Not the performing itself, but getting geared up to do it.
Above all, his poetry performed itself – still demands to be heard aloud.
He believed that once the perfect cast was in place, so to speak, the play would virtually perform itself… the most important work was done.
The use of strict metre throughout helps the poem perform itself off the page as well as giving the spoken form a sort of music that engages the audience.
The show doesn't exactly perform itself now, but I no longer wait behind the curtain wondering how on earth I am going to create an hour of entertainment all on my own.
I'm sure this ghastly cafe won't open, though it really is opening in Geneva, but the very idea that a normal man might be expected to perform under such circumstances adds to the general taxing expectations (and the word "perform" itself is a stressful one, which should probably be phased out).
Perform itself said there were "no issues" with the broadcast, but you'll have trouble convincing someone that watching a stream on your laptop can replicate the experience of watching on your big screen TV, or at the pub, or, well, at the game itself!
Documentary photography performed itself, whatever its subject; its mission was to photograph "others".
But when it comes to receiving intelligence, Juneau-Katsuya worries that Canada could be complicit in torture it won't perform itself.
A key testable prediction of mirror neuron-based hypotheses follows from the fact that, by definition, mirror neurons only exist for motor actions the subject can actually perform itself.
