Both Uses of
compelling
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- Realizing, too, that he was beginning to flatten and extend his own vowels, called by the deep pull of language, patterns of speech as familiar and compelling as water.†
p. 147.5 *compelling = very interesting; or convincing; or a force for action
- Howard was just an ordinary person, almost scrawny and beginning to go bald, yet he was mysteriously compelling too, conjured perhaps from her own deep loneliness and wishing.†
p. 178.3
Definition:
very interesting; or convincing -- possibly leading to action
or more rarely: a force for action
or more rarely: a force for action