Sentence examples for a persuasive performance from inspiring English sources

The second, of a middle-aged philanderer, is a bit of an urban legend but still insightful, thanks in part to a persuasive performance by Victor Slezak.

The tenor Rufus Müller delivered a persuasive performance, effectively illuminating the text with carefully controlled dynamic shadings, as in the opening "Comfort ye".

Those who have pulled off a persuasive performance, from Jackson to Teddy Roosevelt to Dwight Eisenhower to John F. Kennedy, have proved victorious at the ballot box.

It is hard to think of a better played or indeed a more persuasive performance of this highly coloured and erotically charged score than Salonen drew from his players, with Alistair Mackie's trumpet almost inevitably a standout contribution.

George Kentros gave the work a shapely, persuasive performance and was also heard as a member of the Pearls Before Swine Experience, the Swedish chamber group for which Ms. Gosfield wrote "Cranks and Cactus Needles" (2000).

Britten's moving "Sinfonia da Requiem" -- written both in memory of the composer's parents and in celebration of imperial Japan (an odd story for another time) -- followed in a more persuasive performance that was true to the work's central spirit of mourning.

The conductor Jaroslav Kyzlink shaped a most persuasive performance.

Mr. Giordani sang expressively and with ringing top notes in "La vita è inferno all'infelice" from Verdi's "Forza del Destino," and Mr. Terfel gave a dramatically persuasive performance of the "Te Deum" from Puccini's "Tosca".

And Mr. Battiste gives an exceptionally persuasive performance as the wounded Pelzie, who loses his job as soon as his wife agrees to join the movement and is forced to badger men he despises so he can find a way to support his family.

Kakutani felt that while the collection of four stories "may lack the depth of emotion and almost photographic clarity of The Sportswriter and Independence Day, it's a way more persuasive performance than the bloated, formulaic third volume, The Lay of the Land.

He'd still get to keep his therapy puppet, and Mr. Gibson would still be able to deliver a gesturally and vocally persuasive performance as the man with two heads, one meat and one cloth.