Sentence examples for standard for performance from inspiring English sources

On the way to his second, Johnson set a new standard for performance in the series.

While this has perhaps tended toward a conservative musical atmosphere, it has also produced a high standard for performance.

Van Damme and the later Schwarzenegger were robotic by choice, and often by casting, but Vin sets the standard for performance as mechanism.

There's no fixed standard for performance in a movie, and the shorthand of calling a performance "good" usually applauds a banal naturalism that fits the traits of a scripted character as closely as a death mask.

By Richard Brody August 14, 2014 There's no fixed standard for performance in a movie, and the shorthand of calling a performance "good" usually applauds a banal naturalism that fits the traits of a scripted character as closely as a death mask.

The cushion lessens Lee's overall impact with the team compared with that of Sabathia, whose team won the wild card by one game, or of Doyle Alexander, who for years has been considered the gold standard for performance by a pitcher acquired in a July trade.

Along with her husband, conductor and mentor Richard Bonynge, she set the modern standard for performances of the Italian bel canto and French romantic repertoires.

He was also a formidable industry, making hundreds of recordings that pretty much set the modern standard for performances of lieder, the musical settings of poems first popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In the belief that the Graham company sets the standard for performances of her choreography, the dancers say, they are urging Mr. Protas and the board to restructure their relationship, with Mr. Protas negotiating a licensing agreement that would give the center more autonomy.

Despite this shortcoming, the F-150 sets some new standards for performance and design.

"The university," he says, "does not make special provisions for working mothers by changing the standards for performance".