Sentence examples for elicit a performance from inspiring English sources

And once again Mr. von Trier's methods elicit a performance from his lead actress that deserves to be called miraculous.

Ashworth, leading from his violin, elicited a performance that was elegant, boisterous, and melancholy by turns.

"Out of this brand-new youngster, M. Truffaut has elicited a performance that will live as a delightful, provoking and heartbreaking monument to a boy".

Although Pita still winces at the memory of his first approach to Watson – "I'd invited him to have coffee, but forgot my wallet, so I had to ask him to pay" – the resulting collaboration was a game changer for both of them, scooping Pita a number of awards and eliciting a performance of slithering, poignant horror from Watson.

Using clear cues and kinetic body language, he elicited a performance that conveyed the restless sweep and psychological ambiguity of the score, with its world-weary choruses for oppressed Russian peasants, its scenes of officially instigated public rejoicing as Boris ascends the throne thanks to maneuvering by the cunning Boyars.

In his review for the New York Times, Ben Brantley noted the production's "scary, splendid clarity", and praised Hawke for eliciting a performance that "connoisseurs of precision acting will be savoring for years to come".

Although improvements in TWD around 3.0 % may suggest only a discrete effect, it is worth noting that TWD in the trained participants was ~11%% higher than in their non-trained counterpart, meaning that 4 weeks of supplementation elicited a performance improvement which represents about one-third of the improvement achieved by several years of training.

His speech elicited a performance-stopping round of applause that turned Mr. Lithgow's pink face pinker.

But it hardly takes a major maestro to elicit an excellent performance of Beethoven's Seventh from the impressive players of the Philharmonic.

Within an intelligent, contemporary framework that heightens awareness of the work's themes of racism and male anxiety, the directors elicit a passionate, powerful performance.

I did get some interesting stories from Day's co-star Elizabeth Wilson about Gene Kelly, who directed them in The Tunnel of Love, a relatively obscure film, which is obscure for many reasons, and especially because Kelly failed to elicit a true comic performance out of Day's co-star, Richard Widmark.