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The details of how he came to settle in Washington are as arrestingly imprecise as the matter of his age.

Restaurateur Ashok Bajaj: Potentate of the D.C. plate Manuel Roig-Franzia 2011

"She" is the ancient city of Palmyra—one of the most arrestingly beautiful archaeological sites in the Middle East.

Temple of the 'Bride of the Desert' Christian C. Sahner 2011

Rickman's internal monologue is arrestingly rich – a waiter "slices into the infant conversation like a sweetly slung axe" – while also revealing him as a sad, stuffy, self-absorbed, lecherous old man, lost in a haze of bitter nostalgia and verbosity.

Tonight's TV highlights Will Hodgkinson 2010

The details of how he came to settle in Washington are as arrestingly imprecise as the matter of his age.

Restaurateur Ashok Bajaj: Potentate of the D.C. plate Manuel Roig-Franzia 2011

But Christopher Payne's new photography book, Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals, is an arrestingly beautiful look at facilities where generations of patients once lived, worked, and died.

Where Patients Once Sought Asylum - Culture - The Atlantic 2010

RT @bnreviewer: @MaudNewton unearths an arrestingly nasty swipe from Ambrose Bierce.

Tweets 2009

“Although not overly handsome in a classical sense,” we read, “the forty-year-old Langdon had what his female colleagues referred to as an ‘erudite’ appeal — wisp of gray in his thick brown hair, probing blue eyes, an arrestingly deep voice, and the strong, carefree smile of a collegiate athlete.”

Film 2009

“Although not overly handsome in a classical sense,” we read, “the forty-year-old Langdon had what his female colleagues referred to as an ‘erudite’ appeal — wisp of gray in his thick brown hair, probing blue eyes, an arrestingly deep voice, and the strong, carefree smile of a collegiate athlete.”

Science 2009

RT @bnreviewer: @MaudNewton unearths an arrestingly nasty swipe from Ambrose Bierce.

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

Released last year, "For All We Know," by singer Jose James and Belgian pianist Jef Neve, caught everyone by surprise: an arrestingly sharp album by a remarkable singer that few in the American jazz community had heard of.

Showing Love With a Heart-Shaped Box of Jazz Will Friedwald 2011