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"riveting" Definitions
  1. so interesting or exciting that it holds your attention completely

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Second, the uniquely askew relationships at the center of the story mean that its most riveting scenes are well and truly riveting; unforgettable, even.
On that score, they have produced the most thorough and riveting account so far — riveting, that is, as long as you don't mind falling into paroxysms of political outrage and dismay.
Candidate Trump was — let's all just admit it — riveting.
Here is everything to know about the riveting historical drama.
It's hot but I stay because the stories are riveting.
They're riveting even when they're not necessarily trying to be.
This is more riveting than some of the events. 2.
It may not be pretty, but it's riveting to watch.
The riveting, terrifying hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers. #BlackLivesMatter.
This is a "riveting literature worthy of the Pulitzer" situation.
HBO's riveting show Chernobyl has officially come to an end.
IT WAS one of Silicon Valley's most riveting success stories.
His show is first, which is riveting, with us after.
"Orfeo," in particular, was an organic, riveting piece of theatre.
Both films were riveting meditations on the experience of war.
"Jennifer Lopez is so riveting in this movie," she says.
The way an actor makes dialogue their own is riveting.
Claire Dane's version of "The Handmaid's Tale" is quite riveting.
While the pace was slow, the action was oddly riveting.
That's the dialogue that I enjoy from Tom Hanks. Riveting.
They gave out iPods loaded up with some riveting audiobooks.
In the riveting "Pitkin Grove," despair rips at the seams.
"Ghost Wall," Moss's sixth novel, is a compact, riveting book.
The music, though riveting, is all over the place harmonically.
It's as riveting as the book, and that's saying something.
This narrative, spread episodically throughout, is riveting and increasingly foreboding.
There's always a sense of narrative, and it's always riveting.
It is a riveting account of the dangers of football.
Mr. Hockney's new paintings are riveting in their spatial distortions.
Here, men are supporting players in the women's riveting saga.
We're honestly still putting the pieces together, but it's riveting.
Renaud Capuçon was a riveting soloist in Dvorak's Violin Concerto.
Our reviewer, Alyson Hagy, called it "a compact, riveting book."
It was riveting, and we loved every second of it.
"Permanent Record" is a riveting account and a curious artifact.
This leads to the most riveting scene of the night.
A full biography of him would make for riveting reading.
It's an intoxicating freedom, riveting, at once modern and ancient.
Either way, it's definitely riveting – and therefore, definitely good for publicity.
Now it appears the plot is set for a riveting climax.
And somehow, it is just as riveting as the Red Wedding.
Sometimes it's messy, and it's often weird, but it's always riveting.
With each swing, perhaps this Series really is becoming more riveting.
The tough thing about live video is it's not always riveting.
On its website, however, Sony boasts a record of riveting drama.
It's a riveting conversation, but alas, the family awaits my arrival.
Narcos: Mexico is just as riveting (and educational) as its predecessor.
This has been a riveting discussion, Nicole, I'm having you back.
"In the dailies, she was riveting," Lansing recalls in the book.
This would be riveting video that we could make millions from.
The best breakup scenes are entertaining, soul-wrenching, riveting, and cathartic.
Only in Siberia would funeral exhibitions be such riveting cultural powerhouses.
Some are creative, some are riveting, and others are plain hilarious.
These players normally promise riveting concert experiences: Challenging, sometimes; boring, never.
In rehearsal, the simplicity was, surprisingly, both riveting and deeply moving.
What makes him as riveting as Jessica Jones or Luke Cage?
It wasn't riveting TV. And the speech barely made a blip.
But just as riveting are the moments when she is silent.
Less than a mile away is the equally riveting Legacy Museum.
Though the tempo is almost lugubrious, the music-making is riveting.
Driver turns writing a 7,000-page report into utterly riveting stuff.
Their final scenes are at once riveting and hard to watch.
But if you're expecting some riveting details, don't hold your breath.
The animated tale is a riveting and emotional tour de force.
Once again, the program was captivating, and the performances were riveting.
For me, this mundane, yet oddly mysterious, domestic scene was riveting.
What could be more riveting than a stew of all that?
The clever framing and vivid colors make this a riveting watch.
And it's riveting to see how Nichols pictures it playing out.
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This new deleted scene is shorter, but equally as riveting and revealing.
Curling is not the most riveting sport in the world to watch.
The most riveting part of any on-screen relationship is the chase.
Their confrontations, when they come, are as riveting as they are horrible.
There is a riveting lack of history in The Childhood of Jesus.
The album moves quickly and sharply, keyed to a riveting electronic bounce.
And besides the reality of Wolf's courtroom is not nearly as riveting.
Hey friends, it's time for another riveting poll from President Trump's campaign.
This surveillance side of the story is not, unfortunately, all that riveting.
This is a YA novel meets The Revenant, and it's completely riveting.
Then, in one of the most riveting moments of the night, Anderson .
I cannot think of another book that makes scientific history more riveting.
This new deleted scene is shorter, but equally as riveting and revealing.
But Roberts, who holds this moment with riveting stillness, eventually just nods.
None of this is subtle, but it is fast-moving and riveting.
A riveting score from Nathan Tyler Johnson helps tie it all together.
It's the ordinariness—the familiarity—that makes Butler's work so wretchedly riveting.
O'Neill's second novel may be scary, but it is riveting and essential.
This is a riveting scene, one that's partly satisfying and partly deflating.
Hong Kong Ballet is an enigma, though not a particularly riveting one.
It's a riveting portrait of creativity blooming in the unlikeliest of places.
Next time you go vote, remember this riveting speech by Emma Gonzalez.
Who knew there was such riveting sociopolitical drama behind those velvet ropes?
Sure, it was not the most riveting conversation, but it was necessary.
The chief was shrewd and tough and his descent would be riveting.
Her inner monologue is more riveting than some of the novel's dialogue.
In this riveting literary-biographical study, the answer is a resounding no.
I just finished "Catch and Kill" by Ronan Farrow, which was riveting.
Yet her exposed voice is riveting, changing character from song to song.
The self-portraits are psychologically riveting, at times delusional or slightly mad.
I just finished 'An American Marriage' by Tayari Jones -- complicated and riveting.
What follows is a riveting diary of daily bird (and human) growth.
A riveting sequel to the drama "Advise and Consent" it was not.
Know My Name is Miller's heartbreaking and riveting attempt to fix that.
Gergel brings his riveting narrative to a climax with the Briggs v.
That's why he also posted a riveting photo of some cheese curds.
It's called "Formation," a really riveting black power anthem well worth your time.
Just watch the riveting play-by-play video below to see for yourself.
Anyway, Michael, this is riveting, and I'd love to talk more about it.
We spoke to star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau about the riveting fiery battle sequence.
That very much includes Moukarzel's quietly riveting Shakespeare, who appears in digital form.
But every phrase he sang was riveting, and the title fit the occasion.
Sartre, with that riveting certainty of his, thought death was an absurd conundrum.
But the process of T-Series' inevitable growth is not exactly riveting stuff.
A riveting race in Long Island has resulted in a victory for Republicans.
Here's the riveting tale, courtesy of CTV News:  People started sharing it immediately.
But for younger Americans, the Mueller story might not be quite as riveting.
Dead men tell tales in Charles Brandt's riveting insider account about organized crime.
But Ninja's performance on his own wasn't what made the event so riveting.
We have a -- is it immodest to say, a riveting show for you?
The matchup between two teams out of playoff contention included some riveting moments.
It's riveting, in a can't look away, can't keep looking, kind of way.
It is politics as riveting theater, the best history lesson you've ever attended.
Additionally, the other videos in this year's best rock category were all riveting.
"Watching them was like watching a horror movie, scary but riveting," she writes.
Here, the songs are more fragmented than ever: jagged, uneven, and totally riveting.
Their lives were riveting and their choices determined the fate of the world.
Yes, that human drama is riveting — but it doesn't address the larger problem.
It is a riveting recitation by both actors, whose deliveries are very different.
The channel is not just informative and thought-provoking but also aesthetically riveting.
Ms. Dhegrae sang with a riveting combination of dramatic volatility and cool command.
Whitaker opens with a riveting scene featuring the great heavyweight champion Joe Louis.
"Automating Inequality" is riveting (an accomplishment for a book on technology and policy).
For my money, it wasn't James Comey's Senate testimony, riveting as it was.
The result is riveting: a battle between stoicism and emotion, professionalism and sentiment.
It is a thoroughly reported and riveting account of Ronald Reagan's second term.
By all accounts, the film was riveting, moving, good, and all of that.
Some, like Zahn McClarnon's riveting performance as Akecheta, were a joy to watch.
The riveting transcript was later compiled into a book entitled A Rap on Race.
For many, Making a Murderer is a riveting series about the criminal justice system.
Despite a number of riveting works, it was unclear sometimes what was being articulated.
The Philharmonic performs Jonny Greenwood's riveting film score to the powerful, Oscar-nominated film.
The tale of the tape from this riveting day in D.C.: 9:26 a.
They're clearly having a blast depicting these garbage people and it's riveting to watch.
As constructed, both series are mildly watchable and tense, but well short of riveting.
If you've already seen it, you likely feel the same way: It is riveting.
Donald Trump's tax bill speech Wednesday in St. Charles, Missouri, wasn't exactly riveting television.
But on Korn's debut, with Davis' elastic vocals leading the way, it was riveting.
But 60 Days In has a more noble goal than just making riveting television.
" Co-judge and Medill professor Donna Leff said the coverage was "riveting and horrifying.
While the content of the Constitution may not feel as riveting, it's worth it.
By turns sexy, fierce, bewildering and riveting, "Flyness" sends two indelible messages to audiences.
"Riveting" and "anti-piracy campaign" are words you'll never spot in a sentence together.
Every violent outburst is soon followed by riveting sex and some gesture of kindness.
At present, it's probably not the most riveting night of fights you will watch.
How could they have saved the top five's (mostly) riveting sob stories until tonight?
The bullying theater was riveting but, as always with Holbrooke, spectacle was also purpose.
This book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down.
So riveting were these moments that I sometimes wished to prolong my hospital stay.
The ensemble's second album, the equally riveting "Dancer in Nowhere," is due in February.
And Naomi Osaka, above, bested Petra Kvitova in a riveting women's final on Saturday.
This author's fantastic dreams put mine to shame, and make this sad story riveting.
Alim Qasimov, who interprets Majnun, is a silver-voiced powerhouse and a riveting performer.
Both were riveting but interfered with what had, until then, been blissfully untroubled sleep.
"We are going to love him," Denise Prater tells AL.com in a riveting interview.
A clandestine operation which made for a riveting tale that's pretty easy to comprehend.
It was strange to watch such riveting drama in the middle of the night.
"Emergency" is a riveting word, and it provided the urgency that Boeing had lacked.
I couldn't tell if the song was good or bad, but it was riveting.
Her reminiscences about her time defending poor, defenseless clients in Los Angeles are riveting.
I could list 10 things that might occur next week, many of them riveting.
I always found his wines to strike a riveting balance between liquid and lightning.
"Deeply researched, Chang's book is a riveting read," Jiayang Fan writes in her review.
The more conventional mother-son fight in the third was as riveting as ever.
The album barely clicks — but it does, and the quavery chaos throughout is riveting.
Her scenes mix the magical and the mundane is ways that are just riveting.
But the exchanges between Mr. Morales and Mr. Robinson provided the day's most riveting testimony.
In one riveting post, Marbles discusses the dangers of E. coli and Taco Bell. 10.
But the most riveting story of the episode, and of the season overall, is Celeste's.
That's what made her portrayal by Sarah Paulson in this FX limited series so riveting.
It turns to an entirely new narrative, one that's equally important if not equally riveting.
Your Ghosting insider reporting is riveting and beautifully penned; I could quote half the thing.
Despite all of that riveting TV, no one in the United Kingdom knows about Johnson.
This riveting story explores how he remade his life — and found peace — by building boats.
With its short chapters, unsettling prose and riveting suspense, it feels designed for binge-reading.
She's telling us a story, crafting the murder from square one, and it's riveting work.
They know his aw-shucks rectitude, combined with real-time written recollections, guarantee riveting testimony.
It's bombshells like this which make "The Lost Weekend" one of Riverdale's most riveting episodes.
We're not trying to be mean either but your movies weren't exactly riveting theater Kirstie.
Even sending a single emoji, while still not super-riveting, feels a bit more personalized.
And while the fact of Mueller's appearance will itself be riveting, his testimony may not.
And he single-handedly turns the formulaic biopic Bohemian Rhapsody into a riveting character piece.
Either way, he drew riveting performances from his inspired orchestra, lushly rich yet uncannily transparent.
Brexit is not the most riveting, or easily graspable, recent meltdown in a Western democracy.
Ian McGuire's riveting and darkly brilliant novel "The North Water" also dramatizes a disgraced personality.
If it's riveting television, moving the story forward in that sense, then it's worth it.
The spread-open double pages of Manual of Instructions are riveting and full of trepidation.
Environments will become more expansive as plots become more riveting and characters become more vibrant.
Everything coalesces into a riveting reunion guaranteed to soundtrack the resistance for years to come.
He is thus dropped into an action movie whose disasters are riveting fun to read.
I found myself tearing into the riveting tale for the better part of the vacation.
In crafting this deeply reported and riveting read, Ms. Goldstein spent considerable time in Janesville.
Huang is attuned to the ironies of their story in his incisive and riveting account.
His alarming, riveting exposé portrays a multibillion industry plagued by violence, corruption, deprivation and incompetence.
By the end of this riveting, tragic tale, it's hard not to share the sentiment.
But, he even did it on Christmas this past year amid a riveting impeachment announcement.
Ms. Karneus, singing both with aching lyricism and silvery-edged intensity, gave a riveting performance.
Instead of a new glimpse of hell, it's a riveting and deeply satisfying escapist fantasy.
His relationships were riveting, his parental dynamics fascinating and eye-opening, and his aura intoxicating.
Any of these scenarios could make the State of the Union a more riveting affair.
As riveting as it sounds, this isn't a new Quentin Tarantino film about sales taxes.
And in fairness to that cast, the central mystery can be quite riveting at times.
There is a riveting dissolution of the dance's legibility as dance with each intensifying gesture.
Mr. Altstaedt, with his penetrating sound, and the articulate Mr. Lonquich made this mercurial Prologue riveting.
Witherspoon turned the riveting novel into a box-office hit with her production company, Pacific Standard.
That show proved even the most boring subject matter could be riveting with the right approach.
I do think Phoenix gives a riveting performance as someone trapped in this web of uncertainty.
Yes. Or so we can all hope for the least riveting court case of the century.
And besides that: the show was absolutely riveting, and became the #1 rated unscripted cable show.
"Metalhead" is Black Mirror meets thriller meets black-and-white arthouse cinema, and it's downright riveting.
It's not as riveting as the court, but cool nonetheless, especially when it replays and reverses.
But, production company Riveting Entertainment promised in its Vimeo trailer that details will be announced "soon."
"I promise you it's not riveting," Marquez-Greene wrote in a tweet retweeted by Chelsea Clinton.
The scenes at sea are riveting and punishing, with the CGI storm providing a convincing chill.
Not exactly riveting programming (though, given the charisma of the Obamas, it certainly wouldn't be unwatchable).
"The Wake," Paul Kingsnorth The tale behind this book is as riveting as the book itself.
Erika knows she'll need a riveting story, and Ashley (Lexi Lapp), a college sophomore, has one.
The result is a riveting visual history lesson, whose occasional didacticism is integral to its power.
It was reading a riveting Budget and Economic Outlook report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
In his riveting account of the Patty Hearst affair, even the S.L.A. is shown some compassion.
But the moss had a riveting tale to tell, with shock waves that are still spreading.
But when I got there, the paintings — not all, but more than I expected — were riveting.
The crowd literally turned around and went back into the room to see this riveting performer.
It was riveting — the care he took was clearly apparent — and nauseating at the same time.
The day's testimony had consisted largely of a detective's riveting account of disarming a second bomb.
He's a master at making seemingly boring topics — baseball statistics, government bureaucrats, collateralized debt obligations — riveting.
Set almost exclusively in Louis' bedchamber, the film is both boring and riveting, grand and minimal.
The majority of currently contactable "AI" are not the type to go to for riveting conversation.
What makes this not only possible, but also riveting and unforgettable, is Kavan's meticulous, compacted style.
This tactic of corporeal protest, with its elements of immediacy and vulnerability, is riveting and consequential.
But there were plenty of riveting scenes, including several clearly spontaneous moments that heightened the drama.
In other words, this is a story about compromises — and a riveting, unsettling one at that.
In November, an improbably riveting trial began in a courtroom in Foley Square in Lower Manhattan.
It was kind of riveting TV for a couple minutes — two guys yelling at each other.
Bombayites never imagined that Mr. Thackeray's riveting speeches could lead to dead bodies on the streets.
I won't embed "This is America" because it's quite violent but it's riveting, dense social commentary.
She is riveting as Un/Sung, who becomes the motherly protector of this hurting teenage family.
The riveting testimony further tied Trump to the effort to squeeze Zelensky and hurt Biden's campaign.
Whatever its metaphoric resonances, the concerto kept me hooked, and Mr. Kavakos gave a riveting performance.
Roger Federer defeated his longtime rival Rafael Nadal in a riveting comeback after a knee injury.
But as a portrait of power and the way it's constrained by gender, it is riveting.
The flying, of course, is the most glamorous part, and Mr. Illes is a riveting aerialist.
That López and Reygadas are married in real life gives the film a riveting voyeuristic tension.
That makes the novel a refreshing epic and, too, a subtle and riveting slice of multiculturalism.
The most riveting of the eight scenes in the monologue centered on the "Suicide Mountain" of Salzburg.
One producer, Tim Howard, came back with a riveting story about a custody battle, Adoptive Couple v.
Emotionally, these sensitive phantasmagorical drawings are riveting because they are fierce and fragile, powerful and precisely delicate.
It is at once baffling and riveting, with two gargantuan outer movements surrounding a shorter middle one.
IF BRAZILIAN politics were a telenovela, the general election in October would make for a riveting finale.
The program's most riveting presence, and the only major character across all the episodes, is Andrew Cunanan.
This week in books at Vox, we reviewed Colson Whitehead's spare, riveting, horrifying new novel Nickel Boys.
And Dorothea, by contrast — in a riveting performance by Bening — seems more innocent than she actually is.
It's even more impressive that he was able to realize them in such a riveting way, visually.
TechCrunch's editors will have a busy day with more than 20 riveting sessions — including Marc Raibert 2.
It's sure to be a riveting discussion and we are very excited to have her with us.
"I needed to be with my kids," she said simply in her riveting, award-worthy closing monologue.
In Mahajan's riveting and intricate story, the aftershocks of small bombs are as inescapable as their explosions.
Generally speaking, a Twitch stream is not riveting entertainment—or even, to the uninitiated, all that comprehensible.
I'd like to make you aware of a few tiny errors in my daughter Joanie's riveting memoir.
How she — and he — rebuild their lives, together and apart, is what makes "Love Warrior" so riveting.
He said that "City of God," the great and riveting Brazilian film on favelas, was his favorite.
For those who have followed the intrigue of recent campaign cycles, it is riveting for another reason.
Watching live footage of birds in their habitat can be both riveting and a test of patience.
We can't promise it will be as riveting as Crazy Eyes' Time Hump Chronicles, but here's hoping.
"I just remember being in my kitchen and reading this incredible, riveting piece of work," Shulz said.
These riveting cameos mostly consist of three lines from a teleprompter and the opening of an envelope.
Alone, images of the tire graveyards are riveting photojournalism, and frequently gain attention all over the internet.
It's consistently riveting, and I think it tells us something about media as well as about motherhood.
Our Tokyo bureau chief, Motoko Rich, tells us in riveting detail how we got to this moment.
His interviews with an ethnographer were adapted into a riveting account of his life, published in 1966.
He also produced a riveting photograph of Ma Desheng, calling for artistic freedom, which is utterly iconic.
Moss, a riveting screen presence, answered every call the character made of her in the first season.
This equally haunting article on Nazi atrocities in Lithuania and the bravery of the victims is riveting.
" Our reviewer, Liza Featherstone, called the book "riveting (an accomplishment for a book on technology and policy).
"The idea of healer-killer, which is quite often in my inner jumble, was riveting," O'Brien said.
He said Franklin's voice was so riveting that she would sometimes knock her band off the beat.
Part mystery and part (riveting) history lesson, this deeply reported book reads like an expertly plotted novel.
"Oryx and Crake" presents a riveting portrait of the future — but it also warns us about today.
Cuba Then is full of such noteworthy juxtapositions — some of them socio-historically riveting, others doubly felicitous.
They were all around this idea of matching and I was like riveted to this idea. Riveting.
That moment made for riveting television, and it capped off a mostly entertaining, if staid, Oscar ceremony.
Like, for example, the riveting performance in both Clueless and Failure to Launch — you know, the real classics.
Bad Blood is a riveting, fast-paced book that unpacks, in meticulous detail, the scam of a century.
Its stories of women navigating men's spaces and womanhood as a kind of performance make for riveting television.
Mr. Crousillat, Jamie Scott and Mr. Shugg are particularly riveting, but all seven dancers — each clearly individual — excel.
They ended their remarks, saying, "all women are superheroes" — a sentiment embodied by Noone's riveting performance soon after.
By collapsing the past and the present in this way, Mr Petzold has made an urgent, riveting film.
If so, we have just the one for you: a riveting squabble between Justin Bieber and JoJo Siwa.
MARTHA MACCALLUM, FOX NEWS HOST: Absolutely riveting to watch this, this morning at a New York City courthouse.
The result is a moving, riveting movie that highlights the power of sisterhood, both on and off screen.
Every moment suggests that Dua Lipa is riveting and you should not take your eyes off of her.
Yet Mr Rockwell, never afraid of being unlikeable, fails to hit a false note and is riveting throughout.
The result is a riveting book about a man who nurtured a vastly ambitious project through extraordinary times.
But testimony from others has been at turns emotional and straightforward; furious and calm; and riveting and tedious.
If my answer wasn't riveting or controversial, I was brushed off and it was on to the next.
These are the seven most important moments that summarize the most riveting and consequential congressional hearing in years.
Although this movie is fun, the subtraction of rivalry makes for a movie that is inevitably less riveting.
And by drawing on hitherto unpublished documentary sources he provides a riveting chronicle of the composer's tangled relationships.
American Factory, the first film from the Obamas' production company Higher Ground, is a riveting inquiry into globalization.
Coates' riveting "Between the World and Me" captured the national zeitgeist in the age of Black Lives Matter.
I want her remembered always, and I think that her body of work shows how riveting she was.
"Bernie stood with American workers," the narrator continues, as an automotive worker is shown riveting a car door.
When Mars faces off with Jupiter on Sunday at 5:57 PM, it's a riveting tête-à-tête.
Bob Dylan told a riveting tale about his boyhood in a carnival, not a word of it true.
"This is a story about compromises — and a riveting, unsettling one at that," our critic Jennifer Szalai writes.
These ordinary cruelties might not make for riveting journalism, but they make for a rich and revealing memoir.
Not just for us but also for its author, Maddie Corman, giving a riveting performance, mostly as herself.
I also stumbled on this riveting minor key version of YMCA, which could definitely be in a movie.
We're each coming with our favorite beverage and our picks for the most riveting streaming shows on Netflix.
They were assigned to the machine shop, where their duties included drilling, patching airplane wings and, fittingly, riveting.
Although that was more to do with his storied history as a cartoon rather than his riveting conversation.
Maybe because he made "The Godfather" so riveting I figure he could do the same with my life.
In this documentary, Darrell Hammond, a former stalwart of "Saturday Night Live," emerges as a riveting, eccentric character.
What makes it riveting anyway is its eagerness to admit, and to subtly criticize by juxtaposition, all arguments.
By the time the riveting 27-minute story ran, Wang's grandmother had long outlived her three-month prognosis.
The amalgam of ballerina finesse and daft diva antics is brilliant, unsettling, riveting — the epitome of Trocks style.
The sentences are flawless, the story (of two orphaned Australian sisters making their way in the world) riveting.
It also gave the crowd a moment to take stock of a riveting game, with the then-No.
It's so spicy, so riveting, so empathetic and devoted, so alive in the world as it actually is.
And as the beleaguered, unwittingly self-sabotaging Winner, Emily Davis gave one of the season's most riveting performances.
As aluminum can be difficult to weld, carmakers have turned to alternatives including adhesives and self-pierce riveting.
The combination of events and Jeminson's excellent storytelling create a riveting tale that won the 2016 Hugo Award.
The premise of "Russian Doll" should be exhausting and tedious; instead, the show is funny, riveting and uplifting.
"She Said" is riveting and, crafted by two of the country's most talented journalists, a vibrant, cinematic read.
Quietly and studiously, Mr. Mitchell has established himself as one of New York's most riveting and freethinking pianists.
It's so spicy, so riveting, so empathetic and devoted, so alive in the world as it actually is.
Antic, profane and riveting, these mural-like scenes replayed history as farce and masqueraded tragedy as depraved comedy.
The riveting, desperate search involved hundreds of people from some 20 government agencies and half a dozen nations.
His most riveting testimony was about being a police officer who did not want an investigation to disappear.
The speech's most riveting segment comes when Clinton tries to address the apparent clash between idealism and reality.
People around the country awaited riveting testimony, some going so far as to join "watch parties" in bars.
Thomson has a resonant voice and is a riveting dancer, very smart about using timing to hold tension.
I've see Mark's 9,000-word essay on this issue but ... I stayed up all night reading it. Riveting.
These led to Fischli and Weiss's masterpiece, their riveting, justly famous 30-minute film "The Way Things Go" (1987).
Here's proof: On Jimmy Kimmel Live, he narrated the actions of random Hollywood Boulevard pedestrian, and it was riveting.
"The network is huge," says designer Kim Albrecht, whose riveting data visualization Trump Connections attempts to untangle it all.
A riveting timelapse posted on Sunday shows the Whittier Fire roaring across the Santa Ynes mountains in Southern California.
Much of the captioning process will be straightforward, capturing the dialogue of the assuredly riveting plot unfolding on screen.
These days, the political scandal riveting Brazilians is as intriguing as any Latin soap opera they've ever obsessed over.
If you want to read Scaachi's riveting tale of the Rebel Conference, text JoJo the word "REBEL" right now.
Maureen Dowd WASHINGTON — IT'S hard to say which of the three monomaniacal, monumentally grueling quests is the most riveting.
Alex Garland, who wrote and directed the riveting, wildly original Ex Machina in 211, has directed and adapted Annihilation.
In "Educated", her riveting memoir, Ms Westover brings readers deep into this world, a milieu usually hidden from outsiders.
Anshel Pfeffer's riveting and passionately critical biography portrays him as a clone of Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
THEY evoke metal gorillas in a cavernous, floodlit hall: 640 robots with riveting guns and arms for handling parts.
Those expecting a riveting treatment of one of the most historic moments of the 21st century may be disappointed.
He and Cooper shared riveting screen time together in the underrated 2012 crime drama The Place Beyond the Pines.
The question of how far Trump could be trusted were central to a riveting day of political drama Tuesday.
" In response, they tweeted: "We're not trying to be mean either but your movies weren't exactly riveting theater Kirstie.
It was raw and riveting and beyond any television CNN or its competitors have produced in a long time.
It's not the most riveting documentary by the legendary Maysles Brothers (that would be Gimme Shelter, also on FilmStruck).
A riveting and adorable story of disappearing snacks, The Purfect Patsy won the coveted Golden Litter Scoop and $25,000. 
This is rare: People close to Trump don't talk much about 28500G policy publicly (as riveting as it is).
As Christoph von Dohnányi showed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Lutoslawski concerto can prove riveting in its every gesture.
Peck shows how riveting Baldwin's writing is, like his speaking voice, "tough, dark, vulnerable, moody," how inspired his ear.
In some ways, riveting is about as old-fashioned a method of union as it is possible to imagine.
While the tour can be taken online, it is incomparable to the disorientating and morbidly riveting virtual reality experience.
But perhaps no one on earth cares less about football than I do, and I still found it riveting.
The books are riveting, but their core message is that corrupt, evil elites have gone to war against Christians.
There's something riveting about such graceful, controlled calm, even as he laments, on "Pais Nublado," darkness in the distance.
Their conversation, circling around eventually to the issue of the breakup, doesn't rise to the level of riveting, either.
Former FBI Director James Comey's testimony on Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee promises to be riveting political theatre.
During the 100-meter butterfly final on August 16, 203, Phelps came from behind and produced a riveting finish.
"Both the art and life of Bernard Buffet are riveting and controversial," a spokesperson from Opera Gallery told Creators.
"Muted" may be the quietest piece ever written for violin, but it was riveting in this intimately powerful performance.
The Warriors are the foremost practitioners of America's beautiful game, and when they are engaged their improvisation is riveting.
It's another riveting season of crusty, dusty, caked-up disasters with burnt edges and too-raw-to-eat insides.
This 10-part documentary about a high school just outside Chicago is riveting and poignant and frustrating and intimate.
These scenes are some of Seberg's most riveting, as Stewart trades Jean's low-key melancholy for high-key panic.
Before my freshman year in high school in 2010, I had no idea how riveting women's sports could be.
His findings make for a riveting, if ultimately dismaying, read, underscoring the profound inequities built into our education system.
Jazz Quietly and studiously, Mr. Mitchell has established himself as one of New York's most riveting and freethinking pianists.
One riveting example is New York's districts, which have experienced as many as 13 vacancies in fifty-two seats.
The book is "a riveting account and a curious artifact" from the former intelligence contractor, our nonfiction critic found.
In a riveting and colorful interview, Jordan "The Wolf of Wall Street" Belfort compares bitcoin to his own scams.
Here, a look back at some of the critical junctures in the volatile yet riveting trajectory of Mr. Hirst.
Were any of these real-life gangs the subject of a riveting revenge-plot by a member's scorned sister?
The opening scene is a deliberately moralistic prelude that soon opens into a riveting, thought-provoking piece of theater.
MELBOURNE, Australia — In a riveting Australian Open women's final on Saturday, Petra Kvitova tried unsuccessfully to shake Naomi Osaka.
What emerges is a riveting picture, gorgeously rendered, of the stubborn, argumentative miracle of Jewish survival against the odds.
This is well-paced narrative history: intelligent, lucid, riveting — even while possessing the terrible knowledge of what happened next.
Nevertheless, the details of Mr Xiao's case, riveting though they are, are unlikely to have much impact on the market.
The real-life story is darkly riveting and McCarthy said she jumped at the chance to take on the role.
But it is those moments in "Tales of Wonder" when Smith doesn't have the answers that are the most riveting.
Watching 11-year-olds build their own versions of Subway Surfers using the iPad and Hopscotch was a riveting experience.
They are raising the profile of America's female small business owners and, at the same time, making for riveting television.
While the acting and story in itself is riveting and heartbreaking, the dialogue can sometimes be too on-the-nose.
Roger Federer played 29-year-old John Millman in a riveting fourth round match at the US Open Monday night.
Chazelle burst on the scene in 2014 with the riveting Whiplash, which scored Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture nods.
While the most riveting aspect of the night was, of course, that powerful speech, her outfit was also quite significant.
The knowledge of the events that would transpire on September 220, 21, hang over each scene in the riveting show.
Narcos: Mexico, the riveting spin-off of Narcos that landed on Netflix on November 16, begins with some ominous words.
What's the message of Light as a Feather, a riveting Hulu Original that drops in its entirety on October 12?
Let's let Margaret Atwood, in her introduction to Alias Grace, describe just how riveting nineteenth-century Canadians found this murder.
Her obsession with the child is both inappropriate and riveting; it's hard to tear your eyes away from the trailer.
"The Father Problem" spends a riveting hour with Charlie, a young boy who discovers a sinister secret threatening his family.
Find a comfy seat and grab the popcorn, there's a riveting Facebook Live on the Hillary Clinton Facebook page Tuesday.
That sense of humor amidst a soundscape built to induce discomfort is precisely why In Fabric remains so riveting throughout.
Monday evening gave the internet its latest installment in the Cardi B and Nicki Minaj feud, and it was riveting.
Dean had a near-photographic memory that enabled him to provide riveting detail — and Dean didn't look like a thug.
Fear not, the story breaks down the technical concepts in an understandable way and has a riveting narrative to boot.
It was a colorful detail in a case that was as riveting for fans and commentators as a playoff series.
" Those were the words of William Roper in one of the most riveting scenes from "A Man For All Seasons.
The spectacle is riveting: The gargantuan toys, executed in scary detail, do particular tribute to the Paris Opera's design workshops.
What's so riveting is that it is real life, in the sense that these kinds of things really did happen.
The potential for career implosion made Rosie's statements riveting, but viewers also rarely saw a celebrity giving her honest opinion.
It includes 14 elaborate fugues, about an hour's worth of the most riveting, complex and astonishing contrapuntal music ever written.
Whelan's misgivings and fears about the future make for a riveting film, of interest to audiences far beyond dance nerds.
An action as simple as walking becomes riveting through the illusion of a floating torso supported by weighted, wooden legs.
It's grim stuff, but riveting and necessary for challenging viewers' naive faith in the power of violence all the same.
This riveting film is at once a personal story, a journalistic thriller and an essay on the nature of paranoia.
And like Trecartin's work, Bernstein unfolds bizarre scenes whose meanings aren't always clear but remain riveting from their hyperactive spirit.
And so merely to hear a sane, caring, scientific response to the virus from other leaders is riveting and reorienting.
Jeffrey Toobin was also on the show, to discuss "American Heiress," his book about the riveting case of Patty Hearst.
But all three are riveting, restlessly searching out new shapes to confront their author's ongoing subject of absolute existential doubt.
Not to diminish Mr. Bensinger's achievement in producing such a riveting book, but the story had certain built-in advantages.
But it takes a third character — Cromer's staging, a living presence in itself — to make "The Sound Inside" so riveting.
It was topped with the chameleonic vocals of Mathias Muzaza, who moved from a smooth croon to rasping, riveting incantations.
And Ms. Oropesa is following Aleksandra Kurzak's riveting account at the Met last month, when Michael Mayer's 2018 production returned.
She was riveting — a young woman tortured with indecision — as she went off with Hades then tumbled into the underworld.
The series is a riveting and devastating exploration into the crimes, which remain unsolved, and the people affected by them.
The Tenet-Sebastians production was a riveting example, easily the most compelling of the recent spate of New York performances.
Okay. Okay. Riveting. Hmm. The Democrats at least are pooling their questions to make sure there's not too much overlap.
It's still a solid thriller with some nifty effects, a bunch of well-earned scares, and a riveting lead performance.
"Self-Portrait" (1558), on loan from the Colonna Gallery in Rome, is just 163 by 8 inches and quietly riveting.
The sneaky thing about this riveting re-enactment, though, is that in watching it, we citizens are on trial, too.
Remember how riveting it was to watch Bran hang out in a tree for pretty much all of Season 6?
It's not exactly riveting, and finding the motivation to get up and burn some calories outside of the 9-5.
It's a riveting investigative narrative and, perhaps more significantly, a powerful study of how victims are mistreated, misunderstood and worse.
Henry and Watson took turns throwing haymakers in a riveting first half, which ended with the teams tied at 29.
Real life is happening, as boring and confusing and riveting as it usually appears without the magnifying lens of hindsight.
The final sequence at the nuclear test is riveting and neatly caps off the storylines of the series' 23 episodes.
The falcon, which is made of cast polymer gypsum and fiberglass, with additional metal, foam, and metal leaf, is riveting.
To have to cautiously pick around the environment, avoiding the attentions of the terrorists, would have been a riveting experience.
N: My wish is to present a Singapore that is riveting and exotic to both locals and the wider world.
The whole AI silicon spaces, I think one really interesting one worth watching that may yield one of the few examples we'll be able to point to is kind of an AI company, as opposed to a company that uses AI. KS: Yeah, that's riveting, that's actually the most riveting thing you've said so far.
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Your personal experiences with some of these artists are riveting, but I found your approach much broader than the title suggests.
In case you missed it, Ellen played Juror 1 in the riveting scene where O.J.'s verdict is announced in court.
Such transgressive blurring of the borders between the public and private, sayable and unsayable, can be both life-affirming and riveting.
It is both aesthetically daring and narratively riveting, and the film maintains this feeling for the nearly three hours that follow.
Dave Mosher has all the details in a riveting read, the first in a series, called The Last Town Before Mars.
On the heels of a riveting NBA Finals game, CNBC's Jim Cramer thinks it may be time for Nike to score.
Co-executive producer Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story) knows how to extract all the pulp and juice from this riveting saga.
Recently in a conversation, the length of term sheets came as a topic (I assure you, it was a riveting conversation).
The story was so riveting, that Groupon actually hired Haddish to be their spokesperson for a series of Super Bowl ads.
Chloe x Halle just gave an emotional and riveting performance of "America, The Beautiful" ahead of the Super Bowl LIII kickoff.
Such is certainly the case with All American, a riveting new CW drama that premieres this evening at 9/8 central.
The riveting (and comical) string of Snaps followed the DJ as he rode around on the water in search of land.
But on screen, it's a curiosity — a film with several riveting sequences (including, again, the opening credits) but a hollow core.
Talk about the media because you ... the back and forth and you and him is just riveting, but it's also disturbing.
As we told you last December, she takes riveting photographs that bring the savagery of the front lines into your home.
Descriptors like "brilliant" and "riveting" come to mind while watching The Keepers, but it feels somewhat callous to use either word.
Like a sea of fog that slowly retreats as the sun rises, its disappearance has revealed vistas both riveting and terrifying.
Take for example, the riveting trailer for Tom Rob Smith's The Farm, or the hilarious trailer for Gary Shteyngart's Little Failure.
Ms. Washington, 57, provided some of the trial's most riveting testimony as she recounted the day she was attacked in 1988.
But with his riveting, deeply conflicted portrayal of prosecutor Christopher Darden, the actor's ensured that the audience certainly won't forget it.
The bottom of the Eastern Conference is trash, the middle is devoted to mediocrity, and the top is riveting yet flawed.
Our brains are naturally wired to hook onto compelling stories, and tales of exponential growth and industry transforming outcomes are riveting.
A laconic though riveting musical storyteller, Mr. Clark was adept at getting at the heart of an experience or an event.
"Eye in the Sky" features a riveting final screen performance from Alan Rickman, as a military officer pondering a drone strike.
Sports relegated to the triple-digit channels in the United States will be riveting South Koreans over the next two weeks.
An obsessive sort, he recently watched Afghanistan play Bangladesh in the early morning, in what he said was a riveting match.
In each chapter, Dickey spins riveting tales and then carefully unwinds these narratives, exposing the materials and motivations of their construction.
The cars cannot finish the race on one battery, and charging them midrace would be less than riveting for the spectators.
Like Tolstoy in his journals, Alfred Kazin transmuted bewilderment and disgust at his own worldly success into a riveting religious quest.
Kuka's Systems Aerospace business focuses on tooling and the automation of assembly processes such as drilling and riveting for aircraft manufacturing.
The riveting fighthe would analyze two nights later in Brooklyn between Jarrett Hurd and Austin Trout would only burnish that proclamation.
The riveting black-and-white video — and the first stand-alone clip from Lemonade stars the singer's good friend Serena Williams.
The Pesvebi Georgian Dancers, an impressive Brooklyn-based ensemble of acrobatic men and twirling women, were riveting during these animated episodes.
Now you'll have to find something more riveting on vacation than sitting in a van very slowly passing by a house.
The indispensable Longreads alerted me to this riveting story of fisheries crime on the high seas, by Sarah Tory in Hakai.
I started my career as a banking lawyer a hundred years ago, and people, they ... That must have been riveting. Yeah.
To that end, any serious challenger has to figure out how to tell his or her story in a riveting way.
Most of the episode was dedicated to Lyle's and Erik's testimony on the stand about the abuse, and it was riveting.
A crackling drama on the high seas leading up to a riveting courtroom scene, it introduced readers to the unforgettable Capt.
He can be an ornery cuss, fighting to do things as he wants, or a generous teammate and a riveting raconteur.
But this battle played to a strength of "Discovery": Olatunde Osunsanmi, who directed the episode, knows how to create riveting tension.
Perhaps more important for Serena, portrayed with riveting complexity by Yvonne Strahovski, that subjugation also gave her a chance at motherhood.
Most readers will never know, though this riveting book will make many feel as if they've had a taste of it.
The collapse at the private Enrique Rébsamen school quickly became the most riveting emblem of the loss caused by the Sept.
It makes for riveting television only rivaled by the signature pettiness of Bravo's Real Housewives, but it has been utterly exhausting.
Lady Hale, the first woman to sit on the British Supreme Court, brought down the hammer in calm, clipped, riveting tones.
All that is to say nothing of the ubiquitous Carmen Dell'Orefice and Iris Apfel, each riveting in a multitude of campaigns.
I, your faithful nerd, will be watching every minute and will have all the riveting, I guess, details for you tomorrow.
Ending one of the final episodes of a riveting techno-thriller on that note of powerlessness is a bold choice indeed.
More than he-said, she-said Frida Ghitis saw a dire signal from Republicans after Christine Blasey Ford's riveting, credible testimony.
And it makes this season all the more riveting to watch Elliot go about trying to fix the world he's broken.
As two of the more decorated strikers in women's MMA, this one looked like it could be a pretty riveting fight.
Sometimes really excellent artworks can be riveting and dynamic while offering profound and meaningful sustenance; this is one of those times.
Apple's comment: "Leadership, fitness, military history — retired Navy SEAL Jocko and his guests turn any topic into a riveting life lesson."
Here are the good, bad, and weird qualities that make for an intriguing, but slightly less riveting, second season of Luke Cage.
A new indie videogame studio, Campo Santo, has made fire-watching the premise of its debut title, Firewatch—and it looks riveting.
Three generations of women from a conservative Arab family living in America are at the core of Etaf Rum's riveting debut novel.
Its themes of strength and speaking up, and the riveting performance in a clip on Facebook, have drawn quite an audience online.
While this riveting scene fits the context of The Handmaid's Tale perfectly, ear injuries are a surprisingly common motif in pop culture.
Game Seven achieved a massive 27.0 Nielsen rating, easily outpacing the equally riveting Game Seven of this year's National Basketball Association finals.
Katrina is poised to be a riveting and devastating story of triage, of climate change, of natural disaster, of morally ambiguous decisions.
The most riveting part of the story is when I interview Suspect No. 1 about the suspicions that have circled around him.
The riveting, 10-minute portion of the debate signaled the singular importance that racial justice struggles now occupy in American political discourse.
Yet the results were singular and riveting, works that could show you more of the world at once than any normal movie.
Still, it was riveting television, if only because it illustrated, much better than any criticism could, how incredibly weak Trump's position is.
In addition to being a riveting drama, the BBC show is essential viewing for its highlighting of a terrible moment in history.
There are moments so completely riveting that you just wish the series would just focus on those elements (why not more dragons?).
That's what art is supposed to do -- and Muhammad Ali was his own masterwork, his shadows and light in perpetual, riveting combat.
Recommendations this week: Arielle recommends this riveting New York Times interactive on how to survive in Venezuela when your money is worthless.
It's no War and Peace, but this video is riveting in a similar way, and certainly requires less of a time commitment.
It's riveting and immersive, and if it doesn't make you want to drop everything and see the film, you're doing something wrong.
But as you can see in New York Resized, the effect can be riveting in the right place at the right time.
It's her comments about her relationship with the media and her approach to fame, however, that prove to be the most riveting.
For his part, Kelly was impressed with the technology, even if his response sounds about as riveting as watching his Skype chat.
Now he's written another big book, "The Fireman," that reaffirms his gifts for riveting attention and pushing genre conventions to new extremes.
It was riveting to watch them in action, something those who listen to their vivid recording will likely have no trouble imagining.
His monologue is at once rambling and riveting, his words backed by music that blurs distinctions between jazz and contemporary classical styles.
You don't have to remember the gutter headlines inspired by its namesake to find the true-crime documentary "Amanda Knox" completely riveting.
Lamar also won widespread praise for a riveting Grammys performance during which he approached the microphone with his hands bound in chains.
This unusual rebirth makes for a riveting inquiry into globalization — not just for these workers in Ohio, but across all American life.
Let's hear from Mr. Haight: A bunch of ESTEE phrases — 111 letters of interlocking theme material but not the most riveting theme.
Serena Altschul earned a spot on the MTV VJs favorites list for the riveting interviews and reporting she brought to the network.
Márquez-Greene scolded Kelly after the host said the exchange with Jones was "riveting" in a tweet to her 85033 million followers.
Then again, this was a vice-presidential debate, and hardly a riveting one, so you have to wonder how far it goes.
From there, the scene dissolves into a riveting display of dance and motion depicting the anguish endured by survivors of sexual assault.
Fair warning: Most of the footage will be less than riveting, unless you really enjoy seeing an eagle periodically move its neck.
Our critic calls "Eye in the Sky" a riveting thriller — and often a grim, suspenseful farce — about drone warfare and its perils.
Specifically, the Trump-Kim summit competed for attention with Wednesday's riveting testimony on Capitol Hill by Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen.
The riveting Stratford production, staged by the internationally renowned (and, lately, internationally criticized) director Robert Lepage, finishes the job of genre reassignment.
But Kispert's collection allows them the spotlight, and watching them star in their own life stories is both squirm-worthy and riveting.
The scene could have been spawned from a Hollywood writers' room — but it was all the more riveting because it was real.
A speaker (the riveting actor Jeremy Irons), while praying to God, takes him on in the prosecutorial manner of an angry Job.
Michael Massing's riveting "Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind" is devoted to this fateful parting of ways.
But without a more riveting linchpin to anchor the narrative, "Beneath a Ruthless Sun" grows as sprawling as the conspiracy it depicts.
While there, she recorded a series of riveting albums, including the scorching "X-Dreams" from 1978, and "The Perfect Release" from 1979.
As placeholders on the internet, teams have resorted to showing graphics like this: Most of the GIFs aren't even that sophisticated: Riveting.
For the audience, the stress (the riveting, delightful stress) comes from not knowing when this play is going to detonate — and how?
Her retelling of how she watched as an enormous iceberg fractured, just a few feet from the military base here, was riveting.
So much slogging through battle might make heavy going if not for Queen Margaret, Henry's wife, one of Shakespeare's most riveting characters.
Through immersive prose and a riveting plot, Alderman explores how power corrupts everyone: those who gain it, and those resisting its loss.
After riveting testimony from Dr. Blasey, Judge Kavanaugh took his turn before the Senate Judiciary Committee to proclaim his innocence — and outrage.
Verve's "A Day in the Life: Impressions of Pepper" features adventurous renditions by some of the more riveting rising voices in jazz.
Other riveting stories: A gay athlete spoke publicly about what has been an open secret among male skaters: crippling body image issues.
Simon and Dvora are both riveting figures, different kinds of detectives who use emotional intuition to arrive at different notions of justice.
It's Bernstein's contribution to the legacy of operatic mad scenes, and it's riveting, a 14-minute tour de force for the Celebrant.
But it was hard to harbor regrets during the riveting semi-staged performance of "Rheingold," the opening opera of Wagner's "Ring" cycle.
K. Finance Minister George Osborne from a few years back is anything to go by, then it could be a riveting watch.
Unique and riveting in wholly different ways was Howard Cosell, who had largely departed the sports scene by the time I arrived.
While Spindletop (boom) or Enron (bust) makes for riveting drama, Harvey revealed the inherent danger of taking greedy and ill-advised shortcuts.
R. Wasserman's Girls on Fire is a dark and exhilarating page-turner; she returns with a psychological thriller that sounds equally riveting.
The Milch I observed fifteen years ago during the making of "Deadwood" was gregarious, physically strong, and prone to riveting discursive detours.
With a star-studded cast including Anne Hathaway, Dev Patel, Tina Fey, Andrew Scott, Andy García, and more, we expected riveting storytelling.
The riveting seven-minute clip of the misunderstanding to end all misunderstandings is full of suspense, which soon devolves into complete chaos.
Love. Family. Betrayal. The L.A. Times and Wondery's Dirty John has it all, pieced together in a riveting six-part podcast series.
Conversely, I was early to William Christie's riveting new page-turner of a historical spy novel, "A Single Spy," out next month.
We're along for the ride, courtesy of a series of often riveting, mostly wordless visual dialogues between artists, conducted entirely by cellphone.
There was a similar contrast between a vaguely defined orchestral concert at Geffen and a riveting Kaplan Penthouse event earlier this week.
At the outset of this riveting crime thriller, Timmy (Louis Koo), a drug kingpin, is caught manufacturing tons of meth in China.
The devastating fire swept through the cathedral in the evening, riveting the world's attention as nearly 500 firefighters raced to the scene.
I'd like to focus on the one work in Venice that I found most riveting and that, to me, matters the most.
The stuff where the Kief cosplays The West Wing is riveting; the investigation into who was behind the bombing is less so.
Fiona Tan's peculiar, black-and-white, ethnographic "Facing Forward" (1999) is an 11-minute video which totters into Orientalism but is completely riveting.
A centrist coalition on Kavanaugh's nomination started to come together the day of the riveting Senate hearing with Christine Blasey Ford and Kavanaugh.
Before it was even an embryonic idea, however, there were disabled athletes winning medals, and riveting the attention of spectators across the world.
Rough Magic is the story of that race — 219 days on 226 ponies, over 1000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland — and it's absolutely riveting.
" The team's official Twitter account replied to her: "We're not trying to be mean either but your movies weren't exactly riveting theater Kirstie.
Documenting the moment, the superstar shared a snapshot of the pair enjoying the game, which was riveting enough to grab Rodriguez's full attention.
Writer Frank White calls this "the overview effect," and you experience something like it scrolling through Benjamin Grant's riveting Instagram feed Daily Overview.
And while "Narcos" capped a second season that finished off the first, those 20 episodes essentially played like one long, utterly riveting miniseries.
Over and over again, the answer seems to be yes — and no more so than during the riveting final sequence of this episode.
And they open their door, let you into their house, and tell you their lives, their life story, and that is so riveting.
Oh what we wouldn't give to hear a riveting tale about a Trump relative from outer space at a time like this. ðŸ'½
But the clues Farrier and Reeve unearth along the way are generally so weird and unique that many people will find it riveting.
In riveting testimony last week, Comey detailed how prior to the firing, Trump invited and corralled him into a series of private meetings.
Oscar-winning British actor Redmayne, 34, said he and Rowling had a "riveting" discussion on the quirks and mannerisms that would define Scamander.
Guie'dani's Navel is carefully directed, and the amateur Oaxacan actors are every bit as riveting in their performances as Aparicio is in hers.
But it is impossible to finish this medieval melodrama without thinking that it would make a riveting series for an enterprising TV producer.
The podcast is riveting and the interplay between the hosts lifts it to the ranks of the best pro wrestling podcasts out there.
Rather than trying to sum up the big picture in Venice, I'll focus on what, for me, were the four most riveting shows.
ESPN's five-part documentary is gripping and educational and made what I thought was a familiar story into something completely new and riveting.
"You know, Trump never won an Emmy for 'The Apprentice,' but he should win one now because the television is riveting," Gansa remarked.
For the uninitiated, Merlan's book is a riveting tour through the tangles of some of the most prominent conspiracy theories in circulation today.
With his tales of torture and starvation during his nearly two decades of imprisonment, Mr. Wu was a riveting presence at congressional hearings.
Lining the walls of consecutive rooms are two categories of new, small-format works: 20 boxed tableaux and 213 riveting drawings on paper.
Viewers across the country expected riveting television from today's Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, and the star witness, former FBI director James Comey, delivered.
TechCrunch Disrupt brings top tech founders and investors to the stage for riveting interviews, but many attendees want more time with the experts.
Editorial It has been a riveting few days in the tragicomic opera known as Bridgegate, now playing at the federal courthouse in Newark.
In the zany spirit of the occasion, it featured such unconventional instruments as pneumatic riveting machines, steam pipes, ocean liner whistles and sledgehammers.
"Personal Shopper" stars a riveting Kristen Stewart as a sullen celebrity fashion assistant, bereft after the death of her twin brother, a medium.
Morgan was riveting in the part, which fixed a popular perception of him that he has alternately relished and chafed under ever since.
It's a bit too cute of an idea, and caps a staging that is not Mr. Herheim's conceptually tightest, nor the most riveting.
While on set, I witnessed a late-season sword battle in an Asian-themed nightclub that was riveting, even without knowing its context.
Today, tuning in feels like being deposited, lightly buzzed, into warm quicksand, and forgetting to extricate yourself because the marsh wildlife is riveting.
It's a question that gets at the heart of "Farsighted," Steven Johnson's riveting new book on how we make tough long-term decisions.
As singers go, she may command one of the most riveting theatrical presences since the mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, of treasured memory.
Most chapters launch with a riveting scene: a patient in the thick of getting a heart transplant, say, or having open-heart surgery.
If those first minutes were more memorable and riveting than the full performance that followed, it might have been because of Mr. Levine.
Even at 700 pages, the book is utterly riveting and consistently insightful, in no small part because of its faithful attention to nuance.
This week, Japan enthroned a new emperor, and our Tokyo bureau chief tells us in riveting detail how we got to this moment.
As his disturbing domestic abuse persists, Celeste visits their therapist (Robin Weigert) on her own, providing some of the show's most riveting scenes.
That round and riveting black hole, a place where everything vanishes like a dream, would be a good final resting place for Brexit.
The trial, presided over by the hilarious Dakin Matthews as Judge Taylor, is riveting, especially when Tom's accuser, Mayella Ewell, takes the stand.
The Judson collective, among other things, eschewed affectation and mannerism in performance, and for that reason Pat Catterson was an especially riveting sight.
Delbanco's riveting and unsettling book shows how questions that preoccupied Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries continue to resonate in our own.
The testimony was riveting, but there was a hitch: Those crimes were not committed by El Chapo or members of the Sinaloa cartel.
Frank Bruni Opinion Columnist Why don't we call the terrified children whose incarceration is riveting the country what they are at this point?
The difference between Ms. Gilliland and the smaller, equally riveting Kara Chan tells us how happily catholic Ms. Tharp's taste in dancers is.
It's got a spectacular lead in Viola Davis with riveting dynamics between her and co-stars Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, and Michelle Rodriguez.
The subjects of Amy Sherald's eight strong oil portraits at Hauser & Wirth impress with their looks, in both senses: striking elegance, riveting gazes.
A riveting six-month trial ensued, dominated by clashing accounts of tawdry greed and filial devotion delivered by boldface names and household help.
Gurnah's portrayal of student immigrant life in Britain is pleasingly deliberate and precise, and also riveting, perhaps especially when Salim finds himself alienated.
In her 2004 nude self-portrait "Feeling Me," Elinor Carucci looks away with riveting ambivalence as her husband's hand touches her pregnant belly.
No less riveting was a duo performance by the brilliant young pianist-composer Vijay Iyer and the veteran trumpeter-composer Wadada Leo Smith.
The contours of an elaborate metaphor for the brain-break of constant surveillance are just discernible enough in this riveting and original achievement.
Watching Ramachandra Guha being taken away reminded me of his riveting exposition on why India is the most fascinating country in the world.
Not respectful of the lawyers, I thought, and anyway not necessary; the trial was so riveting that I briefly considered becoming one myself.
Atlas bought Germany's SCA, an adhesives dispensing gear maker in 2011, and snapped up Henrob, a specialist in self-pierce riveting, in 2014.
Not since wartime has news been so riveting — and with the president fighting so many "enemies," it is actually not unlike war coverage.
"I want two souls before I leave here today," Satan (a riveting Javier Molina) says, stalking through the audience, all vengeance and aggrievement.
He's a riveting jumble and an important reminder that brilliance and competence along one axis hardly ensures brilliance or even coherence along another.
It is perhaps just that duality — lightness and play hinting at emptiness and discontent — that makes papier-mâché so unsettling and so riveting.
Perl has assembled a vast, almost ragbag amount of data, not all of it riveting, and has woven commentary in and around it.
Mr. Serkis's riveting turn as Gollum was spread out over three "Lord of the Rings" films and in one of the "Hobbit" prequels.
Over all, this riveting, breathless, score — full of quick-cutting shifts, pointillist bursts, and episodes of ballistic intensity — may be his best work.
The two artists' complementary backgrounds in art-rock, metal, modern classical and jazz promise to make for a riveting evening of unrestrained improvisation.
The testimony was often riveting, and it essentially rewrote key parts of the El Chapo legend and the history of the Sinaloa cartel.
Daniel, this has been riveting, this is really fun, and thank you for talking to us and thank you for coming on the show.
But, while Christians in the States are out hunting for pastel-dyed eggs, Norwegians are cozied up reading riveting tales of deceit and murder.
Conversations about who gets to wear what, and why, on the red carpet are a lot more riveting (and honest) nowadays than ever before.
Thanks to Sweeney's riveting performance, viewers are likely to be as haunted by Alice as Camille is — especially viewers who watched The Handmaid's Tale.
It had a cinematic feel that set it apart from other Telltale games, with riveting writing, powerful voice acting performances, and high emotional stakes.
Divorce lawyers, financial advisers and mediators say divorces don't have to be the type of acrimonious free-for-alls that make for riveting movies.
Thankfully, this young adult saga is still filled with fun, and not just because it turns fictional high school football into riveting high drama.
This riveting memoir is told from dual perspectives: that of Tom Rasmussen, a queer and non-binary fashion journalist, and his alter-ego, Crystal.
The riveting realism is hard won, for behind the scenes — and behind the actors — real federal agents and real killers served as grim models.
And before his political career began, he was a historian, who was working on a sure-to-be riveting history of the Cod Wars.
In second place: hats off to Rory McCann for making "staring into a fire" one of the most riveting events of this entire episode.
If you want to tune in to your own riveting day of Okeanos specimen-spotting, this expedition will be live streamed through May 2.
Throughout, Miller avoids a sensational tone, and her fresh and detailed reconstruction of this famous story is riveting — part tabloid story, part poignant biography.
A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.
"Parasite" is one of the best movies of the year thanks to its riveting directing, a great ensemble cast, and the thrillingly unpredictable plot.
But if these ostentatious, expensive gatherings have flirted with irrelevance in recent years, Cleveland and Philadelphia proved they can still be riveting and influential.
She gave riveting and at times emotional testimony last week describing the "smear campaign" that Trump and Giuliani carried out to engineer her removal.
Audience Score: 97%Reviewers called the American-history film, which starred Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Janelle Monae, and Joe Alwyn, "riveting" and "inspiring."
A riveting women's Final Four game ended Sunday with Notre Dame beating Mississippi State 61-58, giving the Irish their second NCAA basketball title.
That the speech itself wasn't particularly riveting or exciting didn't matter—he could have said almost anything and the audience would have loved him.
And unlike Mayweather-Pacquiao—a passionless fight that seemed to diminish boxing's status among casual sports fans—the matchups of 2017 have been riveting.
Divorce lawyers, financial advisers and mediators say divorces don't have to be the type of acrimonious free-for-alls that make for riveting movies.
He nevertheless provided a riveting and vivid — if not impartial — account of the most pivotal phase of the revolution, as viewed from the ground.
Their collaboration, "New Work for Goldberg Variations," features seven dancers sharing the stage with Ms. Dinnerstein in a riveting dialogue of movement and music.
It's also just riveting to watch, with archival footage, discussions, and a sweeping history of everything that led to the trial, and everything after.
But Lee Krasner is the riveting one, rare and defiant and glowing with life in a beautifully modulated, remarkably understated performance by Birgit Huppuch.
The series makes it riveting to watch Simpson's legal team cook up strategies that are seemingly impossible to succeed, because you know what's coming.
"This is well-paced narrative history: intelligent, lucid, riveting — even while possessing the terrible knowledge of what happened next," our critic Jennifer Szalai writes.
The film includes riveting talk about the nature of violence and the rights of individual groups to set the terms of their own protests.
Beyond a few dull patches, their stories have been riveting enough that, in 12 days of testimony, I have filled up six entire notebooks.
Chernobyl (Blu-ray) for $10 ($20203 off): Last year, we said this bleak, riveting HBO series showed us that things could be worse. Haha!
It also could have sprung from the lips of Darius, the riveting, tender oddball Mr. Stanfield plays on "Atlanta," Donald Glover's groundbreaking television show.
If John had no material other than the job his foul-tempered parents did on him, he'd still have a riveting story to tell.
Savannah, Ga., is a pilgrimage destination for those interested in the abolitionist's life, with artists interpreting his legacy in riveting shows and a film.
Part of what makes this new translation so riveting is the attention that Laura Marris has given to the novel's distinct voices and places.
"Easily the most riveting contribution is Mr. Conway's as the murderous union boss," Vincent Canby wrote in an otherwise unenthusiastic review in The Times.
Her psychological war with a police officer (Daniel Mays) who presses her to become an informant is the most riveting relationship in the series.
His description of the underground economy in the Louisiana prison system is riveting, but his explanation for why the authorities tolerate it is infuriating.
But the death of a child, generally treated with mawkishness, is handled here with riveting creepiness — not to mention a hint of bad taste.
And then — as David Grann details early in his disturbing and riveting new book, "Killers of the Flower Moon" — this promise, too, was broken.
Rather, this two-time Oscar winner has been a riveting television presence portraying an underhanded president, Francis Underwood, in "House of Cards" on Netflix.
We opera lovers depend on singers of today with superb voices and riveting stage presences to keep the great works of the past alive.
"The pieces in this book … are riveting, not least those that he later developed into full-scale books," Robert Gottlieb writes in his review.
In concert, however, Cloud Nothings is so unhinged that it feels as if each riveting performance could go off the rails at any moment.
That Ho Chi Minh had once been a baker at Boston's Parker House hotel doesn't make the Knopfs' 1919 stay there any more riveting.
Nonfiction writers have made riveting narrative from sprawling, difficult material: The Irish Troubles, the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, the history of the Lakota tribe.
They're single-purpose devices with no LCD light, so if you have a riveting e-book you're in the middle of, go for it.
State of the Art Last week, New York magazine published a riveting and frightening look at the future of the planet we call home.
Earlier this week on Dazed, directed by Adinah Dancyger, multi-gendered rapper and performance artist Mykki Blanco revealed a riveting reading of the text.
There are voiceovers of the show's most riveting and memorable scenes to date, before a promise that things aren't quite finished in Hell's Kitchen.
It didn't ultimately work as well as the latter as it did as the former, but I found the effort riveting, if nothing else.
Everything becomes clear at the end when Nora delivers a riveting, emotional monologue that explains what she saw and learned after she entered the transporter.
Lindsay was not only a riveting character study of a troubled person, but an inside look at the nuts and bolts of the celebreality genre.
Deeply researched, Chang's book is a riveting read, but at times her focus — on disproving her initial bland impression of the sisters — can feel narrow.
He followed up on that performance with a riveting showing on August 453th in the last round of the PGA Championship, the year's final major.
Yet memorable it will be, for its very strangeness, as well as for Mr. van der Aa's imaginative production and for Mr. West's riveting performance.
But the opening strains of "We Will Rock You" were perhaps the most riveting musically, a moment as worthy of the Grammys as the Oscars.
So it is with "Paula Modersohn-Becker: Art and Life," a riveting exhibition at Galerie St. Etienne, the keeper of her flame in this country.
The story is riveting, but the implications of such unconventional coalitions at a time when the fault lines of identity continue to shift are obvious.
But Bridle, who is not a typical tech journalist, described the problem in a riveting and compelling way that grabbed people's attention and went viral.
But that only makes the second season of this Netflix series more riveting, a morality tale that resonates far beyond its time, place and characters.
But underlying the riveting drama is the unspoken agreement that everything can and will be dropped the second a hot piece of ass comes along.
After his riveting role as a tanned treasure hunter in Fool's Gold, it's safe to say that this is McConaughey's favorite metal of all time.
No character is redundant; even the non-speaking Arthur (David Fielder) is riveting as Queenie's shell-shocked father-in-law, the play's haunting historical conscience.
The riveting thing about The Walking Dead is that in the comics, all these characters are fleshed out — they're not just bad people acting badly.
In this riveting novel (and great beach read), Castellani revives the decades Tennessee Williams spent in Italy with his lover of 15 years, Frank Merlo.
He has a distinctive way of fusing his ideas and knowledge with materials and objects; his thought-filled sculptures are riveting physical and visual forces.
Most of the major cable networks broke in for the riveting show — there was even a balloon animation to illustrate the expanding costs of Medicaid.
Sofia Coppola is particularly good at telling unusual women's stories in her signature directorial style, creating films that are as beautiful as they are riveting.
It was riveting listening to his arduous process in finally earning the trust and respect of the U.K. government, London law enforcement and the community.
"South Sudan" is packed with riveting detail, but mostly shows how badly international actors, including Ms Johnson herself, have misjudged their roles in South Sudan.
Wink's elegant and riveting first book attends to a towering task: the construction of contemporary masculinity in the far-off crooks of the American West.
"Horace and Pete" is a riveting series that dares to take big dramatic risks, but what makes it frustrating is that its problems are mundane.
I also forgot to take a photo of my dessert — a cheesecake with freshly whipped cream — because of the riveting conversation with my table-mates.
For ten hours Thursday, FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok gave riveting, compelling and, at times, farcical testimony before the House Judiciary and Oversight committees.
Yet in Saturday's performance, Mr. Campbell, playing with uncanny control and powerful expressivity, was the riveting focal point, aided by Mr. Gilbert and the players.
Her "Ballad" is open to charges of narcissism, exhibitionism, voyeurism and the glamorization of bad behavior, qualities that are partly what make it so riveting.
On April 13, 2016, exactly seven years after he started the most ambitious and riveting webcomic on the internet, Andrew Hussie posted Homestuck's final update.
Soon I was following down a rabbit hole of bony Instagram feeds that have attracted thousands of fans like flies to their riveting corpse collections.
And while I haven't yet dug deeply into the game's multiplayer, it is there, functional and intact, likely the same riveting diversion it's always been.
I've had bouts of flatulence more riveting than this episode and had to restart it three times because I kept getting distracted by other things.
As this riveting novel unfolds — in brilliant, laconic, grimly comic fashion — it becomes apparent that the state is, in its own way, a frightful head.
The most riveting chapter in "Ticker" leaves Texas for Utah, the site of the first successful artificial heart in 1982 — "successful" being a relative word.
"It is incredibly bizarre, and very funny, and riveting, and it's a window into a subculture you just had no idea about," is Legend's review.
He also happens to be one of jazz's most riveting pianists — a largely self-taught master of stride piano, with a lightning-fast right hand.
Osaka won her second grand slam crown at the Australian Open in January, beating twice Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova in a riveting three-set final.
Especially riveting is Baldwin's discussion of Poitier in "The Defiant Ones," a film that divided black and white audiences when it was released, in 1958.
Parliament, that venerable symbol of British democracy, became a gladiatorial arena, at once riveting and horrifying to those who tuned in to the daily combat.
In this riveting fever dream of a play, which opened on Wednesday night, the three characters we meet are the human equivalents of caged songbirds.
More than a sick kid She's been riveting audiences since she was 14, when she first stepped on a stage in a new ruffled dress.
The launch further stoked a suddenly riveting debate over climate change and jobs programs, which landed on the front page of The New York Times.
And yet this riveting book is a reminder of the long American tradition of standing up to power when it is used for unjust ends.
If Mr. Nichols was the life of any party, the most riveting raconteur I ever met, Mr. Mantello's charm is more low-key and shy.
There is one major problem, though: This kind of excitement makes for riveting entertainment, but it isn't necessarily what you want in an investment portfolio.
"The making of a 7,000-page Senate committee report may not sound like riveting stuff," Mashable's Angie Han writes in her review of The Report.
Under his legal name, Daniel Hernandez, he gave sometimes riveting testimony a few months ago against former gang associates in the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
The outlook is often grim, but thanks to Díaz's riveting and intoxicating narrative, we manage to see the characters' unsentimental determination for a better life.
This past weekend served as a fitting cap to a dramatic week of public impeachment hearings — and set up this week's sessions in riveting style.
Even though the movie is pure speculation, the discussion is riveting, and the master actors Hopkins and Pryce create the illusion of actually having it.
Would that Chief Justice John Roberts and his four fellow conservative justices might read this riveting legal history and rethink the decision in Shelby v.
In 22017, replaying the 22013-22013 season, and in doing so creating an alternate history in the palms of my hand, is surprisingly riveting stuff.
Most VR content is around 10–15 minutes, which isn't much time to remind audiences of backstories, develop fresh plots and a riveting ending, he said.
Constantly testing the limits of both her abilities and imagination, she manages to create paintings that are simultaneously contemplative and riveting and yet avoid becoming formulaic.
Coincidentally, this riveting story of a woman who's never gotten her due is the vehicle that may get actress Glenn Close her own long-awaited Oscar.
"Homeland's" penchant for big, risky narrative swings has yielded something of a mixed bag, producing uneven stretches in the program's run after its riveting first season.
A master of the media, Trump has managed to make the process riveting to a more general audience, extending the drama and bravado of his campaign.
Some critics in Venice responded to this quiet stoicism by complaining that Armstrong was a boring character, as if space travel weren't riveting enough in itself.
Ulysse gives readers a riveting story of a woman who is trying to make sense of a homescape that, if not wholly disappeared, is irrevocably altered.
In a riveting, winner-take-all contest on October 13th, Mr Roberts brought in Mr Jansen in the seventh inning, almost unprecedentedly early for a closer.
Mr Marshall's contribution is a riveting account of the losers as well, the English zealots and cynics who wanted a better world or an unchanging one.
I first heard about Godwin's law from another lawyer friend, the kind of guy who tells riveting tales, unencumbered by such inconveniences as certainty, or facts.
Dario Grandinetti's riveting performance as the vaguely menacing yet bureaucratic Claudio is a reminder that repulsive or unfathomable characters can be as fascinating as likable ones.
Meanwhile, a new version of Primary Data's software that was rolled out in August may not have been sufficiently riveting to bring aboard key customers, either.
Riveting in cutoffs, over-the-knee boots, fringed top and midriff corset — all studded in light-catching rhinestones — Morris proved she could strike any musical mood.
WASHINGTON — No one said it would be easy to turn a two-year investigation and 448 pages of dense legalese into riveting made-for-TV moments.
A judicial commission into allegations of "state capture" under Mr Zuma has heard riveting testimony about how firms allegedly funnelled cash to politicians for state contracts.
A National Book Award winner and a #1 NYT bestseller [plus a MashReads monthly book club selection], the novel is as riveting as it is important.
In Personal Shopper, Stewart often finds herself acting against text messages on her phone, and it's just about the most riveting bit of performance this year.
Troian Bellisario — who just so happened to have directed episode "In The Eye Abides The Heart" — is one actress who would deliver a riveting villain's monologue.
In a riveting account of the exchanges that preceded his dramatic dismissal, Comey unveiled a trove of deeply uncomfortable, weird conversations and odd or suggestive interactions.
The show may have fumbled his arrival in spectacular fashion, but the impending Saviors war is arguably the most intense and riveting portion of the comic.
It's the actresses first German language production, and according to the critics and the festival judge's reviews, it appears ta riveting role worthy of the accolades.
" In a riveting third act, she transforms into Donald Trump, with blonde hair spilling out the front of her pants as she screams, "Somebody stop me!
He is the most hated man in Washington, and he isn't riveting record crowds like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are out on the campaign trail.
Also this week, Jeffrey Toobin, the longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, discusses his new book, "American Heiress," about the riveting case of Patty Hearst.
The jokes seemed to serve the stories rather than the other way around — and what makes them riveting, and occasionally funny, is less content than form.
Her levelheaded determination doesn't make her a riveting character yet, but it does make her far better equipped to deal with the national crisis than Kirkman.
When Lincoln Center presented a concert performance of "De Materie" at Alice Tully Hall in 2004, I found Mr. Andriessen's eclectic, nearly two-hour score riveting.
They update their images every 12 seconds, and basically are showing metal objects submerged in tanks, so it's not exactly riveting, although conservators do sometimes appear.
In all, this World Cup has been riveting because every player on the team is doing more for the sport than most of their male contemporaries.
This movie prompted a riveting national conversation about race, gender, and colonialism for two reasons: the power of the film, and the power of its critics.
The riveting episode "Cruel and Unusual" examines nitrogen gas's antecedent, the lethal injection, and makes a case, of sorts, for the integrity of the firing squad.
That premise might make the show sound like a really slow version of Law & Order, but the first episode (which you can watch here) is riveting.
The only thing riveting about this dick is that someone thought it funny or shocking enough to devote ample screen time to a dead, useless thing.
While getting ready, my older sister entered the bathroom, and we exchanged the following riveting dialogue: SISTER Wow, you're spending a lot of time getting ready.
"It was like Lorraine opened a new chapter in theater," Ms. Dee recalls in the film, describing the standing ovation and riveting response on opening night.
The film's most riveting dilemma is that facing Hoffstetler: He's torn between his morality and his country, which has asked him to kill the amphibian man.
Peter Sellars's riveting, idiosyncratic takes on classical plays and operas has made him one of the most original, if occasionally controversial, directors of the last decades.
A play with a name like Mr. Kuritzkes's new one, the deeply strange and strangely riveting "—hole," would also seem to be rather a niche affair.
" Hollywood Reporter praised Phoenix's acting and claimed that the "must-see factor of Phoenix's riveting performance alone—it's both unsettling and weirdly affecting—will be significant.
With her electric twist of Titian curls and dark, secretive gaze, Moll (a riveting Jessie Buckley) has the look of a volcano that's primed to erupt.
Her first contribution to the show uses Moss's talents to depict a riveting struggle between hope and fear, silence and screaming, giving up and getting free.
Instead, the experience is riveting, opening up and deepening Beethoven's complex, impassioned score that was originally composed as the finale of his Op. 130 String Quartet.
"When you assemble a battery pack, it is primarily tightening and adhesives, but we also see in some projects, riveting and flow-drill fastening," Elmin said.
Giancarlo Guerrero conducted a riveting account of Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps" on Friday, no small achievement after short rehearsal, the norm for these summer programs.
It was hugely popular in the 1990s, and I can see why: a murder case nearly as riveting as the gossip and squabbles of Savannah society.
The Falcon air battle served as a nice intro and the fanfare around the subsequent clip reveal, which included a live conversation with Abrams, was riveting.
Given Moriarty's knack for creating complex, interesting characters and Hulu's recruitment of both Kidman and Kelley, "Nine Perfect Strangers" is sure to be a riveting delight.
Coll is at the height of his talents in this "riveting" tale of one of the most spectacular—and catastrophic—corporate takeovers of all time (Newsday).
One character even unloads these bland story details upon a dead baby at one point — that's the level of riveting dialogue to expect from The Witcher.
Critics didn't love The Rise of Skywalker, with the consensus calling it unimaginative and more concerned with fan service than telling a riveting and fresh conclusion.
A genre-bender and a prophetic force in music since the late 3046s, Peacock is one of the most riveting — though overlooked — vocal performers in jazz.
There was nary a laugh in an hour-long interview [with Todd Hanson], but it was one of the most riveting things I've ever listened to.
One hiker, Peter Ames Carlin, — an author and father from Portland, Oregon — took to Facebook to tell the riveting and detailed account of his family's harrowing escape.
"The Wisdom is Psychopaths" is a riveting read that reveals how we can control of our dark sides and use them to change society for the better.
"I really thought the climactic scene where the Beast shows up was just one of the most riveting things I've ever seen committed to television," he says.
In the riveting video, he ignores people telling him to go back home, escapes from a fire, and treks across mud until he arrives in St. Louis.
It's a good example of making one character's inner stakes matter for the entire world depicted, and it moves at a pace that's comfortable, yet still riveting.
"Riveting," Schumer captioned the snap of herself sporting a denim button down along with a red bandanna wrapped around her head – while holding a set of props.
It's been three years since Justin Theroux's bulge went for a jog in that riveting scene from The Leftovers, but it feels as if it happened yesterday.
Nonfiction, his riveting and category-defying 2013 album for Donky Pitch, was met with critical acclaim from key outlets, including a "Best New Music" nod from Pitchfork.
The Hurricanes were coming of a riveting 4-3 shootout victory two nights earlier against San Jose, when they rallied from a pair of two-goal deficits.
That's why it was so riveting to see them turn to some other pros for media training in last night's episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
It makes Conexão and what Amber does next feel just as riveting as her debut – simply, her work shows how, after insurmountable loss, life can go on.
He did not much like "The Prince of Providence", by Mike Stanton, a riveting portrait of the politician which describes a city of promises and pay-offs.
As an Academy Award-nominated writer, he made his first foray into television and built a riveting and critically acclaimed series, establishing his place in TV history.
It's riveting stuff, told with enough context to make the "Trial of the Century" culturally relatable to anyone: old or young, born in the USA or not.
Their commentary was riveting, so I took to the internet in an attempt to recapture those moments of childhood bliss, assuming that the tunes must hold up.
You can watch the weirdly riveting video below:  This lady dropped her hat, and Houston came in clutch to get it back up to her #earnedhistory pic.twitter.
Without getting granular about the individual moves, Nair manages to make these chess matches riveting, because they stand in for so many other conflicts in Mutesi's life.
I hoped my six elders wouldn't give me stuff to write about: wouldn't fall or get sick or worse, all the things that make for riveting copy.
When "The Sopranos" debuted on HBO in 1999, it was widely credited for launching the "golden age of television," thanks to its innovative storytelling and riveting plotline.
The controversy over the lane closings is the biggest political corruption case in New Jersey in years, riveting a state with a long history of official malfeasance.
Then, in a riveting sequence of spreads, a green vista of sculpted animals — giraffe, emu, rhinoceros — turns autumn-colored and finally reverts to plain, bare-branched trees.
With a career spanning almost two decades, his performances have been as riveting as watching paint dry, with neither the charm nor wit to make them tolerable.
If you weren't done watching tech giants get grilled by lawmakers, mark your calendar for September 26 in what's expected to be another riveting round of questioning.
Whether it's riveting, wildly informative and insightful, transformational, funny, sad at times, or involves any number of other emotions, audiences love the chance to feel. Something. Anything.
This time, though, the program was riveting and intelligently conceived, with a rarity at its dramatic center that made you want to rush home and discover more.
And after a report on South Korea's work to develop virus testing methods, we're visiting the state of Florida to detail the riveting rescue of Rockstar Freddy.
In "Cortège," which has been absent longer than the others, both Sara Mearns in the prima ballerina role and Georgina Pazcoguin leading the character corps were riveting.
The book begins with the Black Tom explosion that rocked the city, weaves in Damon Runyon's riveting war reporting and is capped by the heroics of Sgt.
" Instantly, a Bachelor conversation that is usually more simpering that riveting becomes raw, and is only intensified as Madison continues, "I have the standards that I have.
Her compassion for her characters, combined with Armitage's riveting delivery, makes this an immensely satisfying book to listen to, whatever else you might happen to be doing.
Instead, this movie about a spy who comes to believe the subjects he's bugged are in danger is as sharp and riveting as it was in 1974.
"Blood Journals (Giorno I–X)" (1994) is a riveting series of works on paper the artist made while at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Northern Italy.
It's a riveting, often seductive story with through lines of racial and gender discourse that make it easily relatable even if you're not an FBI-trained spy.
The second season of her hit podcast, the riveting "Where Should We Begin," which allows us to listen in on her therapy sessions, is out this week.
These pieces, which can easily come across as motoric and musically thin, sounded spacious and unpredictable in Mr. Olafsson's riveting performances, interspersed with his informative spoken comments.
The El Paso County Commissioner shocked state Republicans by knocking off conservative darling Tim Neville at the state's April convention and wowed them with a riveting speech.
UNFORGETTABLE OPENING SCENE Young missionaries in training speak in tongues in the frenzied, destabilizing and altogether riveting first minutes of Samuel D. Hunter's "The Harvest" at LCT3.
During and after World War II, America thrived on a wartime industrial production economy building, welding, riveting, assembling and manufacturing the weapons that defeated the Axis Powers.
"What we are witnessing with Hauser is the emergence of a riveting actor who dominates every scene he's in, not with force, but with sheer, unadulterated talent."
While Lyonne's cameo is less than a minute long, Gray said that he hopes to work with the "riveting actress" in a bigger capacity in the future.
O. Jemisin's riveting urban fantasy imagines a New York City come to life — literally, through a human avatar who must protect the city from an ancient evil.
In a riveting article, Adam profiled a journalist in Italy, Alessandro Biancardi, who lost a legal battle to preserve an article about a pair of brawling brothers.
But A24 is known for bringing some of the most riveting and unique horror in recent memory to the screen, like 2016's much-adored The Witch.
Rubens's riveting details of unthinkable violence — blue skin, a bloody pool, hear-tearing grief — feel less like dramatic indulgence than a sincere willingness to witness the terrible.
Rubens's riveting details of unthinkable violence — blue skin, a bloody pool, hair-tearing grief — feel less like dramatic indulgence than a sincere willingness to witness the terrible.
In the Vulture, the MCU has delivered its best big bad in years – and he's all the more riveting because he's not your typical scenery-chewing megalomaniac.
Overshadowed by President Trump and the impeachment riveting Washington, Democrats are proceeding with their own drama — a generational and ideological battle over the future of their party.
From rehearsing her lines to discussing her artistic practice with her Nigerian-born parents, Ms. Okpokwasili is as riveting in offstage moments as she is in performance.
It is 1935, and Sepp Trautwein (the riveting Samouil Stoyanov), a former music professor, takes over as political columnist at an anti-fascist émigré newspaper in Paris.
In a Thursday tweet, Trump put his full support behind Kavanaugh, calling his testimony "powerful, honest, and riveting," while failing to mention his accuser Christine Blasey Ford.
It's riveting to watch, but also strange, as Powell seems erudite and genuinely remorseful, yet Siskel seems determined to get some revelation to make his documentary relevant.
A room filled with soccer officials making motions and giving updates, and occasionally voting on whether to form another committee to examine something, is not exactly riveting theater.
A few years ago, putting on eye cream wasn't anyone's idea of a riveting activity, and now skin care is a shared self-care obsession in certain circles.
We saw something similar from Russ in the spring of 2015, but the latest iteration of Robo-Westbrook is twice as riveting because of what happened this summer.
And, to top it off, crazy harmonica skills and a riveting stage style that makes you wonder if he's the love child of Loretta Lynn and Mick Jagger.
His own story is one of those he knits together in this riveting account of the men and women who refused to surrender in the face of AIDS.
The presidency, not the campaign, is the story; the kind of narrative, conflict, and struggle for the direction of a party and country that make primaries so riveting.
Michelangelo's sensitive phantasmagorical drawings are riveting because they are fierce and fragile; strength and tenderness, like figure and ground, are tied together, neither one complete without the other.
The latest arrival in New York comes in the form of "Concrete Cuba," a riveting exhibition at the David Zwirner gallery about a little-known branch of modernism.
I think they use Hooli and Gavin as an opportunity to examine tech innovations and the way we ... you and I are in that scene, which was ... Riveting.
In a riveting new book, freelance design journalist Kassia St. Clair shares the vivid origins and histories of 75 colors, from seductive vermilion to the malodorous Indian yellow.
President Donald Trump on Friday launched his first Twitter attacks against Michael Cohen since his former longtime lawyer and fixer provided riveting testimony about their relationship before Congress.
I can do it because as riveting as the Comey testimony was, to me it means only one thing: forget about Washington ... if you're looking for anything good.
The suspense at the beginning here is riveting; the slow trot of the dog promising; the abrupt tonal shift and rapid acceleration deeply satisfying, and deeply, deeply weird.
Back home in Philadelphia, this attitude endears him to a Pennsylvania mob boss named Russell Bufalino (Mr Pesci, riveting as a dapper but wizened goblin, dripping with evil).
It's a riveting story, told with detail and empathy, and it's a tribute to the power of just sitting down and talking with people who disagree with you.
It's a riveting combination of introspection, nostalgia and assessment of the U.S. circa 2018, acknowledging concerns about America's present but infused with hope and optimism regarding its future.
In case you're curious as to how that horrific scenario played out, NickMillerr_ tweeted the riveting, suspense-filled saga in the form of a two-minute-long video.
Given, also, that the chorus literally consists of the words "look what you made me do" over and over again, it doesn't make for the most riveting listen.
As an account of the period, it's riveting; as an exploration of life and love set at the urgent intersection of the political and the personal, it's devastating.
Their narcissism is repellent yet riveting, and Mr. Côté comes at his subjects with an artful, exploratory obliqueness that's endearingly curious, as if discovering a whole new species.
Whenever Ms. Falco is bringing these themes to the fore, especially in her scenes with rival politicians played by Mr. Fitzgerald and John Pankow, "The True" is riveting.
Chances are that in this awkward yet riveting moment, you witnessed a viola solo, a phenomenon that is rare in chamber music, often fleeting and even physically taxing.
But on Wednesday, the panel got a riveting and unexpected look at something even more revealing: dozens of text messages Mr. Guzmán sent to his wife and mistress.
Citizens around Iran watched riveting news feeds on television and social media as survivors used backhoes and their hands to dig through debris in the search for survivors.
It's easy to feel outrage about draconian laws that punish nonviolent drug offenders, and about racial bias, each of which Alexander catalogs in a riveting and persuasive manner.
The relevance of this riveting and absorbing book is clear enough, even if Wineapple's approach is too literary and incisive to offer anything so obvious as a lesson.
Interviews with Mr. Hamilton and his family and friends offer the usual behind-the-scenes look, but the riveting surfing footage and aerial shots will pull you in.
Playful but lacerating, it's a riveting spectacle of celebrity burnout that seems both real and staged, and for anyone who has been in proximity to the L.A.-N.
Whether you loved or loathed Carrie Bradshaw, you couldn't deny that the show was riveting, punchy, and sexy as it dealt with relatable issues surrounding sex and dating.
For all the command these probing musicians demonstrated in their riveting accounts of the late quartets, their excellence came through most in bracing performances of the early works.
He weaves riveting tales of legacy brands caught resting on their laurels, the hungry newcomers who outsmarted them and a network of prescient investors working behind the scenes.
The 37-year-old singer became a musical sensation in Russia after the release of his first album in 2006, riveting middle-aged fans all over the country.
But Nathaniel Dorsky's 1987 film "17 Reasons Why" has become a riveting four-monitor installation, a collage of nature, commerce and color filled with mirroring and rhyme effects.
The refined arc of her raised arms; the elegance with which she holds and turns her head; the plucked, lucid emphasis of her arched feet are all riveting.
He gives a stunning, just riveting performance that I think is easily as good as any performance by a young actor that I've seen in years and years.
Mr. Speed is a tenor saxophonist and clarinetist who can find the logical strand in an abstract canvas, and turn wobbly irresolution into a form of riveting suspense.
He can be a classicist, a ballet historian, a lyrical pure-dance modernist, a comic cartoonist, a riveting children's storyteller or an adult commentator on gender and society.
Struck with bluesy warmth and the relentless swing of Cannonball Adderley, Birckhead's playing has lately established him as one of the most riveting young improvisers in New York.
Crawford is even riveting when reduced to a pair of terrified eyes, as in a scene where Jane has bound Blanche in her bed and taped her mouth.
There is nothing cheesy about these elaborate selfies, taken before selfies became a global craze; instead they are riveting, lush, solemn, richly communicative, and also a total riot.
And you should, for history's sake, take a look at The Times's riveting eyewitness coverage of his murder in 1968, which was led by the reporter Earl Caldwell.
The rickety instability of this music is riveting; it keeps you always on your toes, listening as things fall apart and — miraculously, against all odds — come back together.
And so it seems almost predetermined that the most riveting art I encountered during my first few days in Sicily would be rooted in the transience of life.
It can be hard to explain my Deng fixation to someone who hasn't been tracking her exploits for years and doesn't understand just how riveting a figure she is.
Below Varma (Rome, Exodus: Gods and Kings) spoke to Entertainment Weekly about her riveting performance in her character's final scene: How did you find out about Ellaria Sand's fate?
In episode 6 of Westworld, we learned riveting new information about the hosts and park, making it clear how much is at stake in the park and its offices.
Austrian filmmaker Werner Herzog trained his sights on Texas for this riveting true crime story that takes place in the days leading up to one man's execution for homicide.
Directed by Jason Rourke, Mary, Queen of Scots promises a healthy dose of sword fighting on horses, fancy corsets, male fragility, and a riveting battle between two powerful women.
It cleverly rations out the humor and parody with the pacing of a riveting space adventure – indeed, it feels more like a movie than an episode in many respects.
THE latest revelations of wrongdoing in high places struck Brazil with the force of a Netflix release: they are riveting, but so far have left the real world undisturbed.
Vonnie and Veronica are fascinating, beguiling creatures, to the point where you'll imagine a more riveting life for both of them, one where this film is just an incident.
These are all potentially riveting ideas, but translating them to screen is a little more difficult, as the creative team behind Jessica Jones may have found out this season.
And it's riveting to see how Jenkins and her team tell her story, which is essentially about a hero finding and questioning her morality through the battles she wages.
Best Limited Series: Big Little Lies (HBO)  This riveting drama started out like a Monterey reboot of Desperate Housewives but turned into a much more powerful tale about abuse.
Early this morning, by defeating the Cleveland Indians in a riveting 10-inning Game 7, Chicago offered the nation a final dose of its season-long blueprint for success.
That piece is very riveting in that it seemed like it was pretty easy, even though everybody who came to his shed obviously hated it because it was horrible.
Porter replied to Milo's tweet explaining that, though it may have slipped the actor's memory, a young Ventimiglia had already given a riveting Apple commercial performance in the past.
Without the detached coolness that characterized 2013's Pure Heroine, Melodrama retains all the precocious smarts of its predecessor while offering a riveting, more emotional journey of self-discovery.
Rote and riveting, it's a highly informational documentary that aspires to the aim of all great art: to evoke in the viewer the emotions connected to the senses themselves.
Topping out the list was Duracell's collaboration with the makers of Star Wars to bring to life a riveting laser shoot-out for the benefit of a sick child.
With harsh shadows, dramatically canted shots, and riveting camerawork that puts the audience into the drag-down fight to survive, Romero coined a new filmic vernacular for raw fear.
So far, no network has picked up the riveting, fledgling series yet, but Spicer told the Times he's gearing up for the pilot, set to be filmed this July.
Comey's riveting opening statement details multiple interactions with the president, including a January dinner at the White House where Trump said he needed and expected the FBI director's loyalty.
Dozens of complex robots are replacing humans for such mundane tasks as drilling and riveting, and Boeing is reordering some of its assembly steps to speed up the process.
The first two episodes are directed by Nicole Kassell, who establishes a riveting style with tracking shots and transitions that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Their match-play duel was riveting, pitting Johnson, who is No. 23 on the PGA Tour in driving distance, against Casey, who is No. 25 in greens in regulation.
For an intense, riveting few minutes on Thursday afternoon, Ernie Els wanted to see the first 62 in a major golf championship almost as much as Phil Mickelson did.
You have to admire the narrative alchemy by which Rich transmutes what is basically a series of meetings and conferences into a riveting will-they-or-won't-they drama.
In Beau Travail (1999), she invites us to watch a group of bored Legionnaires stationed in Djibouti as they pass their time performing gorgeous, dull, riveting physical exercises together.
Ms. Mattila, 56, has spent a career being the vibrating, riveting center of most any opera in which she's cast, her gales of sound particularly well suited to hysteria.
"It's very meaningful to be collaborating with Ben again on this uniquely riveting suspense thriller, and I know he and Robert will make a terrific film together," Robinov added.
A gorgeously imagined fantasy, a forceful plea for living in balance with nature, and a riveting adventure that recalls the classic samurai films of Kurosawa — what's not to like?
The second concert will feature the riveting violinist Janine Jensen — in the midst of the "Perspectives" series she has curated at Carnegie — in Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1.
Chips Channon was a huge inspiration to me; the Tory M.P.'s diaries through the '30s and '40s where he interfaced between society and politics — it's just riveting stuff.
Murphy's astute and riveting portrait of one young man's inability to fully reckon with his past seems to pose a disturbing question: Are there actions that simply remain unforgivable?
The overall effect is something greater even than its riveting parts, shedding light on the plight of women in a patriarchal society and the ways they found their voices.
"Endurance is the first duty of all living beings," one character tells another in this novel, which is exactly as grim and as riveting as that sentiment would suggest.
For a look at their earlier work, revisit this riveting crime caper by Steven Spielberg, based on the autobiography of the real-life impostor Frank W. Abagnale Jr. (DiCaprio).
JAZZ Mr. Speed is a tenor saxophonist and clarinetist who can find the logical strand in an abstract canvas, and turn wobbly irresolution into a form of riveting suspense.
But it took me too long to see the joy in his work, and that came well after his many fans already knew how unique and riveting he was.
In a riveting roll call — imbued with the incantations and solemnity of a church service — 100 senators, one by one, announced "guilty" or "not guilty" before a national audience.
The festival that never happened managed to secure two riveting documentaries—one produced by VICE and another on Hulu—chronicling the partnership between organizers Billy McFarland and Ja Rule.
For all of its existential searching, "Edgar and Lucy" ends up being a riveting and exuberant ride, maybe best described by its young protagonist's musings about his nascent life.
The script by Anthony McCarten ("Darkest Hour") can seem contrived and reductive at times, but it gives maximum latitude to the actors, who are a riveting study in contrasts.
LeFavour, who has written several cookbooks, here gives us a riveting account of a "particular kind of crazy" — namely, the damaged and self-damaging young woman she once was.
The excellent and adventurous young musicians of Cantata Profana gave a rare and quietly riveting performance of Mr. Sciarrino's strange piece on Friday at St. Peter's Church in Chelsea.
Not many companies use live video for earnings, and it was an easy — albeit not always riveting — way for Twitter to promote one of its new products to investors.
It was riveting: Simon turned her camera on the highly selective admissions process at Paris's La Fémis film school, one of the most competitive film schools in the world.
It was a riveting international drama with twists and turns that ended happily with the return of all 12 boys and the coach to their loved ones, completely healthy.
And even during our chat he was reluctant to saying too much about his riveting final scene in Winterfell's Great Hall lest his thoughts take something away from its impact.
With its collection of zines placed in the book (no, really), family photos, sketches, hard-to-find posters, and other riveting features, this book is easy to get lost in.
The show's attempt to make drama out of agendas and institutions — rather than the family story of the brothers themselves — has often made for clunky or less than riveting television.
Instead of making an aircraft's wing or car body by welding, riveting and bolting together hundreds of individual components, these bits can be consolidated into a single carbon-fibre structure.
I have a handful of issues with the structure and characters, but it improves on the book in important ways, the action is riveting, and I really bought the humor.
Her riveting, made-for-TV takedown of the former VP in Miami over his opposition to mandatory school busing in the '70s was the iconic moment of the last debate.
Former Breitbart chairman and incoming White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said in a Friday interview that 2017 will be even more riveting than the unpredictable year that was 2016.
It's not all that riveting for most of it, because you feel like you've figured it out while there's still a lot more of the hour-long runtime to go.
With riveting and bone shivering live performances, the Kitchener, Ontario band features extremely dark and aggressive tones that have continued to run throughout the life blood of metal and hardcore.
Martinez has a history or elevating the mundane into riveting artworks—his 2013 solo show Buy Now, Cry Later was all about repurposing advertising techniques into a critique of consumerism.
Equally compelling are three films, the most riveting of which is "Willie" (1985), an 82-minute documentary in color and black-and-white about a hapless prison recidivist, Willie Jaramillo.
I still find the show riveting as a study of one woman's sheer chutzpah, of the sort of bravado that most women are supposed to hide away from the world.
Harden and James treated the raucous sellout crowd to the fireworks most everyone craved in the first quarter, initiating a riveting back-and-forth battle between the former league MVPs.
This riveting duet is based on the climactic scene in which Marty tries to save Doc's life by giving him a letter that also risks disrupting the space-time continuum.
Reporters and editors ought to provide as much help as possible, even if that means tearing their gazes away from the riveting spectacle of those steeds rounding the clubhouse turn.
And the opening is still a compact, riveting caper as Cloud accompanies Barrett, Avalanche's leader, on a quest to infiltrate, blow up, and then escape from one of Shinra's reactors.
Rarer yet, as Bernhardt locates the heart of Hamlet Ms. McTeer the comedian becomes a riveting Shakespearean, exploring new pathways through scenes with the ghost and with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
It's a thoughtful if not always riveting hour of talking and dancing, informed by — but not beholden to — Ms. Vasudevan's years of training in the classical Indian dance form Bharatanatyam.
As noted in our recap of the year's biggest space stories, the past 22019 months have been a riveting joyride complete with spacecraft redemption, juicy rivalries, and Plutonian glamor shots.
I also love David McCullough, who finds troves of golden nuggets when he pans through archives: he could even make the saga of pioneers settling Missouri into a riveting drama.
He was imprisoned and prosecuted on charges that included conspiracy to kill protesters and rampant corruption, proceedings punctuated by riveting images of Mr. Mubarak on trial in a defendant's cage.
She turns this haunted and haunting Gypsy, driven mad by her memories — and often mentioned last in rundowns of the "Trovatore" cast's main quartet — into the riveting, volatile central figure.
"As this riveting novel unfolds — in brilliant, laconic, grimly comic fashion — it becomes apparent that the state is, in its own way, a frightful head," our reviewer, Jason Goodwin, writes.
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In this long, riveting article, Daniel Mendelsohn offers a very good answer — along with an argument for the continuing relevance of the classics in the world we find ourselves in.
"Richard III" was a natural choice for that treatment, and whenever Mr. Lew's update questions or complicates Shakespeare's assumptions, even if that means departing from his template, it is riveting.
Under siege for much of a riveting four-hour slog, the defending champion found himself behind after three sets for the first time in eight finals at Rod Laver Arena.
The concept was used by the Citizens' Assembly in Ireland from 2016 to 2018, a riveting exercise in deliberative democracy that produced breakthroughs on seemingly intractable issues such as abortion.
The historical Netflix drama "Narcos" could easily have concluded after its riveting second season, which ended with the death of Pablo Escobar, the Colombian drug lord, in a rooftop shootout.
World number three Li is the last woman standing for China, with London silver medalist Wang Yihan upset 22-20 173-19 by India's Sindhu Pusarla in a riveting contest.
As she tells it, she was hot, with no fewer than 23 Vogue magazine covers to her credit, riveting film roles and a long-term, lucrative modeling contract with Lancôme.
In late April, as we heard in riveting testimony last Friday from Ambassador Yovanovitch, she was recalled to Washington and informed that she had lost the confidence of the President.
Malkovich is the only actor, I would say, who juts out from the surface of the film—as riveting as ever, yet savoring his villainy just a little too much.
Sadly, this week's "Designated Survivor" proved unable to maintain this delicate act: It has a riveting A Story, but a labored B Story and an unimportant and mawkish C Story.
In his review for The Times, Charles Isherwood called Davies's impersonation of the singer "positively uncanny," writing that she sings Joplin's songs "with a throbbing fervor that is often riveting."
" The book features a battle between gods, El-Mohtar adds, but "it feels closer to the register of folk tale than epic, and is all the more riveting for that.
BOOTH 313, PIER 90 Down on Pier 503, the New York gallerist Laurence Miller has brought a low-key but riveting group of collages and relief sculptures by Gary Brotmeyer.
But all the same, I find the In the Dark approach to be a strong one for standing up for the integrity of journalism and for creating a riveting story.
She gave a forceful, riveting address in which she correctly said that Donald Trump had "fulfilled the campaign promises of a campaign organized and built upon racism, corporatism and militarism".
There have been riveting episodes on what it's like to be a Taliban captive, but Bergdahl's potential status as a traitor has, for the most part, only been touched on tangentially.
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