The jury of six men and six women appeared riveted during all the presentations, beginning with Mr. Butler's account of the Nairobi blast.
Throngs of people in their late teens and twenties roamed the hallways networking on Thursday, and many appeared riveted by Aaron Schock, a House freshman from Illinois who at 27 is the youngest member of Congress.
Page after page of them were shown on courtroom monitors, carrying the names of the hundreds of people who died in the 1998 bombings of two American Embassies in East Africa.Jurors, seeing the names go by, appeared riveted and solemn in the quiet courtroom.
After a while I felt my mind wandering and enviously glanced sidelong at my fellow members, most of whom appeared positively riveted.
Grazinyte-Tyla, conducting with such the-world-is-her-oyster vivacity that the orchestra members appeared newly riveted by her, was happy to milk the score for all it is worth.
But what happened in the Aloha accident and the more recent incidents is that multiple small cracks appeared near rivets in areas where the plane experiences the most stress, causing the skin to peel back.
Boxing's late 2018 momentum has vanished and what appeared a riveting heavyweight scene now resembles a "disaster", according to the BBC Radio 5 Live boxing team.
And from first-world Greece to Albania, where horses and carts fill the roads, the potholes are so bad that people fish in them, and everywhere you look there are so many bunkers built by Enver Hoxha that the entire landscape appears to have been riveted.
Ms. Mattila, a charismatic stage animal whose interpretations of roles including Salome have been riveting, appeared to be misjudging the space, trying to create a sense of intimacy by holding back and drawing listeners in.
When Becca stages a many-voiced solo performance one night in Daley's living room, he finds himself riveted by what appears to be a drama of implied incest.
He said, "I was riveted by this woman who appeared to be straight out of Central Casting".
