Sentence examples for an understated performance from inspiring English sources

A: "As a rapper named Alien, who at one point performs fellatio on the barrel of a gun, James Franco gives an understated performance".

Keith Barber gives an understated performance as Kirsten's father, a widowed suburban plant-nursery owner.

Close presides over her co-stars with gravitas and grace, in an understated performance that finds the humour in an otherwise bleak setup.

A rare departure from form was "Buster and Billie" (1974), an unsentimental look at 1940s high school students in rural Georgia, with Mr. Vincent giving an understated performance as the local jock who breaks — with violent results — with social conformity and expectations.

Her tired eyes, her dignity and quiet determination is so evident and aptly represented in an understated performance that resonates.

An understated performance, Clooney's ability to anchor the film and keep it grounded wowed the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and puts him in lead position amongst the Best Actor Oscar contenders going into next month's Academy Awards.

Mr. Ad?also gave a strikingly understated performance of Schubert's bittersweet Allegretto in C minor.

Eric Stoltz gives a dynamic, understated performance in a small role as a thoughtlessly evil prisoner who is visited by his brother, Owen, a magazine writer.

LARS AND THE REAL GIRL Ryan Gosling gives a beautifully understated performance as a socially phobic man who believes that a sex doll is his girlfriend.

As his story unfolds, we see him navigate a transformation — at first reluctantly, then willingly, aided in part by the Guy, by pot, and by Justin Vivian Bond, in a wonderful, understated performance as a nurturing psychic named Pam.

Gregory Franklin gives a richly understated performance as a famous Broadway producer Lucy's trying to impress.