Sentence examples for strenuous performance from inspiring English sources

But for every strenuous performance in the show (organized by Roxana Marcoci and Eva Respini, curator and associate curator in the photography department), there's a playful one.

But the doctor told her that given Mr. Jackson's age — he was 50 — and the "strenuous performance" he would be putting on, the doctor "needed to be sure that if something went wrong he would be able to have the CPR machine," she said.

"Fractured Bones/Let's Get Lost" borrows from Godard's sci-fi noir "Alphaville" and the digression in "The Maltese Falcon" about Flitcraft, the man who leaves his family and life style for nearly identical ones, in a strenuous performance about tough-guy existentialism and the impulse to disappear.

He complemented her physically strenuous performance, stating "go on, Janet.

Such rebirths, they held, would continue to recur unless a person should succeed in breaking the vicious circle (releasing himself from the "sorrowful wheel") by strenuous ascetic performances.

The Symphonic Band is also an ensemble dedicated to developing the musician, but with a less strenuous focus on performance.

Scorsese's camera can't get enough of DiCaprio's charisma in "The Aviator" — he's seldom out of the frame, and when he is the film sinks — but the more theatrical Howard Hughes' craziness becomes, the more strenuous DiCaprio's performance seems.

Their preparation for a strenuous physical style of performance includes distance running and rigorous calisthenics.

The word "unfunny" surely applies to Mr. Myers's obnoxious attempts to find mirth in physical and cultural differences but does not quite capture the strenuous unpleasantness of his performance.

Rourke's enormously winning performance – physically strenuous, but also sensitive and self-mocking – helped win this brutally no-nonsense realist drama Venice's Golden Lion in 2008, recharging both Aronofsky's and Rourke's careers.

Compared to alternative techniques in the literature, i.e., [12, 13, 26, 27], the proposed methodology delivers superior performance under strenuous conditions, namely, when irregular motion content is encountered as in for example endoscopic video material, where gastrointestinal contractions can generate severe morphological distortions in conjunction with extreme camera panning.