The gripping and sustained image that complements the music is deceptively simple: five female mourners in extravagant draperies sink and rise on separate square stools.

Bones are also a gripping image in Mr. Karlin's story of a veteran who excavates the site of a Civil War massacre.

But before Wednesday, the harassment of reporters had been scattered, and attempts to control the gripping images and narratives from Cairo had mostly failed.

A burning flag is one of the most gripping visual images, communicating in an instant an ugly rejection of the values most Americans embrace.

The front photo was shot in Oildale, California, described by Roadrunner Records as a "gripping image".

The other image, more realistic and more gripping, is of the bullet-ridden corpses that show up each morning on the roadsides of the capital.

The same cultural package that contains Coca-Cola brings us the gripping image of Arnold Schwarzenegger and his AK-47.

It is a gripping and powerful image.

At least gripping images have a mobilising effect on public opinion and provide a strong base for aid.

His flair for interpreting ideas into powerful and gripping images, have earned him much admiration and copious International acclaim.