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The cockeyed perspective she'd absorbed from the surrealists served her well in the arresting, absurdist images she captured during the Blitz: a crushed Remington typewriter; a male mannequin standing incongruously in a heap of curbside rubble.— The Chicago Blog
Equally arresting is the sequence where our desi dude, superhero Drona, meets the arch-villain Riz, played by Kay Kay Menon, for the first time.— India eNews
Of all the study's findings, the most arresting are the responses ranked by type of Jew.— Signs of the Times
An inspection of the lyrics chanted by Flo Rida show him to be an adherent to rap's most arresting, advance-to-the-rear conventions.— Can't Stop The Bleeding
Then police would stop arresting, then the legislature would be forced to change the laws.— The Ukiah Daily Journal Forum

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