Sentence examples for sobering performance from inspiring English sources

But in the sobering performance at the Manhattan School on Wednesday evening, you were reminded why Brecht and Weill placed a note in the vocal score that Mahagonny "is in every sense international".

With the St George's cross daubed on to faces and draped round small shoulders, families poured into Wembley for the historic match and, despite a commanding and occasionally sobering performance from the superior German side, the chanting and cheers – accompanied by jaunty tunes from the England supporters' band – rang around the ground for the full 90 minutes.

Last year, a jaw-dropping and sobering performance from our negotiators lowered trust in the USTR close to zero.

Clad in khakis and a blue Windbreaker, he mocked Mr. Romney in a way he had not during his sober performance on Wednesday night.

The album's most politically strident song, Bernice Reagon's "Echo," elicits a chillingly sober performance from Dianne Reeves; its most sumptuous, Al Green's "Simply Beautiful," comes next, with Cassandra Wilson ensconced in smoky languor.

There was something refreshing in this sober performance — mostly dedicated to the government's economic program — compared to what one can imagine would have occurred in the White House press room: a relentless and endless barrage of questions demanding every possible detail.

But in many parts of the market, the returns for bond mutual funds are sobering, with performances that would be abysmal even for stock funds in a typical year.

Whitman seems to have led a sober, performance-oriented life.

Set in a Maine logging town after a child is found in a coma on a school bus, it features sober performances by a cast that includes John Slattery and Margo Martindale.

But the movie's warmth, and Mr. Gilliam's sober, likable performance sustain it through its ragged stretches and amateurish lapses.

Taken from a concert in Dresden in April 2000, Sinopoli's sober, measured performance certainly underlines the stature and scale of Dvorak's achievement.