Sentence examples for ominous performance from inspiring English sources

For one of the great front-runners in the game, it was an odd and perhaps ominous performance.

With the crowd willing him to capture the match ball, the crossbar blocked Lustig's drive following a Kris Commons' free-kick, arguably the only disappointment in what was a commanding and ominous performance.

Wildly unpopular when first broadcast, this slice of Barratt Homes gothic at least offers an extended glimpse of early Tom Hardy, who puts together a solidly ominous performance as a horny handyman with an eye as wandering as his growly accent.

"I was quite impressed, actually," he says, with habitual understatement, of such an ominous All Black performance at the start of a run that ends with the Lions tour next summer.

Whoever wins will face the ominous problem of performance-enhancing drugs, which threaten the legitimacy of every performance at the Winter and Summer Games.

He moved like a zombie and sometimes bellowed, but he brought vocal power and ominous shadings to his performance.

At the top, Chelsea gave a performance of ominous power, exuberance and class to crush Blackburn Rovers, 5-0, on Saturday.

Usain Bolt justified his status as favourite for tomorrow's Olympic 100m final with a performance of ominous composure in qualifying for the semi-finals.

For those of us living in countries that are contemplating joining the euro, the currency's performance is ominous ("Decline of the Euro," editorial, April 29).

The ominous stillness of his performance in Karl Freund's "Mummy" (1932) is on the unrelievedly terrifying side, too, but that character's relentless malevolence is perhaps partly excused by his having been cooped up in a crypt for several thousand years: his lack of social skills and the general foulness of his mood are, in the circumstances, understandable.

Despite giving a convincingly scary performance, the ominous fear factor of Us didn't stay with her.