Sentence examples for performance tries from inspiring English sources

September 27 2014 In "Little Dot," Bocanegra, an artist known for installations that apply ideas from two-dimensional visual art to performance, tries for a balletic equivalent of the pointillist painting methods of Georges Seurat.

But if anything in the highly strung world of solo performance tries his patience, it's younger pianists: "The problem is they don't learn how to work with a technician.

The one question the critic must ask is: what is the performance trying to do?

But, despite the price performance, trying to understand the property market — let alone buying a home — is a challenge.

Mr Blair responded with a typical "Teflon Tony" performance, trying to engage the barman in a civilised debate about Syria.

Most film-makers who tweak their soundtrack to fit a performance try to make the join seamless.

Listening to the performance, trying to account for exactly why it was so remarkable, I wondered whether Mr. Herreweghe's background in psychiatry might be a factor.

Last January, he began to work again with Athletes' Performance, trying to determine why striking a ball caused pain in his adductor, or groin muscle.

And what about the seams on their tights?" (I am no maquillage expert, and I spent the rest of the performance trying to notice what it was about the seams that bothered him).

The breadth of the design and the intensity of the performance try to widen out the play in ways that don't always flatter the script, flattening its ambiguities, underscoring and emphasising symbols and echoes that were already fairly obvious.

It's often an excuse to showcase a kind of sexless, imperious manner, though Hoffman's performance tried to avoid the more obvious exaggerations, as is clear even from his screen test.