.