Sentence examples for fierce performance from inspiring English sources

James Coburn, in a fierce performance, is the alcoholic father who made Wade the man he is today.

At the marathon's midpoint, the Talea Ensemble gave a fierce performance of Fausto Romitelli's "Professor Bad Trip," a phantasmagorical sprawl of oozing timbres and howling psychedelic guitar.

On May 12 Criterion releases John Huston's fine film of Flannery O'Connor's novel "Wise Blood," featuring a fierce performance by Brad Dourif.

Telling anyone who wasn't aware all about the guns, the drugs and the girls, it's a fierce performance, D's sing-song flow suffused with braggadocio.

Within that real-life performance art, though, is a sharp and fierce political temperament, the force of ideas, and Mann emphasizes the bedrock of Ali's ideas, and tailors Will Smith's fierce performance to fit it closely.

But Mr. Fincher's slick, menacing style and Ms. Mara's fierce performance are hobbled by the plodding, procedural obviousness of the original story, which cannot quite rise above the level of a not-bad television crime series.

He is a natural for a moment when so much new art bubbles with psychedelic color and pattern, labor-intensive craft, homoerotic urges and fierce, performance-like self-revelations.

McConaughey, who won a Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award for the same role recently, honoured the "fierce performances" of his fellow nominees in an emotional speech.

As in her feature, Seimetz achieves images of a dense and inward atmosphere, a visual mood of tangle and haze that fuses with the fierce performances to provide a richly textured and specific sense of place.

Inside and outside the courtroom, this is first-rate ensemble acting, but two fierce performances stand out: Derek Jacobi's as a self-confident defense lawyer who proves that you can give 'em the old razzle-dazzle even when you're wearing a powdered wig, and Peter Vaughan's as the aforementioned father-in-law, who is also controlling, confrontational, narcissistic and anti-Semitic.

With its fierce performances and writing, "Match Point" proved very much a return to fine form, if not for the comic Woody Allen, then for the serious Woody Allen, the one who didn't try to hide his misanthropy, his fear and his loathing behind jokes and shtick.