Sentence examples for a poignant performance from inspiring English sources

Miss Hall gives a poignant performance.

"You're afraid of being beautiful," says her sympathetic father, H.C. (Al Mohrmann in a poignant performance).

Judi Dench gives a poignant performance in "Saigon: Year of the Cat" that is both marvelously subtle and deeply expressive.

Set in the king's bedchambers in Versailles and anchored by a poignant performance from Jean-Pierre Léaud, the movie focuses on the king's slow, excruciating death from gangrene.

It features a poignant performance from Charlize Theron as Mavis Gary, a successful but damaged writer of generic fiction for teens: the lucrative "young adult" market.

Then Gilbert's meek, devoted and long-suffering wife, Lucy (in a poignant performance by Lesley Manville), drags him to a Japanese exhibition in London.

John Travolta isn't here, disappointingly, but apart from that this is a polished, poignant performance that ends on the sensational "Massachusetts".

"First Writing Since," about the terror attacks, includes an incredible range as Ms. Hammad reveals her own reactions in an uncompromising, poignant performance.

Relief came with the Schubert Fifth Symphony in an exceptionally poignant performance notable for graceful exposition, gentle propulsion and elegant shading.

Thomas Hampson, artist in residence with the Philharmonic, gave a lucid and poignant performance of what came across as a 20-minute monologue.

It seemed right, somehow, to begin the program, and this adventuorous series, with a late Mahler work, the sublimely tragic "Kindertotenlieder" ("Songs on the Death of Children") in a subdued and poignant performance with the bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff.