In a BBC talk he described it as "a marvellous example of Shaw's power of making the eloquence of ideas as riveting as action on the stage".
Shaffer's plays – especially The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Equus – had made a huge impact on me: the ideas were riveting, but it was the theatricality of the presentation that was so overwhelming.
Ms Rainer was such a riveting presence, and her ideas were so intense and dazzling, that her personality couldn't help manifesting itself, right below and even above the cool, formalist surface".
As Jon Gertner argues in his riveting new book, "The Idea Factory," it was where the future was invented.
Given how ludicrously high a proportion of the past 10 years' finest hip hop and R&B artefacts have had one of these two men's names on them, there is a riveting historic inevitability about the idea of their irresistible forces colliding with Madonna's immovable object, just in time for her 50th birthday.
It's much faster than almost anyone realizes, even within Silicon Valley, and certainly outside Silicon Valley, people really have no idea". In a riveting discussion between arguably two of the world's most intelligent people, Neil Degrasse Tyson and Ray Kurzweil, some important points were made on the future of technology.
Wearing is known for creating riveting video pieces that play with ideas of truth and lies.
Jennifer Robson had the idea for her gorgeous and riveting historical novel, Somewhere in France, bouncing around in the back of her mind for years before she put pen to paper.
The paradox is this: The nation state seems as riveting as in the 19th century, an obstinate idea that pulls at primal heartstrings and mocks logic, yet technology has swept national borders away.
Overy's account is often riveting, but a history of ideas is bound at times to be top-heavy and lopsided.
