Sentence examples for a startling performance from inspiring English sources

The movie features a startling performance, however, by Pierce Brosnan.

A startling performance, if it was a performance, though it's hard to tell.

Jamie Hector gives a startling performance, very different from the Stanislavskian realism the rest of the cast favour.

At its heart is a startling performance by Paul Bettany as a heartless, cold-eyed gangster on the rise.

It's a startling performance, and riveting, even though you sense that Mr. Franco has captured the icon more than the man.

Even though the production yields a startling performance from Anne-Marie Duff, I still believe it represents an indefensible violation of authorial integrity.

Track and field has become so compromised by doping that any startling performance brings immediate suspicion.

"She gave an absolutely startling performance".

From the beginning, with her startling performance as a ruthless high-school girl in "Election" (1999), she has played unstoppable young women.

It is a startling bravura performance that captures a quality of faith, a spark of passion, that is inherent in all of Mr. Wiseman's mature films, even the most hard-bitten ones.

Folklore has it that interest in the fungus stems from the startling performance of Chinese runners at an international track meet in 1993, which their coach attributed to their consumption of a soup combining the fungus with turtle blood.