Sentence examples for unaffected performance from inspiring English sources

There's a charmingly unaffected performance from non-professional Keisha Castle-Hughes as Paikea, and everything is earnestly and sincerely meant.

Meanwhile, he wrote that Mariel "gives an immensely moving, utterly unaffected performance that shows up everything else as a calculated swindle".

Zibby (a delightfully unaffected performance by Elizabeth Olsen) is the film's chief catalyst, and her attraction to (and for) a man 16 years her senior provides the dramatic and moral thrust.

That it should be presented in a limited run by Live's Youth Theatre was by no means a backward step, as it produced a wonderfully funny and unaffected performance from 14-year-old Kalem Patterson.

"Starlet" is a showcase for its two neophyte leads — Ms. Johnson, discovered at a Los Angeles Y.M.C.A., had never acted before — and the film's matter-of-fact understatement seems to flow directly from Ms. Hemingway's guileless, unaffected performance.

This device brings a grounding authenticity to the unfolding drama, one that allows both Woods and Gunn to indulge in some flights of fun self-satire, and Shaan Juma's comfortable, unaffected performance in this role on opening night was a credit to the production.

Perfectly capturing the nature of pre-teen life in all its hopes, fears and aspirations (and without recourse to sentimentality), Koreeda makes splendid use of real-life brothers Ohshiro and Koki Maeda (who have performed together for several years), drawing beautifully natural and unaffected performances from these talented young actors.

I love the raw-edged, unbridled physicality that children offer to dance, as well as their unaffected performances.

Amid the many triumphs of this clearly collaborative venture, special mention must go to the two first-time stars for their extraordinarily natural and unaffected performances.

On one level the film is engagingly modest, showing extracts from a life in progress, bolstered by well-written dialogue (is Linklater the US answer to Eric Rohmer?) and consistently unaffected performances –Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke play the parents.

The freshness comes from the vivid but unaffected performances of the show's young, mostly Chicago-based leads (Mr. Newell is the artistic director of the Court Theater in Chicago, where this production originated).