When investors in New York become gripped by fear, they pull inward.
Then they would register the chicken's size and become gripped by second thoughts.
Long before the outbreak of war, the English reading public had become gripped by invasion fever.
The opposition needs 2.4 million signatures, but many political analysts warn that if the government succeeds in blocking a vote, Venezuela could become gripped in violence.
With 4,500 people who are down on their luck arriving each year, the town's tourist districts have become gripped by levels of "intensive deprivation", which strained public services are failing to shift.
Writing in the Guardian and the Daily Mail, Mr Dacre said the media had become gripped by a "collective hysteria" and was "obsessed" with the story, and accused the BBC of a "one-sided tone in their reporting to misrepresent Geoffrey Levy's article on Ralph Miliband".
The novel is built around a stoic N.Y.P.D. detective, Billy Graves, guilt-ridden over having accidentally shot a child many years before, when he was "coked to the gills," and Graves's secret nemesis on the force, a detective named Milton Ramos, who has become gripped by fantasies of revenge against Billy's wife, Carmen, a woman he believes to have caused several deaths in his family.
This is possible by the means of preventive diplomacy because the warring parties are not rational actors and often become gripped by unfounded passions, sentiments and illusions.
Eventually the confused drama within the infirmary becomes gripping, too.
It is here that Levin's story really becomes gripping.
