Sentence examples for while riveting from inspiring English sources

Ryan's gift for complexity — his ability to gnaw at your conscience while riveting you to the action — is still evident here.

The concluding volume of the author's two-part life captures the "brilliant, animated, endlessly provoking" Coleridge as he slips in and out of opium addiction and melancholy while riveting audiences as a world-class talker and lecturer.

Some brides chat from their desks at work, others can't go to bed before signing in one more time, some even tune out their fiancé's voice while riveted to the computer.

Net tension failure had a brittle and catastrophic nature, while rivet pull-out presented a more desirable slow ductile failure mode.

While it riveted the nation, the debate had more symbolic than practical importance.

He has the trick of appearing to speak truth to power while being riveted to power himself.

But while such details are riveting, they divert attention from the real meaning of the case.

The best approach is to externalize the analysis process such that it becomes transparent and accessible – while still challenging and riveting – to all students.

But the star vocalist was the Russian soprano Tatiana Serjan, who sang Lady Macbeth with riveting incisiveness while keeping her tone free of harshness.

Two new John le Carré adaptations hit our screens this year: while Susanne Bier's sleek, riveting The Night Manager became whatever the equivalent of appointment TV is in this unscheduled era, over in cinemas, Susanna White's Our Kind of Traitor (Studiocanal, 15) made scarcely a ripple.

Ark Royal would have to fit this anticipated limit; to conserve weight, armour plating was limited to the belt, engine rooms, and magazines, while welding instead of riveting 65% of the hull saved 500 LT.