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
The radiating, shimmering, ever so slightly metallic overtones that halo her voice make her sound arrestingly powerful and visceral.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022
Tilson Thomas began arrestingly with very early Mahler, the tuneful “Blumine” movement that was in the original version of his First Symphony.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 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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