Sentence examples for what grips from inspiring English sources

What grips him, in other words, is the stirring of an underused heart.

I can't say I've ever got too preoccupied by the dismal story – the music's epic sweep is what grips me.

What grips him though is this: the first clones he made are now old enough to be tested at Palermo, assuming they are good enough.

What grips me about these graphs (and graphs don't usually grip me) is that though they all show very different things, they have an almost identical shape.

Focusing on what grips a television audience -- facial expressions, violence, emotion, pretty women -- the camera will miss the subtleties of the game: the missed blocks, the badly run pass routes.

He and Orin exchange a naked handshake; their gaucherie, like so many embarrassments in the film, is the stuff of frat-house farce, yet what grips the director, Miguel Arteta, is not so much the gross-out as the tamp-down — the stumbles and stutters with which men, especially courteous ones, seek to negotiate the unsightly bumps of existence.

What gripped him was Bach, tinkering with old electronic equipment, and staying inside.

The vote was 5 to 4. What gripped me — what made me feel like an archeologist unearthing the artifacts of a vanished civilization — was one of the dissenting opinions.

Here in the Northern climates, as I stood beside my car pondering what grip to use on the ice scraper - overlapping, interlocking, baseball, stranglehold - I wondered if the greens at my home course missed me under all that drifting snow as much as I missed them.

Drinking, making out, and vomiting were part of the scene, but what gripped me the most was a framed photo on Iliadis' desk.

What gripped the Argentinean public back then, and again thirty years later, was that the Puccios were, on the surface, a respectable family who lived in a wealthy neighborhood.