Sentence examples for perceptive performance from inspiring English sources
They also gave a perceptive performance of Thomas Adès's partly acidic, partly introspective "Court Studies From 'The Tempest' " (2005), a Neo-Classical piece with a Stravinskian edge.
So if it wasn't a given that he would conduct a perceptive performance, it was at least likely – and proved the case.
Her wicked sense of comic timing within an assured, perceptive performance, as revealing of the play's heart as Mr. Knight's, means that the character is not a caricature.
Also in England, the Brighton Festival (May 6 to 28) will present performers including the Chinese Guangdong Modern Dance Company, Mr. Teshigawara, Jin Xing from Beijing, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company from America and, from England, Wendy Houstoun, the sharply perceptive performance artist, and Wayne McGregor's Random Dance Company.
In Underwood's subtle and perceptive performance, we find the soul of a good man, trying to bring peace and harmony to his own little world.
Perceptual learning corresponds to the improvement in perceptive performance induced by repeated sensory practice.
Michael Gielen (Philips) conducts a perceptive and pragmatic performance with a decent cast, while Georg Solti's (Decca) is typically hard-edged and rhythmically vital, and he has arguably the best of all Arons in Philip Langridge.
In the end, Haley is far more realistic than any supposed counterparts on HBO, with much of the credit belonging to Ms. Jefferies and her perceptive and enjoyable performance.
In a glowing and perceptive review of her performance as Desdemona in Verdi's "Otello" at Covent Garden in London in late 1957, the critic Andrew Porter, writing in The Financial Times, commended her for not "sacrificing purity to power".
An intelligent, perceptive drama with superb performances by Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen, in a wonderfully affectionate, possibly career-best turn".
Among the more perceptive listeners at another early performance, in 1926, was the composer and critic Virgil Thomson, who opined, "The music was not quite a musician's music... [but] its sound has remained in my memory".
