Sentence examples for riveting question from inspiring English sources

But the riveting question is who knew what when, and how far officials and politicians colluded with the hush-up.No other banking sector in Europe is as political as Austria's.

Another survivor from the wreckage of Jewish Europe was Arthur Koestler, whom Judt defends from his detractors and who leads Judt on to the riveting question of Communism and its foes.

In a riveting question and answer session in Parliament, Yoshihide Sakaue of the governing Liberal Democratic Party asked officials from the National Police Agency and several ministries, including Justice, Welfare and Labor, about recent published reports that Johnny Kitagawa, the talent agent, had sexually exploited boys, some as young as 12, over decades.

A scene where Coretta plays King an FBI tape of one of his adulterous dalliances, is quietly riveting – and poses the question of why a man this moral is willing to be amoral.

But suddenly the sports world is riveted by the question of whether LeBron James will throw talcum powder in the air and which countries the FIFA stuffed shirts will anoint the World Cup hosts for 2018 and 2022.

It's one of her stalling techniques, which makes it seem that she is riveted by the question while she uses the time to figure out an appropriate response.

In the vaguely aristocratic, Europe-inflected New York of "Eight White Nights," there is no mention of war, of financial trouble, of a world in crisis; there are just Oskar and Clara and their friends, all apparently without real-life worries to speak of, all riveted to the question of whether these two will have sex.

Thais are now riveted on the question of who will succeed King Bhumibol, just as Cambodians watch with fascination as a claque of princes jockey for succession when Sihanouk dies, or the Lao keep an eye on a crown prince in exile, Soulivong Savang, who is waiting to return to the land where a Communist movement killed his father and grandfather, the last king of Laos.

Galison demonstrates convincingly and in riveting detail how that "opalescent" question of 1900, standard time and precise longitudes, was the reference frame for both Poincaré and Einstein.

The question is still riveting.

However, there was one student who sat pensively most of the morning, but his question ended up riveting me the most.