Sentences with phrase «magnificent performance»

The last of our half - and - halfers came in 1994, as the brilliant Hristo Stoichkov capped off a pretty impressive season with Barcelona — a league title and a run to the final of the European Cup — with a series of magnificent performances in Bulgaria's run to fourth place in the USA World Cup.

Ms. Taymor gets magnificent performances from Ms. Hayek as Frida and Alfred Molina as the oversexed Diego Rivera.

It waswhen he burst onto the scene with magnificent performances as an overlapping right fullback in the World Youth Championships on home soil.

It is mature and weighty, paying homage to the existentialist complexity of the theatre of the absurd with a surplus of subtle humour, an ensemble rife with magnificent performances, Deakins's black - and - white photography, a dry and startling script (all the more so for its dedication to familiar noir conventions), and a score by Carter Burwell that's right up there with his majestic work on Miller's Crossing.

The pupils of Rossall School produced two magnificent performances of the Royal Shakespeare Company's recent adaptation of the novel.

And we have also seen magnificent performances against Liverpool both home games, Cardiff away, Southampton away, Newcatsle home, Hull City away, and Everton home, Napoli home, Marseille, etc..

Fresh: Ms. Taymor gets magnificent performances from Ms. Hayek as Frida and Alfred Molina as the oversexed Diego Rivera.

«On that occasion,» the flyer read, «we urge all true Met fans to attend that game to show Tom our appreciation for the many magnificent performances he has given us.»

We do not have world star players in every position, but neither did Leicester, in fact we have a good team that could be a great contender even against the big spenders, just look at Ramsey, he was key for Wales magnificent performance (just see what happened when he did not play), the point is that is not necessary to splash the cash, what we need is a new Manager with a different vision that understand and demand from his players not indulge them....

A 0 - 0 draw with champions - elect Manchester United was a fantastic result, a fine reward for a quite magnificent performance.

But i was impressed with some of its character work and David Carradine «s magnificent performance which made the film.

All these three Lenovo Windows 10 laptops and tablet offer magnificent performance options.

Jeremy Irons gives not one but two magnificent performances in David Cronenberg «s chilly 1988 psychological thriller Dead Ringers.

Writer / director / Australian Jennifer Kent, with an assist from cinematographer Radek Ladczuk and magnificent performances from Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman — has crafted an unsettling and spooky haunted house style tale.

This enjoyably breezy nostalgic college - party film is filled with magnificent performances and wonderful set pieces, including a marvelous bit where the lead actors sing and rap along to The Sugarhill Gang's 1979 hit Rapper's Delight, but it ultimately feels extraordinarily slight (this review on The Verge sums it up quite well).

The young Italian turned in a magnificent performance in the second leg against Chelsea as Paris Saint Germain knocked out the Premier League leaders on away goals.

The Chelsea legend was given a start by Manuel Pellegrini and demonstrated his qualities with a magnificent performance that reminded many of why the veteran is held in such high regard in the Premier League.

Nolan Roux opened the scoring on 14 minutes when Sofiane Boufal — who delivered a magnificent performance — turned Tiago Ilori inside out before sending a delicious cross onto the head of the towering centre forward.

We won plainly because we have more quality than milan not because we drop a magnificent performance.

The only down side to Cazorla's magnificent performance is that Coq otherwise might have earned MOTM — he was very good again this week.

After his magnificent performance in Los Angeles (18 - for - 23 for 279 yards and two touchdowns), gimpy old Kevin Hogan has a reasonable chance of not only leading his team back to the Pac - 12 title game, but winning his third conference title.

Jacinto won his last warmup for this race with a magnificent performance in the mile - and - a-sixteenth San Felipe Handicap.

Unfortunately for the Azzurri, that turned out to be their greatest achievement on the night as Spain put on a magnificent performance, scoring two goals in each half to seal their 3rd consecutive major international title.

Chelsea's busy run continues now with Atletico Madrid coming to town on Tuesday night, and Blues fans across the globe will be hoping that the maestro can keep up these magnificent performances.

After a magnificent performance from Liverpool at Anfield, we look at five talking points from the game.

Yet, were it not for a few moments of madness, we would likely be here, hailing a magnificent performance from Liverpool, once again.

Spurs fans in a record Premier League crowd of 80,827 were treated to a magnificent performance against Liverpool at Wembley on Sunday.

The pure delight and emotion he showed after scoring that goal topped off Payet's magnificent performance and it was no surprise that the West Ham midfielder was Carlsberg's man of the match.

The Bundesliga and La Liga were also not as predictable as usual with some very interesting games and magnificent performance from the underdogs.

Bayern were lacklustre, but that would just take away the credit from Arsenal, who put in a brave and magnificent performance.

His magnificent performances have saved United from losses in various occasions and he is widely regarded as the number one keeper in the world by many pundits and fans.

So: we left, still waiting for the first win, but in this game the scoreline was an unjust reward for a magnificent performance.

There were some magnificent performances, none more so than the home wins against QPR, Nottingham Forest and the promotion clincher against Wigan.

While Josh Waldock introduced some humour with his comment: «The #QueensSpeech was a disappointing sequel to Colin Firth's magnificent performance in 2010»

It's a magnificent performance, buttressed with finely - tuned supporting work from Kyles, Seyfried, Ettinger and Michael Gaston (as a perfectly thin - skinned magnate / philanthropist / polluter).

In a film that otherwise operates in a forbidding chill, it's only Rampling's magnificent performance that holds us in expectant suspension.

Kerrigan introduces to us a surreal environment in all its passiveness, how illuminating this is, Dardenne portray the suicidal community, their U.S. fellow director dwells in it.The relief of the everyday life, the late Cartlidge in a magnificent performance as the object of demolishing senses.

He took those two magnificent performances and dropped them into a trendy, gimmick - ridden exercise in fashionable cinema.

Even for Haneke this is astringent stuff, light on visual flourish or narrative surprise, but driving it all are magnificent performances that cut right to the quick.

You can also chart the change through the magnificent performance of Theron, who appears to be regaining her sense of self and placement in the family.

Winstead has had a bit of an odd trajectory in her career, going from thin supporting parts in big dumb studio movies to a huge indie breakout with her magnificent performance in Smashed a few years ago that she unfortunately didn't really capitalize on afterwards, but here she gets the best of both worlds by developing a kickass character we can root for in a thrilling genre piece that also has some depth to her.

Probably the best line of the night came from Leonardo DiCaprio who, upon winning Best Actor referenced the irony of winning in the comedy category for his magnificent performance in Wolf of Wall Street.

The Retrospective is a splendid opportunity to be challenged by Jordan's consistently bracing insight into the best and worst of ourselves, to savour his bitter humour, admire his visionary craft, and thrill to some magnificent performances.

by Walter Chaw I have a theory about Treat Williams: I believe that he, after being passed over for an Oscar for his magnificent performance in the 1981 Sidney Lumet film Prince of the City, has been on a vicious retributive rampage against the American viewing public.

But — premature as it may seem — we're already worried about the magnificent performances we have seen and fear will go overlooked this awards season.

Profane and violent as well as eccentric and dynamic, The Guard marks the marriage of measured characters and magnificent performances, all buoyed by McDonagh's biting wit.

Buoyed by McDonagh's biting wit, and boasting measured characters and magnificent performances, The Guard is a pure crowd - pleaser that will leave the audience in stitches.

The three - time Oscar winner has made bad movies watchable and has consistently turned in one magnificent performance after another in more than her fair share of great movies.

It's a magnificent performance (especially given that it was Blakley's debut) in a film filled with small yet vibrant character sketches.