In 2006, IGN ranked the album as the best Final Fantasy soundtrack to date and cited the "gripping" character themes and "One-Winged Angel" in particular as contributing factors.
In 2006, IGN ranked VII's music the best Final Fantasy soundtrack to date and cited the "gripping" character tracks and "One-Winged Angel" in particular as contributing factors.
Creator David Simon and co-writer Ed Burns followed it up immediately with the pithy Iraq war drama Generation Kill, with which it shared a non-judgmental tone and gripping characters that the viewer somehow came to care deeply about despite their manifest flaws.
The House at Sea's End, by Elly Griffiths (Quercus, £14.99) After just two books in this gripping series the central characters, forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson, have the allure of old friends, and it's great to find that the third title is just as enthralling as its predecessors.
But as the show progresses, so does Noren's character: leaving any initial doubts behind as this gripping, expertly told thriller unfurls in a particularly satisfying manner.
This gripping film, once seen, is unforgettable.
The count is a morbidly gripping comic character, and I marvelled at, and shrank from, Delaney's hyper-tense, spluttering performance.
The following interview is a desperate attempt to talk to Perry about his gripping new character, Stone Fury.
In The Wire, The Corner and Generation Kill, Simon and co conjured up gripping, thrilling characters often from nothing more than a few lines of dialogue, characters for whom the viewer came to care as if they were friends or relatives.
The story, however familiar, is reliably gripping; the characters are relatable, whether through pity or revulsion.
Certainly the nonsensical monologues and rambling, desultory dialogue that make up much of the play suggest that Ms. Lee intends to stage an assault on the conventional seductions of theater that Shakespeare has come to exemplify: gripping narrative, characters of psychological depth and complexity, language rich in lyric beauty expressing discernible truths.
