Sentence examples for performance that fails from inspiring English sources

And while Rachel Weisz sobs gamely, an exotic knockout even when vomiting sleeping pills or zonked out by gas fumes, it's a performance that fails to linger in the memory.

Der Spiegel said that the film and its supporting actors were praised, but that Cruise was panned by German critics for "a surprisingly low-key performance that fails to convey the charisma with which Stauffenberg inspired fellow plotters".

In this instance, excessive emphasis on one of these performance dimensions at the expense of one or both of the others is likely to result in system performance that fails to successfully achieve any of these performance dimensions over the long run.

However, it was another performance that failed to excite and did little to dispell early season concerns over Chelsea's attacking prowess.

A performance that failed to hew to the majority of specified pitches and rhythms would surely not count, nor would a performance without even a hint of expression beyond that which is explicitly notated.

In 2002, Greg Kot of Rolling Stone similarly noted the "hymn-like calm" of a performance that failed to reach the "transcendent heights" of Harrison's 1970 triple set.

Here were British athletes not feeling sorry for themselves or crumbling under the weight of national expectations and their opponents' aura or slinking home after performances that failed to approach personal bests achieved in less pressurised circumstances.

Whenever the structure is not stiff enough, flexibility degrades the performances of the controller that fails to track the desired history.

The most influential factor was previous performance on the pay for performance scheme: practices that failed to acquire all available points for a specific indicator in the previous year (2007-8) had, on average, exception reporting rates 2.3% higher than those that succeeded.

In fact, there is no widely used, effective system to share information between levels of government about contractors under investigation, those with criminal convictions or poor performance records, those that fail to pay taxes and debts and those found nonresponsible for other reasons.

But if you wanted a probing, insightful performance that never failed to ring true and which was fascinating from first note to last, his were the recordings you almost instinctively reached.