grip
noun
the act of grasping; a seizing and holding fast; firm grasp.
Example Sentences
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The RTS judges called the series "a devastating story grippingly told… a triumph of distinctive writing, great production and fine performances".
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2022
Art responding to the brutality of war, as “Black Angels” does grippingly, will probably never not be timely.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
For the first program, a staggering Tilson Thomas performance made Prokofiev’s wartime Fifth Symphony grippingly consequential and presented his own personal “Meditations on Rilke” as reflectively disquieting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2022
But he was also grippingly virtuosic in tricky, Sarasate-like passages of lyrical double-stops and left-hand pizzicato.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2021
Yet Bobbie’s words—“bust ’em out”—took hold of her grippingly, and the thought of leaving that unbearable place was like a tonic to the frantic girl.
From Rose O'Paradise by White, Grace Miller
