Sentence examples for gripping questions from inspiring English sources

Bob Mankoff's How About Never – Is Never Good for You? (Henry Holt) is a charming autobiography that answers one of the minor yet gripping questions of magazine publishing: who gets to choose the cartoons in the New Yorker (he does), what's it like to submit one (nerve-shredding), and what percentage gets chosen (infinitesimal).

You ask yourself gripping questions: "Will people wear tux shirts as casual wear after all the banks fail?" "What if these were the last skinny-legged cords I buy?" "If we turn into a bankrupt Soviet-like regime, will these $115 cashmere mittens last me through the winter without heat in my apartment?" These kinds of thoughts fluttered around my head while shopping at the new Rag & Bone store.

I asked all the gripping questions.

There are other gripping questions in the N.F.L. playoffs, and right now Chicago is hanging on the answer to how good the Bears actually are.

The gripping question is whether the reel will now advance to the same government shutdown and the same happy denouement for the Democrats.

They are all helpfully labeled on the film's Web site — Princess, Jock, Rebel, Heartthrob and Geek — and then shoehorned into a series of senior-year narratives, each one turning on a predictable but nonetheless gripping question.

In the nineteen-sixties and seventies, dance was gripped by questions about its very nature.

As television channels broadcast emotional scenes from the funeral, Afghanistan's political class remained gripped by questions of how Ahmed Wali Karzai's death might affect the president's fortunes, and whether it would undermine security gains in the southern Kandahar Province.

As is often the case, the treatment proposed by Albert in the Sophismata provides good evidence of the extent to which philosophers were gripped by questions about infinity at that time.

A1 Bayou's Secrets Revealed A note threatening suicide written by the chief financial officer of the Bayou Group, a hedge fund firm accused by prosecutors of conducting a $300 million fraud, answers in sometimes gripping detail the questions that have consumed Bayou's investors since it imploded a month ago.

A six-page note threatening suicide written by the chief financial officer of the Bayou Group, a hedge fund company accused by prosecutors of conducting a $300 million fraud, appears to answer in sometimes gripping detail the questions that have consumed Bayou's investors since it imploded a month ago.