Sentence examples for tragic performance from inspiring English sources

However, as his fame grew Jackson's life began to unravel, becoming its own tragic performance.

I, Daniel Blake showcases a terrific, tragic performance from comic Dave Johns as a martyred Newcastle carpenter, felled by a heart attack yet ruled fit to work.

More raucously, the NT presented James Baldwin's The Amen Corner and unleashed both an unjustly neglected masterpiece of domestic drama in the gospel-drenched Harlem of the 1950s and a great tragic performance by Marianne Jean-Baptiste in the lead.

Mr. Cooper gives a great, tragic performance of a man who lashes out like a trapped snake when he realizes that, in his words, "my life ended, and nobody noticed".

The result, Bigger Than Life, is one of the great American films of the 50s, in which Ray's dynamic use of colour and form is steadily attached to Mason's tragic performance.

I am not saying that her work in "Pillow Talk" is as draining as a great tragic performance like Katharine Hepburn's in "Long Day's Journey Into Night," or that her charming efforts in the family comedy "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" (1960) took her to the grueling, dark places Diana Ross must have gone for her astonishing performance in "Lady Sings the Blues".

Unfortunately, do-gooding intentions are not enough when it comes to elemental, tragic performances.

Kagan tells the story of how, when Cleon scored his stunning success at Sphacteria, the rewards granted to him by a grateful city included front-row seats at the theatre of Dionysus — the site of the annual tragic performances, nestled at the base of the Acropolis, that gleaming monument of Athenian civilization at its best.

She has sat among rotting cow's bones, scrubbing them clean while singing a tragic lament, a performance that reflected on the civil wars in the Balkans, and won her a Golden Lion at the 1997 Venice Biennale.

Frei then described how she has seen people who used to be good employees, but then some manager said something that unintentionally destabilized them, "and it was just this tragic decline" in performance.

And certainly Brit-Brit wants to ensure that there won't be a repeat of her tragic MTV VMA performance from 2007.