gripping

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That pretty much makes you feel very good about it because it's a vote of confidence as such, because coming from a player who actually played in the game, and to come and tell you that reading it, it was really gripping which is the intended effect.

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  • The quality of the art ranges between okay to great, but the stories and writing are all wonderfully inventive, gripping, and often moving. —  FSF,May2008
  • The four novels in the Adventures in the Unknown series are gripping, action-packed, awe-struck and scary. —  TheMagazineofFantasyandScienceFiction,March2005
  • We're told this scene is particularly gripping, as one robot vacuum has to slowly suck up its own mother. —  Hecklerspray
  • The comic embodies the best traits of war-comics -- gripping, fast-moving action -- with savvy commentary, and the artwork matches it with a blend of beautiful illustration collaged against news-photos and screen-grabs. —  Boing Boing
  • "Ellroy's prose can be overheated, but it's also gripping, which is more than can be said for De Palma's film, which sits on the screen, mysteriously inert and uninvolving, no matter the amount of sound and fury," writes Carlito's Way and quite the best period noir since the (admittedly superior) —  GreenCine Daily
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gripping:   grip ·  grips ·  gripped
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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