Sentence examples for gripping description from inspiring English sources

Mr. Corporan offers a gripping description of his indoctrination into gangster life.

With DNA evidence showing a sexual encounter and Diallo providing a gripping description of an attack, the Manhattan district attorney's office initially said it had a strong and compelling case.

In a deft propaganda ploy, the Taliban gave a gripping description of the prison break in a statement they sent out to the news media ahead of any comment from the security authorities who were just in the process of discovering the tunnel.

It is a gripping description of social life of young African American men in one Philadelphia neighborhood--a aspect of social life about which most Americans have limited, if any knowledge.

Ms. Thompson, who broke the story that Mr. Thurmond had fathered a daughter with one of his family's black maids, had just been reading gripping descriptions of the civil rights movement when she received Mr. Voskuhl's message.

It's set in northern Italy's Po valley and opens with a gripping, Dickensian description of relentless rainfall as the river bursts its banks.

She takes us on a fascinating, up-to-the-present tour of the artist's posthumous history in the hands of other biographers and historians, and is particularly gripping in her description of the end of his life.

But the stories the novel tells are gripping, particularly its descriptions of the women's treatment in prison after they go on hunger strike in protest at not being considered political prisoners.

I don't want to give away too much of the plot but the story was gripping in its descriptions of the indiscriminate destruction of civilisation and the feeling that humanity was no longer the master species.

She doesn't shy away from it in interviews, and her descriptions are gripping.

How do you keep a reader gripped by the description of a society which has fallen apart and for which you feel no affection or respect?