Sentence examples for a central performance in from inspiring English sources

This, in short, is a Lear that deals with the breakdown of a family rather than a universe and one largely distinguished by a central performance in which the Pryce is absolutely right.

As a director, what I was looking to do was create some kind of immersive fever dream and place a central performance in that context.

Mr. Frank said the anchor job seemed to be evolving from what he called "the vector directing the news" into the central performance in a newscast.

When Rooney Mara picked up an Oscar nomination for her punchy central performance in David Fincher's American remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011, Sony, 18), one question hung awkwardly in the air: how come Noomi Rapace wasn't similarly honoured for her equally impressive turn as cyberpunk Lisbeth Salander in the original Scandinavian movie a couple of years earlier?

Spader's flamboyant central performance in The Blacklist is sufficiently balanced by the unshowy, sturdy performances of a few well-cast supporting actors.

The tensions and terrors which overtake the village of Bussy, just outside Paris, are crystallised in the film by the powerful attraction between Bruno and Lucile.This might seem an oversimplification if the central performances in "Suite Française" were not so strong.

It is an exceptional film with a searing central performance from Cynthia Nixon in a role a long way removed from her Miranda Hobbes in Sex And The City.

But while the invaluable Robert Sean Leonard gives a glowing central performance, no one else in this production begins to match the luminosity of Mr. Greenberg's writing.

It will alarm purists – Holten takes liberties with the score, but it's a formidable piece of cinema, and Christopher Maltman bares body and soul in an extraordinary central performance.

Ms. Charlotte manages to cram both 9/11 and the Holocaust into about 90 minutes of chest-thumping melodrama, with an intelligently conceived central performance that all too often gets lost in the narrative mix.

There was considerable scepticism in the industry about the prospects of One Man, Two Guvnors without the astonishing central performance by James Corden in the premiere staging.