Sentence examples for sturdy performance from inspiring English sources

What holds it together is Ms. Watson's calm, sturdy performance.

Ebeling and Rafalca turned in a sturdy performance, but it lacked the crispness of some of their competitors.

The sturdy performance by the world's second-largest university endowment last fiscal year affirmed the diversification strategy of its longtime chief, David Swensen.

The Yankees had allowed 33 runs in the previous three games and Torre stressed how a sturdy performance could make everything dark around a team seem bright.

Last Sunday, the Rangers got a sturdy performance from Davis on the mound and had a 4-3 lead over the Astros in the ninth.

Against a well-manned Watford midfield, Arsenal should also redeploy the central pairing of Francis Coquelin and Mohamed Elneny following their sturdy performance at Tottenham.

Spader's flamboyant central performance in The Blacklist is sufficiently balanced by the unshowy, sturdy performances of a few well-cast supporting actors.

But aside from appreciating the movie's sturdy performances, my reaction to this satire of the middle-class, all-German family swung from revulsion to mystification.

The record label Nonesuch, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year, began its life humbly, distributing sturdy performances of the German repertory by under-the-radar European groups at paperback-book prices.

It has bucket-loads of blood, some sturdy performances from the main characters and dialogue such as "a little birdie told me you lot got unfinished business with me and my brother, Reg".

Anne Kaufman directs solidly, and Coleman, Ferrer and Stahl-David hold up their end of the compromised bargain with sturdy performances that flesh out real characters but never alleviate the basic problem: Patrons are far ahead of them within minutes of the start and remain there for the rest of the work.