Sentence examples for arresting i from inspiring English sources

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"Wali, if I get thrown in with the suspects they're arresting, I may actually learn something," Don says eagerly.

It's visually arresting I particularly enjoyed the scene at a Bulgarian Gypsy settlement, where the (by now bungling) burglars are relieved of their cars and clothes and one is shot through the foot – ouch, instant stigmata.

What's more, one visual device — the red zone of the shield generator, which filled the screen to look like a faded and scratched color print running sideways — was utterly arresting (I watched it three or four times in a row) and it suggested realms of invention that Lucas was barely ready to tap.

The cosmetic surgery on view varied from perma-surprise to Bride of Wildenstein, and the handbags were equally arresting: I met a fashion journalist friend who was noting Hermès bags in his notebook like a prisoner marking off the days before release.

A group of works on paper is not very effective but includes the arresting "I Saw the Wind Within Her" (Dickinson), a collage on Hindi newsprint that includes the inevitable threads and an unoccupied shirt with a head made of a mass of photographed eyes.

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"If I get arrested, I get arrested".

First time I was arrested, I was sixteen.

My editor was arrested; I was chased a few times.

"Are you going to have me arrested?" I asked.

By the time I got arrested, I knew I needed help".

"I was not arrested; I was rescued," he writes.

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