Sentences with phrase «so compelling»

Many readers thought the table of contents was so compelling, before even getting into the book that the thread got 100,000 replies in under two weeks, catapulting the book into the Amazon's bestseller list.

The category is so compelling that other competitors have jumped on the bandwagon.

Is any major publisher embracing digital comics in so compelling a manner as Top Shelf right now?

They are imaginative retellings of historical events, and Brooks» writing is so compelling.

With the launch of Samsung's newest tablet offering, the Galaxy Tab S, consumers must be wondering what makes the new device so compelling, so stand - out that it's worthy of their hard earned money.

It is so compelling... so beautifully written, I found myself going over most of it twice - once for the gripping story and again for the language.

You will get a sense on the hardware differences and what makes new model so compelling.

The optional fixed - back buckets are so compelling that one of our editors (okay, it was me) suggested that they be fitted to every car in PCOTY testing just to deny Porsche a clearly unfair advantage.

What makes these trucks so compelling to people that previously would never have considered a Dodge product?

«But what makes the Veloster so compelling is that it mixes that standout style with surprising practicality and affordability.»

The way the car blasts out of corners is so very, very different to any of its rivals and this is what makes it so compelling.

There's none of the savagery that makes the Ferrari F1 «box so compelling, nor the involvement of a third pedal and H-gate.

One can question why passengers in a totally open car would want to focus their attention on TV screens in the front seat backs when the view of the sparkling world offered in the promotional film is so compelling.

The standard profile is someone who went to a prestige college, joined Teach for America for a two - year stint and found the work and the challenges so compelling that he or she decided education should be more than a layover before a real career.

Nevertheless, Committee members found the evidence on the impact of high - quality pre-K and third - grade reading so compelling that members recommended making difficult choices to prioritize these areas even at the potential expense of other K - 12 funding priorities, such as lowering class sizes, investing in teacher professional development, and improving classroom technology, that have not been shown to correlate as strongly with improved student outcomes, particularly for high - need students.

Gee (2003) provides an excellent list of design principles that make the best games so compelling for youth.

In theory, a question or challenge posed in PBL is so compelling that students will learn all essential facts necessary to answer...

These four points are so compelling to education reformers, Brill describes, that Race To The Top was designed as a way to encourage states to change their laws to remove charter caps and to tie teacher evaluations to standardized test scores.

Imagine project - based learning that's so compelling students ask for more homework and research assignments.

«I remember being addicted to videogames because they presented a virtual environment that was so compelling and immersive that every action I took had immediate and relevant consequences,» King says.

The differences that look so compelling in the graph are mostly random.

However, what makes history so compelling a story too often gets lost in translation in the classroom.

One of the things that I found so compelling about HEAF when I joined the organization in 2002 was that the walls were covered with college acceptance letters.

If you've had the pleasure of reading bedtime books to young children, you've observed one of the reasons why narratives are so compelling.

Perhaps because the research literature on the strength of Boston charter schools is so compelling, charter proponents have focused more on touting academic benefits than debating financial costs.

The characters are sad, sad human beings (not the outlandish caricatures that made Guest's earlier films so compelling), the script feels hurried and unfinished, and the cast appear to have been given carte blanche over what they think is funny.

It is a bald fact that this intimate drama works as well as it does because he is so compelling, so plausible, so heartbreaking as a college professor in early 1960s Los Angeles mourning the death of his longtime partner (Matthew Goode in flashbacks) at a time when such relationships were barely acknowledged, never mind tolerated.

It is these revelations of lineage, poisoned bloodlines and the senseless horrors of war that make Villeneuve's breakthrough feature so compelling and devastating.

It is a bald fact that this intimate drama works as well as it does because he is so compelling, so plausible, so heartbreaking as a college professor in early 1960s Los Angeles mourning the death of his longtime partner (Matthew Goode [Leap Year, Watchmen] in flashbacks) at a time when such relationships were barely acknowledged, never mind tolerated.

Revenge narratives are a dime a dozen but when storytellers are able to really get to the root of why these archetypal tales are so compelling, as Saulnier is able to do here, they strike a collective nerve, making us cheer at their ability to both homage and be wholly original at the same time.

What is so compelling about The Black Cat is that the film embraces its own generic contents while incorporating them into something far richer, far deeper than simply adventure or mystery.

Adam Bernstein takes Gilligan's taut script and finds a deliberate pace that cranks up the tension without sacrificing the small, human moments that make Breaking Bad so compelling — even as characters make exactly the wrong choices in their lives.

As the kid, Lieberher again displays the poise, preternatural calm and intelligence that made him so compelling and watchable in 2014's «St. Vincent» and the recently released «The Confirmation.»

His warmth and understanding would seem a safe place for a fractured psyche to turn to, if only that hatred and desire to prove a malevolent teacher wrong weren't so compelling.

What makes the politically - tinged documentary so compelling is the fact that the West Indian team had to endure racist taunts while on tour whether in Great Britain, Australia or elsewhere around the former English empire.

Solid list, but I thought it was Tim Roth who made Reservoir Dogs so compelling.

Its sole purpose, and in this it succeeds divinely, is to showcase what it is that makes those characters so compelling to watch as they sling webs, missiles, mystical balls of occult energy, or those zinging one - liners.

What made Snowden so compelling in the excellent 2014 documentary Citizenfour reduces him, in the context of an Oliver Stone thriller, to a blur.

Thing is, Sirk applies so much visual brio to the proceedings, and supporting players George Coulouris and Hazel Brook are so compelling it's very easy to watch anyway.

There are so many different versions of what happened and I think what makes the story so compelling is the ambiguity of it,» she says, adding that the deep emotional connection she felt with Marks presented various challenges of its own.

This story was first told in a novel by Michael Tolkin, who made it so compelling I read it in a single sitting.

Told without a single spoken word, it is so compelling because it feels so real.

And after the standing ovation, we were left with the very James Franco — esque revelation that making art about great bad art doesn't necessarily mean you have to lose the earnestness and humanity that made the bad art so compelling.

The large majority of the film plays out through one - on - one chats and table scenes, so compelling conversation is key and Shelton and co. deliver.

But look, this is what makes the movie so compelling.

Heineman seems so wrapped up in the details of capturing his furtive images that he neglects explaining what makes them so compelling.

Sadly it's the latter, which is a shame when you take into account that the recent LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game was so compelling and engaging.

Except that I'm going to venture Margot Robbie and her youth are the reason the movie is so compelling.

«Steve Jobs» doesn't try to make you like Steve Jobs — and that's what makes it so compelling.

And rather than examining why everyone in her life found the seemingly sociopathic Diehl - Armstrong so compelling à la Wild Wild Country's deep dive into the character of Ma Anand Sheela, the filmmakers opt instead to play whack - a-mole with the gang of petty criminals and brilliant weirdos who drift in and out of the narrative.