But the evening's most riveting performer was Mr. Riley.
To the director Mr. Sellars the contradictions in Mr. Finley's temperament combine to make him one of the most riveting performers of our time.
In Personal Shopper, Stewart often finds herself acting against text messages on her phone, and it's just about the most riveting bit of performance this year.
A rival gangster, played in an unbilled cameo by Master P, whose performance is the most riveting thing he's done on screen since "I Got the Hook Up," also wants to break off a piece of Memphis.
In the most riveting section, Mr. Andrieux — who remains stiffly deadpan throughout — performs the long routine with which the Cunningham dancers begin their daily class.
At performances in Sydney, audiences have responded with obvious emotion.Perhaps the most riveting story is that of Yordanos Haile Michael, a 40-year-old Eritrean mother of four, who was abandoned by her father at the age of three after he killed her mother.
The following year, she sang the title role in a production of "Carmen" at the Boston Lyric Opera — a performance that is remembered by the relatively few who saw it as one of the most riveting Carmens of our time.
The impressive young soprano Barbara Hannigan gave an uninhibited and riveting performance.
Last December the pianist Andras Schiff gave a riveting performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations.
Björk, however, emerged as the band's most riveting personality.
