Sentence examples for gave a splendid performance from inspiring English sources

Ms. Skuce gave a splendid performance, singing with warm, rich tone and endless agility, though her ardent portrayal was sometimes undercut by the inanely randy carryings-on that came with the staging.

The movie's prime virtue is its panoply of voices, including interviews with the musicians Hank Jones, Billy Taylor, Carmen Lundy, and Geri Allen (who is also filmed giving a splendid performance of Williams's composition "Lonely Moments"); the historians Gary Giddins, Griffin, and Tammy Kernodle, and her friends Johnnie Garry and Gray Weingarten.

Mr. Bush gave a splendid speech at the U.N.

Dmitri Hvorostovsky gave a splendid account of Yeletzky's aria from Tchaikovsky's "Queen of Spades".

And come home she did; then, in a splendid performance calculated to épater les bourgeois, she gave us got a view of what went on.

" 'The Fencing Master' is a splendid performance," Walter Satterthwait wrote here last year.

It is a splendid performance, full of chancy verbal energy and rich historical witnessing.

The 192-seat Bessie Schönberg Theater is a splendid performance space (now with curtain) below street level.

The terrace, which is lined by statues, gives a splendid view across Paris.

Drogba, in truth, gave a strange performance.

She gave a great performance.