Sentence examples for unsettling performance from inspiring English sources

Just shrugged off each unsettling performance.

It was a sensitive and often unsettling performance that forced the audience to listen closely.

Costa gives a terrific, affecting and, by the end, intensely unsettling performance.

Insignificance The actor gave a bristling and very unsettling performance as the Communist-hating senator in Nic Roeg's memorable adaptation of the Terry Johnson play.

(When Mr. Eisenberg makes Mark's face go blank, the character seems scarily emptied out: it's a subtly great, at times unsettling, performance).

And Karloff's best, most profoundly unsettling performance, I think, falls closer to the pure-evil end of the scale than the scary-but-sympathetic.

In this article, the focus is on noisy, nonsensical, sometimes unsettling performances of linguistic creativity and on their contexts.

The film star, who first won recognition for unsettling performances in Pretty in Pink and Less Than Zero and had a much-admired comic cameo in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, is not giving up on film.

It delivered a mixed and somewhat unsettling quarterly performance on Tuesday.

I.B.M. delivered a mixed and somewhat unsettling quarterly performance on Tuesday.

Given these conditions Dominic Armstrong's gripping rendition of the mad scene from "Peter Grimes" on Friday afternoon was all the more remarkable: an unsettling, powerful performance in which Mr. Armstrong used his muscular tenor as a vehicle to bring Britten's art to life.