Sentence examples for endearing performance from inspiring English sources

Overall, though, she gives a valiant and endearing performance.

What we see in Martin Freeman's moving and endearing performance is Bilbo doing just that.

Ms. O'Connor gives a lively, endearing performance, telling her character's hard-luck life story, but the life-size cutout of Mr. Clooney onstage is a gimmick.

So he seems an unlikely fit here and yet he gives an incredibly endearing performance in a role that many would overplay.

Mr. Martinez's "Union City," sensitively directed by Randal Myler, whose writing and directing credits include "It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues" and "Love, Janis," is brought to memorable life through an edgy, endearing performance by Rosie Perez.

A screen veteran, who won his first TV role aged 5, Rhys was praised by director Dougal Wilson for his "extremely expressive and very endearing" performance.

Mr. Santagata and Ms. Millhollen don't have a milligram of chemistry, but since "Crazy for You" is all about artifice, that isn't a fatal flaw: They give endearing performances, as does the rest of the cast, expertly directed by Alan Souza.

And although the rest of the cast has been chosen as domestiques to Bartoli's lead, there are endearing performances from John Osborn as Pollione – in excellently fluid voice though without much emotional heft – and Rebeca Olvera as the graceful and improbably chaste Adalgisa.

But the Hinkler sisters, who both studied acting at the University of Iowa (Schlapkohl, then an MFA candidate, wrote this play specifically for them), bring the roles vividly to life with their committed and endearing performances.

Nonetheless, there's too little of it to rescue the rickety plot; even the endearing performances of the young actors who play his foster siblings and the wise warmth of his foster parents (Marta Milans and Cooper Andrews) can't overcome the pedantic world-building and generic C.G.I. gyrations.

He discussed his latest role after watching clips of some of his most endearing performances.