riveting
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Rather, it is a riveting, haunting, incisive and melancholy document that provides the ultimate example of a writer bearing witness and holding evil to account.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
His latest, “King of Ashes,” is riveting and terrifying, and continues to receive wide acclaim.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
The action turned as riveting as watching a toddler try to pull on mittens and boots.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
Another project has been Bullock’s riveting staging, with dance, of Olivier Messiaen’s mystical, Amazonian, sex-love-death song cycle, “Harawi,” which came to the Wallis in October 2024.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2026
It was absolutely riveting to watch the simple activities of people out in the world: old men sitting in the sun, women doing their shopping, people walking their dogs.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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