Sentence examples for compelling passages from inspiring English sources

These cantos contain some of the most compelling passages in the poem.

Hare injects some compelling passages that cut deep, even if you're familiar with the story.

In one of the book's most compelling passages, Biss takes on the question of whether shots are "unnatural," as some parents fear.

In some of the biography's most compelling passages, Hodgson contends that what Moynihan was advocating was nothing more or less than what came to be known as affirmative action.

In his masterwork English Passengers, Matthew Kneale would have restrained himself from including chapters written in an Aboriginal's voice – though these are some of the richest, most compelling passages in that novel.

There were compelling passages of play either side of lunch that brought back memories of Bell's last innings here, the first of his three Ashes centuries last summer, as he again frustrated some high-quality bowling from Peter Siddle.

The incident gets him arrested and gives us the film's most compelling passage, as Devereaux is locked up with some tough-looking detainees (he returns their menacing glances with Olympian disdain) and later strip-searched.

A compelling passage in the book spells out just how a minor maritime tiff could swiftly get out of hand.Another argument against an accommodation with China is that its rise cannot continue at the pace seen in the past 33 years, and that, once its economy falters, its political system could also look shaky.

A compelling passage describes Juvenal's third satire, in which he dramatises his friend Umbricius's decision to leave Rome and embrace the rural life in Cumae (not far from the ultra-fashionable seaside resort of Baiae, on the bay of Naples).

Indeed, what may have been the most compelling passage in the invitational letter was the declaration that the school "needs a Dean who can persuade a large and influential group of New Yorkers... that the Wagner School offers the best general defense of the entire New York civic enterprise".

Perhaps the mystery of what exactly happened on that fall day nearly 60 years ago has helped make the story even more compelling with the passage of time.