Sentence examples for contained performance from inspiring English sources

It's a marvelously sustained and contained performance, without a shred of false sentiment.

It's all down to Clarke Peters' lovely, contained performance that this makes Freamon oddly more attractive rather than less.

Robin Williams gives an eerily still, contained performance as Sy, the put-upon express photo clerk in his vivid white shirt and retina-piercingly blue waistcoat.

As Jane, Hannah Cabell, whose alert, intelligent eyes and flushed cheeks communicate more than a dozen soliloquies, delivers a marvelously contained performance of an almost pathologically restrained woman who refuses to let down her guard.

Mr. Holbrook's fierce, contained performance matches in depth and truthfulness his portrayal of a weary Army retiree who briefly becomes a surrogate father to Emile Hirsch's survivalist in "Into the Wild".

We don't quite support her, not yet at least, but Parker's smart, contained performance does enough to convince us we might if we could just spend a little more time at her side.

Many of the awards themselves went to carefully contained performances, notably Coldplay's stately album "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends".

It's handsome stuff, and Nixon presents an adroit contrast between the Americans' casual appropriation of stage space and the much more tightly contained performances of the Japanese characters.

It was featured on the live albums The Beyoncé Experience Live (2007), and the deluxe edition of I Am... World Tour (2010) which contained performances from the tour.

Issued in response to widespread, for-profit bootlegging of their live shows, it contained performances of songs from all of their previous studio albums and EPs.

The song was included on the live albums I Am... World Tour (2010) which contained performances filmed during the tour and I Am... Yours: An Intimate Performance at Wynn Las Vegas filmed during the eponymous revue.