Sentence examples for straightforward performances from inspiring English sources

Most offer straightforward performances by notable if not historic artists, often with commentary.

He promises that this year four of the five nominated songs will be presented by their creators in straightforward performances.

And because the skill involved depends on an ability to think on your feet, it attracts a kudos denied to straightforward performances.

The songs needed nothing more than the crisp, straightforward performances they got, whether it was the folky picking and strumming of "January Hymn" or the Byrds guitar aura of "Calamity," which envisions a California earthquake to that California sound.

The first of two programs is straightforward: performances of the Symphonies No. 3 (his most romantic and subjective) and No. 4 (the essence of tragedy, and a summit of pure technique).

This award-winning quartet from Prague, one of three Czech quartets featured at the Y this spring, will also give more straightforward performances, of Beethoven's Op. 18, No. 6, and Alexander Zemlinsky's Quartet No. 1. Tomorrow night at 8, 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, (212) 415-5500.

It isn't the ideal way to hear this work: the straightforward performance has the edge.

An indifferent or merely straightforward performance can sound disjointed, dull and, at nearly 150 minutes, endless.

Sirens is a more straightforward performance but it opens in typically bold style.

Surely Mr. Gilbert, a dynamic yet exacting musician, was crucial to drawing this refreshingly straightforward performance from the excitable Mr. Lang.

Before stepping down on Oct. 1, Joe Lockhart won praise for his straightforward performance as White House press secretary.