Sentence examples for harrowing performance from inspiring English sources

Her confident and harrowing performance dominates and animates this film, while creating a slight emotional asymmetry at its core.

With the warm-toned support of Opus 21, the actor Steve ben Israel gave the text a harrowing performance.

(At Coltrane's request, Ayler played at his funeral, in 1967, and the film includes a rare recording of that harrowing performance).

The following year he went to Broadway with "Payment Deferred," repeating his harrowing performance as the bank clerk who murders his wife, causing a sensation there too.

(At Coltrane's request, Ayler played at his funeral, in 1967, and the film includes an archival recording of that harrowing performance).

Jeffrey Wells, who writes the industry blog Hollywood Elsewhere, thinks this is why, in the Best Actor category, the long-favoured Chiwetel Ejiofor might eventually miss out for his harrowing performance in 12 Years a Slave.

His early work developed in opposition to the harrowing performances of the Viennese Actionists, which were fraught with physical ordeals and existential intensity.

He first rose to attention for a brave and harrowing performances in Thirteen, when he was just 13, and then for starring alongside Jospeh Gordon-Levitt in Gregg Araki's childhood sexual abuse drama Mysterious Skin, at 15. Famed director Michael Haneke tapped him to star alongside Michael Pitt, Naomi Watts, and Tim Roth in his US remake of Funny Games.

The centrepiece was a harrowing, austere performance of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony.

It had a harrowing central performance by Riz Ahmed, and a documentary realism about the horrors of imprisonment on Rikers Island.

Sarah Silverman shocked Sundance with a harrowing dramatic performance as a depressed housewife struggling with addiction in Adam Salky's pitch-black drama, I Smile Black.