Sentence examples for gripping characters from inspiring English sources

Creator David Simon and co-writer Ed Burns followed it up immediately with the pithy Iraq war drama Generation Kill, with which it shared a non-judgmental tone and gripping characters that the viewer somehow came to care deeply about despite their manifest flaws.

Although "Third Watch" is produced by John Wells, the series has never had the gripping characters or huge ratings of his biggest successes, "The West Wing" and "E.R".

Intense as her energy and concentration are, the star is chained to a sanitized Hellman portrait that, like all bowdlerized official biographies, lacks the conflict and depth essential to create a dramatic or psychologically gripping character.

In 2006, IGN ranked the album as the best Final Fantasy soundtrack to date and cited the "gripping" character themes and "One-Winged Angel" in particular as contributing factors.

In 2006, IGN ranked VII's music the best Final Fantasy soundtrack to date and cited the "gripping" character tracks and "One-Winged Angel" in particular as contributing factors.

In The Wire, The Corner and Generation Kill, Simon and co conjured up gripping, thrilling characters often from nothing more than a few lines of dialogue, characters for whom the viewer came to care as if they were friends or relatives.

The story, however familiar, is reliably gripping; the characters are relatable, whether through pity or revulsion.

Certainly the nonsensical monologues and rambling, desultory dialogue that make up much of the play suggest that Ms. Lee intends to stage an assault on the conventional seductions of theater that Shakespeare has come to exemplify: gripping narrative, characters of psychological depth and complexity, language rich in lyric beauty expressing discernible truths.

His plots are gripping, his characters all too multidimensionally human.

The count is a morbidly gripping comic character, and I marvelled at, and shrank from, Delaney's hyper-tense, spluttering performance.

A gripping and character-driven narrative, the film's a showcase for the established skills of Bennet and Ruffalo.