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28 examples of Riveting in a sentence

The argument itself was riveting.
The movie stays true to the original story by Mary Webb and is riveting from beginning to end.
I can't say it was riveting entertainment, nor a cure for insomnia.
Jack Webb is riveting as a Marine Corp drill instructor in the D.I.. Webb play Sgt.Jim Moore, a tough but fair Marine whose job it is to prepare young teens for possible combat.
But we do continue to follow Veronika as she searches the faces of harried recruits and their emotionally racked women, all extras, and each one a gem of riveting Stanislavskian behavior.
The interplay between Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman is riveting.
Lansbury and Hearn are riveting from start to finish and commit 100% to their ghoulish characters aided, by a first rate Sondaheim score, probably the closest thing Sondheim has written to an opera.
The acting is astonishing, the writing superb, and the editing style, as well as juxtaposed music, riveting the whole way.
His Major Surov was riveting.
The second episode of the new "Lost" gives you just what its fans were lacking - a fair amount of riveting action.
However, I imagine the average nonfictional child is far more adept at scaring themselves than Bernard Rose is at riveting the viewer.
This film is "riveting" but in much the same way a car crash is riveting.
EXTREMITIES is the disturbing, yet riveting screen version of a play by William Mastriosimone (who adapted his own play for the screen) about a woman who is attacked in her car one night by a would-be rapist on her way home and is terrified when she realizes the man got her purse and knows where she lives.
Riveting drama, scripted by William Mastrosimone based on his stage play, in which Farrah Fawcett plays Marjorie, attacked in her car by rapist Joe (James Russo).
Claire Danes is riveting as the woman Gere handpicks to replace him - a woman he tries to teach all he can while investigating one final case in which Gere's character is convinced one of those he is charged to monitor may be holding a young girl hostage.
Tracy Ullman gives a surprisingly riveting dramatic turn as Macy's wife.
Engaging, riveting tale of captured US army turncoat who has to prove his innocence to avoid the hangman.
Geoffrey Unsworth provides riveting Technicolor images to go with the painterly action effects work, wonderfully different than the Hollywood norm at the time.
I was riveting to the screen, (except in the boring segments in between which feature former Real World alumni in a silly, annoying subplot).
Seems that some folks watched this movie in the expectation of riveting sex scenes, and while I thought that the whole ending sequence was very contrived, the sex scene did work to make sense of the movie, which was just as well since the rest of it was kind of ludicrous.
The story and dialogue are riveting and the work of Colbert, Welles and Brent is superb.
Damian Lewis is riveting as the title character.
This movie shows a part of Auschwitz/Birkenau never seen before on film (the Sondercommando-Jewish work detail in the gas chambers and crematorium)and it is riveting.
Of course, something like this would never happen then, but it was immensely riveting to see thousands of people disappear because of a drawing on some kid's wall.
I thought that the performances of David Morrissey and Timothy Dalton were riveting.
Comparisions with Cassavedes, who is riveting, Rohmer, who is profound, and Woody Allen, who is both funny and original, are insulting to those directors.
Nothing captures this moral vacuum more vividly than the recent television drama, “Wo Ju” (“Crowded Spaces”), which has been riveting Chinese audiences.
Choosing Mr. EuropeBRUSSELS – America’s riveting presidential election campaign may be garnering all the headlines, but a leadership struggle is also underway in Europe.