Sentence examples for definitive performance from inspiring English sources

It was perhaps his definitive performance.

The definitive performance remains that of Tom Cruise as "seduction specialist" Frank TJ Mackey in Magnolia.

Making the film all the more remarkable is José Ferrer's definitive performance as Cyrano.

Worse still: Fields's definitive performance in this vein, his Falstaff, never happened at all.

This is most true for Robbie Coltrane's endlessly lovable, definitive performance as Hagrid.

And with that comes the pursuit of the definitive performance, a lot of arguing about what the definitive performance might be - and daunting piles of CDs of the same thing in HMV.

Michael Gambon, then Bill Nighy, gave differently definitive performances.

"I don't believe in definitive performances of anything".

And at least some of the available evidence suggests that composers do not think in terms of definitive performances.

Still, Reisz and screenwriter Harold Pinter create a finely poised adaptation of John Fowles' celebrated novel; it's beautifully shot by Freddie Francis, and contains one of Streep's definitive performances.

Most experienced listeners know that thinking in terms of definitive performances is as meaningless for new music as it is for any other kind.