This shooting is a rather baroque outrage, and stretches the credibility of The Wire's gripping themes of honour and respect almost to breaking point.
In the third, a variation on the dreaded can't-get-a-grip theme, she finds herself trying to grasp a distorted racquet straight out of "The Twilight Zone": it's shaped like a bionic tuning fork, very long but very thin, so there is no way for her to wrap her fingers around it.
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.
All you need is the perfect miniseries to immerse yourself in, something with topical themes, gripping narratives, and top-of-the-line acting.
A plaintive solo line introduces the song and leads to a gripping repeat of the theme in the upper register.
Written for the instruments available in the camp -- piano, violin, cello and clarinet -- it is gripping music, spinning apocalyptic themes across eight movements.
But Scheidt, for all his solemnity, is a crusher of a guitarist, a vocal force, and a gripping songwriter, touching on themes of depression, spirituality, and transcendence.
"The Hurt Locker" was a poignant and gripping story about a less popular theme, the addiction to war.
She was at her best in the mournful slow movement and the haunting finale, a set of gripping variations on an elusive folklike theme.
