Sentence examples for the definitive performance from inspiring English sources

The definitive performance remains that of Tom Cruise as "seduction specialist" Frank TJ Mackey in Magnolia.

And with that comes the pursuit of the definitive performance, a lot of arguing about what the definitive performance might be - and daunting piles of CDs of the same thing in HMV.

Yet despite having given the definitive performance, Courtenay claims not to have had much in common with the character.

Years ago, I watched Judi Dench in the role and always thought of that as the definitive performance.

Bowie may have provided the raw material, but Mott gave the definitive performance of this generation-defining song, with its sneering reference to the Beatles and the Stones.

Snapping his fingers, he seemed tantalized by that possibility, but agreed it was better to have the definitive performance preserved forever on film.

Ms. Clayburgh, who died at her Connecticut home on Friday at 66 after living with chronic leukemia for 21 years, had been on stage and screen for a decade before giving this definitive performance.

"Maybe Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' is the one definitive performance I can think of," he said.

Herman Cornejo's Puck is the most definitive performance of any role to be seen anywhere in ballet today, but no superlative will suffice.

"That's where everything started for me," said Hiddleston. "I was in a production of 'Othello' there with Chiwetel, who gave probably the most definitive performance of Othello of my generation.

The show closed, as it had to, with "The Weight," the enigmatic hymn that Helm's definitive performance had invested with such gravity and grace.