Again, David Lynch's fascination with electricity and unexplained phenomena comes to mind. |
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There's nothing, though, that would necessarily explain his aberrant fascination with dead animals. |
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Perhaps now you can appreciate my earlier fascination with clean public washrooms. |
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With rapt fascination I watched the ritualized escape attempt and re-entrapment of the hero every week. |
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Although never a classically handsome frontman, the wild-eyed, razor-thin Cave suddenly found himself an object of female fascination. |
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This fascination with themselves results in keeping diaries or writing poetry. |
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I watched, in mute fascination, as the black wingtip shoe sliced through the air. |
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North American jazz-derived bands have not shown much fascination with ouds, koras, and tablas. |
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We also see the joy, fascination and wonderment on the faces of children as they read, talk with or entertain one of the characters. |
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Each model or client shows the same fascination and wonderment with their lifecast as an infant does when first recognising itself in a mirror. |
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Their adventurous and inquisitive nature explains their fascination with the ancient beauty and splendor of Egypt. |
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There is also a deep fascination with texture from the fine silk cotton yarn, to the merino and the matted felt coats she constructs. |
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His fascination with the event led him to discover for himself when eclipses might occur using only an almanac and a book on geography. |
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Indeed, Bizet's Carmen represents a prime example of the continued European fascination with oriental Spain. |
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The science fiction fascination with robots and androids is the culmination of this perception of machines as being almost like one of us. |
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Jay also has a real fascination with venereal disease, snorting cocaine and taking violent revenge on cheating women. |
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Does it rest on the same fascination with incest and necrophilia as the original? |
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The idea of a liaison with such an older man seemed to hold a fascination which they often discussed among themselves. |
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The colourful, fat tubular flowers of the Antirrhinum, with their snapping 'dragon mouths', have long held a fascination for small children. |
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Brian Henry, a younger poet, shares with Palmer a fascination with negativity, absence and aporia. |
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His fascination with popular culture and the ways it could be appropriated for artistic purposes seem prescient today. |
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I fall back into my old fascination of trying to find the ideal metaphor for the United States, especially as demonstrated in our literatures. |
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Moreover, his fascination with B-movies, science fiction and the rest of pop culture was self-conscious but not qualified by archness or irony. |
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Catherine's own interest in art deco style dates back to the 1980s, although her fascination with period architecture began with art nouveau. |
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With fascination R. watched me rig up this Rube Goldberg device and mount the switch outside the back door. |
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After a brief, initial fascination, the town quickly turns against the boy, and hysteria rules the day. |
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The harmonies become slightly more astringent, and one hears a new fascination with cross-rhythms and syncopation. |
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What if the attraction is an atavistic throwback to the prehistoric human fascination with telling tales? |
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The strange fascination of talent shows has made them a spectacle that continues to draw attentive audiences. |
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Evidence of popular fascination with Iran's Persian heritage is everywhere. |
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It schematically deploys a fictional framework to speculate on Toscanini's hatred of Mussolini and the latter's fascination with the conductor. |
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Like most expats, however, he tempers his fascination with some critical observations. |
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The traditional Chinese nets, landscapes and huts by the river or backwaters are evocative of a child's fascination with the wonders around her. |
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Moving over to sit next to him, I looked on with fascination as two lines of script, one Terran the other Meggin, scrolled across the screen. |
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But all in all, I could understand hot-air balloon aviators' fascination with the sport. |
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As long as domesticated TV reigns supreme, our fascination with the banal will surely continue. |
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Many in the field of reproductive medicine shared his hopes and fears as well as his fascination with the eugenic potential of sperm banking. |
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With a sense of morbid fascination, she peered into the darkness, waiting for the monster to materialize. |
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His fascination with all things Chopper also extends to the world wide web. |
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Several children remained politely outside, staring in silent fascination at this new visitor in their midst. |
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Sibyl watched with fascination and stood, straightening her tight-fitting, crimson gown. |
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This fascination with the workings of the semiconscious mind and with the phenomenology of sense impression goes back to his earliest efforts. |
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Regrettably, it seems to have mesmerized my daughter, who responds with a mixture of fascination and horror. |
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I had a strange fascination with the MGM toons when I was young, especially Droopy. |
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They negotiate the dicey line between mimicry and mockery partly by dint of fascination with details. |
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I don't understand her fascination with someone whom she split up with 15 years ago. |
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But if it tries the moviegoer's patience, the film never cedes its fascination. |
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I have a disturbing fascination with minutiae, general knowledge, pointless facts and other trivia. |
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She watched in fascination, sadly noting that the kindness the boy had shown her before were gone. |
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We find also a fascination with Baroque counterpoint and modal melodies from Gregorian chant to Appalachian folk tunes. |
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Through it all and to the bitter end he continued to exert a strange fascination over his generals, as he did over the whole German people. |
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Much of the fascination of early modern art, literature, and music lies in the double-edged nature of their aesthetic. |
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It seems that the web and politics have become my current fascination at the moment. |
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We paused with morbid fascination at the scene of the recent lorry tragedy and peered cautiously over the edge. |
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Add to this the morbid fascination people have with viewing a corpse and I'm done for. |
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Watching the best players in the world right now mostly failing to match up to the requirements has provided a morbid kind of fascination. |
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It is that he had a morbid fascination with death and he was also an enthusiastic frequenter of public executions. |
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Despite our hatred of the whole process, we still had this morbid fascination with it. |
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A casual view of some of our articles might suggest a morbid fascination with the dead. |
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I didn't notice his fascination with his sister's Cheerios and his cousin's sippy cup. |
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In this collection he searches for the skull of Mary, for whom he had some fascination though she was unaware of it. |
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Olive is an ordinary but unconquerably optimistic girl with a fascination for beauty contests. |
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This all results from my fascination with mummies and other bodies preserved from ancient times. |
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The strange bond that we recognise as the human-animal bond has long been a subject of fascination to those who are not animal lovers. |
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Lillian's fascination with turtles began at age nine, when she received a red-eared slider as a pet. |
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Perhaps the blame for our fascination with the violent acts of unhinged minds should be laid to rest at the creaking door of the Bates motel. |
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How do Baltimore artists grow past a fascination with wigs, boogers, and bicycles? |
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Hs fatal fascination with the Arctic stems from his desire to find an environment suited to his peculiar slowness. |
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The perfumes from the Australian mints, boronias, ziaras and other plants are always a fascination to the visitor. |
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Unexpected and unsought, the sensation of awe has aroused fear as well as fascination among viewers. |
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Most of them were untrained, unaffiliated, unspecialized writers whose common trait was a fascination with the idea of America. |
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The rest of us will gaze upon this with a mixture of amusement, fascination, and confusion at the brazenly bizarre comedy. |
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My fascination with sonoluminescent bubbles continues, in a way, in my high-speed photographic studies of drops and splashes. |
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This can also lead to a certain fascination with a via negativa, a path of negation that approaches the impossible as religious experience. |
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The short story also foreshadows Hemingway's fascination with blood, spectacle and bullfights. |
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They all watch in fear and fascination as Cal soars for a miraculous moment more, buoyed on the wind's strong shoulder. |
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The work displays a fascination with sensuality in film and parallels this with voyeurism and the desire to touch. |
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Among our number, there must be some who can bring home to the viewers the value and fascination of history as an art and science. |
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This disc escapes the electric chair only due to the judge's fascination with William Shatner's hammy acting. |
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Still, the fascination of the Scottish press with whether she is up the duff borders on obsession. |
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I watch with intense fascination as he slowly lights the cancer stick and brings it to his mouth to take a puff. |
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The show conveys the photographer's fascination with the stereotypically genteel gardens of Europe. |
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Her angelic appearance and heinous crimes have made her an object of morbid public fascination. |
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The penchant for sports wear among middle-class youth resided on an almost voyeuristic fascination with American hip-hop subcultures. |
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She recounts in detail her nervousness around him, her supposedly dangerous fascination with his charm. |
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It is this last feature which has given the book a special fascination for food historians. |
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Also at issue in virtually all of his stories is his fascination with both literary and linguistic theory and historical linguistics. |
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The artist's fascination for the Japanese sumi genre is reflected in the series of landscapes presented here. |
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Circles are the subject matter of her new work and she uses them to explore her fascination with planets, moons, suns, fireballs and comets. |
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There were three farriers in action, shoeing horses and making the horseshoes, much to the fascination of onlookers. |
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The cinematography in Rivette's films is driven by his fascination with visual texture. |
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Chance and indeterminancy as applied to storytelling, especially where synchronicity is concerned is a bit of a fascination of mine. |
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The long linen with the faded image of a bearded man is the object of centuries-old fascination and wonderment, and closely kept under wrap. |
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This London based artist exhibits his fascination for cloudscapes, and the natural world as viewed from thousands of feet up. |
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Its graceful pentameter couplets express the mid-century fascination with theatrical performance. |
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As a period piece, her book has a weird fascination, but quite why it found its way into print remains a mystery. |
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She pestered her parents for years to let her go to Germany, with which she had developed a fascination. |
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The site has had, for some time now, a strange fascination with the Christo and Jean-Claude collabo. |
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Certainly, spices added flavour interest to a dish, but their fascination resided primarily in their symbolic value. |
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The Himalayan region has long held a particular fascination for the western mind. |
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It is a game that provides an endless source of fascination as well as fuelling the odd argument. |
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The preserved hull and associated museum will continue to hold a fascination for maritime and terrestrial archaeologists. |
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Some 80 years after its initial release, this wildly over-scaled silent melodrama retains a certain hothouse fascination. |
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Part of the fascination has been the use of many varied mathematical tools to solve the practical problems in coding. |
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And the strange thing is that her life holds as much fascination for us here in Ireland as it does for the public across the water. |
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The fascination about this musical is the exciting rock rhythms and the memorable, lyrical melodies. |
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That first good bullet, bright as a newly minted coin, has always been an item of fascination to me. |
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For Fuhrman, the emergence of poetry as fruitful untruth is a source of fascination. |
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How he maintains his athletic prowess is a subject of fascination among his fans and consternation among his opponents. |
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In the 1970s, the enthusiasm of many obstetricians for electronic foetal monitoring was in fact a real fascination. |
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Much of the fascination Schwarzkogler holds is due to the sheer lack of available information. |
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It remains one of the best works ever written on the fascination that communism holds for generations of intellectuals. |
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However I can understand that there is a fascination in motor bikes and quads for young people. |
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It was the fascination with the poem's musicality that really got Ellison interested in writing. |
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He also expanded his concept of history into the contemporary period through a fascination with international affairs. |
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Several band members are historians and their fascination with Bulgaria's past drew the group together. |
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The battles between the Rock and the Cobra spurred the fascination of the public. |
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The 65-year-old Rolling Stones singer has now revealed a fascination for Latin, the ancient language. |
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The society hopes the exhibits will explain the fascination steam has aroused in the minds of the people. |
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Part of the public's fascination lay in the author's somewhat eccentric lifestyle. |
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However, the fascination of physicists with the natural world shows no sign of ending. |
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I am a compulsive consumer of gossip magazines and freely admit to an unhealthy fascination with celebrity. |
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This is a moment when an older fascination with looking collides with the initial inklings of self-awareness. |
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The audience takes the place of his confessor and, thanks to a compelling performance, experiences both disgust and fascination. |
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It is in the insolubility of these mysteries that the continued fascination with Hitler resides. |
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For confirmed fans, even the round-the-clock building work seems to be more a source of fascination than annoyance. |
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His fascination with the capacity of video to bridge such incomprehensible distances might suggest a preoccupation with instantaneity. |
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Learn to reason with your intellect and not be led by your fascination for thrills and the unknown. |
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Yet conservation of this heritage is a century behind terrestrial archaeology, and as public fascination with it increases, so do the threats. |
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After a while these interminable lists acquire a certain ghoulish fascination, prompting a host of other questions. |
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Affirmative and ambiguous, we are invited to critically examine our own fear of and fascination with the mysterious and irresolute. |
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Farwell also exhibits a Gibson-esque fascination with polysyllabic techno-gobbledygook. |
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Lately, my fascination with the notion of forbidden fruit does not concern rebellious acts, but rather romantic prospects. |
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She should be cuddling her baby son right now or watching with fascination as he learns to walk and talk. |
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The artist's first American show plumbed the art world's bottomless fascination with cuteness, female sexuality and Freud. |
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His strongest collection of poems, Crow, speaks of death in the abstract with a combination of horror, fascination and gallows humour. |
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Who knows, you may find yourself activating a hitherto latent fascination with, say, clinical pathology or gastroenterology? |
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It's exactly the same attitude, despite all the fascination heaped on them, that people had towards the geisha in Japan. |
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He then proceeded to eat his dinner using bread and his fingers in a decorous manner, much to my sons' delight and fascination. |
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Even the publicity for the exhibition plays up a ghoulish fascination with medieval atrocities. |
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At some point he recalled his fascination with psychedelic mushrooms and LSD in college. |
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They'd spot my fascination for Hollywood's formative years, and my devotion to the novel. |
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It created a fascination for Egyptology and for a pharaoh who died as a teenager. |
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His fascination with radio lead him to try to find a technical solution to transmitting digital information using microwaves. |
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He was no apologist, but the glittering, near-feverish eloquence of his writing suggests fascination, almost reverence. |
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But his father also had a fascination with gold, and he grew up hearing tales of miners, prospectors, and grubstakes at the dinner table. |
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But I do think that the fascination, condemnation, and dismissiveness of a lot of the talk about it speaks to the misogyny of our culture. |
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The abandoned ships were docked, forgotten in the fascination that was brewing around them. |
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She was fascinated by the little domiciles, and inspected each one with grave fascination. |
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The new spring exhibition features two Highland artists with a fascination for the local landscape. |
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He has this fascination with not following crowds, which extends to using the back streets wherever possible. |
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Shane took a seat beside her and she watched in fascination as he gobbled it down. |
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In this exhibition, her first ever, she has combined her love of drawing and painting with her fascination for fabric and colours. |
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A small child looks on in fascination, his mouth emitting a long string of drool onto his mother's hands. |
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This might also help explain how his fascination with British history is so muddlingly mixed with a seeming ignorance of old English social systems. |
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Part of the fascination of holidaying in Spain is its fervent localness. |
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Indeed, in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous, the case has been a source of particular fascination and gallows humor. |
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With its formulaic plot of intrigue and power struggles, the current drama at Scottish Screen has been a source of much fascination for the Scottish press. |
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The book tells a spellbinding story of a man with eccentricities that went well beyond a fascination with rocketry and included a penchant for the occult. |
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The contrast between the sweet screen versions of these women and their increasingly loopy and bitter personal lives adds, rather unkindly, to the fascination of the films. |
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Our public fascination with buttholes has also precipitated a whole new genre of celebrity rumors. |
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Although we watch the behavior of the super-rich with goggle-eyed fascination, bad feeling toward them lurks in the wings. |
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Nothing reveals this more clearly than the sequence where Fred glides toward the darkness of a hallway with such intensity, fascination, intrigue and obsession. |
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Her previous film and video work shows a distinct concern for documentary visual practices and a fascination with ethnographic films, exampled in her 1999 film Facing Forward. |
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My sense of harmony, abrupt juxtapositions of texture, polyphonic approaches to rhythm, and voicing, probably have a lot to do with this relatively early fascination. |
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More to the point, he makes his fascination palpable in this journey from the heights of the WWF to the depths of one-night stands in tank towns in Nebraska. |
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For the reader who doesn't share Harrison's fascination with physical extremity, though, the journey can seem less sensuous or revelatory than furtively pornographic. |
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I was reminded of a study that suggests children who develop a fascination with celebrities are likely to be more popular and better adjusted than their squarer peers. |
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These days many parents do discourage their children from such a fascination and may prohibit toy guns of any kind in their homes, even a squirt gun. |
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The founding fathers and mothers had deep fascination with the stylish Chinese porcelains, tea gear, silk, and books on China and Chinese political economy. |
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In doing so, it reflects the manner in which Kafka himself has gradually become indistinguishable from the obscure fascination at the heart of his writings. |
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After broken hearts, geography is country music's biggest fascination. |
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Somewhat elliptically but passionately in his still-halting but intense English, he explains his fascination with the Belgian artist's surrealism. |
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But by far the most interesting object, which held enormous fascination for me, sat high up on the top shelf. |
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Anyone keen to learn the secrets of cryptic crosswords will find more than enough clues in this charming memoir, which traces Balfour's own growing fascination with puzzles. |
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The first vessels moved away from the docks while canvas crept up the masts and sails were sheeted home, and they watched in fascination as the entire convoy began to move. |
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I have that album as a constant reminder that one can regard an artist's entire canon with disinterest, but love one work with intense fascination. |
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There is a certain uncanny fascination about haunted houses, but it is one of which it may emphatically be said that distance lends enchantment to the view. |
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The relationships between bifoliate, bilobed, and uni- foliate leaves in Bauhinia have been a fascination, and several studies had been performed on the topic. |
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Several times a day, you'll catch them gazing at it in unapologetic fascination, heads tilted to one side, eyes filled with wonder, smiles beatific. |
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As the power struggle between the Paris-born merchant prince and the Brooklyn-born whiz has played out, rivals have watched with fascination and contempt. |
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There was, however, more than this in his fascination with Greek tragedy. |
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Many times I've watched in fascination as a doe approached the yard of the cattery and touched noses with a cat through the mesh in a charming cross-species greeting. |
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A prescription for hydroxyzine and a topical steroid cream ended the house call but not my children's fascination with the stranger who came to our home. |
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Mr Arajarvi thereupon averted his eyes, apparently finding the ceiling a source of great fascination. |
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With midterm elections being merely a week away here in the United States, my morbid fascination with what the political pundits are saying has reached a fever pitch. |
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This dazzling conceit betokens the director's fascination with surface, a fascination which, on closer examination, reveals infinite depths of feeling. |
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People are studying the maps with a sick kind of fascination and discussing projected paths and low pressure and millibars and such delights with a fair amount of regularity. |
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I used to travel quite a bit, because I had a gallery in London dealing with oriental art, and it was important to visit areas that held such a fascination for me. |
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This text is seen by Jameson as key to understanding Brecht's critical reflections on dialectics and his orientally informed fascination with flow and flux. |
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What worries me is that the designed world might become so hermetic and the signifiers of functionality so appropriated that the opportunity for that fascination never arises. |
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In addition to their fascination with advertising, the designers of the 1950s and 60s were deeply interested in typography. |
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Quite frankly, it all sounded a little far-fetched as I read the back of my trial pack, but the idea of pheromones has always held something of a fascination to me. |
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Yet I find a fascination in learning about other ways of seeing the reef in which the element of other-worldliness comes through strongly and differently. |
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His stories perfectly capture that fascination with exotic names and improbable colours and, best of all, the thrill of making a wise spending choice. |
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Like a lot of westerners, they had a fascination with the good life. |
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Fortunately, good sense intervened and I eventually got an education, but my fascination with furbearers, trappers and the trapping lifestyle has never waned. |
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The nine large oil paintings and six smaller studies in ink on paper interpret the fear and fascination that endlessness has held for famous writers and mathematicians. |
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Our fascination with ostensibly harmless hoaxes stems, perhaps, from admiration for the ingenuity of the pranksters, combined with schadenfreude towards the duped. |
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The extraordinary price for the ostentatious gown proves that fascination with Princes Diana remains as strong today as ever. |
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But in a world where people are interested in the Kardashians, why should we be mystified by the fascination with Pippa? |
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All the genre paintings evince a personal fascination with their subjects. |
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You can tell that someone thought this off-putting tale of modern mob mentality and teen occult fascination would make a very menacing, demographically secure chiller. |
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So, what is this morbid fascination with complete inhumanity? |
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His poems display a vigorous and energetic fascination with nature. |
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For me, it was his fascination with combining sweet and salty flavours that served him best, something more often seen in traditional Thai gastronomy. |
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You watch with morbid fascination as his world slowly crumbles around him. |
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A little finger explored the button on Stray's hat with fascination. |
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Retina Dance Company presents contemporary pieces inspired by our prevailing fascination with gameshows and the shallow, short-term celebrity they provide. |
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My sister bought me a tea infuser after seeing my fascination with it. |
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Largely ignored as a group in favor of the country's ongoing fascination with Baby Boomers, Generation X grew up quickly in a society that did not particularly value children. |
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To what degree did Poussin's interest in the modes, apparently concurrent with his initial interest in healing images, partake of the wide fascination with occult powers? |
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I saw you offered advice to Jon Hamm about how to handle the fascination over his bulge? |
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Last week saw the launch of Ireland's first ever dedicated crime magazine, a publication that aims to tap into the public's fascination with the underbelly of society. |
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From time immemorial, the moon has been a fascination for mankind. |
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Open sea and clear skies was all very well when teaching a new crewmember the ropes and they never lost their fascination with the captain's young ward. |
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He watched in fascination as Nero, broken and bandaged, did the same. |
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In a city teeming with bankers, actuaries, brokers and insurance men, the manner in which you invest your savings is a subject of endless fascination. |
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As the fight continued Amanda watched in fascination as her friendly innkeeper turned into a raging bull determined to tear his opponent limb from limb. |
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Ultimately, his fascination with the drug gave way to compulsion and a struggle to break the habit. |
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Yet it is the absence of concrete, compelling details that allows these poems to get bogged down in their juvenile fascination with the verbal act as such. |
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For a desert people winds, rain, thunder, lightening, hurricanes, thunderbolts, whirlwinds, and other meteorological phenomena held tremendous fascination. |
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I am not convinced by her argument that peroxided hair came into vogue in the early 1920s, nor that the national fascination with blondes was strong in that decade. |
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Lacklustre reviews had primed me for disappointment with this one, and perhaps that's why, as I turned each page, my delight and fascination grew. |
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Brits also appear to have an long term fascination with types of paving surfaces, so you could find yourself tripping on stone, brick, aggregate, concrete, rock or blocks. |
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He never completely lost his fascination with Wagner, particularly Wagner's harmony, and it certainly comes out here in the many chromatic and enharmonic shifts. |
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He abandoned his work on alchemy, his most recent fascination, and applied his legendary power of concentration completely on the Principia for nearly two years. |
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It was launched by an engineering wizard with a fascination for radio. |
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The obvious impossibility of this task only adds to its fascination. |
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But much of the fascination undoubtedly derives from the unknowability. |
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As a paleontologist, he obviously understands the public fascination with dinosaurs and their remains. |
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Too often, free flowing emotions of sympathy dissipate with the initial fascination, without confronting the long-term consequences of misfortune. |
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The sea unquestionably remains a place of endless mystery and fascination, as it has been since the first humans stood on its shore and tried to grasp its profoundness. |
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While this book reflects a fascination with how things work, it also is a memoir, replete with subjective, idiosyncratic and deeply nostalgic associations. |
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A man of powerful intellect and great energy, Casey was an unreconstructed Cold Warrior with a penchant for action and a fascination with covert operations. |
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Connolly has a deep-seated fascination with the corporate world. |
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He was always falling in love, and I want to see an analogy between his falling in love so desperately, so intensely, and his fascination with tigers. |
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In the pre-millennial run-up, this popular fascination with the ancients was mixed into a New Age stew of half-understood ideas about the origins of religious belief. |
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There is a sort of decadence in our fascination with conjoined twins. |
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Stonehenge still exerts a powerful fascination over people, but on none more than the officials of English Heritage, who are responsible for its care. |
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If anything, women's basketball should work to prove that they're above the fascination with the dunk and that they're willing to focus on the right things. |
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It is the same fascination that fuels a steady flow of Rhodes scholars to our universities and a reverse flow of Britons to Yale, Stanford and Harvard. |
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His fascination both with music and collecting albums began when he played his grandmother's collection of 78 rmp records on a wind-up gramophone. |
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And their respective physical appearances, which have become objects of fascination for their legions of fans, were tragic. |
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The book is done and heading to print but my fascination for 19th century America continues to burn brightly. |
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When you see these identical birds through his fascination with mirrors, the gift makes sense. |
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Aside from the intrinsic fascination for knowing the antiquity of a given species or clade, accurate date estimation is important for advancing evolutionary theory. |
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The first of those questions is a matter of personal fascination over the ability to keep secrets in a fishbowl environment. |
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Those two aspects of Spartan culture and society by themselves make Sparta worthy of our continued study, but they far from exhaust Sparta's fascination. |
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He takes a protective but also frankly spectatorial interest in the lives of his tenants, following their dramas with the fascination of a soap opera addict. |
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Germans have had a fascination for Italy ever since the Noricum king Alaric sacked Rome and ended the Latin Roman Empire. |
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I played in the dirt with a small dinky car as the garage held no fascination for a little girl of five. |
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Both share a fascination for baklava and the stuffed leaves known as dolmades. |
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Her own fascination with the downfall of tsarist Russia began early. |
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Of particular fascination is the author's personal testimony of serving aboard the USS Skipjack submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
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Mature teratomas affect less than 1 percent of people afflicted with brain tumors and have long been viewed with fascination by surgeons. |
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While many parents are puzzled by the fascination with manga, Walker said she gets it. |
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Pacino is Lefty Ruggiero, a low-life small-timer, who has a fascination for the sort of wildlife videos that show lions feasting on wildebeeste. |
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You and I look at the clock or our watches, but before all these the pocketwatch was king and many people have a fascination for them. |
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For further discussion of ruins and fascination with Gothic taste see Terence Davis, The Gothick Taste. |
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Giant squids have long attracted human fascination and were written about and mythologised by the ancient Greeks. |
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Vintage Cars is a tribute to the great automobiles of the past and the undeniable fascination they still hold. |
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Second, close readings of grammarians and polymaths betray a fascination with the relation of vernacular language to pedagogy and geography. |
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I was tempted to go down The Line of Beauty, but the dark, devious and crucially important events at Wolf Hall also had a gripping fascination. |
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Stern opens the story by freely admitting his lifelong fascination with informercials. |
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Some of it is continuing fascination with the Rockefeller family. |
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We watched the derailment and ensuing train wreck with a mixture of fascination and horror. |
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Of particular note is the survival of the pagan fascination with the forest in the retention of Christmas tree even today. |
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He embedded layers of symbolism, allusion, and paradox in his art, to the lasting fascination of scholars. |
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He also showed in his writing some degree of fascination with ghosts and spirits. |
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Pratchett had a fascination with natural history that he referred to many times, and he owned a greenhouse full of carnivorous plants. |
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He augmented his education with a fascination of his surroundings, the industry of the area and reading. |
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Greene was said to have a fascination with strong leaders, which may have accounted for his interest in Castro, whom he later met. |
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Most geographers will cite a childhood fascination with maps as an early sign they would end up in the field. |
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Roman fascination with gladiators is indicated by how widely they are depicted on mosaics, wall paintings, lamps, and even graffiti drawings. |
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However, as growing noble youths, outdoor pursuits and great events would also have held a strong fascination for Robert and his brothers. |
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The accidental discovery of America by Columbus in search for India demonstrates this deep fascination. |
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A simpler alternative is to leverage off the fascination fish have with floating objects. |
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Early colonial artists, trained in Europe, showed a fascination with the unfamiliar land. |
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In the late 19th century, colonial fascination with Arctic peoples led to human beings exhibited in human zoos. |
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The animal was a source of fascination for the Chinese people, who associated it with the mythical Qilin. |
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Such was the intensity of human fascination with this magnificent predator, the only marine bear. |
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The Forum itself would always, henceforth, wield a strange kind of mesmeric fascination upon the mob demagogue or would-be putschist. |
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Thomas Arnold, he rejected the supernatural elements in religion, even while retaining a fascination for church rituals. |
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The witnesses gawked in horror and fascination and held their breaths. |
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Krauss, a theoretical physicist, writes that a Twilight Zone episode sparked his fascination with the concept of hidden worlds. |
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While indulging our fascination with the paranormal, it also took pains to balance the supernatural with the psychological. |
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Huebler's fascination with look-alikes subtly disrupts our sense of stable, autonomous subjectivities. |
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Monks are a constant source of fascination for visitors to Luang Prabang, especially during the early morning almsgiving ceremonies. |
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Other men have not been shy about their fascination with green-eyed women. |
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O'Connell's fascination with the elephant ear structure and hearing capabilities is a central focus of the book. |
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In several texts Fraser proves herself an adroit museologist, betraying a historian's fascination for things archival. |
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Cricket legend Rahul Dravid expressed dismay with India's fascination with cricket and feels that an obsession towards any sport is demoralizing. |
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Besides the regular twirls, swirls and curls, the chic updos are catching up the fascination and imagination of most women these days. |
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Fair was Eutelidas once, with his beautiful hair, But admiring his face in the stream, on himself he inflicted A dread fascination, and wasted away with disease. |
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We watched in dread fascination as he skipped lightly down the steps. |
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Kim was a source of fascination inside the Central Intelligence Agency, which interviewed his mistresses, tried to track his whereabouts and psychoanalyzed his motives. |
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This early fascination with their noise and color continues today. |
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Roman triumphal arches remained a source of fascination well after the fall of Rome, serving as a reminder of past glories and a symbol of state power. |
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Much of this fascination was due to rumours surrounding the Oera Linda Book, falsely claimed to have been found by Cornelis Over de Linden during the 19th century. |
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