Sentence examples for placid performance from inspiring English sources

But a surprisingly placid performance of the Mozart concerto, in which the usually brilliant Mr. Aimard seemed tentative, undermined the overall effect of this adventure in programming.

Mr. Maguire's placid performance in that film as an adolescent in the throes of 1970's suburban family hell eventually got him other deep-thinking parts in "Cider House Rules" (1999) and "Wonder Boys" (2000).

Latifah was channeling the street-wise intensity she once embodied, providing some welcome ripples in an otherwise placid performance.

Still, the performance was rather placid, heavily pedaled and murky.

If her final act was more solidly placid than radiantly serene, a performance of the role rather than an inhabiting of it, that was par for the course in an evening without much fire or focus.

Today they are to "green" protectionism as the East German women's bobsled team was to fair competition at the Lake Placid Olympics bulked up on artificial performance enhancements and deaf to demands for open and honest competition.

During the placid opening of Morton Subotnick's performance on the first night, I overheard a restless concertgoer behind me say in a stage whisper to a friend that he wished the 83-year-old composer would "do something already".

Still, at times the performance seemed too subtle and a little placid, at least until the final Allegretto, taken at a brisk tempo and dispatched with impishness.

Chemoluminescent detection (Upstate, Lake Placid, NY, USA) was performed in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions.

No performance of Feldman's music, particularly the vast, placid expanses of his later pieces, is a task undertaken lightly.

The performance as a whole was perfectly lovely — and a little placid.