Sentence examples for gripping performances from inspiring English sources

David Arquette and Steve Buscemi give gripping performances as rebellious prisoners, but their characters remain frustratingly sketchy.

R. Release date: Sept. 5. Simpatico Trying to sketch in information that Sam Shepard's play omits, Matthew Warchus's offbeat, gawky adaptation thrives with gripping performances and a screenplay that skillfully imitates the playwright's language.

Along the way, he gives gripping performances of 14 piano works, from experimental pieces by Henry Cowell, John Cage and Conlon Nancarrow to new and recent pieces by Guido López Gavilán, Victoria Jordanova, Bernadette Speach and other colleagues of Mr. de Mare.

Their bubbly personalities, infectious sweetness, and gripping performances have catapulted them into one of televisions most pined after couples.

Gripping performances, tautly directed, and just smothered in murky Victorian menace.

There's not much you can say against True Detective when it comes to the way it is shot, or the gripping performances Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson give.

Though the characters were unsympathetic, Philip Seymour Hoffman turned in an insidiously gripping performance as the cult leader.

Accompanied here by Murray Lerner's documentary DVD of the event, it's a remarkable, gripping performance.

Of the three acts offered, the only consistently gripping performance came with Act III of "Otello".

A gripping performance by Mr. Johnston and Ms. Stott gives full depth to the work's introspective, angst-ridden and melancholy moods.

In this imaginative staging and gripping performance "What Next?" emerges as a theatrically dynamic and, finally, quite poignant music drama.