Sentence examples for not only compelling from inspiring English sources

She went there determined to teach computer science in a way that was not only compelling and rigorous but also, as she puts it, "nurturing".

That will be the third installment of what has become one of the most tantalizing rivalries in tennis, a pairing of the top two American women that has produced not only compelling tennis, but also copious drama off the court.

Crafting a perfect storm of unlikely but plausible coincidences, he manages to pull off the thriller writer's trick of making darkness and physical and psychological violence not only compelling, but exciting.

But the high court ruled that Miranda's nine-hour detention and the seizure of his computer equipment was lawful because although it was "an indirect interference with press freedom", there was not only compelling but "very pressing" evidence of a risk to national security.

We provide not only compelling evidence showing state-owned organization can undertake risky R&D investment, but also striking differences in term of R&D intensity and innovation performance between central government-owned firms and local government-owned firms.

The tiles, called azulejos, are not only compelling, they are also uniquely Portuguese – which is why, in 1971, the convent became the centrepiece of the Museu Nacional do Azulejo, a museum dedicated to preserving tile art from around the country and across the centuries.

He exuded a broad-minded humanism that I found not only morally compelling, but accurate.

Clifford had just watched the first four episodes, twice, and he pronounced them not only dramatically compelling but also faithful to history.

Sir David, who was 74 and died on board the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship where he was to give a speech, was not only a compelling figure on camera; he was a great strategic thinker within the broadcast industry who helped change the rhythm of television in 1983 as one of the co-founders of TV-am.

His memoir enacts the core principles of all his historical work: he wrote for the public, not just for the guild, and he wrote not only with compelling narrative, which is how popular history is delivered, but with strong analysis, too.

The list underscores the extent to which Mr. Atlas's "Bellow" is not only a compelling story of a great and flawed writer, one who continues to demand our attention, but also a portrait of an extraordinary (and now rapidly receding) epoch in the history of American letters.