Sentence examples for captivating force from inspiring English sources
Perhaps, fearful of losing the attention of their readers, novelists are borrowing the captivating force of music, feeding off its sensuousness in an effort to regain a lost immediacy.
Mary's speech about the personal cost of her peculiar position in Berenson's ménage strikes the evening's most wrenching and powerful note, and Ms. Knight delivers it with a quiet, captivating force.
It's a spellbinding start, but soon surpassed by the primal force and captivating power of the album's title track, which sees the lights go up and Cherry shaking her head violently to the dense, squirming keyboards.
The result was that Metternich was no captivating diplomatic force: Taylor described him as "the most boring man in European history".
Thus frothed Richard Roeper, in the Chicago Sun-Times: "Like Day-Lewis, Reynolds is a mesmerizing, captivating, mercurial, painstakingly meticulous creative force who moves to the sound of his own inner music, has a very specific (and more than a little eccentric) way of doing things, refuses to be rushed and will not allow outside forces to dictate how he operates".
In a review by the Toronto Star, Ben Rayner commented that "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" was one of his favorite episodes of the series, and concluded that Mr. Burns' "tour de force" performance was particularly captivating.
The effect was captivating.
"The sonic-psychedelic force that they create is captivating, drawing you into their performance and keeping you there.
Marie-Laure's struggle for survival is captivating, but her journey is more external than Werner's — we are never forced to doubt the purity of her heart.
Herald Loomis, embodied with a quiet, captivating ferocity by Chad L. Coleman in the new production, lost seven years of freedom to forced labor although he committed no crime.
Weis powerfully delineates the social forces that victimized Duplessis, while still managing to convey the independence of spirit that made her so captivating.
