The details of how he came to settle in Washington are as arrestingly imprecise as the matter of his age. ❋ Manuel Roig-Franzia (2011)
There are far too few original stories and arrestingly portrayed characters around to justify losing interest in new ways of telling them and uncommon means of summoning them up. ❋ Unknown (2009)
“Although not overly handsome in a classical sense,” we read, “the forty-year-old Langdon had what his female colleagues referred to as an ‘erudite’ appeal — wisp of gray in his thick brown hair, probing blue eyes, an arrestingly deep voice, and the strong, carefree smile of a collegiate athlete.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
Ms. Diamond's perspective on black life in 21st-century America is arrestingly fresh, and I long to know what she'll try next. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)
It's the CONTENTS of the book that count , as if this is an arrestingly original idea? ❋ Unknown (2009)
"She" is the ancient city of Palmyra—one of the most arrestingly beautiful archaeological sites in the Middle East. ❋ Christian C. Sahner (2011)
Rickman's internal monologue is arrestingly rich – a waiter "slices into the infant conversation like a sweetly slung axe" – while also revealing him as a sad, stuffy, self-absorbed, lecherous old man, lost in a haze of bitter nostalgia and verbosity. ❋ Will Hodgkinson (2010)
Works like his Bone Chair, whose arrestingly organic form is taken from the mechanics of bone growth, have become iconic, placed in the permanent collections of major museums and the homes of high-profile collectors like fashion designer Reed Krakoff. ❋ Tom Vanderbilt (2011)
But Christopher Payne's new photography book, Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals, is an arrestingly beautiful look at facilities where generations of patients once lived, worked, and died. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A Night at the Chinese Opera (1987), Blond Eckbert (1994), Miss Fortune (2011)• Detlev Glanert (born Germany, 1960)Perhaps the most widely performed German opera composer since Henze, Glanert's dozen stage works to date show his ability to write music that is both dramatically effective and arrestingly immediate. ❋ Unknown (2011)
After two well-received novels, Meloy returns to the short story, the form in which she made her notable debut and to which her lucid style is arrestingly well suited. ❋ Unknown (2009)
RT @bnreviewer: @MaudNewton unearths an arrestingly nasty swipe from Ambrose Bierce. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Released last year, "For All We Know," by singer Jose James and Belgian pianist Jef Neve, caught everyone by surprise: an arrestingly sharp album by a remarkable singer that few in the American jazz community had heard of. ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)
If Louis Drouet's incessantly busy "God Save the King" Variations overstayed their welcome, a solo guitar fantasia by Russian romantic composer Vasily Sarenko proved arrestingly beautiful. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A few moments of faulty tuning and uneven articulation aside (not to be confused with the pungent harmonies and piquant effects written into this music), the ensemble's two instrumentalists -- medieval-harpist Constance Whiteside (the group's artistic director) and violinist Craig Resta, who played here on the arrestingly throaty precursor to the violin, the medieval vielle -- both did sterling and vividly atmospheric work. ❋ Unknown (2010)
If sugar was "literally polluted with slaves 'blood," as Ms. Abbott arrestingly puts it, the horrors of slavery also aroused humanitarians and jump-started the abolition movement in 18th-century England. ❋ Fergus M. Bordewich (2010)
