Mixing fear and fascination, residents here have become riveted by the details surrounding kidnappings, some of which were elaborately planned and carried out.
Mr. Olivetto's release comes as residents of São Paulo, the frenetic center of this nation's economy, have become riveted by a wave of kidnappings.
No wonder, then, that Bradley Tusk, Mr. Bloomberg's campaign manager, says that he and Maura Keaney, the campaign's field director, have become riveted in recent days by the weather.
It may not come as a surprise to some that she's a Cubs fan, but she says she's a baseball fan first, and she, like so much of the rest of the country, has become riveted by the postseason games.
The determination became riveting.
Yet under Matthew Warchus's direction, the way in which these questions are played out becomes riveting.
This is a bitter winter sports rivalry, a setting where the defection last year of a Norwegian cross-country ski coach to Sweden became riveting because the coach, Magnar Dalen, took with him Norway's secret ski wax formula.
While the image of the skull, and of being brought inside Henry's head, initially seems too literal a metaphor for such an abstract piece, the cumulative effect of this staging becomes riveting.
Even as the public becomes riveted by these playoffs, there continues to be an undercurrent of cynicism — almost snickering.
As the National Congress drew near, public attention became riveted on a major corruption scandal involving officials in Project Management Unit (PMU) 18 of the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
