Sentence examples for performance squarely from inspiring English sources

One night before the curtain went up, she found a single person in the audience — a lady in a green coat — and decided to aim the performance squarely at her. "I did it absolutely directly at her," Ms. Dench said, "and I told everybody that I was doing it for her".

The 76-page report reads like the autopsy of a dead housing program, placing the blame for the program's paltry performance squarely on the Treasury Department, the government agency responsible for TARP and, in turn, the Hardest Hit program.

With a midmounted 592-horsepower V-8 and a curb weight under 3,300 pounds, the 12C's performance is squarely in supercar territory -- at the upper end, in fact.

Since Jaden spends much of his time on-screen as the only person in the frame, the responsibility of performance does fall squarely on his young shoulders.

Teacher performance has to be squarely on the table.

But mainly his work fits squarely within performance art's peculiar and extreme explorations of the human condition.

What bricks and mortar may have been to earlier methods of architecture, today the focus is squarely on performance of design in the built environment.

But there might be some who don't feel they can fully buy in to an approach which so squarely links performance to the upholding of our values.

He said: "There might be some who don't feel they can fully buy in to an approach which so squarely links performance to the upholding of our values.

"Labour's performance in 2016 was squarely in line with what one might expect a year into a parliament where the opposition is not going to win the general election," he said.

"Cruelty" shares something with comedic entries in the Coen canon like "The Big Lebowski" and "Raising Arizona": a full-blooded movie star performance to put it squarely into the strike zone.