Sentence examples for riveting encounter from inspiring English sources

A riveting encounter with an elderly beggar in a wheelchair, crippled in an underground mining accident, leads to Tsotsi asking, 'Why do you go on?' In a series of brief flashbacks, we learn that Tsotsi ran away from home as a child, escaping from a brutal father, leaving behind a beloved mother dying of Aids.

Bath underlined their credentials as a Premiership force as they edged out Exeter in a riveting encounter.

Here, one encountered riveting tensions in artworks such as Khalil Rabah's 2010 fiercely political The United States of Palestine Islands, featuring a big image of an American aircraft carrier planted with crops grown in the Gaza strip; and Walid Raad's surreal tableaux in which one views a war-damaged wall through the frame of a perfectly executed facade.

McWhorter's accounts of personal encounters are riveting even when they do not fully carry his arguments.

One of the most common problems encountered in automatic drilling and riveting of multimaterial is that the continuous chips curl up on the body of the tool.

Many of the encounters, though, remain isolated campaign events — riveting but momentary intrusions of reality into a candidate's highly scripted day.

Questioning Mitchell Wagenberg can be unnerving, not least because he is apt to videotape the encounter through his eyeglasses or through a rivet on his belt.

I encountered Walters in the '80s through her riveting interview specials with celebrities and heads of state alike.

The encounter between the justices and attorneys for Al Gore and George W. Bush was a riveting, intellectually rigorous 90-minute skirmish.

Once he is in Nigeria, however, the play lives up to its title, and Mr. Hoyle's accounts of his encounters there, especially on trips to the volatile Niger Delta, are riveting.

That encounter's conclusion may prove hard to believe, but the scene is riveting.