Sentence examples for a compelling power from inspiring English sources

Kitamura's second novel has shades of Coetzee and Cormac McCarthy, with a compelling power all her own.

The dominant story of professional baseball has been, for more than a century, a financial one, pitting owners against players in a compelling power struggle.

The most significant object, a prayer niche called the mihrab, exerts a compelling power even when glimpsed through the living room doorway.

The rhythmic movement has a compelling force, generating and concentrating power or releasing superfluous energy.

But in the hands of a skilled artist such as Duras the technique has a strange, compelling power, especially when she dealt in subjective experiences such as eroticism, grief, terror or joy.

The play itself, by the 27-year-old Alistair McDowall, was an unnerving mix of urban nightmare and sci-fi thriller that, while not my particular cup of tea, undoubtedly possessed a dark, compelling power.

Stories of personal pathology and searches for redemption are by no means rare in performance art, but Ms. Hopkins's unvarnished reckoning with her demons, and the story of her attempt to obliterate her own bad juju through aesthetics, have a blunt, compelling power.

Despite the goings-on of Cold War paranoia, the audience was given a vivid impression of the artistry fostered on the island; a New York Times critic wrote that she "had never felt a dancer exert such compelling power over a viewer".

There is a wistfulness too for an era when the compelling power of governments and individuals could change the path of international relations (something harder to do in an era of flighty capital and transnational corporations), and a reminder that if broadly liberal regimes do not create order, there are plenty of illiberal ones that will.

It is a tribute to the compelling power of the nuclear dream that England's political parties have all bought into the fantasy.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday issued a welcome and overdue rule compelling power plants in 27 states and the District of Columbia to reduce smokestack emissions that pollute the air and poison forests, lakes and streams across the eastern United States.