Sentence examples for the early performance from inspiring English sources

The early performance of the newly black-controlled companies exceeded expectations.

"The early performance is rambunctious, exuberant, relishing its power and freedom," the reviewer, Edward Rothstein, wrote.

The sales have even bettered the early performance of the PlayStation 2, which went on to sell over 150m units.

"The early performance capture had this kind of mushiness to the way a facial muscle would perform," Mr. Zemeckis said.

The boxes were then removed, and used as various props, such as platforms for scantily clad dancers (turning the camp factor up to 11, two extras wore cube-like masks for much of the early performance).

At the early performance on Monday, Sofya Gulyak, a Russian pianist who won the William Kapell International Piano Competition in 2007, played a varied program — Bach-Busoni, Clementi, Brahms, Schumann, Liszt and Shostakovich — all in a thundering, steel-tread style in which virtuosity is almost everything, and subtlety is an occasional footnote.

In Ondekoza and in the early performances of Kodo, women performed only dance routines either during or between taiko performances.

Some of his new sculptures have the simplicity and suggestiveness that made the early performances memorable.

As it turns out, Mr. Gelb had asked Ms. De Niese to be in town during the early performances of the opera, just in case Ms. Dessay had to cancel.

The popularity of the early performances emboldened him to "take the concept on the road" and to promote it like a rap tour.

After the early performances, Bernstein toned the text down a bit, and, over the years, different people have tried to replace it.