Sentence examples for gripping showdown from inspiring English sources

-- but by the time Bausch has assembled the chief characters on the mountaintop, it's clear that he knows how to set up a gripping showdown.

But there's also plenty of action -- including a gripping showdown between some little people and the hulking, remorseless barn cat Tojo the Assassin ("the scourge of all living things that dared cross his path") and enough foreshadowing of mysterious secrets and future culture clashes to lock in an audience for the next two volumes.

The edgy set-piece encounters and permadeath mechanics still make for gripping showdowns.

Similarly, when Gram gathers Biscuit and L. A.'s mothers for some family truth-telling, a gripping emotional showdown more or less fizzles out, largely because we don't know or care about the mothers.

Gripping to its clifftop showdown.

More than 1,100 miles south, in Athens, fears of a showdown gripped Greeks.

I'll refrain from trying to describe it, but let me just send a shout-out to the director of the broadcast, who made the fifth-set tiebreaker as gripping as a high-noon showdown in a Sergio Leone movie by cutting, after each point, between tight closeups of Blake, Blake's mother, Blake's brother, and Haas.

Which made the final showdown between him and Dean all the more gripping.

The climactic showdown, 18 holes of match play, is as gripping as a good Masters' finale.

Very gripping.

Utterly gripping.