Sentence examples for able performance from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ponthus gave an able performance of "Les Secrets Élémentaires" (1998), a series of piano sketches ranging from limpid to livid.

Sentiment abounds outside the lines — sometimes the good kind, other times the bad — but once pitches are thrown, it is all about raw ambition and able performance.

Mr. Van Der Beek, manlier than in his "Dawson Creek" days, gives an able performance in a movie whose Asian actors tend to overplay the intrigue in an exaggerated 1940s style, exchanging sinister meaningful looks and, in general, hamming it up.

Hollande is riding high after a strong campaign launch in late January followed by an able performance in a televised debate against Sarkozy's hardball foreign minister, Alain Juppe.

His denunciation of Khrushchev made headlines round the world and even his harshest critics usually concede that Hoxha turned in an able performance and showed personal courage".

Under Alex Roe's smooth direction, the six actors give able performances.

The opera excerpts were given committed, able performances by a handful of young City Opera singers.

As you might guess, the feel of the show is decidedly loose — loose but with generally able performances.

It winds up being too much: too many words, too many decibels (owing to an ear-wrecking sound design), too many hammy fight sequences, and, despite several able performances, too many characters.

The dark wit and inventiveness of that project are in some evidence here — each window's tableau comes to life after our heroes have moved on, and the Scrooges and elves are funny and foul — but despite a solid script and able performances by the Bats, the play isn't quick or sharp enough to equal Banks's best work.

To be fair, Book of Mormon is a perfect storm of pirate-able performance.