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Example sentences for: arresting

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The present is in (less arresting) color, with a framing device that's groan-inducingly earnest.
The only really arresting work he did after 1950 is . With its electric brightness, this huge painting, which Pollock's friends started for him, is stunning but sad, a big smile for the camera and perhaps a kind of requiem for his earlier work.
Reviews of this tale of a bisexual Hungarian writer in 1970s East Berlin use such terms as "Proustian" (Eva Hoffman, New York Times Book Review ) and "masterpiece" (Stanislaw Baranczak, the New Republic ). Praise goes to the novel's lyrical prose, innovative (some say "difficult") structure--which includes a novel within the novel--and its arresting depiction of life behind the Iron Curtain.
He quashes opponents with brutal force, arresting Islamic militants and left-wing secularists who oppose him and shuttering newspapers and television stations when they criticize him.
One of the many arresting images in The Sixties , Richard Avedon's latest collection of portraits, is a famous photograph of Andy Warhol.