"captures the pulse" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe something that accurately conveys a certain feeling or energy, as in "The band's performance captured the pulse of the crowd."
Yahoo editors also use information provided by Yahoo's search team that captures the pulse of the Web that day to make programming decisions.
Americans favor Hypothetica because, according to well-placed sources familiar with the pulse of the country, it best captures the pulse of the country.
"A Day and a Night and a Day" seems meant to be a novel that captures the pulse of our age.
It also captures the pulse of Bundeli, the local dialect, and is written in a simple style that enables it to be heard and understood even by the illiterate.
Also, it inherently captures the pulse distortion caused by antennas and other receiver effects.
IDC's 2014 Tech Marketing Barometer Study captures the pulse of marketing executives in the technology sector and gauges the direction of marketing resource expenditures and priorities during the next six to nine months.
The exhibit explores the many ways artists have interpreted the city's transformations, and the contemporary print makers and photographers represented try to capture the pulse of the city as it constantly reinvents itself.
The method has been applied to simulate the blood flow in arteries, with a focus on capturing the pulse wave propagation.
The magazine's liberal, humanist, anti-Fascist and populist editorial stance captured the pulse of the nation, making it an immediate success, reaching 1.7 million sales a week within a few months, its unobtrusive style opening many doors.
"Capturing the pulse of the consumer to meet their demand for the best-looking and highest performance value in flat panel TVs is our focus".
Several other memorable canvases vividly capture the pulse and tempo of "la vie bohème". Similar in spirit to his Chicago paintings, these Parisian canvases extended the geographical boundaries of the Harlem Renaissance, depicting an African diaspora in Montparnasse's meandering streets and congested cabarets.
