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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a compelling thing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is interesting, persuasive, or evokes strong feelings or thoughts.
Example: "The documentary presented a compelling thing about climate change that left the audience in deep reflection."
Alternatives: "an intriguing aspect" or "a captivating element".
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A compelling thing about Hedberg was how authentically small the gap seemed between his abashedness onstage and the wit that overrode his anxiety.
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The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing.
Every once in a while, over the ensuing nine years, I'd page through that Paris Review and try to understand how Johnson had made such a quietly compelling thing.
"The idea that you can transport yourself to another place in time in the real world, experience something through someone else's eyes -- that's a very compelling thing," he says.
"It doesn't surprise me that Jeff would find something with the intellectual depth of The Post an intriguing, compelling thing to be involved with".
The video for Mbongwana Star's debut single, Malukayi, was a mysterious and rather compelling thing.
While the stylebook portion of the site is delightful as a content play, the most compelling thing about StyleSaint is that co-founders Brian Garrett and Allison Beal eventually want to use the collective data from the style booking activity to come up with its own line of clothing.
In Hannah's case, it meant that instead of relying on her friends as support came flings with a married doctor and then a teenager, a cocaine binge, a struggle for compelling things to write about for her ebook – and the return of her adolescent OCD tics.
The most compelling thing about getting a tonsillectomy at age 11 was coughing up blood afterward - well, the coughing part wasn't so great - and then studying it, trying to discern some meaning in it.
Sevigny is the most compelling thing about 3 Needles, a rambling and disjointed film portraying the arrival of a blood-borne epidemic, never explicitly named, in Montreal, South Africa and China.
The most compelling thing Steinbrenner said this week was not about a player but about Lou Lamoriello, the chief executive of the Nets and the Devils.
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