Sentence examples for a subtle performance from inspiring English sources
It's a subtle performance in a movie that has nothing else subtle about it.
Ms. Blackerby, who gives a subtle performance in a taxing role and has a winning way with a song, manages to make a vexing character understandable and lovable.
If this sounds like an unnecessary point, it's not; watch Fishburne in CSI and you'll see a powerhouse of an actor giving a subtle performance.
It's not a subtle performance, but then, to everybody's credit, no one has tried to make of this show anything more than the unsubtle, melodramatic telling of a melodramatic tale.
This is a subtle performance, never better than when Mr. Cooper masks his fear and becomes as silent and concentrated as a man on a tightrope, which in effect Latif is.
Potentially soap-operatic — intentionally potentially so, I'd say — it's a subtle performance with surprising turns.
Instead, Bullock gave quite a restrained, subtle performance (an Oscar winner no less) in which this woman keeps her emotions to herself.
"Trevor is a very good director and he coaxed a very subtle performance out of a role that could easily have descended into melodrama," said The Independent's theatre critic Paul Taylor.
Across the street lives Stan Beeman, a very competent FBI agent and a very sad man (an impeccably subtle performance by Noah Emmerich on a show filled with subtle performances).
He takes advantage of the intimate space here to deliver a quiet, subtle performance that makes sense of a rather frustrating character.
With impeccable physical control, he offered a feline, subtle performance that made something memorable of an otherwise minor piece.
