Sentence examples for sort of performances from inspiring English sources

Indeed, if he supplies many more of these sort of performances, the ultra-hyped Fernando Torres will find he has a lot to live up to.

Liverpool were 5-0 down at half-time, utterly humiliated at the hands of a rampaging Stoke City, and, to put it bluntly, these are the sort of performances that see clubs and managers part company.

The methods it employed were modern, and the skill at which Mr Modi and his fellow leaders conducted their campaigns rivalled the sort of performances put in by American presidential contenders (and with similar quantities of money to spend).

What is unclear is how patient the supporters will be, whether they have the stomach for yet another survival scrap and how long they will tolerate the sort of performances delivered in the last two home matches, when Villa were booed off on both occasions, after losing 1-0 against Crystal Palace on Boxing Day and then being totally outplayed by Swansea.

And when Van Gaal blew the opportunity to draw from Ángel Di María – a pure attacker of the kind who used to find a warm welcome at Old Trafford – the sort of performances that the Argentinian is producing in Paris, the Dutchman made the limitations of his outlook very clear indeed.

The reason for this, I think, is that a competition format is at its most enjoyable when viewers have a sense of what to expect – knowing the personality of the judges, the nature of the challenges and the sort of performances most likely to thrive – whereas dramas work best when the audience doesn't know what's coming.

could hardly condone this sort of performance.

Again, this sort of performance benchmarking is beginning to occur.

Investors will not tolerate that sort of performance for ever.

"It became a sort of performance," Almodóvar recalls.

In fact, he needed any sort of performance other than the performance he's giving.