Sentence examples for dignified performance from inspiring English sources

Dressed in a matronly gray blazer, she gave a remarkably dignified performance, if also a disastrous one.

Still, under their energetic conductor, Long Yu, the Chinese players gave a lean, clear and dignified performance of Wagner's Overture to "Tannhäuser".

For the most part the soprano Alyson Cambridge, as Julie, gives a dignified performance, including an aching account of the poignant song "Bill".

Grace Under Fire Award: The Bolshoi's Maria Alexandrova, for a touching and dignified performance opposite Nikolai Tsiskaridze's screamingly camp Solor in La Bayadere.

A dignified performance of "Crucifixus" by the 17th-century Venetian composer Antonio Lotti, conducted by Mr. Grau, illustrated the Schola Cantorum's approach to standard early-music repertory.

Mr. Goodwin, however, anchors the chaotic production with a dignified performance of a remote character who keeps his dry sense of humor even in the worst of circumstances.

But even with a dignified, assured performance by Marla Schaffel in the title role, the gloomy and mundane musical version of "Jane Eyre" that opened yesterday on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theater captures few of the richly available nuances.

As for Shylock, another notoriously challenging role, I'd have to split the palm between F. Murray Abraham's movingly dignified, restrained performance in the recent Theater for a New Audience production, and Henry Goodman's fiery-spirited, intense Shylock at the National Theater some years ago.

And Sherry Stringfield gives a dignified, believable performance as Sandra Boss, the high-powered business consultant who lived with "Rockefeller," supported him financially and had a daughter with him -- the daughter he would eventually kidnap, an act for which he's now in prison in Massachusetts.

Both Ms. Smith-Cameron, perhaps best known for her star turn in "As Bees in Honey Drown," and Ms. O'Connell give glowing, dignified, heartfelt performances, directed without a trace of sentimentality by Stephan Golux.

Mark raises some cash and finds a sympathetic Welsh mining leader to accept it: a dignified and intelligent performance from Paddy Considine as Dai.