Sentence examples for extraordinarily gripping from inspiring English sources
The whole ballet was delivered with terrific sweep, and the intensity of the finale was extraordinarily gripping.
Ferrante has said that she likes to write narratives "where the writing is clear, honest, and where the facts the facts of ordinary life are extraordinarily gripping when read".
But sympathy we did feel, if we had any ounce of soul, for the players caught up in Coalition, James Graham's extraordinarily gripping re-engagement of that long week in May 2010 when voters could only wait with a kind of frenetic boredom to find out who was to govern us for the next five years.
After that, I wasn't sure I needed to read an 800-page history of post-independence India - in fact, I was pretty sure I didn't - but Ramachandra Guha's epic, India after Gandhi (Macmillan), quickly became gripping and extraordinarily moving.
What with ISIS, Iran's dangerous support for terror, the endless violence, and Jihadi threats gripping the region, it is a challenge identifying a strong dependable, and extraordinarily supportive Arab ally in the chaos.
But the analytic method also gives the surfaces of Mr. Ross's paintings an optically gripping, all-over texture and, in the instance of two all-green pictures, an extraordinarily complex, vibrating luminosity.
Gripping, gripping stuff.
In order to get to grips with this extraordinarily disturbing oil painting, made in war-pummelled post-war Europe, by a man who was born Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze and later came to be known (more conveniently) as Wols, we need to dig into the history of abstract painting a little.
