He impersonated the poster pose of his Thor: The Dark World co-star Natalie Portman, prompting an instant meme, and has shown a willingness to perform karaoke at the slightest prompting, be it a rather freeform rendition of Man in the Mirror to screaming Korean fans or a version of Stand By Me in a car on German TV.
Guthrie prefaced "The Motorcycle Song" with a hilarious shaggy-dog story about a man whose quest to ride his cycle in the house resulted in multiple calls to the paramedics — but unfortunately, the introduction was much funnier than the slight song, which lacked the bounce of the rendition from his 1967 debut album.
This is the flawed parliamentary "oversight" body that dozed at the wheel on rendition, and which refuses to offer the slightest detail of its work.
He is perhaps the only film-maker in the world who could stage a tipsy rendition of Ladies of Spain without the slightest hint of a Spielberg reference (it wouldn't surprise me if he'd never seen Jaws).
This is his rendition of Freddie Hubbard's "Red Clay" with a slight variation on the bass line that A Tribe Called Quest cut for "Sucka Nigga" from the same song.
More familiar dishes include excellent renditions of Sichuan cold noodles ($3.95), with a slight sweetness, which offsets the growing heat; delicate wontons stuffed with pork and served in a spicy red oil ($3.95); and fiery dan dan noodles ($3.95).
Even some of the slightest vignettes are more effective, as with, for example, the quicksilver rendition of "Rain on the Roof" by Susan Watson and another of the production's newcomers, Don Correia.
Mr. Hobson played a mechanical rendition of the Chopin, seemingly determined to banish even the slightest whiff of sentimentality.
Albums by venerable singers revisiting their own classics can sometimes pale by comparison with the originals, but Glen Campbell's Alzheimer's disease and a slight tremor in his voice has given new meaning to beautifully intimate renditions of the likes of Rhinestone Cowboy and By the Time I Get to Phoenix.
The concert ended with an unusually convincing rendition of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2 ("Little Russian"), in which bold, sharply defined colors and abundant energy did much to compensate for a slight, repetitive patchwork of gestures Tchaikovsky went on to perfect elsewhere.
Hence the slight sense of melancholy that attached itself to the crowd's pre-match mass karaoke rendition of Wonderwall last night.
