Sentence examples for tentative performance from inspiring English sources

Skating insiders had never seen that presence before, especially in her tentative performance in the short program on Tuesday night.

Vera Beths was the soloist in Beethoven's Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F. It was a tentative performance marred by memory slips and intonation problems.

In between the reveries this was a tentative performance by Ms. DeMent, less like stage fright than like a car engine not fully warmed on a winter morning.

The pianist Blair McMillen and the Collegiate Chorale joined the orchestra for Ives's alluring, mysterious and quirky Symphony No. 4, also given a tentative performance here.

Egils Silins, a Latvian bass with an earthy deep-set voice, made his Met debut as Don Basilio, and nervousness may have accounted for his tentative performance.

"I felt that she gave a tentative performance," Mr. Weissler said, "but obviously that's what happens when you're out for a week with a bad flu".

This time, they experienced some early hiccups and tentative performances before coalescing as a team over the summer.

Perhaps discomfort with the production accounted for the tentative musical performance, but the conductor Carlo Rizzi must be mostly held responsible.

Although tentative, Mr. Dando's performance recalled why fame has flirted with him.

From all reports, as the run progressed Mr. Heppner's opening-night jitters, that had rendered his dramatic performance tentative, passed.

Ms. McEntire's cover of Beyoncé's "If I Were A Boy" was forceful, but Mr. Strait, the night's other representative of the old guard, sounded noticeably frail and tentative in his performance of "The Breath You Take".