Sentence examples for sinister performance from inspiring English sources

An actor who has always radiated a furtive, clenched volatility, Mr. Strathairn gives his most sinister performance since "Dolores Claiborne"; he is almost extravagantly villainous.

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood Some Velvet Morning The kerfuffle about Lana Del Rey, self-proclaimed "gangsta Nancy Sinatra", made me revisit the real deal, and what a strange, sinister performance she gives here.

He followed up on that sinister performance by recommending that Parliament should allow the police access to journalists' sources at the earliest opportunity, a measure that would terrify whistle-blowers and kill investigative journalism stone dead – and, now I come to think of it, more babies too.

He eschewed the campy histrionics for such films as Witchfinder General (1968; released in the U.S. as The Conqueror Worm), in which he delivered one of his most effectively sinister performances.

Scenes that seem to take place deep inside an airless crypt; dialogue that tattoos the walls with sinister repetitions; performances so tightly wound that the actors might be speaking with a shiv held between their ribs — the elements of David Mamet's style, in the previous seven films he has directed, have been cold, hollowly precise, and unresonant.

And it has one startling and artful element: the sinister and frightening performance of the late Heath Ledger as the psychopathic murderer the Joker.

Just me?" It was a comical and sinister and telling performance — a prominent Karzai backer damning key members of the president's re-election team (locally dubbed "the warlord ticket").

Denby remarks that the central conflict is workable, but that "only half the team can act it," saying that Bale's "placid" Bruce Wayne and "dogged but uninteresting" Batman is constantly upstaged by Ledger's "sinister and frightening" performance, which he says is the film's one element of success.

She has also teamed with Wangechi Mutu, the fiercely modish Kenyan-born artist, building a network of "sinister branches" for a performance work about adulterous women sentenced to death by stoning.

This is an evocative, lyrical adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's acclaimed novel, with a subtly sinister atmosphere, and sensitive performances from Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley.

Rather obtusely, the Globes have nominated Aaron Taylor-Johnson's performance as the sinister, feral criminal who sets the nightmare in motion.