Sentence examples for a forceful performance from inspiring English sources

A similar tug of war occurred in Mendelssohn's Rondo Capriccioso (Op. 14), a forceful performance that nevertheless preserved the work's youthful sprightliness.

Guns at Batasi (1964) benefited from a forceful performance by Richard Attenborough as a martinet regimental sergeant major in an African state bowing to the "wind of change".

(Ben Brantley) 'An Enemy of the People' Boyd Gaines gives a forceful performance as Dr. Stockmann, the champion of truth who takes a principled stand against forces led by his brother, Peter (a sinister Richard Thomas), in Ibsen's meaty but talky drama about corruption in a Norwegian spa town.

(Grode) 'An Enemy of the People' (closes on Sunday) Boyd Gaines gives a forceful performance as Dr. Stockmann, the champion of truth who takes a principled stand against forces led by his brother, Peter (a sinister Richard Thomas), in Ibsen's meaty but talky drama about corruption in a Norwegian spa town.

(Brantley) 'An Enemy of the People' Boyd Gaines gives a forceful performance as Dr. Stockmann, the champion of truth who takes a principled stand against forces led by his brother, Peter (a sinister Richard Thomas), in Ibsen's meaty but talky drama about corruption in a Norwegian spa town.

There was really only a single moment when listeners had to give him the benefit of the doubt: when a failure of concentration derailed two attempts to play Ravel's "Jeux d'Eau," he turned to the audience, shrugged and gave a forceful performance of Debussy's far more intricate and volatile "Tarantelle Styrienne".

The night I was there, Katarina Dalayman was giving a fairly forceful performance as Brünnhilde — substantial in volume, dark in color, a bit edgy on top — but she was undermined by the business going on around her.

The most intelligent man in town is an elderly schoolteacher — with a Ph.D. in physics — played by Hal Holbrook, who gives, to our relief, a plain, forceful performance, without over-reliance on the magnificent Holbrook eyebrows.

After the intermission Ms. Josefowicz and the trio (with Mr. Laredo playing the viola) gave a warm-toned, forceful performance of Schumann's Piano Quartet in E flat (Op. 47).

That said, he closed the concert with a compelling if overly forceful performance of Puccini's "Nessun Dorma".

Having previously played Katharina at the Globe, Samantha Spiro as Lady Macbeth intriguingly suggests what might have happened to Shakespeare's shrew if she'd married a Scottish thane, and she gives a forceful, vehement performance, lapsing into credible somnambulism.