Kitamura's second novel has shades of Coetzee and Cormac McCarthy, with a compelling power all her own.
The dominant story of professional baseball has been, for more than a century, a financial one, pitting owners against players in a compelling power struggle.
The most significant object, a prayer niche called the mihrab, exerts a compelling power even when glimpsed through the living room doorway.
It is a tribute to the compelling power of the nuclear dream that England's political parties have all bought into the fantasy.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday issued a welcome and overdue rule compelling power plants in 27 states and the District of Columbia to reduce smokestack emissions that pollute the air and poison forests, lakes and streams across the eastern United States.
But in the hands of a skilled artist such as Duras the technique has a strange, compelling power, especially when she dealt in subjective experiences such as eroticism, grief, terror or joy.
And so when sensitive, knowledgeable Jews gaze at the tiny flames of their menorah, what they ponder is the subtle but compelling power of the Jewish religious tradition, the Torah.
While modern religious writers tend to interpret the pains of hell metaphorically, a great many artistic masterpieces derive their compelling power from their graphic and dramatic depictions of these torments.
From a wheelchair this Venetian Miss Havisham nursed her literary secret with compelling power; and if she lacked the guns of the creator of the role 40 years earlier, Beatrix Lehmann, her presence almost matched that actor's shiversome power.
The play itself, by the 27-year-old Alistair McDowall, was an unnerving mix of urban nightmare and sci-fi thriller that, while not my particular cup of tea, undoubtedly possessed a dark, compelling power.
