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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See riveting.

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  • verb Alternative spelling of riveting.

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Examples

  • Superb use of lighting (reminds me of Welles), rivetting usage of ultra close-ups -- audio and visual -- (watch for cream atop the strudel; listen to the movement of leather SS jackets), disturbing, memorable violence … all the things you love and expect from Tarantino.

    Glorious Inglorious Basterds 2009

  • Superb use of lighting (reminds me of Welles), rivetting usage of ultra close-ups -- audio and visual -- (watch for cream atop the strudel; listen to the movement of leather SS jackets), disturbing, memorable violence … all the things you love and expect from Tarantino.

    2009 November 09 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • To see them walking up to charging police with flags ...then running backwards was rivetting for me and , I guess, more than the police could take.

    Egypt: After the revolution, the ballot box | Observer editorial 2011

  • God, its rivetting stuff, cant wait for the next installment.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • This film, opening tonight in New York, above all offers a rare chance to see clips of the rivetting Benazir, from 70s student at Harvard to Prime Minister to mature woman and mother in Dubai, when the signs of weariness just begin to touch her brow.

    Karin Badt: Benazir Bhutto: Saviour of Pakistan? New Biopic Released Today in the U.S. Karin Badt 2010

  • The cue that Zimmer developed for the Joker is emotionally rivetting and rivals the famous work that Williams did in his cues for the shark in Jaws.

    The Dark Knight Score Disqualified From Academy Award Consideration | /Film 2008

  • This film, opening tonight in New York, above all offers a rare chance to see clips of the rivetting Benazir, from 70s student at Harvard to Prime Minister to mature woman and mother in Dubai, when the signs of weariness just begin to touch her brow.

    Karin Badt: Benazir Bhutto: Saviour of Pakistan? New Biopic Released Today in the U.S. Karin Badt 2010

  • That whole presentation is one of the most rivetting/sad/distressing things I have ever seen/heard.

    Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

  • Ed, Nab End is rivetting in telling about poverty and the collapse of people's worlds in Blackburn and Burnley and all the to-ing and fro - ing to America, but what do you think it says about fascism?

    The Nazi In Me Newmania 2007

  • Ed, Nab End is rivetting in telling about poverty and the collapse of people's worlds in Blackburn and Burnley and all the to-ing and fro - ing to America, but what do you think it says about fascism?

    The Nazi In Me Newmania 2007

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