And the first part of the story was not very gripping.

And what does the director do at this most gripping moment?

I had no idea it was such a gripping and moving story.

The escape itself, however, is a good deal less gripping.

The result is a "vivid and gripping work of American history."

But over all the second episode is by far the more gripping.

His public battle against death is therefore all the more gripping.

What an absolutely gripping article - up there with the best.

Grant wrote something quite different, a gripping account of war.

If the setting is more gripping than the characters here, no matter.

Gradually she will become free from the gripping influence of her past.

And they allow that he gave his jeans their gripping cut.

Here the story becomes especially gripping and takes an unexpected turn.

With him, his gripping hands were bringing a needed object.

That is, if you can hold the rest of the system in your gripping hand."

She started laughing, so I decided to keep this gripping subject to myself.

Nothing about it is gripping and more or less sends me to sleep.

It took half an hour to find all the pieces of what had been the gripping machine.

However round dogs do not provide the best gripping surface.

Who needs a novel when you have this gripping tale?

As usual, there was a gripping mixture of the high and the low.

That may explain why the central performances are not very gripping.

Nor does it emerge as a gripping subject in its own right.

Here is where the novel at last becomes gripping and fresh.

And now they are back as winners of a gripping series against England.

Always, he seemed in the grip of some force beyond him.

But we do not have much of a grip on the situation.

She wanted to get a good grip when the time came.

I could and did begin to get a better grip on myself then.

She still had a grip on the bush with her other hand.

Then he got a grip on himself and made one more try.

Just one more thing I could never get a grip on.

He just happened to have a grip on his own.

Nothing else happened until she let go the left grip.

Death certainly had a better grip on him than life did.

I sat down and tried to get a grip on things.

The boy never had felt quite so strong a grip on his body.

He's got a real grip on what needs to be done.

Without a good grip, one cannot play to his or her potential.

Yet for just a moment he actually had a grip.

I got a grip of myself and started to move.

She gave him time to get a grip on himself.

She took a grip on the side of the door.

He tried to get some sort of grip on himself.

His grip was strong, and she thought he must be used to hard work.

I tried to free my hands from her grip, but she was too strong.

My voice was too high and I tried to get a grip on myself.

The women, after all, held a grip on economic power.

This is a man who needs to get a grip on life.

But no one ever seems to really get to grips with why.

The young father took one look then gripped his head with both hands.

New York is now gripped by the dead hand of history.

She gripped the side of the car and held on.

His hand no longer gripped the back of my head.

He went around to her good side and she gripped his hand.

But as the saying goes, I gripped myself with both hands.

He tried to look up at her, but she gripped his head.

I gripped the hand for a moment then he turned and went into his room.

For the second time that night he gripped him by the hand.

The hand that gripped her head by the hair let go.

He looked at her hand where it gripped his own.

John gripped her hand and held it away from his face.

He gripped it so hard his left hand was white.

Is it really a story which has gripped the nation?

I gripped it myself, to keep from taking his hand.

And her body, where he gripped it, seemed to force itself into him.

Only then did she see what the woman was gripping in both hands.

He tried to move his head away, but someone was gripping him by the hair.

She gripped the edge of the table with both hands.

It is a dead hand that has gripped our nation's heart for too long.

The old woman gripped her other arm with both hands.

The night still gripped the world when he reached the top.

He started to say something, then gripped the line and pulled himself up.

We were gripping it with four hands now, two on each side.

Where the music took to the air, the writing gripped the earth.