1.   Performances had to be canceled when she had a sore throat.

2.   The performance had the legislature, including the subjects of the barbs, rocking with laughter.

3.   Her performance had a galvanic effect on the audience.

4.   After his collapse the performance had to be cancelled.

5.   But their performance had relegation written all over it.

6.   Any performance has to be subtle, but I think you can establish a connection.

7.   A live musical performance can have the same cathartic effect.

8.   But given the collected talent onstage the performance had a disappointing sense of just not clicking.

9.   But her performances have a heft that among pop-soul singers is matched only by Tracy Chapman, whose voice has a similarly dark, almost forbidding undertone.

10.   But his performances always had a force of conviction that reflected the real thing.