Sentences with phrase «riveting narrative»

CHANG: For sheer dramatic fireworks, the presidential election upstaged even the most riveting narrative films of 2016.

For sheer dramatic fireworks, the presidential election upstaged even the most riveting narrative films of 2016.»

In three stages, with passing homage to the genres of horror, detective, and apocalyptic novels, Michael Helm brilliantly extrapolates riveting narratives from the wonderment of contemporary biology and physics.

The less - than - riveting narrative simply serves as a vague reason to fill out the empty spaces in your starmap.

Each points out the fact that it's more likely the media itself that wants to see some seething — it makes for a more riveting narrative if the president is publicly spouting off against the big evil corporations.

What a riveting narrative — if only we could leave it behind as «Old Testament theology.»

Over the first two months of the season, the success of the league's two youngest players has astonished fans across the league while creating a riveting narrative.

But these drawbacks are more than offset by the riveting narrative, the outstanding lead cast and a seamless weaving of the greater historical context into the ongoing story.

Where the 1998 movie, also directed by Shekhar Kapur and starring Cate Blanchett, painted a compelling portrait while also telling a riveting narrative, the sequel simply takes a chunk out of Elizabeth's life and says, «Here's what happened during these years,» without bothering to shape it into a story.

Garland constructs a riveting narrative that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Combining intense action with a riveting narrative and the unique setting of a sandstorm ravaged Dubai, Spec Ops: The Line is unlike any other military shooter.

- Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard out of Carolina «Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters.

In this sequel to The Screaming Staircase (2013), Stroud delivers another riveting narrative in which the three young psychic investigators deal with malevolent supernatural forces in an alternate London.

Still, it's a riveting narrative.

Adam Hochschild has the rare ability to take seemingly dull, dry or depressing events of history and turn them into a riveting narrative that both deepens a reader's understanding of the past and directly connects that past to the present.

Finding the answer, and perhaps even her husband, propels the riveting narrative of Harlan Coben's new thriller, Fool Me Once.

None of that would work without Zombies, Run «s riveting narrative, which provides the backbone of the experience.