Sentence examples for a performer of the from inspiring English sources

The answer, I think, is not simply Redmayne's performance but his acute realization that Einar, too, is a performer of the first rank.

I am a performer of the piano as an instrument but I haven't written my classical magnum opus yet.

As a speaker, "she was a performer of the first order," Leslie H. Gelb, the former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, told me.

Cleopatra here is an artiste, an acrobat, a performer of the pornographic, a mistress of the erotic/consumerist nexus: for Antony, she dissolves a "priceless pearl" in a glass of wine.

In films and onstage Mr. Wright has been proving himself a performer of the can't-take-your-eyes-off-him ilk, and he is far and away the most commanding presence here.

"The granddaddy of all these writer-musicians is the American pianist and scholar Charles Rosen," The Guardian wrote in 2010, going on to describe him as "a performer of the utmost distinction whose writing exactly mirrors his playing: subtle, precise, penetrating and, though by no means lacking in fun, intended to challenge".

Garbus is a performer of genuine intensity, and the base of her music is only vaguely American.

Only a performer of monumental presence can withstand the theatrical typhoon that is Mandy Patinkin.

I am a performer of, and I would humbly suggest the inventor of, chap-hop.

She is also a performer of engaging directness, to judge by the solo program she presented on Saturday night.

If anyone needed reminding that Ms. Meyers is a performer of substance and skill, here was the proof.