Sentence examples similar to uninspired performers from inspiring English sources
Her performance was drowsy, uninspired.
And more recently, research by Wharton's Iwan Barankay has found that evaluating employees in such a way can make the top performers complacent and the bottom performers uninspired.
The performers, seen against Tony Walton's atypically uninspired sets, proceed stiffly: they consistently get laughs for their characters' oddities, but they seem not so much to possess those traits as to present them.
Manipulated by puppeteers like Dave Goelz (Gonzo), Steve Whitmire (Kermit) and Mr. Oz (Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear ,Animal, et al)., the puppets as performers remain magical even when their material is uninspired.
Throughout the 1960s, Basie's recordings were often uninspired and marred by poor choice of material, but he remained an exceptional concert performer and made fine records with singers Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and Frank Sinatra.
After a run of a fair few years in which the festival hosted attention-grabbing, controversy-courting and genuinely exciting performers – respectively, the Rolling Stones, Kanye West and Dolly Parton – this year's headliners were such an uninspired selection, they looked as if they had been chosen by an algorithm created by Q magazine.
And that's even despite some major headlining disappointments, with Sam Smith bowing out before the start because of a vocal cord injury that required surgery, further weakening a list of headlining acts on the main stages that included the predictable Zac Brown Band and an uninspired Beck set that was in dire need of Jeff Beck to light a fire under the festival's closing performer.
