Sentence examples for to be a performance from inspiring English sources

But Jumbo's character doesn't want her life as a performer to be a performance; she'd rather tell us what it's really like and where her struggles have led her, not to mention the ugly remarks that jealous actors and unenthusiastic audiences directed at her as she moved into her own future as an artist.

You almost have to be a performance artist.

This proved to be a performance of extraordinary accomplishment.

Four years ago, she said: "To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre.

Matthias Goerne's Wotan sometimes seems to be a performance in the making.

The film appears to be a performance by a young James Brown.

In a second attack at a controversial exhibition in Berlin, a Canadian man faces trespassing charges after a failed attempt this week to spray his own blood on a sculpture in what appeared to be a performance-art stunt.

In this study, a tester for PJS is developed and utilized to determine the resistant stiffness, which is considered to be a performance-related parameter, of PJS in transverse joints.

Yet even those who support the existing tax policy say it was opportunistic for executives to avail themselves of big increases in stock options — which are supposed to be a performance-based reward — when a marketwide collapse meant that most companies' stock price seemed destined to go up.

If Mexico has a weakness as it moves into the tournament's knockout round, it could be in goal, where Alfredo Talavera has taken over for Guillermo Ochoa, one of five Mexican players suspended after they tested positive for clenbuterol, a prescription decongestant considered to be a performance-enhancing drug.

Most sports officials don't consider marijuana to be a performance-enhancing drug, and generally the ban against its use is justified as a matter of ensuring that athletes project the right image for their young admirers.