Timeline for How to positively describe something, such as a war memorial, which doesn't invoke positive feelings?
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| Jan 4, 2016 at 9:47 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @Graffito Visiting a war memorial is not a gripping experience, reading a really good novel, or watching a thrilling and exciting movie can be described as gripping. You are gripped to your armchair/seat when you see a movie, you grip a book because you can't bear to put it down. What do you metaphorically "grip" when you visit a memorial? A (war) documentary could be gripping because it holds your interest for a prolonged period of time. | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 13:20 | comment | added | Graffito | Here is a film comment about Fateless: The international best-seller, translated into more than a dozen languages, tells the gripping story of Gyorgy Koves, a teenage Hungarian Jewish boy who volunteers to go to a concentration camp in Germany during World War II, convinced that his life will be safer there, following his father’s own departure to a camp. Grip indicates that the audience is seized by the movie. | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 12:49 | comment | added | user140086 | @Graffito Doesn't the word gripping have a connotation of exciting? I like heart-touching better. What do you think? | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 12:46 | comment | added | Graffito | or "gripping"... | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 12:21 | history | answered | user140086 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |