Yet, for all his virtuosity, Jamal is not a domineering player but a sublime group performer - the principal quality that endeared him to Miles Davis.
Elaine Stritch is one of those -- a sublime musical-theater performer and an amazing all-around actor.
Firstly, it should be emphatically stated that Messi, although not currently operating at his absolute peak, remains a phenomenal, sublime, outrageously prolific performer.
It was one of those priceless moment of recognition when one of the greatest athletes of all time finally finally sees a performer as sublime as himself.
Though her best records are sublime, as a live performer she can be frustrating to say the least, and even tonight kept stopping the show, first to exort everyone to put their phones away, then to battle through the crowd to one side of the room and then the other in search of the night's most ardent Missy fans.
LUCIANA ACHUGAR The Uruguayan-born experimental choreographer presents "The Sublime Is Us," in which five performers literally feel their way around the relationship between dancer and spectator.
LUCIANA ACHUGAR The Uruguay-born experimental choreographer and dancer presents "The Sublime Is Us," in which five performers literally feel their way around the relationship between dancer and spectator.
Inside Beethoven's Quartets illustrates how scholarly knowledge can inform a performance, as well as how performers' interpretive choices can illuminate this sublime music.
LUCIANA ACHUGAR (Friday and Saturday) Ms. Achugar has created several pieces in which she explores the nature of shared experience between audience and performer, and in her new dance "The Sublime is Us," she takes things a step further.
Some performers and works are golden, though -- sublime, deluxe, the top.
