Sentence examples for remarkable portrayal from inspiring English sources

The first half of the book, with its remarkable portrayal of childhood, is irresistibly appealing, and throughout there are scenes that reach a new level of psychological subtlety.

Fonda's remarkable portrayal of the call girl and would-be actress Bree Daniels as the embodiment of the alienation of modern life is sociology-free.

"This youthful player gives a truly remarkable portrayal in a film that is endowed with wholesome amusement and affecting tenderness," Mordaunt Hall applauded in The New York Times.

He played Sir Hugo Latymer in Sheridan Morley's King's Head and West End revival of Noël Coward's A Song at Twilight (1999): a remarkable portrayal of a repressed, buttoned-up homosexual.

With her remarkable portrayal of the cantankerous, mean-spirited and selfish widow in Tatie Danielle (1990), Tsilla Chelton joined the ranks of those elderly female performers who, after a long career in show business, suddenly find themselves as film stars.

Emmanuelle Riva, aged 85, became the oldest Bafta winner when she won the best actress category for her remarkable portrayal in Amour of a retired music teacher whose life is visibly ebbing away after she suffers a stroke.

Though it deals with events around a century ago, the censors hacked at it and have now blocked plans to show a repeat.Part of what makes this melodrama remarkable is its portrayal of some of the era's great figures.

Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg (Family Strife in Hapsburg), a profound and moving historical tragedy, lacks the theatrical action that would make it successful in performance and is chiefly remarkable for the portrayal of the emperor Rudolph II.

"What's remarkable is that the portrayal hasn't changed much over the decades," said Nelson Lichtenstein, director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy at UC Santa Barbara.

One of the many remarkable things about Salinger's portrayal of Holden Caulfield is that he seems to be fully inside the head of this troubled 16-year-old when the author himself was almost twice that age.

Lowenstein then distilled this into a thoughtful, well-written and thorough portrayal of a remarkable man.