Sentence examples for we were riveted from inspiring English sources
After a few desultory semipro ballet presentations, we were riveted by the flamboyant flamenco dancers and a 20-guitar men's chorus from La Paz.
Last year, we were riveted for days by real-time reporting and vigilante rumors, impatient for results.
Standing at the rail of the Glacier Queen, we were riveted to the face of the 300-foot-high wall of ice towering before us.
Later, in 1967, we were riveted again as Cronkite and Rather did a four-part series -- "The Warren Report" -- that included re-enactments of the shooting to examine the conspiracy theories.
We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives.
When, later in the book, someone mentions how "zeitgeisty" it is, in our thing-ridden times, to make do on so little, Ma is horrified, and we are horrified, yet we are riveted by her manner of coping — in the same way we're riveted by Anne Frank's bravery — and amazed by her capacity for adaptation.
I think it's less that we are wired to respond to violence than that we are riveted by existential questions, among them: What would happen to "me," if my body were snuffed out?
Yet we are riveted by reality shows or blind date wedding triumphs, which offer us versions of this controlled mate-choosing but accompanied by the amped-up rhetoric of romance, sexual attraction and individual choice.
One of the many heartbreaking things about this crisis is that, while we are riveted by the drama at Fukushima Daiichi, hundreds of thousands of quake and tsunami survivors in Japan's north are homeless, in the snow that has fallen there, and thousands are still missing.
Even as we're riveted by the scenes from Tunis and Cairo and Tripoli, there might be a new generation emerging in the obscure neighborhoods of those places or others — think about Karachi — who are more radical, more nihilistic, than the jihad generation of Mohammed Atta.
