Sentence examples for he was riveted from inspiring English sources

And he was riveted to the television".

He was riveted by the pages of the calendar.

"He was riveted on the delegate this entire time," Captain Peters said.

He was riveted by televised tournaments, subscribed to three golf magazines, and made sketches of his dream retirement home, on a golf course.

As a child, he was riveted by the perfect game that Don Larsen of the Yankees threw against the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1956 Subway Series.

Bob Sloan, a hedge fund risk management adviser at S3 Partners, said he was riveted by the television all day to watch what he described as a pivotal point for Wall Street.

He was riveting, he really was.

He was riveting here, slicing and dicing notes into jagged shapes.

Replacing the excellent bass-baritone John Relyea as Banquo was the superb German bass René Pape, and he was riveting, singing with burnished sound and great dignity.

At rare moments — as on "Do Not Look Down," from "Koloss" (Nuclear Blast), the band's impressive new album — his delivery could be a little Cookie Monsterish, but on the whole he was riveting.

Spending most of the 1980s on the screen didn't diminish his power on the stage, however: at the Almeida in 1995 he was riveting as a rival mobster in the modish Gangster No 1.