He says the situation there is "scary, extremely scary" - much more so than the Iranian near-bomb that rivets our headlines.
During December 2008, while still in the process of drafting, Loeb said that he had been riveted by the Bernie Madoff headlines and showed interest in referencing him in the film, noting: "the thing that is so crazy about this story is that Ponzi schemes seem to be the simplest low-class scam," and "but this was carried out in the highest echelon of high finance.
They added the requisite local angle through reports like those from Ms. Laflin, and articles like a Journal piece today that was headlined: "N.M. Observers Saw Event As Riveting, Dull, Waste of Time".
November 18 2015 In September, in a Profile of this twenty-seven-year-old vocalist and electronic producer, Kelefa Sanneh considered the "disquieting possibility" that Grimes's riveting Web presence, spread across intoxicating music videos, cathartic Tumblr screeds, and exclamatory headlines, might have a broader audience than her art-pop cult hits.
You don't have to remember the gutter headlines inspired by its namesake to find the true-crime documentary "Amanda Knox" completely riveting.
College basketball even poked its head into the big headlines with Oregon's Pac-12-rocking victory over previously unbeaten Arizona, although more riveting was Bobby Knight's on-air brain freeze when trying to figure out the difference between the shot clock and the game clock.
Drawing on 137 readers' reaction to a selection of UK/US newspaper headlines and on a corpus of 1310 reader-selected headlines, it is shown that headline readers tend to disregard standard norms such as length, clarity, and information as long as headlines rivet their attention in terms of creative style regardless of underdetermined semantic meaning.
From his first speech, Richard's scandalous confessions, at once humiliating and astonishing, rivet our attention like boldfaced headlines: "Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, / Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time / Into this breathing world, scarce half made up," he describes himself, in an amalgam of self-pity and grandiosity.
