Sentence examples for gruelling performance from inspiring English sources

She plays Lily, a young woman with epilepsy who is dealing with the fallout of a troubled family life – a strong, committed and occasionally gruelling performance.

Leonardo DiCaprio's emotionally and physically gruelling performance as a vengeful frontiersman finally won him a best actor Bafta as his movie The Revenant dominated the marquee awards at the 2016 British film ceremony.

Back in LA, in a studio as big as an aircraft hangar, McCarthy had Hollywood stage-builders construct a life-size model of the bank's basement vaults and corridors, where yet more hours of gruelling performance were recorded, to be shown in London among the abandoned safes and barred doors of the vaults themselves.

Both movements predated and inspired Abramović's outre, alarming and sometimes gruelling performances.

For the 106-minute running time of All Is Lost, Redford delivers a masterclass in the art of screen acting, using his prime instrument – his body – to deliver a galvanising, physically gruelling, deeply emotional performance that would be electrifying coming from someone half his age.

In one scene, a character brings up the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh, who embarked on a series of gruelling, yearlong performance pieces in the late nineteen-seventies and early nineteen-eighties.

The daughter of high-ranking officers in Tito's Yugoslavia, Marina Abramovic makes gruelling, intimate performances that are legendary feats of endurance, self-exposure and risk.

He can point to his performance on the campaign trail a gruelling test of fitness.

Even this ordeal was nothing like as gruelling as Tehching Hseih's legendary 1980s performance, in which the artist spent a whole year punching a worker's time clock, on the hour every hour, in his New York studio.

There is something robotic, gruelling, and, of course, punitive about bulimia that Beecroft captures in the performances.

Also in 2011, The Wiggles celebrated their 20th anniversary with circus-themed shows and performances throughout the Australian outback in a circus tent, as well as a "physically gruelling" birthday-themed tour of 90 shows throughout Australia, which Paul Field called "one of the biggest of their careers".