Sentence examples for riveted public from inspiring English sources

The case has also riveted public attention because of the role of PCCW's chairman, Richard Li.

Mr. Fossella's plea brings an end to a case that had riveted public attention.

And for a perennially riveted public, 100 years later, perhaps that is the best place to end.

Mrs. Kipling's other brother, Beatty, lived nearby and, according to articles that appeared in The New York Times in May of that year, was "wild and ungovernable" and had "threatened Mr. Kipling's life," declaring: " 'I'll blow your soul out of you.' " Kipling filed charges, unwittingly opening his cloistered life to invasive courtroom questioning, an attentive press and a riveted public.

But to a riveted public, Ms. Keeler's own life -- which included orgies with the rich and famous and liaisons with habitu of low-end nightclubs -- was just as compelling.

THE swagger building has but one objective -- to rivet public attention.

After winning her first Oscar in 1933 for her role as a naïve young actress in "Morning Glory," Ms. Hepburn became the leading actress of her age, riveting public attention with her on-screen performances and her off-screen romances with Spencer Tracy and Howard Hughes.

The escapes have riveted the public here.

The quick pace of the talks has riveted the public here.

The case – as cases of missing blond children continue to do – riveted the public.

A trial that riveted the public in 1849 was that of Rebecca Smith, aged forty-three, married to an alcoholic and "suffering great deprivations".