Sentence examples for a startling performance from from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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

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

A welcome one, however, in this critic's book: A previous nominee for Capote, Miller exerts immaculate control over the form and tone of this slippery story, drawing uniformly startling performances from a diverse ensemble, and balancing potentially hoary symbolism on a knife edge.

His movies are famous for their violence and bloodshed; their blaring soundtracks; their offbeat, Pinteresque dialogue; their startling performances from actors you had almost forgotten about; and their encyclopedic range of references to other movies, especially schlocky ones.

With the benefit of hindsight, however, the more startling performance came from the show's host, Tommy Vance.

"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.

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.