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- adverb In a
riveting manner.
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Examples
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West End Blues, cut in 1928, opened with a rivetingly imaginative unaccompanied introduction that seemed like a fanfare to an entire new world.
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West End Blues, cut in 1928, opened with a rivetingly imaginative unaccompanied introduction that seemed like a fanfare to an entire new world.
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In his skilled hands, these two journeys are rivetingly told, in absorbing, meticulous detail.
James Swanson's "Bloody Crimes," reviewed by John Waugh John C. Waugh 2010
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Presumably the principle is that if someone can hit a white ball into a hole with an assortment of sticks carried around a field by a paid lackey, what he has to say about Christianity is bound to be rivetingly interesting.
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Presumably the principle is that if someone can hit a white ball into a hole with an assortment of sticks carried around a field by a paid lackey, what he has to say about Christianity is bound to be rivetingly interesting.
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In his skilled hands, these two journeys are rivetingly told, in absorbing, meticulous detail.
James Swanson's "Bloody Crimes," reviewed by John Waugh John C. Waugh 2010
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Hepburn is haughty and indomitable as an overprotective mother, while Taylor is rivetingly sensual even in apoplectic fits of distress-witness the climactic flashback scene.
John Farr: Elizabeth Taylor: Star John Farr 2011
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West End Blues, cut in 1928, opened with a rivetingly imaginative unaccompanied introduction that seemed like a fanfare to an entire new world.
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Hepburn is haughty and indomitable as an overprotective mother, while Taylor is rivetingly sensual even in apoplectic fits of distress-witness the climactic flashback scene.
John Farr: Elizabeth Taylor: Star John Farr 2011
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It also heightens O'Neill's Conradian awareness of the sea as a tragic force which shapes human destinies: something that becomes rivetingly clear at the climax and rescues it from sentimentality.
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