Sentence examples for poignant performance from inspiring English sources

"Appalachian Spring" received a clean-cut, quietly poignant performance.

He gives a vocally ardent and dramatically poignant performance.

Firth garnered numerous accolades for his poignant performance, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award.

"You're afraid of being beautiful," says her sympathetic father, H.C. (Al Mohrmann in a poignant performance).

Lange earned a best actress Oscar nomination for her moving and poignant performance.

Judi Dench gives a poignant performance in "Saigon: Year of the Cat" that is both marvelously subtle and deeply expressive.

The only criticism sometimes leveled at his rapt and poignant performances was that, for some, his spacious tempos were too slow.

"[His] own production motors smoothly on a constant laughter track, but poignant performances from Alexandra Mathie and Matthew Cottle draw on Ayckbourn's familiar reservoir of pain and loneliness".

One of the most poignant performances will be at Walshaw Lodge Care Home, Prestatyn, formerly Clive House preparatory school, where Britten's older brother Robert taught and for whose pupils' Friday afternoon singing lessons Britten wrote his 12 simple and witty pieces between 1933 and 1935.

THE COLLECTION and A KIND OF ALASKA Karen Kohlhaas's tart and tender productions of two short plays by Harold Pinter, for the Atlantic Theater Company, proved that American actors can speak fluent Pinterese and, in Lisa Emery's portrait of a woman waking from a coma, featured one of the year's most poignant performances.

Mr. Gyllenhaal, who became a movie star for poignant performances in "Donnie Darko" and "Brokeback Mountain," will make his American stage debut this summer in the Roundabout Theater Company production of "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet," a British play that turns on an overweight teenager's relationship to her drifter uncle (Mr. Gyllenhaal).