in one's tracks

Frequently the featured photography in The Post stops one in one’s tracks because of its artistic quality.

The effect is to be pulled forward and backward simultaneously: yanked into motion by the composition, and stopped in one’s tracks by the Word.

Track′lessness; Track′man, one who has charge of a railway-track; Track′-road, a towing-path; Track′-walk′er, a trackman having charge of a certain section of railway-track.—In one's tracks, just where one stands; Make tracks, to go away hastily, to decamp; Make tracks for, to go after; Off the track, derailed, of a railway carriage, &c.: away from the proper subject.

At other times, one is dazzled by a field of snow or stopped in one's tracks by the sound of a tempest or by birdsong.