Sentence examples for gripping yarn from inspiring English sources
The report makes for a gripping yarn.
It also makes his biography, as he might put it, a gripping yarn.
If so, was it a gripping yarn or the celluloid equivalent of a trashy novel?
Must-see art-house movie of the moment is How I Ended This Summer, a gripping yarn of two men's psychological duel on a remote Arctic island.
MOST of Hollywood's great directors were compulsive storytellers — spellbinders, as different as John Ford and Samuel Fuller, who liked nothing better than to spin a gripping yarn.
Not strong on characterisation, he was an adroit raconteur and liked gripping yarns.
YOU will forgive the star of "Motl the Operator," the Yiddish movie that opens the Immigration Film Series this week, for not remembering any gripping yarns -- it wrapped in 1939.
Clarke's gripping yarns vividly brought his speculations to life, be they about space exploration, the evolution of mankind, or the nature of extraterrestrial intelligence.
The novel is both a gripping detective yarn and a haunting depiction of mental illness, but also more poignant and blackly comic than you might expect from that description.
And so it was, but that was only part of the story: it is also a gripping adventure yarn, a tale of the nemesis that may lie in store for us if we have ever committed a guilty act, and a delicious character study of an unconventional young woman whose weaknesses (envy, malice, jealousy) only make her all the more charming to the reader.
