Sentence examples for performance portrays from inspiring English sources

Mr. Fuith's dour performance portrays Michael as a watchful, nerdy introvert susceptible to sudden spasms of rage and terror.

Robert Ryan, in his finest performance, portrays an aging boxer in Robert Wise's memorable SET-UP (1949).

Mackey's virtuosic and exposed performance portrays Orpheus as he seeks to reverse fate and regain his irrevocably lost love, Eurydice, through the power of his divine musical gifts.

Steiger, in a virtuoso performance, portrays a man so scarred by his witnessing of atrocities that he's become a paragon of emotional cruelty, quietly stewing in his hate and pain.

Davis, in an Academy Award-winning performance, portrayed Julie Marsden, the strong-willed belle whose impertinent spoiled nature wreaks havoc on her relationship with fiancé Preston Dillard Fondaa).

At 6 on Oxygen, Reese Witherspoon, in an Oscar-winning role, and Joaquin Phoenix, in an Oscar-nominated performance, portray Johnny and June Carter Cash in James Mangold's "Walk the Line" (2005).

A tour de force one-man performance, portraying several characters, doing battle with a massive set that included multiple levels and a wet stage, along with numerous complex prop set-ups.

Merrily We Live (1938) may have been a blatant reworking of Gregory La Cava's My Man Godfrey (1936), but the entertaining comedy was a box-office hit; Bennett gave another notable performance, portraying a spoiled socialite who learns about life's true values from a new butler (Brian Aherne).

According to her the performance portrayed Madonna as "fashionable, powerful, but vulnerable sex toy", which became "an ongoing theme for the night".

The superior performance portrayed by the SSA technique could be explained by several factors.

A postperformance discussion focuses on the new dance-theater pieces, which were created with the help of free rehearsal space provided by BAX. 8 p.m. 421 Fifth Avenue, at Eighth Street, Park Slope, (718) 832-0018, www.bax.org; $15. (Claudia La Rocco) 'Book Dances' (Weekends through Nov. 6) Melissa Briggs Dance offers site-specific performances portraying memorable scenes from classic novels.