arrestingly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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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
Given what Mica Levi does so arrestingly, that may not be necessary.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2023
‘Vengeance’ is an arrestingly smart, funny and affecting take on a slice of the American zeitgeist, one in which both the divisions between and connections with our fellow citizens are brought into sharp relief.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2022
Köck, a young Austrian theater maker, finds an arrestingly poetic register for this meditation on the grief and panic that are common responses to seeing nature perish.
From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2022
Soon after Mantell’s death an arrestingly uncharitable obituary appeared in the Literary Gazette.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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