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
‘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
For a sly and haunting marriage of those two elements, turn to “Waiting for Platonov,” an arrestingly musical production by the Swiss director Thom Luz at the Residenztheater in Munich.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 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
Katz was arrestingly larger than when I had last seen him.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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