Sentence examples for arresting line from inspiring English sources

Stories of this sort, exemplified here by Aimee Bender's "Girl in the Flammable Skirt" and Dawn Raffel's "Up the Old Goat Road," proceed line by arresting line, and sometimes deliberately hide the narrative thread and turn themselves into puzzles.

In a typically arresting line, a cop summarises the evidence excitedly: "Sex, drugs, rock'n'roll – and he's a Muslim!" Yet this apparently simple "solve" remains, across the whole of this HBO eight-parter, ambiguous to the end – and possibly even beyond it.

"Yeah I Said It" is a late-night sexy slow jam, with the arresting line "I want you to homicide it" surely a double meaning, which I'm still mulling over.

So we invited her to identify all the dancers in that arresting line, and with a dogged bit of research, she did just that, turning an evocative photo into something closer to a historical document.

"Keys," for example, begins with an arresting line: "Biff Monkhouse, the man who brought bebop to Europe, collapsed and died last week in the lobby of the George V Hotel in Paris".

As they ate, residents recapped the events of their day, and Mr. Gorski entertained them with a tale of his first "scrub-in," which included the arresting line, "Hey, Gorski, want to cut a woman's leg off?" AS REMARKABLE AS IT IS that Mr. Gorski owns Rabbit Island, perhaps more surprising is what he has chosen to do with it.

Lydia Millet's stories uniformly begin with arresting lines, all of them guns on the wall, waiting to go off.

THE NEW YORKER: A couple compliments: GUEST: The book has so many arresting lines, incredible.

Margaret: Jessa may have had the most arresting lines of the whole show here: "I am going to look 50 when I'm 30.

Created and written by Jed Mercurio, whose previous shows include the British medical dramas "Bodies" and "Cardiac Arrest," "Line of Duty" is slightly reminiscent of "The Wire" in the way it presents police work as a miasma of compromise, careerism and endless gray zones.

However, even a TV-maker as talented as Mercurio – whose Cardiac Arrest, Line of Duty and Critical resuscitated the medium's sclerotic cop and doc genres – can't overcome the problem that a Lawrence dramatisation that decides (or is forced by BBC guidelines) neither to show nor to speak of genitals is as perverse as a calorie-controlled Great British Bake-Off or a politically correct Top Gear.