(n.) A reception, or a musical or dramatic entertainment, held in the daytime. See SoirEe.
Example Sentences:
(1) But that one picture in 1954, George Cukor's musical remake of A Song Is Born , in which she played a rising young actress married to a sinking matinee idol (James Mason), proved to be the peak of her career.
(2) Imagine a huge, invisible mass of carrier waves, at the leading edge of which, and already past several thousand stars by now, is the smooth, matinee idol voice of BBC Television's first announcer, Leslie Mitchell, saying: "Hello Radiolympia.
(3) Hudler wasn't wrong: in the two nights leading up to the matinee squeaker, KC exploded for 22 runs, annihilating two pitchers you may be familiar with – Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer.
(4) He plays the best friend of a matinee idol in 1920s Hollywood.
(5) I too had time off at this point and, one matinee, I was alone in my dressing room, which was three floors up from the stage.
(6) Gene Hackman and George C Scott weren't matinee idols but they became movie stars.
(7) Five hours earlier he had fought for the first time on American soil at the 5,500-seat theatre adjacent to Madison Square Garden, stopping Philadelphia’s Steve Cunningham in the seventh round with a thudding right hook, a matinee shown on free-to-air NBC for a prime-time broadcast in the UK.
(8) "I remember him first as quite a smooth matinee actor.
(9) Stars with style Brad Pitt Born Shawnee, Oklahoma, US Age 41 Career highlights Johnny Suede, Fight Club, Ocean's 11 Career lowlights Seven Years in Tibet, Meet Joe Black Why he matters 'He combines the matinee idol looks of Gary Cooper with the sex symbol loveliness of Marilyn Monroe' Frank Gehry Born Toronto, Canada Age 76 Career highlights Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; Walt Disney concert hall, Los Angeles Career lowlights Experience Music Project, Seattle Why he matters 'One of the most prominent contemporary American architects with his open, curvilinear, diverse and sometimes playful west coast style'.
(10) If the World Cup were a movie … heroes and villains Matinee idol If anyone worried that being the best footballer on the planet and dating a supermodel might be taking its toll on Cristiano Ronaldo, then his torso-rippling display in the Champions League final put such notions to bed.
(11) With his solemn gaze and luxuriant black moustache, he has the air of a matinee idol.
(12) Certainly, with his five o'clock shadow, there is something of the fading matinee idol about Van Hove.
(13) Happily Nicola Sturgeon, the deputy first minister, was on hand to pierce the monotony with an electrifying Friday matinee performance.
(14) It is impractical for the Globe and Wanamaker ever to offer the same script on alternate evenings in its open-air and closed venues – educative as the comparison would be – or, except at occasional matinees, to perform at exactly the time – 2 to 5pm in the afternoon – that would have been used in Jacobean times.
(15) Brave and witty, he appeared to the LA community to be a throwback to an earlier age, an English gentleman cricketer perhaps, or to the more susceptible ladies, a matinee idol.
(16) Mixing elegant retro chic with wry humour, Swoon made an uncomfortable case for its two protagonists as gay antiheroes, cold-hearted killers with the looks of matinee idols.
(17) A flick through the photographs in her current retrospective exhibition in LA reveals her transformed into 20 kinds of matinee starlet, Hitchcock lead, pneumatic Monroe, terrified centrefold, crime-scene corpse, old master muse, cut-up sex doll, Republican wife, clown; both as determinedly absent and iconically present in her work as Andy Warhol once was in his.
(18) Scofield, more craggily noble in appearance than handsome, always looked more mature than he was (he once said that he had bags under his eyes by the age of 17) and even at this tender age his features had a timeless rather than matinee idol appearance that allowed him to play parts intended for actors much older.
Performance
Definition:
(n.) The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty.
(n.) That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; esp., an action of an elaborate or public character.
Example Sentences:
(1) From 1982 to 1989, bronchoplasty or segmental bronchoplasty and pulmonary arterioplasty in combination with lobectomy and segmentectomy were performed for 9 patients with central type lung carcinoma.
(2) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(3) These data indicate a steady improvement in laboratory performance over the last 10 years.
(4) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(5) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(6) After two weeks all animals were killed and autopsies of the animals were performed.
(7) The 1989 results were compared with those of a similar survey performed in 1986.
(8) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(9) Theoretical computations are performed of the intercalative binding of the neocarzinostatin chromophore (NCS) with the double-stranded oligonucleotides d(CGCG)2, d(GCGC)2, d(TATA)2 and d(ATAT)2.
(10) In addition autoradiography was performed to localize labelled cells in the inner ear.
(11) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(12) Six hours later, bronchoalveolar lavage was performed.
(13) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(14) It has also been used to measure the amount of excision repair performed by non-replicating cells damaged by carcinogens.
(15) The performance characteristics of the CCD are well documented and understood, having been quantified by many experimenters, especially in the physical sciences.
(16) 2.35pm: West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that a deal to land Miroslav Klose is unlikely to go through following the striker's star performances in South Africa.
(17) Just after blood sampling, FEV1 measurements were performed.
(18) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
(19) The study examined the sustained effects of methylphenidate on reading performance in a sample of 42 boys, aged 8 to 11, with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
(20) In addition, control experiments with naloxone, ethanol, or cigarette smoking alone were performed.