Sentence examples for menacing performance from inspiring English sources

Sutherland's menacing performance attracted much attention, and villains became his specialty, although he typically sought out diverse roles.

A constant, driving threat who capped a menacing performance with a wonderful winner.

Mr. Whaley ("Swimming With Sharks") gives the kind of menacing performance that nightmares are made of.

His menacing performance earned Fiennes an Academy Award nomination and launched his film career.

The picture also picked up the best supporting actor Oscar for the menacing performance by Javier Bardem as the folically challenged hitman Anton Chigurh.

Robbie steals the movie from most of her co-stars, but the real scene-stealer is Viola Davis, playing soberly dressed federal apparatchik Amanda Waller: it's an excellent, coolly menacing performance.

I'd taken a view about something else forming the issue of the day, and after the tactics meeting broke up he quite physically stepped into my space, it was a quite bullying encounter, it was a menacing angry performance," Gillard says.

Modern societies face important transport related challenges that menace their economic performance and quality of life.

Waltz has too much dignity for camp, so he tries different kinds of light, sub-ironic "menacing" readings, but the performance lacks exuberance, and the character isn't much fun, anyway.

It took another injury blow for Villa plus a necessary tactical switch from Rodgers to inject menace into Liverpool's performance.

This was a bad time for Jackson – around the era of Shaft and The Phantom Menace – and yet his performance in this film, requiring him to talk as if he'd been raised in isolation with only a VHS copy of Pulp Fiction to parent him, was the absolute nadir.