Perhaps even more compelling than fines would be to deny licensing of the frequency spectrum to repeat offenders.
It is always a pleasure to watch David Liu, a ballet-trained skater with a compelling feel for fine detail and scale.
The work is hot, strange and compelling, but the finest moments are those where Marín dances with Bartabas and his horses, where he mimics their footwork and communicates with them through a language of nuzzles, glances and breaths.
The performances, conducted by Andrew Parrott, the collegium's music director, were generally compelling, with especially fine work from Thomas Meglioranza, a baritone, who gave a rollicking account of the blowhard Aeolus's delightful laughing aria.
I've known Paul Gregory for several years (and written about him here and here and here) – I know him as a compelling writer, a fine Russian scholar, and the author of books on the women of the U.S.S.R.'s gulag, Nikolai Bukharin, and Lenin's brain.
Based on three Alice Munro stories, this compelling melodrama boasts fine performances by the two actresses who play Julieta.
A compelling jacket image and fine reproductions of maps, photographs and line drawings add to the appeal.
Trumpet (Macmillan), a novel about a jazz man who is actually a woman, was reissued this year: a rich, taut and compelling novel by a fine writer.
But whether they do or not, "Barbarians at the Gate" will remain one of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980's.
The threat of losing one's license over traffic tickets and other infractions has long been viewed as an essential tool for compelling violators to pay the fines.
