Sentence examples for performed it straight from inspiring English sources

"It's a great song but if you had performed it straight, it would have felt too old".

At a recent seminar in Chicago for members of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the actors initially emphasised the humour in Ayckbourn's dialogue – until he taught them that performing it straight, emphasising the tension and resentment inherent in family relationships, would get bigger laughs.

Ratmansky has changed the well-known "finger variation," so that bent-arm motions alternate with the arrow-like straight pointing; Stella Abrera performed it with esprit.

And then they performed it again, and again, and kept performing it for 12 straight hours; the singers went hoarse, the musicians' hands grew calloused and everyone needed to hydrate in order to keep going.

Once you got the moves straight, try Perform it!

Reaming was performed with straight reamers.

Essentially, actions can now be performed from straight within the drop-down notifications menu.

A steel sleeve was passed through the triceps tendon, and the reaming was performed with straight reamers.

For low adhesion tests that are usually performed on straight lines, these kinds of results/measurements of the total X force are valuable.

Current replacement of the thoracic aorta performed with straight vascular prostheses may cause kinking, potentially affecting hemodynamics and promoting vortices and thrombus formation.

For The Virgin Tour in 1985, Madonna again donned wedding attire and performed a straight version of the song featuring a quotation from Michael Jackson's similar-sounding Motown-style single, "Billie Jean".