Sentence examples for gives a knockout from inspiring English sources

Kevin Bacon (above) gives a knockout performance as a remorseful pedophile trying to make a new life after being released from prison.

One of the best films of this year, the harrowing and haunting sci-fi drama "Splice," which barely made a blip in theaters, is released on Oct. 12; and so are "I Am Love," in which Tilda Swinton gives a knockout performance, and the Wes Anderson comedy "The Darjeeling Limited" from Criterion.

Jesse Plemons, who plays Whitey's right-hand man, Kevin Weeks, literally gives a knockout performance.

Face the Music, a student ensemble (ages 11 to 16) gave a knockout performance, directed by Jennifer Undercofler.

"But his speech -- I knew he was going to give a knockout speech and he did -- and that would have made my uphill climb even tougher".

But the standout was Joyce Yang, who gave a knockout performance of the alternately poetic, fiery and occasionally jazz-tinged piano line.

He's been on board only a few minutes before Ruth Wilson gives him a knockout punch: it looks so convincing that for a moment it seemed that first-nighters were going to be present at one of those theatrical accidents in which a pretend injury turns into a real-life disaster.

"He hasn't really given a big knockout punch yet and Hillary is holding her own so far".

Second, while telomere dysfunction in late generations of telomerase knockout mice gives a severe deleterious impact on highly regenerative tissues (Lee et al., 1998), this study focused on the diseases associated with non-regenerative/post-mitotic tissues (i.e., heart and brain) and identified G-tail, the telomere-related parameter, as the predictive disease marker.

He threw kicks and did not let his opponent give him a knockout.

Finally, knockdown of gene function by antisense morpholino oligonucleotides (MOs) in zebrafish is more suitable to the screening of a large number of genes than classic gene knockout in mice and gives an immediate phenotype.