Sentence examples for restrained performance in from inspiring English sources

2. Five Minutes of Heaven (BBC2) Jimmy Nesbitt's second incredible achievement of the year, after his performance in Occupation, almost overshadowed Liam Neeson's beautifully restrained performance in this Guy Hibbert drama about painful reconciliation after the Troubles.

Gretchen Mol, a sensitive actress best known for her Hollywood work ("Boardwalk Empire"), contributes an intelligent, restrained performance in the lead role of Larissa, the titular mom.

As for Shylock, another notoriously challenging role, I'd have to split the palm between F. Murray Abraham's movingly dignified, restrained performance in the recent Theater for a New Audience production, and Henry Goodman's fiery-spirited, intense Shylock at the National Theater some years ago.

A similar whirlwind happens in "Nocturnal Animals," an even more restrained performance in a movie that requires time to process.

The formidable Ms. Jefferies, who was in "The Orphans' Home Cycle" on Broadway in 2009, gives a forcefully restrained performance — seemingly calm, logical and rational.

Mr. Baryshnikov gives a touchingly restrained performance as Nikolai, expressing his character's formal dignity and pride in his long-past history as a general with each elegantly placed step he takes.

In "Endgame," the great Michael Gambon gives a fierce yet restrained performance as the blind, chair-bound Hamm, reflecting on a life that might have been meaningless.

Jeffrey Huard conducted an aptly restrained performance.

James Levine conducts a supple and beautifully restrained performance.

One man's boring, flat walk-through performance is another's beautifully restrained performance".

A 1950 review by Bosley Crowther in the New York Times noted "the sincerity of the dramatization and the integrity of Mr. Robinson playing himself" and Dee's "well restrained" performance.