Sentence examples for compelling turn from inspiring English sources

But after the company's dazzling staging of Thomas's Adès's audacious "Powder Her Face," which ended on Saturday, and now this compelling "Turn of the Screw," the City Opera is 2 for 2 so far.

But I am recognizing him for his compelling turn as Soviet chess champ Boris Spassky in Edward Zwick's movie.

We like the product offering and believe that there is a compelling turn-around story ahead of BlackBerry.

The sheer magic of the huge stage and auditorium, the large company and the brutal spectacle of a compelling play turned me from a casual playgoer into a theatre junkie.

But more surprising is the emotionally compelling supporting turn by Patton Oswalt, surprising perhaps only because I missed his acclaimed star turn in Big Fan back in 2009.

Mr. Mattes, who previously founded Jajah, an Internet phone company that was sold to Telefonica in 2009 for $207 million, said Felix's willingness to invest at a steep valuation, with no strings attached, was too compelling to turn down.

Like a relentless drama too painful to watch but too compelling to turn away from, the conflict in the Middle East has put knots in New York-area residents' stomachs and suicide bombers in their nightmares.

It is compelling to turn its pages and feel oneself beginning to bristle with indignation — and curiosity — at sex gossip that is now almost a quarter of a millennium old.

This is a wonderfully blunt, thoroughly compelling star turn.

Although the minis' early growth was due to their use as scientific instrument controllers and data loggers, their compelling feature turned out to be their approachability.

Especially in its partnered duets, the portrait of male behavior is compelling, by turns aggressive, tender, and downright silly, as the boys run up the walls, bounce on a trampoline, and work up to a booty-slapping finale.