This genteel and gently comic play by A. R. Gurney is performed in the manner of his popular epistolary drama, "Love Letters," with the cast reading from scripts while seated on a bare stage.
Conversely, speech entails action, not only in the sense that speech itself is a form of action, or that most acts are performed in the manner of speech, but in the sense that action is often the means whereby we check the sincerity of the speaker.
Around the time of recording Infinite, Eminem and rappers Proof and Kon Artis gathered the group of rappers now collectively in the group D12, short for "Detroit Twelve" or "Dirty Dozen", performing in the manner of the multi-man group Wu-Tang Clan.
The first step is set on the 5,000 cycle steps performed in the manner of Steepest Descent algorithm for energy minimization.
She also performs, rather in the manner of that patter-master Rex Harrison, an assortment of songs, ranging from bawdy Sophie Tucker vaudeville numbers to musical-theater evergreens.
We performed the reading in the manner of a 1930s radio recording, with old-fashioned mics, all actors on stage throughout, gliding into mic for each of the 12 scenes.
The scene onstage was making him tense — meaning that Mr. Glover had no desire to perform a mugging number in the manner of a "Cosby Show" episode — so eventually, without a word, we left.
For years people have hoped that this ballerina, with her remarkable quality of dramatic rapture, would perform Ashton's "Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan"; but her collaboration with Ms. Belilove is the most important occasion to date of a ballet star working directly with the Duncan legacy.
Well, nothing, except that "Vertigo" is performed in the manner expected of all performers in Hitchcock films.
I knew I wanted to write and perform in my own films in the manner of my idol, Woody Allen.
"Although the duty arises out of the contract and is measured by its terms, negligence in the manner of performing that duty as distinguished from mere failure to perform it, causing damage, is a tort". Abrams v. Factory Mut.
