The phrase "arresting appearance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that captures attention due to its striking or impressive visual qualities.
Example: "The actress made her entrance in a stunning gown, her arresting appearance leaving the audience in awe."
Alternatives: "captivating look" or "striking presence".
She was a small, thin woman of arresting appearance.
But what made him distinct was his uniquely arresting appearance: the flowing saffron robes, the tiny body, and the woollen hair, resembling a topiary bush, that sat above his childlike face.
It would be just a hint of what might have been, because Mr. Gandolfini makes only a brief, though arresting, appearance in the show's pilot, playing a distinctly different character from Tony, a shambling lawyer looking for needy clients in jailhouses.
And Bosch meets the sci-fi imagery of the comics and movies of the 1950s in a pair of bulbous, mottled fiberglass compositions: "Distant Cousin" (2003), a mutant life-form; and "Species" (2004), which has the arresting appearance of a winged set of male genitals that has fallen to earth.
He was one of a kind, and you know that casting directors reached for his name with relief and pleasure, and not just because of his arresting personal appearance.
To control current methanol concentration substrate feeding was manually interrupted and DO-spike was monitored to occur within 30 seconds and in case of delay feeding was arrested until appearance of DO-spike.
The appearance is arresting and festive, which is why I suggest serving it to guests who have at least the hint of a sense of humor, unlike the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which almost never gives its Oscar to a comedy.
However these spindles, although able to initially align chromosomes, were substantially less dense than control embryos, exhibiting a thin appearance and arresting prior to anaphase (Fig. 2A; Supplementary Videos 1 and 2).
The police did not identify the crime figure, nor were any of the others arrested, but his appearance allowed the authorities to trace at least part of the criminal network.
His appearance was sufficiently arresting to have attracted a number of descriptions.
To further interrogate whether the presence of RB is responsible for the maintenance of cell cycle arrest, RB-proficient p53DD cells were exposed to CDDP for 4 days, resulting in significant cell cycle arrest and appearance of senescent cells.
