Stressed, tense, under impossible performance pressure, Ellis needs a break.

The Chop Cup can be handled entirely by the top, creating a more impossible performance.

In my mind I set it down as an impossible performance, save in the unlikely case that she had a second pair of glasses.

An impossible performance.

"Simon Wheeler, Amateur Detective" was a dreary, absurd, impossible performance, as wild and unconvincing in incident and dialogue as anything out of an asylum could well be.

If someone over 60 cannot keep up, it is much better to discuss a dignified way out for them than to have a 40-year career finish with them facing impossible performance targets, unwelcome warning letters and a traumatic tribunal.