Sentence examples for virtuoso characters from inspiring English sources

Fortunately, Dubedat is saved from sentimentality by a comprehensive amorality that is akin in some respects to that of Shaw's best virtuoso characters, such as Billy Dunn the philosophical burglar in Heartbreak House and the millionaire dustman Alfred Doolittle in Pygmalion.

At the time he was performing virtuoso character monologues in comedy clubs around the country and immediately recognised an ancestor.

Cadenza, (Italian: "cadence"), unaccompanied bravura passage introduced at or near the close of a movement of a composition and serving as a brilliant climax, particularly in solo concerti of a virtuoso character.

He has a habit of inventing virtuoso challenges for his characters.

Each group contains a brilliant virtuoso piece, a gentle character piece and a strictly polyphonic canon.

His virtuoso portraits of his idiosyncratic characters are fully backed by his evocative portrayal of the world they live in and the history they live through.

Hippolyta (Teresa Reichlen, imperious and strong) is an enlarged character, with big virtuoso moments, who remains huntress and Amazon as she leads dancing hounds through the forest.

No virtuoso player, he emphasized counterpoint and character over dazzling flourishes.

Denis Lavant – who plays the central character and thus a virtuoso 11 roles – said he had not yet seen the film.

Played with customary zest by David Tennant, Porter is a compellingly detestable character delivering speeches of virtuoso rage, vicious humour and dazzling invective.

Swift is a virtuoso of narrative ventriloquism; he inhabits his characters through their voices.