riveting

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To ensure the book club runs efficiently with riveting discussions, the women have enlisted the help of Literary Affairs — an L.A.-based company that offers facilitators at over 50 book clubs in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

Was there any doubt that this absurdly riveting bad blood showdown could do anything but take it to the brink, like it had in Vancouver 2010, or even Boston a year ago?

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

Another project has been Bullock’s riveting staging, with dance, of Olivier Messiaen’s mystical, Amazonian, sex-love-death song cycle, “Harawi,” which came to the Wallis in October 2024.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2026

A new generation of independent filmmakers in India is making "riveting, viable cinema" instead of "mass entertainers," Ms Choudhary points out.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2026

Marti had brought a duplicate copy of the asphalt rock and offered riveting details of her capture.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau