With fleecy wisps of cloud obscuring its surface here and there, with gleaming ice caps making of its poles two brilliant areas of white, it presented an arrestingly beautiful spectacle indeed; but DuQuesne was not interested in beauty.

Instantly recognized by her "arrestingly beautiful tone colour" (The Strad).

These movies are full of elegant, witty sequences and arrestingly beautiful images, reflections on the process of filmmaking and examinations of the concrete facts of human experience and the natural world.

An arrestingly beautiful collection of islets with a relaxed, friendly feeling and about 56,000 people, the Marshall Islands are about as American as a non-American place can be.

Any one of these ideas might have proved fertile ground, but Mr. Schlingensief's "Parsifal" ultimately undermined itself through overinclusion, a crowding of signs and symbols that did little to illuminate the truths of this dark, complex and arrestingly beautiful work.

It was late in the afterpids; the sun was setting behind him, behind the mountains, and its ruddy glare on the smog-colored clouds was arrestingly beautiful.

The interior decoration consist of several interesting altars with old paintings, arrestingly beautiful stained glass windows from 1914, grand chandelier from the 1930s and many other interesting historic objects.

TO encounter Sri Lanka, the island nation off the coast of India, is to become obsessed with it, and to search ever after for an explanation of how this arrestingly beautiful place plunged into hell on earth in barely a decade.

As with Hemingway, this technique produces some lines that are arrestingly beautiful and some that are irritatingly bland.

The Sahara is at times arrestingly beautiful: horizon-to-horizon vistas of sand in a palette of colors, luxurious arches of palm trees swaying in the wind.