Sentence examples for compelling affair from inspiring English sources
If Connell's second novel doesn't quite deliver on the promise of her first, it's still a vivid, compelling affair.
Jon Howells, a spokesman for Waterstones, said another historical fiction was "great news for readers as this is a hugely enjoyable and compelling affair".
Despite occasional head-shaking moments of teen melodrama or narrative excess – designed to reinforce how worlds-shaking the stakes it has created are – it's an enjoyable and compelling affair.
His latest play, a two-man creation myth presented by the touring AJTC company, is a weirdly compelling affair: a mix of spiritual exploration, linguistic experiment and artistic metaphor.
In an ambivalent role, the Oscar-nominated Mortensen is outstanding in an intriguing, but unbalanced film, with midwife Naomi Watts and her home life providing an underwhelming counterpoint to the far more compelling affairs of Russian restaurateur and underworld boss Armin Muller-Stahl, his loose cannon son (the versatile Vincent Cassel) and Mortensen as their driver.
The most compelling love affair being conducted on a New York stage this season isn't between a man and woman.
That's the compelling thing.
His lectures, always delivered, it seemed, in the same uniform of open-necked shirt and unmistakably Germanic frock coat, were compelling, theatrical affairs too.
Permanentlyintoxicated, Ricardo will recognizeLily's essence no matter how she disguisesherself, no matter how many yearspass between their assignations, reunionswhose power to devastate Ricardo driveshim to the point of suicide, and which shedismisses as bland interludes betweenmore compelling love affairs.
At its centre lies the title story, a grimly compelling account of an affair recalled as a loveless, middle-aged husband and wife wait on a station platform.
The Daily Telegraph reviewer Gavin Fuller gave it five out of five stars, concluding "'The Angels Take Manhattan' brought this mini-run of the series to a close with easily the best episode of the five: a powerful, taut, compelling, filmic, emotionally punchy affair which re-established the Angels as one of the standout monsters of the series and gave Amy Pond a fine send off".
