In contrast, the second-generation Fusion, with its rakish style and engaging performance, belongs on any midsize sedan shopping list.
The vital and engaged performance of the young orchestra, in fact, was the musical highlight of that evening.
The women's dialogue is pungently ribald but diffuse; too often, shouting and shrieking and gesticulating take the place of engaged performance.
In 1988, he gave a vital, engaged performance in English as Gaev in Peter Brook's production of The Cherry Orchard in New York.
This is an admirably centered and engaged performance that gives shadow as well as substance to her physically exact portrayal of Elizabeth through the ages.
Mr. Schimmel's writing is energetic, inviting and, most crucial for a piece of this kind, picturesque, and these musicians gave it the fully engaged performance it deserved.
In an alert, engaged performance with a well-balanced ensemble, what's best in "Clemenza" cuts to the quick with the elegance and efficacy found in all of Mozart's finest works.
The Bletchley Park brainboxes, led by Logie - a warmly droll, engaging performance from Tom Hollander - know they desperately need Jericho's help because the Germans have changed the U-boats' communication code, leaving their north Atlantic convoys terrifyingly unprotected.
His silk-smooth voice and warm presence help animate the evening, so that even when the stories seem haphazardly assembled (or, on a few occasions, trivial), the flow of the narrative is held together by his focused, fully engaged performance.
Still, I'll stump for the sweetly sincere ludicrousness of Adaline – boasting, alongside its treaclier charms, Harrison Ford's first emotionally engaged performance in at least half an Adalinal age – over the hollow-hearted rigmarole of the superhero coalition's latest adventure, which is short even on the glib Joss Whedon wit that powered the first.
