Sentence examples for be gripped from first from inspiring English sources

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Kleiber: one of the most remarkable recordings, of all time, ever – listen and be gripped from first note to last.

The movie is gripping from first to last, partly because, like a Greek tragedy, we are only too aware of where everything is heading and partly because we are simultaneously taken back to that day that shook the world and experience the events through the eyes of the innocent passengers and the puzzled observers on the ground.

After beating Barcelona and Real Madrid in the semi-finals, the teams lived up to the expectations of a final that was gripping from first to last.

I defy anyone not to be gripped from the start by Wyndham's first great SF success.

And explains why audiences are gripped from the first moment to the last.

It is a long book, but I was gripped from her wonderful first sentence.

We are more anxious about what will happen to the uneducated and unqualified who will be superannuated by machines and become disaffected.... "The Last Samurai" is in fact a triumph — a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form, which has more to offer on every reading but is gripping from the beginning of the first.

The latest crisis statistics from the United Nations came as Damascus was gripped in the third consecutive day of clashes between insurgents and loyalists to President Bashar al-Assad.

McCash wrote, "From the first pages, the reader is gripped in the magic of ancient Troy.

From the turn of the 20th century to the Third Reich, Germany was gripped with a crazy delight in young, naked bodies, especially male ones.

When humans first trekked from Asia to North America, perhaps as long as 25,000 years ago, the continent was gripped by ice sheets and glaciers.