Sentence examples for unnerving performance from inspiring English sources

It is a bright, shiny, slightly unnerving performance delivered with an oversize, fire-breathing self-assurance.

Throughout it all, "Steely Keeley" – as she was astutely named by a poster far cleverer than me – turned in another fantastic, unnerving performance.

No warships idle at anchor, and deities, likewise, are notably thin on the ground, although Martin, in Keoghan's unnerving performance, has a touch of the wicked sprite.

Heath Ledger's posthumous Oscar was an event with a singular flavour: a tribute to his remarkable and deeply unnerving performance as the Joker in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, now the fourth highest grossing movie in history.

But the leading actresses manage to be affectingly vulnerable, and there's an unnerving performance from 78-year-old Hollywood hoofer Ann Miller, who manages to make cheerful ordinariness seem sinister.

He made an international name for himself in Dennis Potter's surreal TV drama "The Singing Detective," where he gave an unnerving performance as a bedridden pulp writer who shuts out the hospital ward and the pain of psoriasis by descending into the hell of his memories.

They also contain three of Mr. Brando's subtlest and most unnerving performances -- as a conscience-bedeviled Southern sheriff, as a closeted homosexual military officer, as a 19th-century English colonialist -- each one an exploration of the frustrations, corruptions and compromises of power.

One early critic described it as the work of a madman, and it still has the power to be at once erotic and unnerving in performance.

On the other hand, to try to flesh out Stewart's motivations, the film-makers have come up with an alter-ego figure (also played by Alexander, in an unnerving double performance) who goads Stewart with constant racist tirades and demands for action.

"Thirst Street" spotlights a powerfully unnerving lead performance by talented actress Lindsay Burdge and a rakish supporting turn by Damien Bonnard.

Chieko's brazen attempts to solicit attention result, again and again, in humiliation, and Ms. Kikuchi's performance is an unnerving blend of sexual provocation, timidity and sheer rage.