arresting
Example Sentences
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His best-known series of sculptures, “Future Relics,” is visually arresting, featuring crumbling, ruin-like replicas of everyday objects including cameras, phones and CD players.
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony played no small role in lifting the collective mood, preparing Tokyo to create what now feels like the world’s most arresting capital.
From Los Angeles Times
“They were arresting me for disturbing the peace,” Wheeler said about the noise complaints he received while playing in his garage.
From Los Angeles Times
Here was a film trying so hard to convince the audience of its highbrowness that it lost the genuinely arresting effect these smaller-tier Hoover adaptations have by simply being honest with the audience.
From Salon
Some of the most arresting work came from the Clarion Choir.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
