Sentence examples for if gripping from inspiring English sources

Then we did the take, and she went like that!" He goes to sit down, while holding out both hands, cupped as if gripping, well... the PR guy interjects, for accuracy.

So the interrogators forced the young man to half-crouch as though he were sitting on a motorbike, made him put his arms out as if gripping the handlebars and demanded he imitate an engine, loudly.

So much so that the backstory is irrelevant if gripping.

In boxing, a shoeshine combination is a flurry of speedy punches, delivered by fists held with fingers facing downwards, as if gripping a rag to deliver a shoeshine.

They spend much of the rest of the film posing and staring off into space, as if gripped by ennui rather than grand ideas.

By the time he was reluctantly dropped during the Ashes series and temporarily replaced by Jonny Bairstow he did not know whether to stick or twist as a batsman and was also suffering behind the stumps, his hands uncertain as if gripped by panic.

In this case, it was often occurred in the our preliminary examination that because of difficult task of inserting fingers under the cloth, it was not possible to grasp or the shape of the cloth collapsed even if gripped.

If gripped and thrown correctly, the ball should have a good, tight backspin, and may actually rise half an inch or so.

The crucial hunk left out of "Animal Kingdom" leaves it feeling lopsided and incomplete, if still gripping.

Now Varian Fry, their American counterpart, is embodied by William Hurt in a Showtime film that is intelligent if not gripping.

Next came a more sensual if less gripping vocal duo called Áfall (the Icelandic word for Trauma) who made music built around medieval hockets and low, dirty drones.