Sentence examples for compelling situations from inspiring English sources

Like her recent novels, "Brown Girl in the Ring" and "Midnight Robber," they are not only set in black communities, they make use of West African-derived folklore and language patterns to create fresh worlds and emotionally compelling situations.

Yet he seems to believe that using the words Dachau and Auschwitz will automatically bestow profundity on a play that hasn't earned it through believable characters or compelling situations.

The series's success may have made television safe for "Masterpiece Theater," but its true successors are "Mad Men" and "The Wire," serial dramas that strain the confines of the small screen with their large characters, compelling situations and narrative density, if not the power of Shakespearean English.

Unlike the highly charged "Sicario" and other recent drug trade-themed movies, the film, shot in New Mexico, eschews explosive confrontations and political judgments in favor of complex, thoughtfully portrayed characters and tense, compelling situations.

And though "Irrational Man," which arrives in theaters in July, doesn't have the travels-through-history appeal of "Midnight in Paris‎" or the eye-opening central performance of "Blue Jasmine," it does offer popular actors in some compelling situations, under a just-thick-enough layer of froth.

It's an amazing, compelling situation.

His partner, Matthew Reuter, had a less compelling situation.

Thus, breaching the privilege in even this seemingly compelling situation might in the long-run prove counterproductive to protecting national security.

This would create a compelling situation: Guzmán has very good friends in very high places north of the border as well as on the Mexican side, not least in financial and arms-dealing circles.

"After meeting Valerie and — I can't remember his name, whatever his name was; I love that I can't remember his name, I'm such a prick — the character Sean played, they were in such a compelling situation because he needed the world to know who he was and she desperately needed the world not to know who she was.

John Corsi, a spokesman for CH2MHill, said that the contract could be the first of several and that it was awarded on a no-bid basis "because of unusual and compelling situation". The sheer volume of the contracts and the speed in which they are being issued troubles some.