What is "arrestingly"

Usage examples of "arrestingly".

The assertion was remarkable partly for being so arrestingly specific but even more for flying in the face of accepted wisdom about the age of the Earth.

Soon after Mantell’s death an arrestingly uncharitable obituary appeared in the Literary Gazette.

He grouped plants by the nature of their reproductive organs and endowed them with an arrestingly anthropomorphic amorousness.

It was perhaps fifteen feet long and conveyed arrestingly and at a glance what 2,200 miles of mountains look like: hard.

On the edge of the picnic area was a big dumpster with a sturdy metal lid that had been severely—arrestingly—mangled and dented and half wrenched from its hinges, presumably by a bear trying to get at park garbage.

On the edge of the picnic area was a big dumpster with a sturdy metal lid that had been severely--arrestingly--mangled and dented and half wrenched from its hinges, presumably by a bear trying to get at park garbage.

It came to the Colonel, as he found himself steadily regarded by those light-blue eyes that looked so arrestingly odd in that tawny face – like pale sapphires set in copper – that this rogue had for some time now been growing presumptuous.

He rose, tall, active, and arrestingly elegant in a scarlet, gold-laced coat that advertised his new position, and slipping the slender volume into his pocket, advanced to the carved rail of the quarter-deck, just as Jeremy Pitt was setting foot upon the companion.

Although he had read accounts of Rosslyn's arrestingly intricate stonework, seeing it in person was an overwhelming encounter.

The sentence, which, strangely and arrestingly, was non-value-free, said: And the good boy and the bad boy -went into the forest.

The total effect was arrestingly beautiful, like some colourful exotic bird.