Sentence examples for the joy of performance from inspiring English sources

Even in their most commercial moments, Henson's creations were purveyors of optimism and the joy of performance.

But a remarkable thing happened – all my terror disappeared, and the joy of performance came back to me.

There is the joy of performance – "life-giving, muscle-aching, mind-clearing, cathartic pleasure and privilege" – and a work ethic inherited from his blue-collar New Jersey upbringing.

Creating vivid characters, clearly relishing the opportunities their roles afford them to practice their art, they invest "The Mayor's Limo" with the joy of performance.

His paean to young love becomes a celebration of art: the cynical and hardened professional rediscovers the joy of performance in another delicious moment, when she stands on pointe both for a kiss and for a dance.

Rather, they are those that remind us of the reasons we go to the opera in the first place: the intensity of the emotions, the exhilaration of the interplay between text and music, the joy of performance.

Whilst in many ways the entire show is a slow build-up to a single – and very funny - punchline, the joy of the performance comes in the carefully paced journey towards it.

My concentration/meditation was so intense that pain was displaced by the joy of the performance.

The joy of live performances (and the danger of recorded ones) is that Mr. Tetzlaff will probably never play the piece this way again.

It seems fitting that the joy of her performances came through most powerfully in the discipline she worked at the hardest; for Temple, one gets the feeling, work was play and play was work.

To draw a distinction between musicology and the sheer joy of performance is next to impossible.