Sentence examples for compelling the reader from inspiring English sources

Compelling the reader's sympathy, Horan evokes the image of Mamah, sunk in depression after the birth of her second child, recording a quotation by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in her diary: "It is not sufficient to be a mother: an oyster can be a mother".

In addition to drama compelling the reader forward, it condenses time (compression), heightens the stakes, and moves pel mel toward resolution.

Russell Brand has a compelling story, but it is a story that compels the reader to wish for the more he is clearly capable of.

Certainly, the promise of their unveiling compels the reader.

Deconstruction pulls the chair out from under the reader, compels the reader to undermine his own habits of reading.

And, ideally, each should end with a hook to compel the reader to turn the page.

She compels the reader to sympathize with her, doubt her, and resent her, sometimes simultaneously.

But it's the character of the Wimpy Kid himself, the unchanging everyman Greg Heffley, who compels the reader's loyalty.

All at Sea compels the reader's trust and sympathy, but also provokes us to consider our hypocrisies.

Still, this poem unquestioningly compels the reader to "breathe" the design of the shawl and see the orange raindrop.

Canetti, who died in 1994, is that unpleasant writer who compels the reader by his very unpleasantness.