Journalist Zak Stone recently published a gripping, thought-provoking account of his father's death while staying at an Airbnb rental in Texas.
It all adds up to a gripping, gruelling, thought-provoking work; lean, mean and bad to the bone.
Life among the frozen Chosen is the setting for a gripping and thought-provoking whodunnit featuring the world's last Jewish settlement.
"The issue is not what you have done, but what you do now…" Denmark's entry for this year's best foreign language film Oscar is a gripping and thought-provoking affair from writer-director Tobias Lindholm that counterposes battlefronts at home and abroad.
Or maybe it's the other way around: those gripped by thoughts of death are prone to artistic pursuits, in the hope that something of themselves will remain.
As noted in his gripping biography Wordsmith, suicidal thoughts were a constant presence in Al's life.
When we see this is available to us and know thought is the source of our experience, we are less likely to fuel and get gripped by limiting thought patterns, and when we do, it is easier to take them less seriously and not hold them in place as long.
The thought gripped me that no one on campus or in the city knew I had come or required that I be there in order to function.
As the inspectors began examining the ceiling, I was suddenly gripped by the thought that their jurisdiction might extend beyond faulty roofs.
So Hollanders are gripped by the thought that they will soon be able to ride through, rather than under, the Rijksmuseum, in a glassed-in roadway between its two new atriums.
I was gripped by the thought that if I didn't remove that mask immediately, I would pass out, tumbling into one of the show's meticulous arrangements of spooky gewgaws and possibly injuring myself.
