Sentence examples for stark performance from inspiring English sources

The predictably delighted response triggers an apology for his late arrival due to an errant hairdryer: "My hair got caught – who knew a hairdryer could blow and suck?" Yet, 10 minutes before, he'd opened this show with a stark performance of new single Brave Man, currently generating debate because its video features a naked trans man.

You'd expect such material to produce a stark live performance, and it does.

After opening the night with a stark, intense performance of "Not Afraid" and, with Rihanna, "Love the Way You Lie," he left the building, leaving others to claim his statuettes for him.

Frank finds himself desperately in love with his widowed landlady, the morosely beautiful Margaret Hammond: it's a stark, pained performance from Rachel Roberts, crowned with an unforgettably macabre death sequence.

No doubt the choice of Schubert's late Quintet in C, one of the great works of the repertory, was made in deference to Mr. Starker, whose performances of the core Viennese masters have long been admired.

The accompanying charts, based on data released this week by the International Monetary Fund in the semiannual World Economic Outlook, show the stark differences in performance.

The report said these "stark differences" in performance raised "serious questions" about the credibility of the state test as a meaningful gauge of academic progress.

Research by John Hawksworth, an economist at PWC, has unveiled a stark difference in performance between the second half of the 1990s and the first half of the current decade.

The bank will focus initially on first mortgages those with Citi second mortgages and home equity loans, which have both seen stark deterioration in performance recently, will have to wait.

To be sure, there are stark differences in performance across countries and regions.

No matter where we examine the system -- studying waiting times or access, studying hospitals, office practices or nursing homes -- what we observe are stark differences in performance.