gripping
The story is told, grippingly, through the eyes of the two men.
His story is grippingly dramatized in the film.
He writes grippingly in his memoir of his grief during this period.
The performance was grippingly dramatic.
Her writing is elegant and grippingly journalistic.
I found her novels so grippingly intense that it was impossible to put them down.
The match is likely to be grippingly tense.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Exciting and interesting
absorbing
absorbingly
action-packed
adventurous
alley
excitingly
exhilarating
eye-catchingly
fancifully
fascinating
provocative
provocatively
pulsating
punchy
racy
vibrantly
watchable
with bells onidiom
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zing