Sentence examples for riveting opening from inspiring English sources

It's a choice that lends the movie a good deal of texture and grain, as the riveting opening sequences of a violent street-fight in Tikrit demonstrate.

In the riveting opening scene, Quoyle the child thrashes in water, his face gradually aging into the features of Kevin Spacey.

The riveting opening 15 minutes is what makes Jack Reacher worth seeing.

When the play was staged in California in 2014, Gerry Camp of The Folsom Telegraph said that he had "never been more emotionally drained than ... after seeing the riveting opening night performance".

I know that this sentence has never been uttered in normal conversation before, but I found the men's ten thousand metres on the opening night riveting.

When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

Amid the chaos and bloodshed of those seven pivotal days, he captured such riveting scenes as a man opening his jacket to expose his chest to a machine-gun-toting soldier standing on a tank — an invitation to be shot.

We were all riveted to this man's opening up, letting the pain out.

It was riveting to have that same childlike intoxication flood over me in the opening moments of the final season.

In fact he stacks the deck with them: the narrator's mother dead by suicide, his wife dead at the hands of a burglar and — in the chilling, riveting, heartbreaking scene that opens the novel — his son, Reuben, dead by a stupid attempt to curry favor with bullying peers.

Fifty years ago this spring, George Harrison wrote a doozy, "a contagious blast of angry guitar rock," as one musical analyst notes, that would open the riveting Beatles Revolver album.