Sentence examples for gripping episode from inspiring English sources

Stegall wrote that while the episode is "drowned in tears and soaked in muted sunlight, [and] teeters on the brink of sentimentality", it manages "to stay just this side of it for a dynamite, gripping episode that showcases some fine actors".

It was the denoument of a particularly gripping episode of one of Britain's most popular soap operas, and, not that I follow its plot lines, I am certain that it left its loyal listeners on the edge of their Wesley Barrel sofas.

Michelle Erica Green reviewed the episode for TrekNation, calling it an "absolutely gripping episode" except for the "ludicrousness of the ending".

Structures and institutions are the dominant concern in Beard's compelling analysis but it is constantly enlivened by gripping episodes such as the assassination of Caesar and illuminating details like the significance of Augustus' signet ring.

It was intense, claustrophobic and oddly gripping, each episode a whodunit in which the clues are repression, transference and counter-transference.

Others see him as a puppet master in a gigantic political Hunger Games that would have ended in an unsurprising victory for Hillary Clinton had Comey not concocted a gripping new episode to keep up the suspense of the race.

And, won't you be the first to congratulate her for her new TV role starring as a loveable but racially biased rat physiologist struggling to come out of the closet as a lesbian on her own series "The N Word on the L Word"? Don't miss the gripping first episode in which she breaks up with Mel Gibson when he finds out that she's Jewish!

Gripping choral episodes depict a babble of online conversations.

Several gripping choral episodes depict a frenetic multiplicity of young people mesmerized by their laptops as they communicate.

The fifth season of AMC's Mad Men is in full swing and so far it's been a gripping few episodes.

Keith Phipps of The A.V. Club stated that the format of the novel makes it difficult for it to develop momentum, but found the novel's individual episodes gripping.