The phrase "arresting character" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a person or figure that captures attention or is striking in some way, often in literature or film.
Example: "The protagonist in the novel is an arresting character, drawing readers in with her complex motivations and vivid personality."
Alternatives: "captivating character" or "striking character".
Its most arresting character is a charming, fresh-faced Irish boy, Mark Ashton, who died of Aids in 1987.
Hale's most arresting character is not Titian but Aretino, the subject of an extraordinary portrait in which Titian captures the crimson-robed "scourge of princes" (the poet Ariosto's term) in all his robustness.
They're as eerily gleaming and artificial looking as the movie's most visually arresting character, a porcelain doll, China Girl (voiced by Joey King), whom Oz rescues with kindness and glue.
The most arresting character in the book is Olanna's twin sister, Kainene.
I have to remind myself, as he wheels about the universe of "The Big Deal", that Lucifer is the most arresting character in Milton's Paradise Lost.
"The great classics contain passionate romance, thrilling adventure, arresting characters and unforgettable scenes and situations," an explanatory note tells us.
This Ghost Rider rode a motorcycle, wore a blue leather costume, and had a blazing skull for a head, making him one of the most visually arresting characters in comics.
The real Frank Abagnale appears in a cameo as a French police officer arresting his character.
The image of policemen storming the countryside with orders to arrest a character from a novel is priceless, an example of the real-life madness that emerges from time to time to make satirists wonder if they're really necessary.
The play's most arresting and original character is Poulsen: a pretentious poet and critic whose inherited nationalism is at odds with the aestheticism he has acquired as a student.
First introduced in Cigars of the Pharaoh, they provide much of the comic relief throughout the series, being afflicted with chronic spoonerisms, extremely clumsy, thoroughly incompetent, and usually bent on arresting the wrong character, in spite of all of which they somehow get entrusted with delicate missions.
