Sentence examples for tense performance from inspiring English sources

The scenes in the bunker, with Brody's malfunctioning vest, were made slightly less tense by knowing that a second series featuring Lewis and Danes had already been commissioned, but nevertheless it was a remarkable and excruciatingly tense performance.

No matter how experienced you are, reality has fresh terrors the moment you clear your throat: Jack Dee remembers a tense performance in front of an audience of "re-murderers" in a Scottish prison.

The black actor Paul Winfield, in a tense performance, plays an animal trainer who is convinced that because racism is learned it can be unlearned, despite the skepticism of his colleague, played by Burl Ives.

Eventually, for the best stretch of a tense performance, they played together, Mr. Connor's thin notes slicing through Mr. Haino's fat and rough tone clusters until Mr. Haino sang high notes and turned off his guitar completely, but kept strumming, fully into his actions.

He praised Winfield's tense performance and Fuller's use of melodrama to create one of his "most potent" films.

Subjects also confirmed that present tense "capability" stems were clearer than past tense "performance" stems (8.9% versus 15.5%).

This was only their second win in seven games and the feeling was of a missed opportunity after a Games plagued by nerves, translating into tense performances and poor shooting.

I exhaled and immediately felt that odd pseudo-PTSD one can feel after an incredibly tense stage performance.

The count is a morbidly gripping comic character, and I marvelled at, and shrank from, Delaney's hyper-tense, spluttering performance.

Gil Shaham opened the Tuesday concert with an emotionally tense, rich-toned performance of the Schuman concerto.

No more to be discarded in the past tense than the performance of the de Sade asylum where she had been Charlotte Corday to his Marat.