Sentence examples for performative achievement from inspiring English sources

While participants had pleasure-related reasons for engaging in physical activity, this enjoyment could be overshadowed by the grip of caloric fear or dread of a demobilized future; a need for performative achievement or a thinner body; or the need to be a conspicuous exception to potentially stigmatizing anti-obesity messaging.

It was more performance art than performative fandom.

Performative endurance, or endurance as performance?

It is not to be confused with the recently popular baseball beard, or with the performative crazy beard, or with the hipster beard, which marks no achievement at all.

Instead Reimer contends that performative utterances rest on systems of what she terms illocutionary conventions to achieve their performative effects.

It's performative".

It is performative.

I can be performative.

"For Alex, painting is performative.

"He always had that performative bent.

Performative, perhaps, but I find it sweet.