Sentence examples for perpetual performance from inspiring English sources

Essendine is a charm machine, trapped in the perpetual performance of his public self.

His cinematic manner reveals an intense, almost unbearable self-consciousness, an awareness (one that's found in the story as well) of the ubiquity of media and of life lived in perpetual performance, on a permanent stage.

Alternately coddled and abused, Nicky is engaged in a perpetual performance for his camera-toting father and his idealizing mother, but neither parent listens to him, or to the other.

In "Henry V," we see how well the son has learned his lessons: Henry is trapped in a perpetual performance of his power, his real personality impossible to locate.

Falstaff swaggers in the foreground while the King, upstage, kneels in prayer: two solitary spellbinders trapped in a perpetual performance of the spells they've cast one of pleasure, the other of power.

Its apparent casualness is belied by Ford's systematic development of the theatrical motif, as the characters turn staircases, doorways and windowsills into stages for the perpetual performances that constitute their lives.

The store, the Allan Block Sandal Shop at 171 West Fourth Street, was just a few minutes' walk from Washington Square Park and from the Folklore Center on Macdougal Street, where perpetual musical performances, both impromptu and planned, made Greenwich Village the red-hot center of the so-called folk revival.

Past efforts have included a skateboard bowl, "Free Basin," designed by the artists' collective Simparch, that talented boarders turned into a perpetual-motion performance space; environments by the street artists Barry McGee, Claire Rojas and Swoon; and "Nest," a graffiti-and-shredded-telephone-book installation by Dan Colen and Dash Snow, a New York artist who died this week.

Her death helps explain Anders's perpetual sulk in an undernourished performance by Mr. Friend.

Would you ask me to do something more frightening?" Dench's derring-do also seems necessary to keep her nearly perpetual routine of rehearsal and performance a fresh and vigorous challenge.

However, to ensure effectiveness of this assessment, the process would require systematic and perpetual inventory of the scheme performance data, consideration of variable factors such as capital and recurrent costs.