Sentence examples for performance of genius from inspiring English sources

In short, it was a performance of genius that once again reminds us that classical equals radical.

It's Song of Songs stuff, a performance of genius, played to perfection by an orchestra that remains the finest Bruckner ensemble in the world.

And Peter Oborne, a former Mail columnist now with the Daily Telegraph, refers to Dacre's "daily performance of genius" as he "articulates the dreams, fears and hopes of socially insecure members of the suburban middle class".

Yet Chelsea did have that quintissentially Mourinho combination of guts, know-how, big-game, when-the-chips-are-down performances, flashes of genius, jammy deflected goals and horrible gamesmanship.

And what can it even mean to call a performance a work of genius when, of course, the genius of Bach is, in turn, an altogether different order of creation?

Scolari had been at pains to suggest that "something was missing" from his team during his pre-match news conference and this was the evidence - a stuttering performance with flaws and flashes of genius.

Ian Bartholemew's Ui is a performance of staggering, slumping, strutting genius – Charlie Chaplin meets Edward G Robinson, with flickers of the Führer in the interstices.

At a show with G.E. Smith, Steve Cropper and Booker T., his guitar and vocal genius performance of "Seven Days" set a standard for covers of others' songs.

In this production and this performance it seemed an inexorable work of genius.

He's after the magic of genius, and the performance that he gets from André Benjamin in the lead role captures it.

Certainly there are moments where Lopatkina's performance gives off the electric shock of genius, her eyes dark flashes of fear, her dancing a slow, exquisite resistance against the Prince's promise of freedom.