Sentence examples for arresting performers from inspiring English sources

Viewers who hang around will be treated to a few more arresting performers, as well as a few who were let through the screening process only to give the judges a chance to use their "I'm appalled" faces.

There's a lot of comic creativity in Nigeria, and mischievous Helen Paul is one of its most unusual and arresting performers.

And whereas many violists are the good-sport member of a quartet team, Volker Jacobsen is an arresting performer.

Plus, she's been dancing since childhood and has, in her current musical incarnation as Marina and the Diamonds, proven to be an arresting performer who can carry a tune.

They say by arresting these performers [it] will be a way to stop bigger crimes.

Really, by arresting these performers -- which in some cases this is their only outlet to make money -- [they] may look to crime... How can people think that jail is the answer for everything?

Between pepper-spraying a guy waiting for the train, kicking people on the street and arresting a performer for simply playing music, it's hard to know what to expect from New York City police these days.

The crackdowns were spiking back in the spring but now we have the numbers, and they're pretty revealing of the priorities down at 1 Police Plaza: the NYPD has arrested 240 performers in the first six months of this year compared to 40 during the same span last year -- a five-fold increase.

A performance artist out of San Francisco, Boy Child — you have to look her up — is one of the most visually arresting and magnetic performers I've seen in a long time.

The multilayered castle interior and the mix of modern dress and detailed historical costumes worn by some of the performers are visually arresting in an old-fashioned, even operatic, way.

And, of all places, why in New York?" Now they're wondering the same thing in regards to why the city is intent on arresting street-artists ("arrests of performers have more than quadrupled this year, to 203 through early this month, compared with 48 over the same period last year").