Sentence examples for shining performance from inspiring English sources

It was completed by the Dance of Vengeance from Miss Graham's "Cave of the Heart," performed to the hilt by Takako Asakawa, and a shining performance of Miss Graham's "Diversion of Angels," led by Miss Sherman and Donlin Foreman as the Couple in White, Kathy Buccellato and Kenneth Topping as the Couple in Red, and Debra Kantor and Christopher Dolder as the Couple in Yellow.

Although it is overstuffed, it has a ramshackle vigour and yields a shining performance from Simon Russell Beale.

The Pioneers failed to take advantage of a shining performance by junior Chase Carraro, who won 21-of-25 21-of-25 21-of-25ver and grabbed 14 ground balls.

Fortunately, it gets an impassioned production by Carrie Cracknell that illuminates Rattigan's psychological understanding and boasts a shining performance from Helen McCrory.

But the New York City Ballet presented a shining performance of this problematic ballet on Thursday night at the New York State Theater, with finely meshed dancers alert to every nuance.

Kara, who is 29, was still aglow from her shining performance in Osaka, Japan, where she won a bronze medal in the 10,000 meters, becoming the first American woman in 15 years to medal in a world championship distance race.

And here there was no lack of shining individual performances.

Emily's parents are major characters in the film; they're written not merely to shine in performance (as Hunter and Romano do) but also to have substance that's as much symbolic as detailed.

While the overture from Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro," which opened the concert, felt jittery and brash, as if the players' nerves were still settling, the orchestra members were coolly controlled and responsive in the Bartok, with an especially shining and assured performance from the brasses.

Yet it's hard to wholly condemn the directors' ambition - this is fast-paced and cleverly assembled, with the best of the performances shining through the prosthetics (Hugh Grant makes great play of the clutch of villains he's dealt).

"While there are plenty of top performing trust boards, we are determined to root out poor performance by shining a light into every area of the service".