Sentence examples for the mere performance from inspiring English sources

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The tension between Beerbohm as gadfly and Arnold as authority figure is a paradigm for similar tensions throughout the book, which tries to explain how the seriousness of public figures ossifies over time into caricature, into "the mere performance of seriousness".

"We want more than the mere performance of mental gymnastics.

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Rather, the actors give freely of themselves (Gosling's self-conscious whimsy adds some notable moments of comedy), while the camera, in sharp attention to gestures, glances, textures, and faces, and by way of some soul-shuddering closeups, gets past mere performance to the seeming core of character.

Transcendental falsity, by contrast, is always the result of some special idiosyncrasy or accidental glitch in the cognitive generation of a given judgment, and thus represents a mere "performance error" in the operation of our cognitive faculties, and not a gap in our transcendental cognitive "competence".

The Sound Shore Orchestra, whose stated mission is "to connect generations of listeners to the beauty of symphony music," goes beyond mere performance to achieve that goal.

By contrast, gay male sexual identity is not restricted to the stage and is not viewed as "mere performance" (10 13).

Namaste points to the social facts that gay male drag performance is often restricted to entertainment on the stage where it is viewed as "mere performance".

In light of this, Prosser concludes that queer theory's use of transsexuals to undermine gender as mere performance fails to do justice to the importance of narrative and belonging in trans identities.

That's also why it's almost impossible to discuss in detail: the mere presence of a real-life famous person is no mere performance or plot point but an automatic punch line, so even just listing names would give away some jokes.

Like a made-to-measure suit from Savile Row, a custom-made chip has snob appeal among users that goes beyond mere performance.

Since, however, it involves more than mere performance (i.e., dysphoria concerning one's body) as well as the centrality of narrative, it ought to be distinguished from generic understandings of queer.

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