Sentence examples for polite performance from inspiring English sources
Its archival perspective was embodied by an overly polite performance of Shaw's "Concerto for Clarinet," which Will Anderson introduced as Shaw's competitive response to Benny Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing," right down to having the piece end on a higher note.
Conducted by José Serebrier, the American Composers Orchestra gave a polite performance of the Third that only belatedly, in the final movement, did justice to the work's inherent elegance.
The Widmann was framed by a jubilant but polite performance of Brahms's Academic Festival Overture, and an expansive account of the First Symphony, with Smith back in the first flautist's chair.
She's not helped by a polite performance by Friend as Albert, who comes across as something of a drip.
But even when he was ostensibly singing about his own life -- as in "Better Man," which he said he'd written as a way to atone for his failings as a lover -- Bridges clung so tightly to his chosen style that there was no way to hear his exceedingly polite performance as anything other than an elaborate exercise in mimicry.
Mostly she and the producer Steve Mac render traditionals — "Auld Lang Syne," "O Come All Ye Faithful" and more — in unerringly gorgeous, if wrenchingly polite, arrangements, performances that smooth flat the many creases in Ms. Boyle's sometimes erratic public persona.
Writing in the New York Times, Ben Brantley called his performance, "polite, vaguely charming and forgettable.
When I heard Harbison's work, it struck me as well wrought but overly polite; Spano's performance, however, had deftly highlighted its strongest quality — a kind of hushed prayerfulness.
When I heard Harbison's work, it struck me as well wrought but overly polite; Spano's performance, however, had deftly highlighted its strongest quality a kind of hushed prayerfulness.
Making politics polite again.
As the leading couple, Megan Fairchild and Benjamin Millepied gave polite and perky performances that surely need attack and texture of an altogether more potent order.
