Sentence examples for frightening performance from inspiring English sources

Final whistle: That was a compelling and at times frightening performance from Bilbao.

There is no incidental music and little exposition, and Mr. Denis's clinical realism might in itself become oppressive if not for Ms. Testud's ferocious, frightening performance as Christine Papin, whose fanatical devotion to her younger sister Léa made her the primary actor in a bloody social tragedy (Scott).

But his frightening performance as Animal Kingdom's horrible psychopath Pope "changed the parameters", he says.

Mr. Barr's frightening performance, in which he seems to deteriorate physically with every painful pause, gulping spit as he describes his degraded life, can be hard to watch.

O'Connor's noisy, tender, and sometimes frightening performance made the character unforgettable, but from the beginning he was a source of huge anxiety, triggering as many think pieces as Lena Dunham.

30 ROCK NBCC, Jan . 31 Tina Fey's sitcom signs off after seven seasons, after which many of us will forget everything about the show except Alec Baldwin's funny and frightening performance as the tinny soul of NBC.

Nicholas Brendon's constantly bemused, frightened performance allows him to anchor an episode in which he fights off a gang of undead jocks, saves Sunnydale High and loses his virginity.

Her frightening, twisted performance represents "an all-too-familiar character in America", as she puts it.

Like Naomi Watts in "Mulholland," Ms. Dern summons an almost frightening intensity in a performance that requires her to inhabit three (if not more) overlapping parts, lapsing in and out of a Southern drawl.

Many of them are fascinatingly tied to a relatively new character, mad doctor Liesl Obrecht, played to striking perfection by Kathleen Gati (pictured below), who consistently makes the over-the-top doc funny and frightening without allowing her performance to degenerate into ridiculous camp.

When it was over, Ms. McDonald remarked that while recording the song on her newest album, "Build a Bridge" (Nonesuch), her husband, Peter Donovan, who played bass on the track, was frightened by her performance in the studio and asked that the volume be lowered.