Sentence examples for a dramatic performance of from inspiring English sources

Near the end, he took out his reading glasses and gave a dramatic performance of a few melodramatic lines from Shelley.

But for his free recital tonight (repeated on Sunday afternoon) at the Austrian Cultural Forum, Mr. Holzmair has invited Philipp Harnoncourt to devise a staged installation with lights and video projections to create a atmospheric backdrop for a dramatic performance of Schoenberg's Expressionistic song cycle "The Book of the Hanging Garden".

It began with a dramatic performance of "Drowned World/Substitute For Love Madonnana entered amidst billows of dry ice, dressed in a sleeveless black top, crossover top with one net sleeve, jeans with zips and bondage straps, a studded dog collar and a tartan kilt.

Incidental music, music written to accompany or point up the action or mood of a dramatic performance on stage, film, radio, television, or recording; to serve as a transition between parts of the action; or to introduce or close the performance.

In a dramatic performance worthy of Arletty, my mother took up my case with the school principal.

In cases of extreme deterioration, like Brooklyn's Kings Theatre, the transformation is a dramatic performance in and of itself.

A sneak attack: that's what you might call the moment in Christine Ebersole's brilliant new show at the Café Carlyle when the merriment pauses, and she delivers a riveting dramatic performance of "Another Winter in a Summer Town".

Other masks are used on festive occasions or to portray characters in a dramatic performance and in reenactments of mythological events.

Gaga delivered a starkly dramatic performance of the song on Sunday's telecast, staring directly into the camera as she banged away at a white grand piano.

Theatre music, any music designed to form part of a dramatic performance, as, for example, a ballet, stage play, motion picture, or television program.

On the other side of the confessional are the spray-painted words, "Cooper Union, The Musical" -- a reference to student protesters' dramatic performance of a transcript of a board of trustees meeting.