The phrase "arresting way" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a manner or style that captures attention or is striking in some way.
Example: "The artist presented her work in an arresting way that left the audience in awe."
Alternatives: "captivating manner" or "striking style".
And Ms. Tharp's decision to have one couple enter in silence before the music's next movement starts is not persuasive (despite the arresting way she has them enter, on arrestingly opposite zigzag paths).
Or even in the revered opening to Saving Private Ryan, which, while a virtuoso piece of visceral filmmaking, seeks to wow us with its unrelenting devotion to piling up bodies (each wiped out in a unique and visually arresting way, kind of like slasher films do) for our vicarious thrills?
The settlement will resonate with everyone from the gilded liberals toiling away at investment banks in Manhattan to the projects in the outer boroughs, seemingly confirming de Blasio's commitment to the principle of justice even if his NYPD commissioner, Bill Bratton, is still doing reactionary stuff like arresting way too many black and Hispanic kids for smoking pot.
The settlement will resonate with everyone from the gilded liberals toiling away at investment banks in Manhattan to the projects in the outer boroughs, seemingly confirming de Blasio's commitment to the principle of justice even if his NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton is still doing reactionary stuff like arresting way too many black and Hispanic kids for smoking pot.
We are lucky that a major architect of a revolution in biology should also be blessed with -- or perhaps born with -- the ability to bring that revolution to life in such an arresting way.
But towards the end, as the town's Greek quarter lives out its final days, the characters' fates become intertwined in a poignant and arresting way.
It asks visitors to submit a Web-page address, then takes that site's underlying data and processes it in a variety of graphically arresting ways.
Staged by the English National Opera, and described as "an occult-mystery film opera" by its Dutch composer, stage director and filmmaker Michel van der Aa, it is a provocative combination of live performance and cinema, fused in subtle and arresting ways.
In Mr. Oudolf's own one-acre garden, the dead and dormant plants of midwinter are sculptural but not harsh, poignant but peaceful, standing out against the quiet, almost monochromatic whole in subtle or arresting ways.
Park plays it full-out, balancing sweet and diabolical in quite arresting ways.
It's astonishing to me how much we've changed the composition of the atmosphere in my lifetime, and Carbon Visuals has some pretty arresting ways of making that visible.
