Sentence examples for gift for performance from inspiring English sources

Smith has a colossal gift for performance.

He did, however, inherit from his father comic timing and a gift for performance.

His father was a keen musician, and I wonder if he thinks he inherited his gift for performance from him.

By then, famously, he had spent two years in Disney's Mickey Mouse Club, having uncovered a gift for performance.

She had a gift for performance, her stylised recitations, half spoken and half sung, half cheerful and half desperate, unnerving her audiences with their sense of something – madness?

If there has been a constant theme of his career – which has taken in two Grammy awards, scene-stealing acting roles for the likes of Robert Altman and Terry Gilliam, an Oscar nomination and a unique gift for performance that made his rare live shows just about the hottest ticket in any town – it is the constant sense of imminent dereliction.

Only with the role of Bud White, a brutish but vulnerable policeman, in the 1950s crime drama L.A. Confidential (1997) did Crowe's gift for complex performance combine with a well-written story line to help produce a commercial and critical hit.

His gift for oral performance had allowed him to get through high school with no effort, and he barely did a dozen written homework assignments.

The health service managers proposed a number of ways that may be used to recognise performance of health care workers, such as issuing certificates of achievement, offering gifts for outstanding performance, end-of-year parties and words of praise.

So Lewis had a preternatural gift for comedy and performance — and he left school at sixteen and tried to make a living with a routine of lip-synching to records.

He's a showman, wholly unsentimental, with an exceptional gift for drawing truthful performances from his cast.