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
What I did know was that Beverly’s extremely simple recipe yielded an arrestingly good bowl of soup.
From Salon • Jan. 16, 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
“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 • Jul. 27, 2022
The assertion was remarkable partly for being so arrestingly specific but even more for flying in the face of accepted wisdom about the age of the Earth.*
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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