Sentence examples for performance started off from inspiring English sources

The performance started off with Brown performing "She Ain't You" in a gray suit with voluminous pant legs and a cape fashioned out of a jacket.

"Every drug ever used to enhance sports performance started off as a pharmaceutical drug designed to help sick people get better.

The performance started off after "Justify My Love".

The performance started off with Kesha opening with her previous single, "Take It Off", while playing on the keyboard; she soon transitioned into "We R Who We R".

The performance started off with Kesha opening with "Take It Off" while playing on the keyboard wearing a glowing robot helmet; she soon transitioned into "We R Who We R".

His performance in the match started off well, then faded before coming back in the second half, opined Andrés Astruells in El Mundo Deportivo.

He started off his performance by cautioning Vardy and the first yellow card was where it all started to go wrong.

His performance of Company and Sorry started off as a son-et-lumière extravaganza, with lights playing over a semi-transparent curtain, behind which Bieber danced, but soon settled into a pretty straightforward version of Sorry, with the newly-shorn singer offering a few Michael Jacrotchstyle crotch grabs to cheer it up.

In his very fine performance, Hugh Quarshie starts off as a distinguished, greying, statesmanlike Othello,  a man of great charm capable of showing wry amusement at the age difference between himself and Joanna Vanderman's attractively mettlesome Desdemona.

Watching Ray Chambers as Tartuffe (in an unmodulated performance that starts off as brazenly as it should end), one sees all the trappings of a saintly sham: Bible clasped to his bosom, lips pursed in a beatific half-smile, lanky frame bowing obsequiously before the crucifix but not before smoothing his eyebrows in its shiny surface.

The class of 2011 also started off with their best performance, before dropping a little in every subsequent showing.