Today's performances of such works render them safe, undisturbing, unchallenging.
Affleck, Hartnett and Beckinsale give performances of such somnambulist awfulness that the three of them achieve an almost zen-like state of woodenness.
Amid music of such urgency and performances of such passionate involvement, Elgar's Serenade for Strings proved the real divertimento, and a lovely one.
WHEN Londoners talk up their city as the music capital of the world, their pride is justified, because no other town -- not even Berlin or New York -- could claim performances of such persistent quality and quantity.
Such efforts focus on the past, however, while music-making itself plunges into the future, in compositions that feel like new worlds or in performances of such freshness that familiar works feel created anew.
In an 1840 letter to the pianist Anna Caroline de Belleville, Chopin complimented her for her marvelous performances of "such great masters as Mozart, Beethoven and Hummel, the masters of us all".
A few more performances of such superhuman ilk and Antonio Conte will surely take him to the European Championships, with the playmaker still considered one of Italy's finest talents.
The binder will include a section showing the poor post-season performances of such Hall of Famers as Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, and Ted Williams.
Likewise against Arsenal and PSV Eindhoven, Woodgate turned in performances of such quality that it seemed only a matter of time before he took over the role of center half for England.
Mercifully the singers managed to combine plausible but minimal movement with performances of such quality that, with Richard Egarr's chorus and players in top form, the opera came across with its power undimmed.
From the 1950s through the 1980s, the Australian vocalist personified the world of opera, her dramatic coloratura soprano and passionate delivery enlivening performances of such operas as Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Vincenzo Bellini's Norma, among many others.
