Sentence examples for definitive performances from inspiring English sources

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.

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

(Cate Blanchett's devastating portrayal of Blanche in 2009 remains tattooed on my memory. And Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando's definitive performances in the 1951 film are still very much with us, on screens small and large).

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.

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.