Sentence examples for a gripping performance from inspiring English sources

Then there are the dynamic baritone Mariusz Kwiecien as her bullying brother, and James Levine, who conducts a gripping performance.

A gripping performance by Mr. Johnston and Ms. Stott gives full depth to the work's introspective, angst-ridden and melancholy moods.

It's all fascinating and sharply entertaining, not least for the curious dislocations, like a gripping performance from the Swan Silvertone Singers, who sound a little bewildered by their generous reception.

James Levine conducts a gripping performance.

And Valery Gergiev conducts a gripping performance.

Those qualities also contributed to a gripping performance of the Vaughan Williams Fourth Symphony.

Recent Oscar-winner Melissa Leo gave a moving, gripping performance in a series of emotionally taut scenes that showed screenwriter David Simon at his best.

Combine one of the finest new scores we've heard since--well, Fun Home and that little musical about the man on the ten-dollar bill; an altogether gripping performance from a young actor named Ben Platt; and a bracing production from director Michael Grief (of Rent and Next to Normal), and you can see where this is heading.

Accompanied here by Murray Lerner's documentary DVD of the event, it's a remarkable, gripping performance.

This last project is lined up with Edward Zwick and if the director can coax a genuinely gripping performance out of Smith, then Mr July 4th might still be in the game.

It's a fascinatingly gripping performance that doesn't so much command the screen, dominating it with shouts and displays of obvious technique, as take it over incrementally, an occupation that echoes Smiley's steady incursion into the mole's lair.