Sentence examples for defining performance from inspiring English sources

"Later is not necessarily a pivotal performance in your career but it's a defining performance.

That was a defining performance and it would not be the last.

Best, perhaps, to pick out a defining performance and production from each of the recent decades.

"I don't see it as a defining performance," their coach, Tony Smith, said.

However his defining performance will almost certainly be as a gay man.

They are, however, surely wrong in defining "performance" as nothing but immediate, short-term gains for shareholders.

The writers followed up with "Legally Blonde," in which Reese Witherspoon gave a career-defining performance.

In a career-defining performance, Roy Scheider starred as the driven, womanizing, self-destructive director-choreographer.

And among the many scenery-gobblers here, Daniel Stewart, as Malvolio, Olivia's censorious, self-righteous steward, gives a career-defining performance.

Liza Minnelli gives her career-defining performance as the nightclub singer Sally Bowles: entrancingly sexy, a free spirit, unlocatably and indefinably melancholy and damaged.

The film has already scooped Miller the best director award at the Cannes film festival and there is considerable Oscars buzz around Steve Carell's career-defining performance.