Sentence examples for a focused performance from inspiring English sources

His remarkable delivery and stagecraft seemed to work against the idea of a focused performance.

Playing only the second of its three movements, Mr. Chiu offered a focused performance, letting the work's graceful melody sing while adhering fastidiously to Cage's suggestion that vibrato be avoided.

The intimacy of his songs was matched by a focussed performance that collapsed the space around us.

Axel Strauss, a violinist, and Anthony Molinaro, a pianist, gave an astringent, focused performance of the Schoenberg Fantasy (Op. 47) and the Emerson Quartet played a vigorous account of a movement from Shostakovich's Third Quartet.

Despite a few rough edges, this was a muscular, focused performance.

You could see today that we needed a very focused performance to beat Everton, who are a very good side".

Gerard Schwarz led his orchestra in a taut, focused performance distinguished by some agile wind playing.

Ligeti's early work Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet was given a sharply focused performance.

In a transfixingly focused performance, Ms. Koniordou elicits the frightening obsessiveness in Antigone's lust for martyrdom.

But a powerfully focused performance of Dvorak's Piano Trio in F minor (Op. 65) by Mr. Lin, Mr. Hoffman and Mr. Schub provided a rousing conclusion.

You have the sense that as he beckons to the unseen child, this man, played by Brian F. O'Byrne in a rivetingly focused performance, is just doing what comes naturally.