Sentence examples for frantic performance from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately the conductor, Brad Cohen, drove those high spirits to the point of mania with a frantic performance that bullied the music, scattered ensembles and left the singers breathless.

The evening's Dimble-dance contest was won by Tom Bush and Ramzy Alwakeel, two young men whose frantic performance was, they suggested, an attempt to "convey our frustrations at the current political climate through the medium of dance".

Mr. Deak, who has been adept in several farces with the Cocteau, gives a frantic performance that is more reminiscent of one of Shakespeare's mechanicals than a shrewd fool.

It was reflected in a frantic performance.

Jocelyn Vena of the same publication, wrote that she had a "frantic performance" of the song along with a "fiercely choreographed breakdown" at the end.

His first days in Chicago make for the most gripping section of "When I Left Home" — he struggles for a place to play, an introduction, any opening to find a path for the music he loves, and he pours that frustration into increasingly frantic, electrifying performances onstage.

Theirs is another show of largely joke-free material, propped-up by frantic physical performances and bloated, absurd characters.

The chaos surrounding her performance — frantic preparations, a hyperventilating vocal coach, sneering stagehands — is at once over the top and true to life.

While Allison Burnett's screenplay scatters decoy suspects like dark treats, Ms. Seyfried's frantic, one-note performance fails to engage either the audience or the rest of the cast.

In almost every scene, she delivers a frantic, one-note performance that neither capitalizes on the character's complicated medical history nor appears to be remotely connected to anyone else in the story.

Even his frantic, Kafkaesque last performances, which centered on his legal ordeals, featured him impersonating characters on every side of the case.