Sentence examples similar to formal grip from inspiring English sources

This was no disadvantage to Miró's reputation in the days and ways of high modernism, which exalted formal originality as gripping enough, in and of itself.

No formal plot, but feverishly gripping nonetheless - why is he not seen as a Great?

If Elaine's was the cool attic, with posters of people like Hunter S. Thompson and framed pictures of patrons like George Plimpton and Shelley Winters, Neary's is the formal living room with grip-and-grins of the Nearys with people like George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton and Michael R. Bloomberg.

The cost of a college diploma is seemingly unsustainable and student debt has crossed the trillion-dollar threshold, but formal education still has a vice grip on accreditation and assessment.

CRADLE of formal bourgeois dining, Paris is in the grip of an outbreak of culinary informality.

I can only say that Refn's movie is entirely gripping, put together with lethal, formal brilliance, with bizarre setpieces of sentimentality and nauseous black comedy.

Others will be gripped by its intricate play of formal variations.

A novel in which the informal, uncensored critique gradually overwhelmed the formal, censored story would have been fascinating, and gripping in its way.

There will be dozens of grip-and-grin photos, a big, formal meal, and enough flowery speeches to raise carbon dioxide levels in the General Assembly hall by another couple of points.

And because ideology such as law takes a formal and normative form, the powerful are in its grips too, persuaded by an account of the inevitable and just order from which they profit.

She says formal peer-to-peer volunteer recruitment is only just starting to grip the fringes of the sector.