riveting
/ (ˈrɪvətɪŋ) /
absolutely fascinating; enthralling
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This likely sounds like a nightmare to watch if you’re more or less living it, but The Pink Cloud is haunting and riveting in the best way.
4 new movies that explore — or predict — a year dominated by a pandemic | Alissa Wilkinson | February 5, 2021 | VoxFortunately, those shortcomings have been successfully addressed in the riveting second season.
Review: Heartbreaking His Dark Materials S2 finale sets the stage for war | Jennifer Ouellette | January 12, 2021 | Ars TechnicaYet, the memoir is, also, a riveting account of Chasten’s life.
‘I Have Something to Tell You’ not typical, political puff piece | Kathi Wolfe | September 24, 2020 | Washington Blade“Impeachment is a riveting event in the history of the country,” Kucinich says.
Repubs Should Take It From Kucinich: Impeachment Isn’t Worth It | Eleanor Clift | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe also captured the entire episode in her riveting, award-worthy documentary Citizenfour, which is in theaters now.
He opens up about the bogus Midnight Express, Oliver Stone on blow, and his riveting one-man show.
The Unbelievable (True) Story of the World’s Most Infamous Hash Smuggler | Marlow Stern | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSpader, so intense and riveting last year as Red, has lost some of that unyielding relentlessness.
The Blacklist’s Frustrating Fall: Keen’s a Keeper, but Red Regresses | Jason Lynch | November 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe experts there said the material and the riveting was what would have been used in the relevant time period.
This process of forming the second head on the rivet is known as riveting, and may be done by hand-hammering or by a machine.
An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design | David Allan LowThis support may be made stationary by riveting it to the back, or hinged, which is much better, as is shown at E and F.
Copper Work | Augustus F. RoseThe flues are usually constructed by riveting sheets together, as in making the shell or outer portion.
A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine | Robert H. ThurstonSeven-sixteenth-inch plates, re-riveting, frame-pieces and all the various items Lloyds could hit upon as needful.
Dry Fish and Wet | Anthon Bernhard Elias NilsenStill there are others, plenty of others, enough to satisfy even Knott's greed of riveting broken human crockery.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady | Lucas Malet
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