Sentence examples for a capable performance from inspiring English sources

In the crucial role of Billy, Mr. Fleischer gives a capable performance that illuminates the real confusion — and dismay — Billy feels at the idea that his friend is gay.

On the brighter side, the talented Ms. Fanning gives a capable performance, and Mr. Konchalovsky and his camera and special-effects crews put a few arresting images on screen, including some frightening metal rat-dogs.

This paper describes the design of pktgen, and discusses its usage as a capable performance testing tool.

Sanders, Clinton's closest competitor, turned in a capable performance as well, and, importantly, avoided his occasional weakness of sounding angry.

We're more than capable of going [to the Club World Cup] to put in a more than capable performance and effort and do ourselves proud".

Tim Davie, the acting Director General, has been rewarded for  his capable performance during  a difficult time for the BBC by being given an expanded role at BBC Worldwide, the organisation's commercial arm.

This prompts a melodramatic and, while not necessarily predictable, not very surprising chain of events, through which Evan, despite Mr. Sneider's capable performance, mostly remains a too-good-to-be-true cipher: someone to goad the other characters into action and then puzzle over their bad decisions.

(Early in the show's run, despite Anna Gunn's capable performance, I found Skyler to be the ultimate "shrewish wife in anti-hero drama" and everything on the home front bored or irritated me).

This belabored comedy, directed by Benjamin Epps, has a slick visual veneer and some capable performances, especially by Ms. Rulin and Ms. King.

Soloists returning to roles they had danced on other occasions and giving capable performances in them included Rachel Rutherford, Jennifer Tinsley and Michele Gifford, as fairies at the christening, and Kathleen Tracey and Samantha Allen, as jewels.

A man who has most likely secured himself a generous spot in most centre-to-left people's memories simply via his smooth and capable performances in any number of comedy sketches.