arresting

comparative more arresting · superlative most arresting

1. figurativelyStriking, gripping.

   There's a little of each in "Julien Donkey-Boy," a visually arresting, dramatically blurry portrait of a schizophrenic.

   2001, New York Times Theater Reviews, The New York Times Film Reviews, 1999-2000, page 146

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   This story of how American originality lost its way is arresting and well told. On an alternate timeline without Donald Trump in office dismantling the American scientific establishment and Elon Musk kneecapping the American state, it might have been the manifesto of a new politics.

   2025 March 18, Samuel Moyn, “Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2025

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of arrest