Sentence examples for stunningly difficult from inspiring English sources
The audience's lustiest ovations went to Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg for her impassioned performance of Shostakovich's stunningly difficult Violin Concerto No. 1.
And the pianist Peter Serkin played the stunningly difficult piano part with command, unflagging energy, imagination and, where called for, great delicacy.
Instead, she played a showpiece solo encore, a stunningly difficult but empty-headed arrangement of the "Flight of the Bumble Bee".
Ending with Liszt's demonic and stunningly difficult "Totentanz" ("Dance of Death"), she pummeled the piece into submission with little feeling for the mystical realms the composer explores in this wildly experimental work.
On that night, fresh from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, looking skinny and shy, Mr. Pohjonen played a superb program capped by a fearless account of Esa-Pekka Salonen's stunningly difficult piano piece "Dichotomie" (2000).
But the former world number one really is back now, as yesterday's near-faultless 65, an opening round of steely-eyed wonder around a stunning (and stunningly difficult) golf course, proved.
In this production Rosalind is played by Nina Sosanya, a stunningly poised actress who manages the difficult and necessary trick of keeping Rosalind balanced between her natural self-sufficiency and the insecurity of being uncertain in love.
They are extremely difficult to watch (though, rather stunningly, they were aired on CNN earlier today).
One of its early claims to fame was a stunningly played marathon: all six of Bartok's perilously difficult string quartets during a long evening at Alice Tully Hall in 1981.
