That's a bit much: she gave the kind of grim, two-level "psychological" performance that offers nothing flexible or playful, nothing that allows you to feel any intimacy with her.
Still, he inevitably comes back with a performance that is nothing short of phenomenal.
Perry, stupidly, decided to write the book himself, a wooden performance that did nothing to enhance his reputation.
OMAHA (AP) — Fresno State kept its amazing postseason run alive Tuesday night thanks to an offensive performance that was nothing short of amazing.
Pierre-Laurent andard, Thomas Zehetmair and Clemens Hagen, interpreters as individualistic as they are skilled, join the strong-willed Nikolaus Harnoncourt in a probing performance that takes nothing for granted stylistically.
Andrew Puzder, the C.E.O. of the fast-food chains Hardee's and Carl's Jr. and Trump's first choice for Labor Secretary, was hurried offstage after an amateurish performance that had nothing to do with Russia.
The producers tried to liven up the night with a theme — movie musicals — but even that tribute grew overly long, larded with unnecessary performances that had nothing to do with the films at hand.
Perhaps that's too much to ask of a gala, which seems to be required by some unwritten protocol to include a couple of performances that have nothing whatsoever to do with the theme.
But there's an honesty about the performance that's totally convincing; nothing, you sense, is being done just for superficial effect.
In "Bright Mississippi," with the horns laying out, Mr. Haynes stayed focused on the clenched high-hat cymbal — à la his idol, the Basie-band drummer Jo Jones — and mixed up Cuban clave with swing rhythm in a performance that was all conviction: nothing clinical about it.
