arrestingly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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And it’s here that “Keeper” starts to unravel, the arrestingly pristine visuals and hypnotic rhythms giving way to contrived explanations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025
Rolling Stone hailed "Lux" as "a truly timeless work of art", while music magazine NME called it "arrestingly beautiful".
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
What I did know was that Beverly’s extremely simple recipe yielded an arrestingly good bowl of soup.
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2025
It begins arrestingly with Sheppard and Lawson airborne in their wheelchairs, floating and spinning like astronauts in low gravity.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2022
Katz was arrestingly larger than when I had last seen him.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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