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Examples of performance
1. [ … ] Andrew W. K.’s absurdly high-energy party metal (“Party Til You Puke”) comes across as either self-aware performance art or simply the most lunkheaded anthems to debauchery ever recorded.
2. He had a maestrolike performance, directing an offense that ran for 517 yards.
3. Her years of experience enabled her to render a masterly performance.
4. But the significance of the new machine, analysts say, is that it is a big step in a broad campaign by I.B.M. to make the mainframe computer a high-performance, energy-efficient engine for running all kinds of nonmainframe software.
5. Feminists and others were expanding it by introducing aspects of beading, sewing, quilting, rug-making and more performance, thereby introducing elements of craft, the body and personal identity, and forcefully defining creators as nonmale or nonwhite.
6. The strong performance of nonscripted series has some network executives brimming with confidence about their antistrike strategy.
7. Almost indistinguishable from the earlier 115-horse airplane, the new model is designed from the ground up to go nose-to-nose with big-engine, high-performance kit planes.
Examples of performances
1. As a rule, however, the performant function, when it is supported by truly impressive circus performances, tends to monopolize the audience's attention.
2. There will be postperformance discussions with the cast and scholars, and a "survivors party" after the May 15 performances.
3. Conductors leading performances of music outside the mainstream presumably enjoy the chance to get off the beaten repertorial track while piquing an audience’s curiosity about lesser-known scores.
4. The chances are slim. Mr. Kaiser is scheduled to sing on Thursday, and then the production is on hiatus until December. Mr. Giordani is not available for the uncast performances.
5. But the really dangerous people would be the servants, la valetaille et la piétaille, the cold-eyed, unimpressionable, unlachrymose, and, when encountered in a corridor, insolent observers of Rousseau’s magisterial performances.
6. And the performances have a raw, unmodulated quality, as if everyone were simply pouring out their thoughts and feelings.
7. But in the Met’s revival of Mary Zimmerman ’s 2007 production of this Donizetti work, they give almost the classic definition of uneven performances: sometimes wondrously beautiful, sometimes worrisomely shaky.
8. England's win was built on industry and discipline, epitomised by the performances of Manchester City's Joleon Lescott in defence and Scott Parker in midfield.