The emblematic performances by Chips Rafferty and Jack Thompson represent a changing of the guard.
Perry never shows Crawford on the set, and never has Dunaway impersonate any of Crawford's emblematic performances; rather, Dunaway, portraying the star in her private life, captures Crawford's oblivious brutality and relentless intensity, her passionate yet controlled and rock-hard presence that's as terrifying when it's maintained as it is explosive when it breaks.
Perez hit one batter and walked the next three in the 14th inning to allow the decisive run, a performance emblematic of the entire season.
As Mr. Cuomo spoke, his wife, Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, sitting in a seat across from him, nodded in agreement, arguing that Mr. Pataki's response was emblematic of his performance as governor.
It was emblematic of a poised performance by the Rangers.
Australian surfers' preoccupation with the Californian nose-riding style, which valued "posture over performance," was emblematic of what Witzig saw as a broader subservience to America.
Reyes's performance was emblematic of what has happened all season to the Mets as a group: They may excel in one area but falter in one or two others.
the moment when Chancel Mbemba met DeAndre Yedlin's deep cross and seemed certain to score, only to freeze and permit a defender to whisk the ball off his toes, appeared thoroughly emblematic of Newcastle's performance.
It's worth adding that the movie also has a cockeyed charm as drama, as a streetsmart paean to New York wiles, as a feast of tunes (by the great songwriting team of the composer Harry Warren and the lyricist Al Dubin), and as a verbal joust of emblematic dialogue and rowdy performance.
Yet if Joan Crawford is not very likable she would, in a just world, be widely honored for a series of fiercely effective performances and for her emblematic quality as a twentieth-century woman.
