adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Kevin Bacon gives a riveting performance as O'Keefe.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even during recent years of poor health, his outstanding qualities were riveting charm and mental vitality.
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Even the most gifted editor would have problems turning much of the obligatory information into riveting reading.
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In the first place they were presented with a riveting demonstration of what a genuinely free press is capable of.
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Jenny's story would probably turn out to be more riveting than anything in a woman's picture paper.
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Only once before has this riveting axis started a game and the first-half goal rush was an event waiting to happen.
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Perhaps you'd rather stay here and read your riveting book.
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This is a riveting but by no means an easy book to read.
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Though it's hardly the most riveting of his works.