The phrase "arresting stories" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe narratives that are captivating or attention-grabbing.
Example: "The author is known for her arresting stories that keep readers on the edge of their seats."
Alternatives: "captivating tales" or "gripping narratives".
"The Tenth Parallel" is a beautifully written book, full of arresting stories woven around a provocative issue -- whether fundamentalism leads to violence -- which Griswold investigates through individual lives rather than caricatures or abstractions.
In the first few days of Back To Reality, there were endless tasks and guest visits themed around other reality shows, but little in the way of arresting stories coming from the interaction of the contestants themselves.
In "City of Specters," one of Bandi's most arresting stories, a young mother looks after a sickly son who is terrified of a huge portrait of Marx that hangs in the city square, just outside the family's apartment window.
He faces murderers, cannibals and pimps with empathy, but when he stumbles upon his own mistake, his composure cracks, giving us a glimpse of the humanity behind the persona that has devised these arresting stories.
Sometimes a magazine and a Web site just aren't enough to do justice to a truly arresting story.
Though sometimes shifting abruptly in time, Vanaja is an arresting story of modern-day hardship and class exploitation, recalling Charles Dickens as well as Western fairy-tale lore.
Well – an arresting story.
A British court was the venue on Thursday for the arresting story of a lawmaker's wife, her husband's lover and the theft of a family kitten.
Given that Harrison recently helmed a hugely successful version of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens – another play touching on similar themes – Maxwell's new version of Wedekind's arresting story should get a multilayered production from a director who is tackling a European classic for the first time under the Grid Iron banner.
There are arresting personal stories, but these are quickly passed over, and we're back to being overburdened with historical detail as Shephard details the composition of the official "shell shock committee", the positions of the four "shell shock centres" in Flanders, and provides a list of doctors who worked in them.
The arrest stories of our Egyptian cellmates are remarkably similar to ours: Egyptians who were picked up on dark streets after the protest, by thugs or cops, blocks or miles from the police station that is the alleged site of our alleged crimes.
