Sentence examples for that a performance from inspiring English sources

After that, a performance of the Rite of Spring, complete with authentic sacrificial virgins, may seem something of an anticlimax.

It's a highly professional, highly polished performance, but in the end it remains just that: a performance that's conscientious and carefully fashioned, but somehow not deeply heartfelt.

He noted that a performance in Danbury this year fell through for financial reasons.

"The reason for the rock removal is that a performance hall has to have volume.

The second problem with performance is that it is often just that: a performance.

Dorothy Parker once said that a performance by Katharine Hepburn "ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B".

The sense that a performance is a contest, a debate that can be won, appeals to Lewis's competitive nature.

He thought that a performance should reveal the emotional states the composer had experienced while creating the work.

At one hearing, prosecutors claimed that a performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" had never happened at all.

But it seemed unsurprising in retrospect that a performance so full of, well, life was recorded live.

THE long-running joke about opera is that a performance is not over until the fat lady sings.