arresting
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Or they could simply be arresting abstractions in a sculpture that sits aesthetically between formal attraction and repulsion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
“Beauties” is more arresting on a number of levels.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Police bosses admitted not arresting Calocane had been a "serious and systemic and operational failure".
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
In some ways, arresting these men was the easy part.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
But there was an arresting fascination in his voice, like the movement of wind and light on a meadow, and as its rhythm entered into his hearers the whole burrow became silent.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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"Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell
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