Sentence examples for powerful grip from inspiring English sources

The Anglo-Saxons retain a powerful grip on English imaginations.

Tradition has a powerful grip on the Eastern Shore.

All-too-often it develops a powerful grip on the mind.

What's more, they have a powerful grip on the nation's collective imagination.

The Dismal had a powerful grip on the literary imagination (before movies).

Only death could free them — and him — from his imagination's all too powerful grip.

He then grapples with Beowulf, whose powerful grip he cannot escape.

The rhetoric of "resistance"—Islamist, Arab nationalist, anti-American, anti-globalisation, or whatever retains a powerful grip.

So why has this zombie idea — it keeps being killed, but it keeps coming back — taken such a powerful grip?

Having long exerted a powerful grip over the imagination of intrepid explorers, the Arctic region now beckons once again.

Gillian!" She generally finds it "weird" to be reminded what a powerful grip this band's history exerts on its fans.