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
These multiplatinum albums are epically unkempt, for better and worse — it doesn’t get much blowzier, and it doesn’t get much more rollicking, or arrestingly melodramatic.
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2022
Rolling Stone magazine called it “both startlingly minimal and arrestingly gorgeous.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2022
This was followed by an abstract modernist violin solo, Reiko Füting’s “tanz.tanz,” arrestingly played by Miranda Cuckson, and Cassandra Miller’s “About Bach.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 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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