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Definition of Grippingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grippingly
Literary usage of Grippingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"... are grippingly human stories, full of beauty and a powerful pathos, depicting
the potentiality for development which the human soul can display. ..."
2. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"... a narrative declaration of passion was substituted for the reality which would
have made the heroine's moment of June madness grippingly convincing. ..."
3. The New Movement in the Theatre by Sheldon Cheney (1914)
"... and melodramatic situation, and insincere sentimentality, than to fashion a
drama at once sincere and grippingly interesting. The American playwrights ..."
4. The Magazine in America by Algernon de Vivier Tassin (1916)
"... to develop that arrestingly and grippingly personal tone which was becoming
characteristic of the American sanctum, and to demolish the last vestige of ..."
5. Better Speech: A Textbook of Speech Training for Secondary Schools by Charles Henry Woolbert, Andrew Thomas Weaver (1922)
"... by the outward marks of being honest and sincere and informed, attracting the
eye so grippingly that the observers and listeners cannot resist the ..."
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