Through the 1990s there were a number of universities — MIT, NYU, Columbia — that had high-profile suicides that stunned the nation and riveted our gaze on this cohort of students and what they're struggling with.
I.S. 187's decision to add math classes benefits children like Brittany Boccio, a diminutive girl with glasses and a riveting gaze, who was scared of math until she started attending double sessions last year.
Her green, prominent eyes, flecked with brown, had a riveting gaze and widened shyly with excitement, and her voice, always husky, got breathless when she spoke of her culture heroes and heroines, some of whom were dead and some of whom were right there in our school.
Stewart's battle scenes are also riveting, his gaze fixed admiringly on Rescorla.
"This city," he once wrote, "eternally rivets the gaze of the entire world".
Cliff beholds the landscape in the reverent tradition of Emerson and Thoreau; Marybelle rivets her gaze to her cellphone in search of a signal, then orders Cliff off the road wherever she finds one so she can blab for hours.
But then things are bound to get wild whenever we permit Colonel Muammar Qaddafi to occupy to center of our attention-when we rivet our gaze on him, pore over his unpredictable and contradictory utterances, and organize our foreign policy around the question of what to do about him.
Throughout the film your gaze is riveted to Ms. Farmiga's stricken eyes.
Though visitors are supposed to identify with the virtuous, my gaze was riveted on the tormented tumble of the demons and the damned.
When your gaze is riveted to the podium hoping to hear words that will allow you to connect with their joy in an authentic, intimate way.
