Sentence examples for as a captivating from inspiring English sources

For a few hours, though, the intrigue returned as a captivating pitchers' duel played out in front of an announced capacity crowd of 42,662.

The red-and-gold outfit he gives the married Tatiana does not indicate her new status as a captivating great lady as it should; the skirt and bodice do not quite agree, and the gilded headdress makes her look pretentious.

Janet Maslin, a book critic for the New York Times, described it as a "captivating urban kaleidoscope," and praised the book by mimicking the style of Frey's prose: He wrote about people who were drawn to Los Angeles and who they were, why they came, what they wanted, whether they got it, if they didn't get that, then what they got instead.

Back at the Wells she took the part of Barbara in Janacek's Kat'a Kabanova, and when in those days the regular Christmas treat at Sadler's Wells was Hansel and Gretel, she appeared for the first time in December 1951 as "a captivating little Gretel".

The Fishermen was hailed as "a captivating tale of the tragic unravelling of a family in modern-day Nigeria" by the judges, who added, of Sahota's The Year of the Runaways: "There are many reasons to run away, and they recur in Sunjeev Sahota's amazing novel which borrows its title from them".

The latter includes a thoughtful foreword by Sven Birkerts, who praises Dürrenmatt's talent as a captivating entertainer who could..

Bill Drummond of The KLF describes him in his book, 45, as having a captivating, guttural tone "like a Slavic Howlin' Wolf", adding, "Some voices, whatever words they are saying, have that instant sound of authority, of being the real thing.

Over the next hour, as a captivated city watched continuous television reports and the Hudson turned from gold to silver in the gathering winter twilight, all of the passengers, including at least one baby, and both pilots and all three flight attendants, were transferred to the rescue boats — a feat that unfolded as the white-and-blue jetliner continued to drift south.

As long as you have a captivating angle and, in my opinion, the ability to be emotionally resonant with your audience, that is.

As is expected for a captivating writer like Ogilvy, this tale is wrapped in suspense and delivered with gusto.

Philippe de Montebello, who first knew her in the postwar decades, remembers her as "incredibly ugly, but in a captivating way".