Sentence examples for revelatory turn from inspiring English sources

But Tracy Letts won for his revelatory turn as George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Elsewhere, Kate Beckinsale won best actress for her revelatory turn as a charming, Machiavellian widow in Love & Friendship, Whit Stillman's adaptation of Jane Austen's novella Lady Susan.

Ever since he cast off his petrological wrestling persona with a revelatory turn in Richard Kelly's bizarre, oft-misunderstood Southland Tales, Johnson has taken on a succession of challenging roles and challenged them right back.

Centering on an 18-year-old drifter named Star, played by newcomer Sasha Lane in a revelatory turn, the picture meditates on a scarred outsider trying to find some sense of peace and self-determination in a world that has put her two steps behind from the start.

With lots of those original and revelatory turns of phrase prized by readers of Clapp's Observer theatre reviews.

I'm not sure they show you anything revelatory (turns out that funding for San Francisco and New York really picked up in the last few years — I never saw it coming!) but it's still fun to see that play out visually, rather rather than just look at a list of fundings.

Renee Zellweger deservedly earned an Oscar nomination for her revelatory comic turn as the titular lovable mess in 2001's hit romantic comedy Bridget Jones's Diary.

The Stath, alas, is following orders throughout: given his revelatory comic turn in last year's Spy, he may yet return to material that allows him to raise smiles and smash heads, but this shrugging afterthought isn't it.

This is excellent news, for the flooded city has a genuinely haunted air, like an urban mangrove swamp, and also because Johnson, in a revelatory scene, turns out to act better when he's underwater.

No one will be surprised by the humane and poetic qualities the pianist brings to the meditative Fourth Concerto, but in the concluding "Emperor" Concerto Goode offers truly revelatory playing, turning that shameless virtuoso showcase into a vibrant, three-dimensional creation.

These are founded not in his long tenure as the perpetually indignant prosecutor Jack McCoy on "Law & Order," but in a revelatory and surprising turn he did as Polonius in "Hamlet" in Central Park several years ago.