Sentence examples for compelling like from inspiring English sources

It's utterly compelling, like watching a monkey smoke a pipe.

The story calls for something remote, unapproachable yet frostily compelling, like Nicole Kidman's smile.

The whole idea was daunting and compelling; like most teenagers I could barely gather my thoughts enough to write my name down never mind a book.

Sometimes his off-the-cuff remarks are offensive; sometimes they are compelling, like his explanation for his aversion to writing children's books: "The idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable".

In the Salonen, Paige Morgan was an efficient oboe soloist, but this work, which exuded whiffs of Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" and his Orientalism from its opening statement, was more discursive and less compelling, like a long college lecture.

Others are actually pretty compelling, like an inductive charging top and a touch-controlled conference calling plate.

Jane Horrocks brings to the hero/heroine her compelling cat-like quality.

The cast are cracking, and the show combines a compelling dream-like intensity with a vigorous energy as it shows men falling in and out of line.

Neymar spent a lot of time drifting to the left and looked short of his most compelling sprite-like sense of mischief.

He used a concentrated concoction made from two parts Demerara sugar to one part water, which added a compelling toffee-like taste and silky texture to the amber booze.

Golda Rosheuvel is a brilliant, tigerish Paulina; John Hodgkinson makes the most of both the honourable Antigonus and the light-fingered Autolycus, and Bryony Hannah, as Mamillius and Perdita, has a compelling, waif-like presence.