1.   But who was counting when the performances often seemed to transcend national borders?

2.   The performance seemed to me unpardonable, a contradiction of all that the Olympics is supposed to be.

3.   Although Hines imbues Tyrone with a slouching, hooded-eye cool, his performance seems so detached it remains one step removed from the character.

4.   And indeed, his Rachmaninoff performances seem to be informed by a knowledge of the songs, of how, as it were, the composer sang.

5.   And his cocky Han Solo is so glaringly different from the Harrison Ford persona that we now know and love that his performance seems almost abrasive.

6.   And while their performances never seem phoned in, as in some hastily assembled television productions, their styles and levels of intensity do not always mesh.

7.   A strong performance seemed to be essential in order to get the pilot picked up.

8.   After he researches a fund and buys its shares, he will stick with it through two years of bad times if performance seems likely to improve.

9.   But her searing and very sexy performance seems to belong more to the present than the past.

10.   But his performances do seem to get richer and better as he goes along.