command performance
Example Sentences
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I gave what I consider to be a command performance for President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2025
“Lee Zeldin’s command performance, despite coming up a little short, and quality candidates who really worked tirelessly in their districts, produced a great win for us,” Rep.-elect Marc Molinaro said.
From Washington Times • Nov. 14, 2022
Even during a rote command performance, Morton can be droll and dry, noting that our heroine’s upbringing was “less Disney, more brothers Grimm” and that her gilded paternal bloodline included a dentist.
From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2022
They were chauffeured around London by the Prince of Wales himself, pre-abdication, after a command performance for Edward and his not-yet-wife Wallis Simpson.
From Washington Post • May 22, 2022
I grew tired of it and told her it could have been worse, that Maestro Frederic Chopin had once done the same thing at a command performance for the king and queen of Prussia.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
