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Definition of arresting in English: arrestingadjectiveəˈrɛstɪŋəˈrɛstɪŋ 1Striking; eye-catching. at 6 feet 6 inches he was an arresting figure Example sentencesExamples - Yes, it's a sensational, arresting number, which may soon pass into general circulation.
- Archer's Goon is an arresting and impressive book; it deserves to be read more widely than it probably will be.
- The arresting part of this photo is not her femaleness, although foregrounding her gender seems to be the intention, but the condition of her gun, which is old, chipped, and rusty.
- The book's sad and enigmatic title appears under an arresting cover photograph of a Yolngu warrior, Witiyana Arika, playing the traditional clapsticks.
- Nicole Kidman is similarly dominant in Birth, a controversial, arresting film by British director Jonathan Glazer.
- Joseph is a good enough accompanist, but Jonah has a voice of extraordinary, arresting beauty: ‘my brother sings to save the good and make the wicked take their own lives’.
- It is a pity that there exists no serious biography of Archibald Wavell, an intriguing and arresting figure.
- Before this happened, they had turned out a string of arresting films, many of which were hits - Thunder Rock, The Guinea Pig, and I'm All Right Jack, to name but a few.
- It makes for an arresting and accomplished film with some truly outstanding acting along the way.
- Thankfully, CQ2 is more than anything a showcase for Furey, who is an arresting screen presence, an unusual beauty, and a more than capable dancer.
- However, it certainly is an arresting spectacle, and the skills and daring of the cast and director can't be faulted.
- A retrospective devoted to the cult American photographer, who homed in on the weirder aspects of humanity, this large, arresting show also includes documents, cameras and memorabilia.
- Critics have already compared this film to the work of Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line) with its slow-motion, visually arresting style.
- Alice Maher's floor-to-ceiling Ombre drawing also carries that authority, an arresting presence of cascading hair that at once shrouds and outlines the female body hidden within.
- It was a remarkably arresting photograph, and I decided to pick up the record on the spot.
- The band accompany her perfectly throughout, building to an arresting climax of the kind that leaves you with nothing else to say but ‘wow’ - which doesn't happen very often.
- Particularly arresting are those pictures which reveal the incredible symmetry and patterning to be found in the natural world, but all bear eloquent testimony to the planet's beauty.
- More persons know Alkazi by his awesome reputation than by his arresting theatre productions.
- Seeing this familiar image of Christ overlooking the Final Judgment rendered in such an unusual manner has an arresting effect on the viewer.
- I was tracking something down at Don Park's Daily Habit, and noticed an arresting graphic: a fractal blogspace for Don Park.
- Along the way it sparkles with arresting images to throw a provocative and highly unusual light on almost everything from British naval supremacy to the French defeat in the 2002 World Cup.
Synonyms striking, eye-catching, conspicuous, noticeable, dramatic, impressive, imposing, spectacular, breathtaking, dazzling, amazing, astounding, astonishing, surprising, staggering, stunning, sensational, awesome, awe-inspiring, engaging remarkable, notable, noteworthy, distinctive, extraordinary, outstanding, incredible, phenomenal, unusual, rare, uncommon, out of the ordinary informal amazeballs 2Denoting a person or agency that seizes and detains someone by legal authority. Example sentencesExamples - My arresting officer joked and chatted with the women alongside me.
- Indeed, when the insulting language case against Jefferson came up for hearing at the District Courts in Castries, the arresting constable did not appear and so the case was struck out.
- It has been reported that he was wearing a rucksack when arrested and that that was thrown out of the window by the arresting officers.
- When the Wagners were left alone in the police cruiser, a tape recording released by the police indicates that they schemed to murder the arresting police officers.
- TMZ has four pages of the original report prepared by the arresting officer in the case, L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy James Mee.
- I think you'd rather put it to the arresting authorities or those who are responsible for prosecution.
- Uncle Dave had a healthy disrespect for authority and his advice to ‘always take the arresting officer's number’ has stood me in good stead.
- Evans was jailed for 21 hours, but she was surprised to discover that her arresting officer agreed with her opposition to the war in Iraq.
- He told the arresting officers that he had fired in self-defense.
- The record proved that the arresting officers never attempted clarification.
- When they were arrested in Indiana, the murderers surrendered meekly after taking one look at the arresting officer.
- A cop on the other side of the room tells the arresting officer that there's a help desk number tacked up underneath the memos on the booking area bulletin board.
- A federal judge dismissed the charges because the arresting officers had violated the act by receiving the Army's help.
- Next, the arresting officers must notify the district attorney's office that they have a suspect ready to be entered into the criminal justice system.
- The arresting officer applied ‘restraint’ on the man's neck.
- When she didn't receive a satisfactory response, she sued her arresting officer and the city of Lago Vista, claiming her Fourth Amendment rights had been violated.
- If the arresting officer or the defendant doesn't appear in court, a judge typically dismisses the charges.
- Initially, most thought that having a false name and no identification would make it more difficult for the arresting authority to prove that they were Arab.
- I was in graduate school by then and knew the arresting officer because we'd gone to high school together.
- In addition, defense attorneys need to be informed when an arresting officer is suspected of misconduct.
Derivatives adverb Despite some unpolished acting, this conceit is arrestingly carried off: the scenes representing Orpheus's journey into Hades are particularly imaginative in the way they depart from reality without ever actually leaving Rio. Example sentencesExamples - With her penchant for the arrestingly unusual statement, Smith declares that Howard's mistress finds him ‘a man for whom she had no sexual desire whatsoever’.
- Therborn, by contrast, in focusing on just one dimension of existence, develops a map of human changes over time that is faithful to the complexity and diversity of the world in an arrestingly new way, omitting no corner of the planet.
- ‘When Britain's sea power was in its prime,’ he began arrestingly, ‘Samuel Pepys ran our Navy almost single-handed.’
- It starts off very arrestingly, but the movie loses its way in a kind of drawn-out middle eight, in which Maiquel gets into cocaine and begins falling out with his compadres and the corrupt cops who are making it all possible.
- They are also arrestingly beautiful, vividly coloured and richly textured.
- The boar hunt depicted in the orchestral prelude, with its wavy textures, percussion gasps, wordless choral voices and anguished cries from lower strings, arrestingly sets the tone.
Rhymes unprotesting, unresting, westing Definition of arresting in US English: arrestingadjectiveəˈrɛstɪŋəˈrestiNG 1Striking; eye-catching. at 6 feet 6 inches he was an arresting figure Example sentencesExamples - Nicole Kidman is similarly dominant in Birth, a controversial, arresting film by British director Jonathan Glazer.
- Along the way it sparkles with arresting images to throw a provocative and highly unusual light on almost everything from British naval supremacy to the French defeat in the 2002 World Cup.
- Particularly arresting are those pictures which reveal the incredible symmetry and patterning to be found in the natural world, but all bear eloquent testimony to the planet's beauty.
- Joseph is a good enough accompanist, but Jonah has a voice of extraordinary, arresting beauty: ‘my brother sings to save the good and make the wicked take their own lives’.
- I was tracking something down at Don Park's Daily Habit, and noticed an arresting graphic: a fractal blogspace for Don Park.
- Before this happened, they had turned out a string of arresting films, many of which were hits - Thunder Rock, The Guinea Pig, and I'm All Right Jack, to name but a few.
- The book's sad and enigmatic title appears under an arresting cover photograph of a Yolngu warrior, Witiyana Arika, playing the traditional clapsticks.
- Thankfully, CQ2 is more than anything a showcase for Furey, who is an arresting screen presence, an unusual beauty, and a more than capable dancer.
- Alice Maher's floor-to-ceiling Ombre drawing also carries that authority, an arresting presence of cascading hair that at once shrouds and outlines the female body hidden within.
- It is a pity that there exists no serious biography of Archibald Wavell, an intriguing and arresting figure.
- It makes for an arresting and accomplished film with some truly outstanding acting along the way.
- Critics have already compared this film to the work of Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line) with its slow-motion, visually arresting style.
- The arresting part of this photo is not her femaleness, although foregrounding her gender seems to be the intention, but the condition of her gun, which is old, chipped, and rusty.
- Archer's Goon is an arresting and impressive book; it deserves to be read more widely than it probably will be.
- However, it certainly is an arresting spectacle, and the skills and daring of the cast and director can't be faulted.
- It was a remarkably arresting photograph, and I decided to pick up the record on the spot.
- The band accompany her perfectly throughout, building to an arresting climax of the kind that leaves you with nothing else to say but ‘wow’ - which doesn't happen very often.
- Yes, it's a sensational, arresting number, which may soon pass into general circulation.
- More persons know Alkazi by his awesome reputation than by his arresting theatre productions.
- Seeing this familiar image of Christ overlooking the Final Judgment rendered in such an unusual manner has an arresting effect on the viewer.
- A retrospective devoted to the cult American photographer, who homed in on the weirder aspects of humanity, this large, arresting show also includes documents, cameras and memorabilia.
Synonyms striking, eye-catching, conspicuous, noticeable, dramatic, impressive, imposing, spectacular, breathtaking, dazzling, amazing, astounding, astonishing, surprising, staggering, stunning, sensational, awesome, awe-inspiring, engaging 2Denoting a person or agency that seizes and detains someone by legal authority. Example sentencesExamples - In addition, defense attorneys need to be informed when an arresting officer is suspected of misconduct.
- I was in graduate school by then and knew the arresting officer because we'd gone to high school together.
- TMZ has four pages of the original report prepared by the arresting officer in the case, L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy James Mee.
- Evans was jailed for 21 hours, but she was surprised to discover that her arresting officer agreed with her opposition to the war in Iraq.
- If the arresting officer or the defendant doesn't appear in court, a judge typically dismisses the charges.
- Next, the arresting officers must notify the district attorney's office that they have a suspect ready to be entered into the criminal justice system.
- It has been reported that he was wearing a rucksack when arrested and that that was thrown out of the window by the arresting officers.
- When they were arrested in Indiana, the murderers surrendered meekly after taking one look at the arresting officer.
- Indeed, when the insulting language case against Jefferson came up for hearing at the District Courts in Castries, the arresting constable did not appear and so the case was struck out.
- Initially, most thought that having a false name and no identification would make it more difficult for the arresting authority to prove that they were Arab.
- Uncle Dave had a healthy disrespect for authority and his advice to ‘always take the arresting officer's number’ has stood me in good stead.
- A federal judge dismissed the charges because the arresting officers had violated the act by receiving the Army's help.
- When the Wagners were left alone in the police cruiser, a tape recording released by the police indicates that they schemed to murder the arresting police officers.
- A cop on the other side of the room tells the arresting officer that there's a help desk number tacked up underneath the memos on the booking area bulletin board.
- My arresting officer joked and chatted with the women alongside me.
- He told the arresting officers that he had fired in self-defense.
- I think you'd rather put it to the arresting authorities or those who are responsible for prosecution.
- The arresting officer applied ‘restraint’ on the man's neck.
- When she didn't receive a satisfactory response, she sued her arresting officer and the city of Lago Vista, claiming her Fourth Amendment rights had been violated.
- The record proved that the arresting officers never attempted clarification.
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