Word: performancy
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Furthermore, fans now think that contests are spectacles and that players are entertainers. The player is being paid to perform and the ticket-holders expect a virtuoso exhibition every time. For instance, until the past few years, I never heard of players being accused of not hustling...
...there is no plexiglass mounted around the top of the boards. Instead, the fans are protected by chain link fence, which is nearly impossible to see through. Before the game I felt like I was at the zoo, waiting for the polar bears to come out and perform. After watching the Dartmouth fans, I think...
Colker scored 5-8-5 (out of a possible 10-10-10) at Dartmouth in his first competition of the year. "My routine is a potential 8-8-8, but with no coach it is difficult to perform well," Colker said...
...said the Democratic Party does not hope to gain power through impeachment, but that it wants to perform the constitutional responsibility of the Congress...
Padre Ray was to travel to one of the tiny outlying communities around Morochata, where he was training a catechist to administer masses and perform marriages and baptisms. All of the campesinos in the area were ostensibly Catholics, having been converted by missionaries like Ray over the decades. But they still lived the traditional life of the Quechua Indians, and were thus often Catholics only in name, still believing in the ancient pagan gods. El padre wanted to see to it that they became good practicing Christians...