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How to use performative in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word performative? Here are some examples.

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He thinks performative sentences do not have truth conditions because they do not describe or report anything.
Rather, these are performative utterances, which do not so much say something as do something.
To pursue the idea that the interest of lyric is linked with a certain performative voicing, let me move from a poete maudit to a priestly poet.
The problem is, however, that such radical scepticism involves a performative contradiction.
In this way as if scenarios are not metaphors but are performative approaches or enactments.
In these terms, his intention may be constative, but it has performative effect, not to mention performative desire.
The argument that the act of stating or describing is in fact performative must take the form of constative statements.
He's built on one aspect, kind of a ritualistic and performative quality in Duncan's work.
I believe that we can understand ceremony as a cosmogony in both discursive and performative senses.
In an age of staged, declarative theatre, Stanislavsky's came as a radical response to what was then a stilted performative norm.
He is the phantom actor behind the self-consciously performative tics of his otherwise two-dimensional characters.
Largely visual and performative, her work always includes her own body in a humorous and engaging way.
Artistic authorship itself, which emerged in the early fifteenth century as a purely performative mode, later learned to manipulate substitution.
The performative nature of this piece carried through to other nearby works.
You'll find the fundamentals of Butler's argument that gender is performative.
The performative installation Cette nuit, Défaire presents recent explorations with sound, gesture and narration by Karen Trask.
And finally, what is the intersection of performative, everyday and ritual actions?
It was a technical and performative dance and everyone needed to be on time and in time.
But the interference between the substitutional principle of origins and the authorial or performative principle of artifact production was dynamic.
She is known for her performative sculptures, video and performance art.
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Blake is able to accomplish this, she claims, because his work is performative and uncovers an analogical language.
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