Sentence examples for strong turns from inspiring English sources

Despite blandly glitzy costumes, it was a promising performance, with strong turns from Summerscales.

At one point the entire female ensemble, twelve dancers strong, turns its back to us and does a stately combination while facing upstage left.

There were also strong turns in Paris Trout (1991), Red Rock West (1993) and True Romance (1993), in which he played the sympathetic straight guy during a bravura face-off with Christopher Walken.

After strong turns in Animal Kingdom and The Great Gatsby, he'll next appear in Ridley Scott's Exodus as Ramses, and out-glower Michael Shannon in Midnight Special – he's even written Felony, a detective drama in which he stars.

Defiant and more than a little deranged, she runs rings around her prim, middle-class neighbours (strong turns from Lu Corfield and Amelia Lowdell), as she denies them the security of polite conversation.

There were strong turns by Sugarland, which won Vocal Duo of the Year for the fourth year running — the closest this year's awards came to predictability — Kenny Chesney on his football memoir "The Boys of Fall," and Ms. Swift, with a purposefully low-key rendition of "Back to December," during which she never got up from behind her piano.

Directed by Tom Chiu, the soloists -- the best of them included Lew Soloff, trumpeter; David Morgan, clarinetist; Johnny Reinhard, bassoonist; John Clark, french horn player, and Lois Martin, violist -- gave particularly strong turns, all the better for being spirited but plain-spoken and not seeking the rhetoric of jazz improvisation.

But when Strong turns him down too, Mooney unleashes his wrath.