Sentence examples for makes an arresting from inspiring English sources

But given some room, she makes an arresting, plainspoken sound.

Played with self-effacing gentleness by Eric Anderson, Shlomo certainly makes an arresting figure.

One of these - a dreamy young creature who stares wistfully into the middle distance - has been reproduced in plaster, and makes an arresting mantelpiece ornament $6.

In an appendix the author tells readers where to find them in Rome and Florence, but, in passing, he makes an arresting remark about the first of them, the "Pietà" in St Peter's Basilica (pictured).

But it makes an arresting point: the model of food as a metaphor for pleasure is balanced uneasily between the mouth and the anus, between taste that urges us on and the excrement ("abjected matter") that food becomes.

In fact, the balls caused the tree to stand out no matter what the weather, and it now makes an arresting silhouette against a backdrop of vineyards and hills.

Every now and then she makes an arrest.

Now, after a police officer makes an arrest, the paperwork begins.

It is slang for when an officer makes an arrest or apprehends a suspect.

It made an arresting start to a compelling evening.

He might make an arresting Peter Grimes; he already has the weathered, haunted look.