Sentence examples for performances attempts from inspiring English sources

These letters are performances, attempts at persuasion: they are trying to get someone to do something.

Her two overriding characteristics are independence and drive, and her performances attempt, whenever possible, to shake up conventional pianistic wisdom.

His theatrical performances attempted to modernise traditional forms so that they could be better received in a modern world.

Schuller's performance attempts to prove the points about interpretation he makes in his book The Compleat Conductor.

But when audiences gather regularly to experience a performance, attempts are generally made to organize the space in order to improve on the nature of the experience the audience can have, and this is the beginning of theatre design.

It collapses down into her face every few seconds and she spends her entire performance attempting to push it back up and out of the way.

Last year, the state comptroller's office released a study analyzing districts' spending compared with their academic performance, attempting to control for factors like demographics, size and regional costs.

Lumosity, an organization that creates brain-training exercises and studies data on human cognitive performance, attempted to quantify that question.

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Over the years, relatives of purge victims in Indonesia have staged puppet shows and theatrical performances in attempts to tell their sides of the story.

But after reading his writing, I can see that those performances were attempts to curve his imagination toward someone else's, the better to learn about where language and the body connect.