How To Use Riveting In A Sentence

Richard Harris delivers a riveting portrayal of Captain Tyreen.
It's even better when the story is riveting from the get-go and manages to ramp up the tension with each chapter. My Five: Books on my Unofficial Summer Reading List
This building also repaired tenders in steam days; a much taller section of the roof allowed boilers to be stood on end for riveting.
A bonded joint has very good shear strength, but not so good resistance to being pulled or torn apart; riveting is the familiar answer.
Winter had been long months in riveting them, and not in a day were they to be broken, not even by the thunderbolt of spring. Chapter VIII

Sornette's discussion of the science of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, tornadoes and meteorite impacts is riveting.
We veer between a rivetingly fresh reinvention of a myth and some clunkier contemporary confrontation and despair. Times, Sunday Times
It has been a brilliantly written drama, riveting and full of twists and turns. The Sun
Just as an aside, Perry Forde, despite nicotine withdrawals was in fine fettle and led her team to victory in a riveting match-up led by quizmaster Billy Varley who also had to make the supreme sacrifice.
When it became clear that Frey had lied, she invited him back on her show and in what was riveting, headline-making television, she came after him with a fiery vengeance that she later regretted - so much so that, years later, in 2008, she called Frey to apologize. Now it's Oprah's moment
The book is a riveting character study of a fiercely intelligent and insular man coming to terms with his sexuality.
Bobby Darin's life in Beyond The Sea, while extraordinary on its own terms, lacks a dramatic arc needed to produce a really riveting film.
This is a riveting tale about a wounded country, an unlikely friendship and an enduring love. Times, Sunday Times
The minimal, magisterial formal aesthetic of the latter though is clearly of another realm to Requiem's crude, lazy, sledgehammer style, and is infinitely more riveting and rewarding.
Despite the company's effortlessly dramatic and often vivid characterizations under the astute direction of Mr. Ratmansky—not least the riveting yet often subtle portrayal by Diana Vishneva as the title figure—this "Anna Karenina" lacks the musical, motor energy to suggest depth beneath the pantomimed surface. Forgoing the Classics, but Still Nothing New
From this riveting prologue the book changes direction. Times, Sunday Times
The case was riveting drama, making Ruth and Judd overnight celebrities.
The triplex is rivetingly tacky. Times, Sunday Times
The riveting tale of suspense and mystery revolving around an inheritance and the pottery industry.
This riveting two-part documentary follows her painstaking investigation. The Sun
All three are responsible for one of the most talked-up documentaries to come out of Sundance this year, a film that is being billed as a "reality thriller" and has been heralded by critics as "riveting" and "unforgettable. Ariel and Nev Schulman and Henry Joost cast the Net in ominous 'Catfish' role
Far more than the story of one beleaguered farmer, it is a riveting dramatic allegory about human nature and the nature of our society.
If that all sounds a bit dubious, the less riveting savings option would be to install cavity wall insulation. Times, Sunday Times
Four successive days, furthermore, brought forth a quartet of riveting scraps.
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It has been a brilliantly written drama, riveting and full of twists and turns. The Sun
I loved the journey the main characters were on, Daniel, Rupert and Emma were spot on, but the story line did not compel, engross, capture and direct our minds through this riveting story. “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” is worst of the series » Scene-Stealers
No, because we've watched something riveting and real. Times, Sunday Times
The case was completely riveting, not least because it was so unlike TV drama. Times, Sunday Times
The encore, slinking along on what Sun Ra might have called a Nubian wavelength, featured Mr. Zorn and Mr. Potter in successive solos, both sharply riveting, both exuding authority. NYT > Home Page
This is a riveting tale about a wounded country, an unlikely friendship and an enduring love. Times, Sunday Times
His account of his experiences as a common soldier are riveting, and they magnificently capture the monotony of endless drilling, guard duty, and camp chores that consumed most of his days.
Indeed, "The Runaways" is owned and just about swallowed up by Fanning's riveting portrayal of the singer (not too dissimilar from the way Currie overwhelmed the group). Sundance Review: Kristen Stewart And Dakota Fanning’s ‘Runaways’ » MTV Movies Blog
The invention discloses a method for producing air chain riveting belting wire and relative special device.
Well then I bought another top from New Look (isn't this commentary riveting?!) and some hair things which have flowers covered in glitter on them (yayness!). Sheepdip Diary Entry
For anyone who cares about music or artistic expression these presentations are riveting.
He felt as if some sort of superglue was riveting him to the bench, as if indeed he never would move again. LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
At times she's a gangling, anti-social adolescent, and at others a snobbish know-it-all, but she's always riveting.
The session on defending communities turned into a riveting debate covering crime, housing, anti-racism and asylum seekers.
Even the most gifted editor would have problems turning much of the obligatory information into riveting reading.
The combination can be riveting in any debate.
Earlier, I saw a staged reading of Light at Smith College; the dialogue was riveting.
Let's just say that, from my Masa perspective on things fishy, without being too toplofty about it, the Sushisamba lunch for roughly half the price of my lunch at Bar Masa, was perfect for a day when my spirit wasn't ready for an encounter with soul-riveting perfection. The Sashimi Challenge
A riveting seminar held yesterday by the Centre for Policy Studies in London on the subject of breaking the poverty cycle threw up some startling insights into social disintegration in Britain.
This riveting drama is currently a one-off, but a series must surely follow. Times, Sunday Times
True to Mozart's intention to present the incorrigible libertine as a dramma giocoso - a funny drama - Erwin Schrott was a charismatic and riveting Don Juan, while Kyle Ketelsen's Leporello, the Don's comic and unwilling manservant, stole all the rest of the scenes. Don Giovanni
Mr. Kaufmann was a riveting, very handsome Siegmund—his rich, varied tenor was full of anguish portraying the desperate outcast who falls headlong into love. Where Intimacy Walked the Plank
Both aspects were recently on display in a riveting exhibition of nearly 40 sculptures, drawings and prints at Lennon, Weinberg Gallery in New York.
Detweiler's extended piano solo during "The Trumpet Child" was one of the highlights of the torchy set that included riveting numbers like "Ohio" and "Redemption Song" the latter including Beatlesque guitar riffs by Kenny Hutson. Michael Bialas: Folk U (Day 2): 10 Best of the Fest Moments
This riveting drama speaks to our souls with its incessant probes into the importance of human choice and the degradations brought on by self-destructiveness.
The case was completely riveting, not least because it was so unlike TV drama. Times, Sunday Times
As usual, she gave a riveting performance.
This riveting two-part documentary follows her painstaking investigation. The Sun
Barrymore has the showier role and gives the more riveting performance, but that takes nothing away from Lange, who captures the smothering selfishness that was the flip side of Big Edie's determination to live life on her own terms. Lange, Barrymore captivate in HBO's 'Grey Gardens'
Even during recent years of poor health, his outstanding qualities were riveting charm and mental vitality.
But what makes the documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room more riveting than anything Hollywood could dream up is all the damning footage those deluded finks left behind.
Continuous welding of marine - type aluminium alloy is faster and cheaper than riveting.
But at the same time it has, you know, it has medical elements, which is always riveting to watch someone going into cardiac arrest and have some guy in MacGyver-like fashion, you know, grab a tube from the ceiling and intubate him and, like, fix him. INTERVIEW: Paulo Costanzo Chats Up Royal Pains
Ordinarily you'd regard such focus on the past as futile, but the resulting insights are riveting and applicable to other equally complex situations. Times, Sunday Times
It is a riveting human drama, an astonishing tale of resilience and technological ingenuity. Times, Sunday Times
Even the slyest political satire couldn't outdo this riveting docu-study of the country's troubled coalition government.
The camera twice pauses on a riveting image of a dying knight, blood spraying from his punctured armor.
The enormous impact Chic made in settling disputes between Eritrea and Ethiopia is equally riveting, although, as most Americans, my own ignorance on events in that part of Africa dampen my understanding and appreciation of what appears to have been Chic's Herculean efforts. Jim Luce: Exhaust the Limits: New Book Speaks to One Man's Successful Mission to Help Humanity
The result is one of the most rivetingly detailed, revealing music biographies ever written. Times, Sunday Times
Roberts is a riveting presence, tearless, with saucer eyes.
A riveting, Hindi-filmi court case takes the story towards a brilliant finale.
The play's gaze is sensitive, steely and relentless, never in any way condoning but, rivetingly, refusing to condemn. Times, Sunday Times
This riveting two-part documentary follows her painstaking investigation. The Sun
I'll agree that not all of them are especially riveting today, but some are still spellbinders.
The riveting force is generated hydraulically or pneumatically, depending on the model.
This riveting drama is currently a one-off, but a series must surely follow. Times, Sunday Times
From this riveting prologue the book changes direction. Times, Sunday Times
McConnell has drudged up few novel stories from Rwanda of his own, discovering few, if any, truly riveting critiques of the current president, the state or its people that have not previously been reported. Pia Sawhney: Blaming the Messenger: A Response to 'One Man's Rwanda' by Tristan McConnell
The riveting actor, best known as the invulnerable RoboCop, has brilliantly hit the skids as Stan Liddy, a corrupt Miami PD officer who gets busted by Internal Affairs. Cheers & Jeers: All's (Peter) Weller on Dexter
Our Stan Grant has been reporting on this story for weeks now, bringing us some extremely riveting reports.
Our kids discovered that nothing is more riveting than a good read.
The lifelong rivalry of cosmetics queens Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein makes for riveting reading.
Other techniques devised by goldsmiths as early as the Royal Cemetery at Ur included pinning, riveting and soldering.
These joining methods may include welding, brazing, soldering, riveting, or bolting.
They have devised a system of robotics in which welding, riveting and beam placement are carried out by a few computer operators rather than by gangs of construction workers.
Following him as he assumes Greenleaf's personality and attempts to elude his pursuers after the murder is a riveting yet slightly chilly exercise.
(as you wish to be chained), chain you, rivet you -- do you feel how the little fine chain twists round and round you? do you hear the stroke of the riveting? and you may _feel that_ too. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
The fact that this movie, an endless series of talking heads, somehow manages to be riveting, is proof of his concept. Two Movie Reviews, One Party Review
Last year Eller, a riveting balladist, opened for the Rolling Stones in Rio.
Hydraulic riveting has demonstrated not only that the work could be as well done without a blow, but that it could be _better done without a blow_, and that the riveted material was stronger when so secured than when subjected to the more severe treatment under impact. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891
All the pros and cons of its cinematic flourishes considered, Slumdog Millionaire is a bloody good, riveting and emotionally rousing film.
Inspired Bicycles" by Danny MacAskill, and a bizarre yet strangely riveting claymation zombie movie before giving in to the desire for a "squidgy" egg of our own. The Kitchn
There were no substitutes and no gimmicks and it was absolutely riveting.
The adult members of the party found the place equally riveting. Times, Sunday Times
He draws the strands together with two riveting themes. Times, Sunday Times
This riveting two-part documentary follows her painstaking investigation. The Sun
And you who bear authority over these benighted people, whether under the name of pasha, effendi, or mollah, let me advise you, although an unpromising subject for advice, not to act the stupid as well as barbarous part of riveting your nations in chains. A Philosophical Dictionary
If the shaft breaks, another one cannot be introduced between the plates without unriveting the plates.
ParentsAcrossAmerica.org are fed up watching this disaster unfold as children are sentenced to yet another year of reduced education funds, overcrowded classrooms, and a narrowed, unenriched curriculum due to riveting focus on a senseless standardized bubble test. Rita M. Solnet: David vs. Goliath, Battle Over Public Education
He possessed the Hollywood-Teutonic accent of a mitteleuropa geostrategist as well as a riveting personal story of escaping the oncoming horror of Nazism to serve the land that took him in. Magic and Mayhem
Leo had no need to answer for a voice now blared from the floor riveting everyone's attention. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
It was the most riveting episode in sport I have ever seen.
And decreasing the angle can distribution of the strain and prevent riveting cracks in rivet tail.
This is a riveting tale about a wounded country, an unlikely friendship and an enduring love. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, the series leads with the rivetingly precise detective work that solves a stabbing case by following a cell phone from midtown to New Jersey.
Almost any method of joining is applicable to aluminum: riveting, welding, brazing or soldering.
He discusses the psychological impact on troops torn between loyalty and self-preservation in this riveting tale.
I find snooker riveting though I don't play myself.
At the end of his riveting acceptance speech, he placed his ubiquitous do-rag on his hall bust. Pro Football Hall Of Fame Inductions: Sanders, Sharpe, Faulk, Dent Enter Hall (PHOTOS/VIDEO)
Then we have the riveting Kagawa, worried about being able to get enough money to help her indigent brother and unable to ask her own rich husband directly for the funds. Karin Badt: Famed Japanese Actress Kyoko Kagawa Celebrated at the Tokyo International Film Festival
We don't know the identity of the corpse that will follow the pope in riveting the nation's attention. April 2005
Thrilling in action scenes, he could also make quiet introspection quite rivetingly watchable. Times, Sunday Times
The articles he wrote were extraordinary, riveting and thought-provoking.
Others might regard him as a conscienceless, borderline psychopath, and the riveting central performance by Rhys Ifans, who plays Marks as a charming, raffish boyo from the Welsh valleys, doesn't wholly preclude such an interpretation. Mr Nice – review
According to the 2nd-century ad traveller Pausanias, the process involved hammering sheets of metal into the shape of a figure and riveting them together over a solid core.
For a theatrical actor, he has a marvellous skill at turning in small, intense and rivetingly unmissable close-up performances. Times, Sunday Times
Nathan shifted on the log, riveting his gaze to the dancing flames of the camp fire.
Ordinarily you'd regard such focus on the past as futile, but the resulting insights are riveting and applicable to other equally complex situations. Times, Sunday Times
The camera loved him: handsome without conceit, rivetingly watchable but not hammy. Times, Sunday Times
The complete attention of this actor to every second of action, to every one of her movements, made a riveting performance.
It's a riveting character study that really deserves to make a big splash with audiences of every age.
But beneath the crude language lies an undercurrent of riveting mystery, delight, and rage. Christianity Today
I cannot say that this film was riveting or particularly thought provoking.
To provide some systematization to this vast, overlapping, confusing, and riveting area of study, I have selected four categories of mechanisms of transmission of trauma: biological, psychological, familial, and societal.
The premise of the film sounds like that of a particularly macabre Choose Your Own Adventure story -- an American Average Joe is trapped in a coffin somewhere in the Iraqi desert with nothing but a cell phone, a Zippo, and his cajones -- but with killer timing, buckets of low-fi ingenuity, and a stunning one-man show from Reynolds, Cortés is able to craft a riveting bonafide action movie. Farihah Zaman: 2010 Fantastic Fest #2: Good Movies, Stupid Plots
Now 59 and residing in a French village, Groover has proved to be an artist who can take a camera - any kind of camera - and create a riveting picture with whatever is in view.
This riveting two-part documentary follows her painstaking investigation. The Sun
Keith's comic timing and expressive delivery made for a truly riveting performance.
As this semi final unfolded the hurling was riveting.
The boiler room still contained the boilermaker's major tools, including three pounding machines, two rolling machines, one shearing machine, two devices for riveting, three forges with bellows, and one anvil.
On a whole other note: You're emerging "crip" fashion and documentation is riveting to me, as a fashion industry refugee. Beth's healthy plan: the eve of destruction
The content and form of the shows tell difficult, discomfiting, and riveting stories.
Continuous welding of marine - type aluminium alloy is faster and cheaper than riveting.
In his skilled hands, these two journeys are rivetingly told, in absorbing, meticulous detail. James Swanson's "Bloody Crimes," reviewed by John Waugh
Next door, in a small room to which day and night were the same, Mr. Pascoe was always to be found bending over his hobbing foot, under a tiny yellow fan of gaslight which could be heard making a tenuous shrilling whenever the bootmaker looked up, and ceased riveting. London River
Based on the Historically Black College and University marching band tradition, this show features riveting rhythms, bold beats and ear-grabbing energy. Latest Press Releases
Surfaces to be riveted together should be "tinned" before riveting, to ensure the solder getting a good hold afterwards. Things To Make
A political filmmaker, Pontecorvo was best-known for his riveting and truly neorealistic THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS 1966, featuring one of the great Ennio Morricone scores and the Marlon Brando-starring BURN! T.G.I. Friday the 13th
For Chinese viewers, they have riveting, turning traditional matchmaking on its head and celebrating instant celebrity.
Ranging freely across the "greater Caribbean"—the region between the Chesapeake Bay and the Guyanas—McNeill makes a riveting case that the primary driver in the colonial conflicts there was not political or economic but microbiological. A New Approach to American History Histories of america before the Revolution
The riveting testimony would prove an eye-opener into the working of Lastman's inner circle.
All this would be riveting, except that the plot of "Gethsemane" -- in which the web of political corruption is unpicked by an equally reprehensible journalist who seems to have had sex with the Home Minister's under-age daughter -- doesn't really stand up. How Europe Inspired Disney's Wonderful World
Nobody has puzzled longer over the roots of his creativity than Dylan himself and this riveting, poetic memoir is the result.
It's captured here in another riveting episode of the real-life policier. Times, Sunday Times
I found it riveting, funny and, yup, inspiring.
Adhesive bonding, instead of riveting, is employed by some designers for attaching doublers and stiffeners to the skin sheet.
Their scenes together are riveting and the film builds a spooky and unsettling atmosphere with great economy, while providing a rare insight into small towns and stunted lives.
The games provide a riveting soccer spectacle at no cost to the spectators.
Placing and riveting the flange, the Breitling symbol and the eight hour - markers requires tremendous manual dexterity.
All 90 minutes of the documentary are riveting. Times, Sunday Times
Believe me, there is nothing schmaltzy about this riveting futuristic film noir thriller.
IT'S hard to pin down but there is something totally riveting about the Texan band's fourth album. The Sun
TV/Maggie: And all this week, you will see how the physicals on wheels works as this report undergoes a complete compelling and riveting series.
Even the slyest political satire couldn't outdo this riveting docu-study of the country's troubled coalition government.
This proves a riveting introduction to the singer's latest offering, which combines traditional sounds with sophisticated electropop. The Sun
It spins riveting, moving drama out of the most unpromising premise imaginable: the implementation of the 35-hour working week.
And what you're saying is riveting, which is why I'm not breaking in to ask you any questions. CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2004
The story is a riveting one about two chil-dren who find an adventure game which becomes real as they are playing it.
Obama was in professorial mode, so it wasn't exactly riveting, but he made a couple of interesting points. Your Right Hand Thief
It is a riveting human drama, an astonishing tale of resilience and technological ingenuity. Times, Sunday Times
No, because we've watched something riveting and real. Times, Sunday Times
A riveting revival, acted with vitriolic power. Times, Sunday Times
Now an elder statesman, ambition frustrated but perforce sated, he is positioned to tell a riveting story.Sentence dictionary
It's a superb film that's tense and riveting.
The film Ms. Bergen narrates covers remarkably extensive territory—including a riveting commentary provided by Willam Gowan, a former U.S. Army counter-intelligence agent, on the so-called Rat Line through which Nazi war criminals of high and low rank escaped punishment by fleeing to Argentina, with help from sympathetic Vatican priests. A Nazi Story That Still Surprises
These three topoi can be varied in countless ways to create a riveting narrative.
Continuous welding of marine - type aluminium alloy is faster and cheaper than riveting.
Even during the teen-angstiest moments of the vampire-girl-vampire triangle, he's absolutely riveting. EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines
He uses quiet rivetingly: neat little hands, softly pattering feet. Times, Sunday Times
His adaptation retains the honesty and lyricism of the book but sharpens it up into a riveting confessional stream of crackling, dinner conversation-sharp dialogue.
What you're saying is truly riveting, which is why I'm not breaking into asking questions. CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2004
The high-pitched voice skims over a flourish of spoon and dessert bowl - riveting drama for fan gaze.
The singer somehow manages to make a heavy Glaswegian accent sound rivetingly sexy, especially on Dance With Me's hypnotic tribal churn.
He provides the reader with a riveting, impartial, and chronological account of events on the ground.
This will be a riveting, unforgettable experience!
The reports of our Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure sometimes make for riveting reading.
It's riveting and intense, with just enough action to satisfy those who enjoy that genre and enough substance to satiate viewers who are tired of the long litany of dumb motion pictures marching through multiplexes.
Expect a riveting two hours tonight and tomorrow from 7.30 pm, as icy as the coldest Keighley weather.
And although I found the first 400 or so pages of TKO very interesting (and the remainder something rather less than "riveting"), on the whole my impression of Littell is that he needs to get over himself -- big time. Explain Yourself
The plot of the play centres around the Doyle Family and many revelations are unfolded as the play unfolds its riveting story.
But it makes rivetingly odd and disturbing viewing.
But the shy celebrity is rivetingly strange when we finally get to see it. Times, Sunday Times
Sacks suggests that the way to learn a subject is to go through it historically for oneself - a mental version of ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny - and the account of him doing so is as lovely as it is riveting.
But beneath the crude language lies an undercurrent of riveting mystery, delight, and rage. Christianity Today
But Bolden was a riveting performer of personal charisma and crowd-pleasing musical power.
Hands down, she is one of the most riveting wailers around.
But Bolden was a riveting performer of personal charisma and crowd-pleasing musical power.
The concert opened with a riveting account of Haydn's late E flat Sonata.
One of the BBC's most rivetingly beautiful natural history series, The Blue Planet, was Best Documentary Series.
There can't be many new DVD releases of short film anthologies which are unstintingly riveting all the way through. Sex education films: they don't make them like they used to
IT'S hard to pin down but there is something totally riveting about the Texan band's fourth album. The Sun
The all - hydraulic riveting machine is important mechanical equipment used in automobile industry now.
He accompanies his startling allegations about his opponent with riveting admissions about his own identity.
His earliest memories are those of thick forests, wild animals and of the riveting images of virgin Nature.
But, as David Blumenthal and James A. Morone recount in "The Heart of Power, " their riveting history of health-care politics, Johnson recognized the threat and outmaneuvered his opponents.
Director Danny Boyle jazzes up the riveting tale as much as possible: split screens, flashbacks, hallucinations, you name it. Michael Giltz: Toronto Film Festival Days 7 and 8: Boston, Beliefs and Bang Bang Club
He draws the strands together with two riveting themes. Times, Sunday Times
And believe me, there is nothing schmaltzy about this riveting futuristic film noir thriller.
Maguire more than makes up for what the book may lack in riveting action with his signature skilled wordplay and profound philosophies on life. A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire: Book summary
There were daring dynamics in the first movement and a riveting cadenza in which the trill conveyed a sense of optimism in switching from minor to major in the final hushed codetta.
However, the two do an excellent job putting all the details together in a coherent, even riveting narrative.
He, on the other hand, is rivetingly analytical about himself. Times, Sunday Times
But it's a riveting tale with important insights into Japan's culture and its sclerotic system.
It's a bully conclusion to a riveting journey through time.
That was the defining message from an utterly riveting battle between Heriot's and Melrose, which sizzled with enough effervescent vim to warm the coldest of hearts.

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