But Mr. Jones has learned to create an emotionally compelling dialogue out of the distance between his public and private selves.

The result was more entertaining than emotionally compelling, but that seems to have been its aim.

The arguments on both sides are emotionally compelling, but a measure that applies retroactively to adoptions decades old is unfair to those who relied on the previous rules.

It would be a more honest and emotionally compelling story that would do justice to the echoing dictum of Mame to "live, live, live!"

What if the Adams piece (no deathless masterpiece but a thought-provoking and emotionally compelling exercise) had been packaged between the "Egmont" and the "Eroica"?

The problem is it's not emotionally compelling because it deliberately keeps averting itself by shifting gears.

"I think people need to be reached in an emotionally compelling way more and more in this market."

The series places an emphasis on both the emotionally compelling stories of the recipients and the psychological impact on the millionaire.

Mr. Lipsky will come back with emotionally compelling counterarguments about the need to nurture immigrant entrepreneurs and preserve neighborhood stores.

First, no book, by itself, is adequate to describe a super-industrial future in emotionally compelling terms.