Sentence examples for a forceful performance of from inspiring English sources

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".

(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.

(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.

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".

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

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".

Harrison turned in one of his most forceful performances of the monthslong campaign at a CNN-sponsored debate on Wednesday night.

The strength of Hytner's production is that Phèdre herself, in Helen Mirren's forceful performance, is not so much a victim of the gods as of an unconquerable erotic obsession.

But although the six black-clad women all compel attention through their forceful performances, the out-of-body states they try to convey through staring eyes and gently bobbing heads feel mostly layered over the sharply delineated dancing rather than emerging from it.