Sentence examples for startling performance in from inspiring English sources

His startling performance in Roman Polanski's The Pianist secured his place in cinema history; he became the first American actor to be awarded a Cesar (the French equivalent of an Oscar) and, at 29, knocked Richard Dreyfuss (30 when he won for The Goodbye Girl) off his post to become the youngest ever recipient of the Best Actor Academy Award.

It was a tiny glimpse of Thatcher's rarely displayed humanity which I was reminded of while watching Meryl Streep's startling performance in The Iron Lady.

Monk's musical DNA had already taken root by the time he started recording for Riverside, and that connection gives rise to one of the most startling performances in the boxed set.

A startling performance, if it was a performance, though it's hard to tell.

Ralph Fiennes's startling performance as Voldemort in the Potter movies was always rather obscured by the CGI touches required to give the dark lord his distinctive snake-like features.

Maxwell Martin, who won early critical acclaim with a six-hour performance as Lyra in the National Theatre's sell-out adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, went on to take Bafta best actress awards both for Bleak House, and for her startling performance as N in the television film version of Claire Allan's novel about mental illness, Poppy Shakespeare.

LeBron James, also known as the Chosen One, added to his substantial body of incredible individual feats Friday night with a startling performance against the Celtics in Game 3. James was at his ferocious best, scoring 21 points in the first quarter.

Tremlett Sr "lost" his bowling after being picked for England, almost on a whim after a startling performance for Somerset at Lord's in 1947.

Folklore has it that interest in the fungus stems from the startling performance of Chinese runners at an international track meet in 1993, which their coach attributed to their consumption of a soup combining the fungus with turtle blood.

From the beginning, with her startling performance as a ruthless high-school girl in "Election" (1999), she has played unstoppable young women.

The title of James Rhodes' second piano recital comes from Glenn Gould – a "total nut-job" in Rhodes' words and patron saint of this idiosyncratic, honest, sometimes startling performance.