Sentence examples for characterized his performance from inspiring English sources
Back in March when Solicitor General Donald Verrilli delivered oral arguments for upholding the Affordable Care Act, Mr. Toobin had gone on CNN and characterized his performance as a "train wreck" for the Obama administration.
In Part I of the article, Croce sketches a portrait of a retired yet still vigorous dancer whose life story affirms the humanity of ballet: For many who watched his career take shape, Villella's greatness lay in his instinctive virtuosity — the "explosive animal force," as Robert Garis characterized his performance in "Rubies," which Balanchine captured again and again.
But it was the journey rather than the whole that characterized his performance.
When he was approximately 15, Stiller obtained a small part with one line on the television soap opera Guiding Light, although in an interview he characterized his performance as poor.
"Mr. Horowitz, who is 82 years old, no longer produces the Niagara of sound that once characterized his performances, but the famously fluent stream can still be turned on when the mood of the man and the music coincide".
The toy rendition is pretty faithful to the original, if way, way off-pitch, but what makes this video so fun to watch are the goofy facial expressions that characterize his performance.
It is a mark of Mr. Feinberg's skill that playfulness, along with grace and exuberance, characterizes his performances of these 400-year-old miniatures even though their technical demands are of a sort rarely encountered again until the 20th century.
A veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Griffiths was a man of impressive girth whose rotundity belied the physical and emotional deftness that characterized his best performances on stage and screen.
The technical shakiness that characterized his otherwise alluring performance as Gennaro in the Washington National Opera's production of Donizetti's "Lucrezia Borgia" in 2008 (starring Renée Fleming) is gone.
It would be a stretch to characterize his Friday performance as accessible in any conventional sense.
(A similar tone characterizes his outstanding performance as Jaques in "As You Like It," now being staged in repertory with "The Tempest").
