Sentence examples for singular performer from inspiring English sources

But even without the special effects, he was a singular performer.

While considering the wilder details of Beal's biography and the elements of his musical mash-up style, Spin magazine called Beal "a strikingly singular performer, synthesising various muses into something deeply unique.

Performed with electric exuberance by Mr. Wayne, they do lusty honor to a singular performer who one fondly hopes is even now crooning away before an enraptured audience at some discothèque in heaven.

She is a singular performer, and the theatre would be a lesser place without Cherry Jones in it.

A generation ago, such televised feats were the domain of singular performers like Evel Knievel.

Both are appealing, singular performers, but Mr. Johnson is a little bit Tom Hanks-like in one scene, teasing Amalia when he finds her waiting at a romantic restaurant, accompanied only by a copy of "Anna Karenina" with a rose as a bookmark.

November THE MUTILATED Two utterly singular performers, Mink Stole and Penny Arcade, will star in Tennessee Williams's strange late-career play about Trinket and Celeste — two women, an oil heiress and an aging prostitute, whose friendship is almost destroyed when one reveals a secret about the other.

For all the exacting opacity of Cassavetes's incantatory, Beckett-like texts (and Cassavetes is indeed a singular screenwriter), the performer's relation to it isn't abstract, but takes the form of an adversarial relationship with the writer.

"I could say I've watched Stacy grow, but the truth is that she's always been a very singular, self-created performer, even as a student," Ms. Parson said.

So easy, so self-effacing, really, that the singular talents of the performer are seen as often in how people react to him as in anything he does.

Baumbach's recognition of this extraordinary performer's singular gifts comes right at the start of the film, a throwing-down of a directorial gauntlet that's an act of wisdom born of the audacity of excess — a long close-up, a minute or more, I'd guess, of Gerwig driving a car through L.A. traffic.