Sentence examples for riveting screen from inspiring English sources

While some may find the mechanics of the later stages of the plot a tad contrived, I was gripped from beginning to end, thanks largely to Duris's riveting screen presence.

He could be heart-rendingly sympathetic as a hard-luck case, but even when he played the most alpha of alpha males, as in "The Master", you got the sense that his poised façade could crack at any moment, unleashing the impotent rage behind it.It was this tension between cleverness and helplessness, elegant confidence and ragged vulnerability that made Mr Hoffman such a riveting screen presence.

The O'Donnell-Hasselbeck battles climaxed on May 23 , 2007 with a riveting split-screen brawl in which O'Donnell accused Hasselbeck of cowardice and Hasselbeck accused O'Donnell of browbeating.

In 1997, he appeared in the House chamber at the same moment a California jury was handing down its verdict in the much-watched civil trial of O.J. Simpson, leading television networks to show the two events in riveting split-screen fashion.

He's riveting -- a screen natural, who seems to understand exactly how to pitch his performance for the camera.

The flickering images drew the townspeople like moths — the benches filled up — everyone was riveted to the "screen".

Everyone in Group was riveted to his screen, though; they had longer lists of loved ones to get through.

When "North Face" is gazing at the Alps in constantly changing weather at different hours, your eyes are riveted to the screen.

At age 2, his father said, Rodgers would sit on the couch and watch an entire N.F.L. game without fidgeting, his eyes riveted to the screen.

The group was riveted to the screen in silence during Armstrong's descent to the ground, during his first steps and his first words, and during Colonel Aldrin's descent.

My flushed-face was riveted to the screen.