Sentence examples for performance of someone from inspiring English sources

His was the performance of someone who did not seem to be too worried (yet) about the competition.

During the show's big-band night, Mr. Cowell criticized one contestant's performance of "Someone to Watch Over Me" by griping that it had no relevance to music today.

And her Brits performance of Someone Like You was deemed to be the highlight of the night by most critics who watched the ceremony.

But if that's true, since the meltdown she has given an Academy-Award-worthy performance of someone truly peeved by the financial recklessness of average Americans.

Adele has won a total of three Brit awards throughout her career, and delivered an emotional performance of Someone Like You in 2011.

And the performance of someone who has been awake for twenty-four hourstraightht is similar to that of someone with a blood alcohol level of 0.1 per cent.

Sting's performances of "Someone to Watch Over Me" and "Love Is Here to Stay" were respectable, straightforward, no-frills interpretations.

Confucius stressed that appropriate emotions are essential to correct performance of rituals: "Someone who lacks magnanimity when occupying high office, who is not respectful when performing ritual, and who remains unmoved by sorrow when overseeing mourning rites how could I bear to look upon such a person?" (Analects 3.26; Slingerland 2003, 18) Mencius also stressed the importance of ritual.

She has a tall, unbelievably fluid body (her every joint looks double), a mane of blond hair and, in performance, the gaze of someone only pretending to be human.

The reliability of a test is defined as the consistency or reproducibility of performance when someone performs the test repeatedly [ 183].

Her success went stratospheric after a spine-tingling performance of her single "Someone Like You" at the 2011 Brit Awards, which became the launchpad for 21.