Sentence examples for performing the sort of from inspiring English sources

He saw himself as a force for good, performing the sort of illegal but morally justified work that the police could not, a kind of smooth-talking Batman.

Mr. Eisman and his team "had a from-the-ground-up understanding of both the U.S. housing market and Wall Street," Mr. Lewis writes, and by performing the sort of nitty-gritty credit analysis on mortgages (that should have been done before the loans were made in the first place), they realized that they could make a fortune by shorting the worst of the worst.

Disney also created an animated clip that showed King's character performing the sort of illusion that the social star is known for — jumping through the bars of a jail cell.

Frankly, a technician could be trained to perform the sort of surgery you advocate.

Tom Brady performs the sort of sliding tackle that would get you sent off in the other kind of football.

It performed the sort of economic development that for decades had been carried out by a government department, which leaders in Ohio thought was up for a reboot.

He was a disappointment to directors who wanted him to perform the sort of madcap adventures associated with the Fairbanks name.

Watching Hussey perform the sort of escape act seen only in circuses might have persuaded the captain that Australia could win any time, from anywhere.

This is how the GOP performs the sort of moral contortions that led the party to create a website, lyincomey.com, with the explicit purpose of smearing the former FBI director, a registered Republican, ahead of publication of his book.

Over three pages of tightly packed prose, with just a few photos, the anonymous author performed the sort of high-toned but accessible literary analysis that would be much harder to find in a mass market magazine today.

To test the hypothesis that financial bonuses elevate work quality, he and a colleague at Yahoo Research set up a website modeled on Amazon's "Mechanical Turk" service, which pays users a small fee to perform the sort of tasks that are hard for computers, like labeling a stack of photos.