Sentence examples for performances designed to from inspiring English sources

They sensitise local performers and create theatrical performances designed to raise awareness about fistula.

Coldplay's songs soundtracked a range of performances designed to invoke the four seasons.

For example, the Upanishads describe rites or performances designed to grant power or to obtain a particular kind of son or daughter.

Johnny passes Linda's test, and the director, George Cukor, turns their rapport into a series of performances designed to exclude everyone else.

Theatrical and musical entertainments, having once been stately performances designed to flatter their patrons, had passed firmly into the hands of the punters buying the tickets.

They always follow a set formula - speeches followed by a series of performances designed to showcase the culture of the host nation.

It was pure Karzai: a bravura performance designed to obscure fundamental weakness.

But he protests too much; it is a very accomplished performance, designed to display Congreve's not inconsiderable skills as a narrator and a stylist.

It's a lavish performance, designed to lure in the crucial multi-million advertising spend that covers the company paycheck - TV, even today, is a single-revenue business.

In addition to its regular international programme, director Virgilio Sieni has been running a yearly "college" of more modestly scaled performance, designed to fit into the smaller public spaces of the city, and often performed by local, student or amateur dancers.

Ms. Levine's action is more like a pantomime of appropriation, a performance designed to raise questions about the cult of male genius on which the allure of modern art is thought to depend.