Sentence examples for a gripping tale from inspiring English sources

It all makes for a gripping tale.

She has a gripping tale to tell.

The Hackney Citizen helped fill the gap, calling it a gripping tale "of anguish and guilt".

Certainly Mbeki's life story has the makings of a gripping tale.

In its rough outline, "Catch a Fire" has all the makings of a gripping tale.

And, it all goes down easily because he spins it around such a gripping tale.

The knockabout Punch and Judy show undergoes a grand Hollywood upgrade on Gone Girl, a garish, gripping tale of a warring husband and wife that plays like a Relate counsellor's worst nightmare.

Writers who use feckless narrators can choose between several strategies: make the character a foil for more dramatic figures; make him a pawn in a propulsive, gripping tale; or make his outward dullness deeply poignant, as with the butler in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel "The Remains of the Day".

All of which adds up to a completely gripping tale told in an almost manically propulsive style.

Her memoir, "Heritage of Fire," is a vivid, gripping tale, but having been published in 1945, it has little bearing on the recent drama.

Abandoned at birth, scorned and wrongly accused of murder, the sensitive and intelligent Wild Boy turns sleuth to prove his innocence in a thoroughly gripping tale about turning difference to one's advantage.