Yet she delivers a clean, sincere performance that never feels cheap or dishonest.

Mr. Quaid gives a solid, sincere performance, but his role always seems a convenience.

Hers is a sincere performance of narrow, throaty range.

Last month at Weill Recital Hall, he gave a sincere and generously expressive performance of a Mozart trio.

Beyond his struggles with an unwieldy accent and the screenplay's hokum, Mr. Pitt gives a sincere if labored performance enhanced by a sense of genuine struggle.

Mr. Depp, by contrast, gives yet another mesmerizingly sincere performance, this one colored by more obvious sexuality than he has brought to earlier roles.

The President summoned up strength from some hidden reserve and gave a fine and apparently sincere performance.

At the same time, it would be grossly unfair to write off this film, which manages to also deliver an excellent storyline and some few sincere performances.

Substitution can be emotionally challenging, but supporters argue it produces a better and more sincere performance than trying to understand a character's motivations without reference to one's own life.

The herdsman was greatly impressed by your sincere performance with his cow.