Sentence examples for fervent performance from inspiring English sources

By Richard Brody February 29 , 2016Lady Gaga's fervent performance was the musical highlight of the night.

Mr. Mandvi's fervent performance made me believe, at least in the moment, that Amir's seemingly contradictory impulses were coming from a conflict between his mind and his gut.

Still, the work has its own kind of ecstatic beauty, and you could not have asked for a more luminous and fervent performance.

Waiting to welcome extraterrestrial visitors outside Walker Air Force Base in Roswell, N.M., he prepares some introductory thoughts: "I will tell them, 'You are not alone.' " (That's maybe a cross between a tag line for a big sci-fi movie and a Stephen Sondheim song?) Three visits with this fellow are at least two too many, despite Mr. Bahorek's fervent performance.

It became writer Beeaff's favourite live song on the tour, with Bono's intense, unrestrained singing producing a strong communal energy; she singled out the March 1992 Hampton Coliseum show as one in which Bono's fervent performance approached the point of emotional breakdown and generated "a transcendent and draining experience for everyone".

But even with fervent performances (especially Ms. Ehle's), buoyed by Gabriel Yared's magnificent late-Romantic score, "Possession" conjures little romantic magic.

Ed Harris, as a Louisiana-born police detective with an elegant goatee and burning eyes, gives one of his most fervent performances — his cop is so determined to eradicate evil that he commits evil.

And Charles Barker conducted a fervent repeat performance of Jiri Kylian's "Sinfonietta".