Sentence examples for powerful performer from inspiring English sources

Mr. Smith, who spent 17 years with the company, developed a reputation as a powerful performer who stood out for his unusual combination of intensely dramatic performance and urbanity.

Ms. Freitas is a powerful performer, but her "Guintche" suffered from a similar whiff of redundancy.

Burly frontman Yannis Philippakis has matured into a powerful performer with a frisson of volatility.

In his late 40s, he picked up an oar again, to become a powerful performer at the Potomac Boat Club.

He was a very powerful performer on the stage and also a great writer and musician, so it was evident he was going to be very successful".

Ahead of that, Didier Drogba, surely the most powerful performer of the current generation of players, found two compelling ways to steal the show.

But, in fact, he was always one of America's most powerful performers when harnessed to the right script.

DUNNING MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN DANCE This program by student dancers includes new pieces by Bahiyah Sayyed-Gaines and Denise Vale, two powerful performers whose take on choreography might be interesting.

The actors, to their credit, seem to pick up on the dissonance; Dathan B. Williams and Kena Tangi Dorsey, who play Ti Moune's peasant guardians, are powerful performers and it feels as if they are aware of the stilted dialogue weighing them down.

There was a great deal of focus on acting style and scale: John Philip Kemble and Sarah Siddons were incredibly grand and powerful performers; Kean was such an exciting, dark actor that Coleridge said seeing him act was like reading Shakespeare by 'flashes of lightning'.

It's a dark-hued blend of chanson, theatre and cabaret, in which the half-Irish, half-French O'Sullivan – wild-haired, red-lipped, barely contained by her black retro-style corset-dress – makes a convincing case for being one of the most powerful performers around today, and certainly one of the most unhinged.