Sentence examples for performance compelling from inspiring English sources

It is what makes the atrium performance compelling.

It's not the toughest crowd, but from the moment she struts on, Hynde is in her element: her voice strong, her performance compelling.

Jennifer Koh brought a touch too much crunchy aggression to her playing in Chain 2, a violin concerto in all but name, but her absolute commitment and mercurial responses to the music made her performance compelling.

Many lawmakers, governors and strategists in both parties were unusually measured, saying that neither man had put in a performance compelling enough to force many voters to immediately reconsider whom they would support.

But listen closely, as Mr. Boulez's performance compelled you to do, and you hear how the trumpet lines slink through chromatic harmonies and how brass riffs get stuck in place.

Its blunt evocation of the inhumane treatment of would-be immigrants strikes despairing chords, but Ms. Niles's focused, emotionally resonant performance compels attention and engagement, at least for the first hour.

So? Nothing about this performance compelled me to forward the video to all my friends or join her Facebook fan page (which has over 1.4 MILLION members).

But the music is terrific and the performances compelling on this surprisingly exciting and excellently engineered recording.

Liz Nicholls of the Edmonton Journal called the performances compelling.

Frankel's stunning performances compelled me to attend his last one.

He could cheer a young dancer disappointed with a performance, compel the overly serious choreographer to smile, or elicit laughter from the most temperamental ballet star".