Sentence examples for like riveting from inspiring English sources

With the exception of his opening work, which was Beethoven's early Sonata No. 7 in D (Op. 10, No. 3), the pianist Yefim Bronfman devoted his recital at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday evening to works that demanded fingers like riveting machines and well-trained arm muscles to keep them under control.

This is ostensibly a review of David Fincher's new movie Gone Girl, and it will contain all the requisite movie-review language, like "riveting" and "logically-flawed," "Oscar-worthy" and "misstep".

Most of these hybrid structures are manufactured by established methods like riveting, bolting or adhesive bonding.

Bill Gates sipping from a glass of water doesn't sound like riveting television.

I hope all the sharks die.' He was like riveted.

Mr. Giacchetto's sob after sob, she said, "was like a Shakespearean play," riveting like a car crash.

Rain, for instance, falls "like it was riveting Braille into the puddles on the road out front of the house".

But his version of "Golden Time of Day," a song that even Mr. Beverly never fully energized, is riveting, like the shedding of an old, constrictive skin.

The photos on the index cards are riveting, like inverse versions of the mug shots that the graphic designer Mark Michaelson presented in his 2006 book, "Least Wanted," (Steidl/Steven Kasher Gallery).

Descriptors like "brilliant" and "riveting" come to mind while watching The Keepers, but it feels somewhat callous to use either word.

The young artists captured details of their daily lives, like rivets on subway cars and filigree brackets on streetlights.