How To Use Fascination In A Sentence

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.
I had a strange fascination with the MGM toons when I was young, especially Droopy.
She recounts in detail her nervousness around him, her supposedly dangerous fascination with his charm.
Was it a deviant thirst to find a lifelong fascination with such things? Times, Sunday Times
Washington dreamed his way along the street, his fancy flitting from grain to hogs, from hogs to banks, from banks to eyewater, from eye-water to Tennessee Land, and lingering but a feverish moment upon each of these fascinations. The Gilded Age, Part 1.

Yet conservation of this heritage is a century behind terrestrial archaeology, and as public fascination with it increases, so do the threats.
Bunbury was staring in awful fascination at Windrush, who opened his mouth to wreck the entire con - hook, line and sinker. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
It challenges the seemingly benign interest we have in criminology and forces us to question our morbid fascination with terrible deeds. Times, Sunday Times
As an object of fascination and repulsion to the two men who represent the center of authority in their respective narratives, Carmen spells a threatening other, a dark figure that resists assimilation and endangers masculine power.
One particular fascination to Europeans who flocked to watch her shows was her large, steatopygous buttocks. ANC Daily News Briefing
Ick. Why MSNBC keeps him on is a mystery to me (and is lumped into the same mystery of why Maureen Dowd and David broder, for instance, have such an unhealthy fascination with the sexual activities of politicisn -- seriously, they're just strange, aren't they?) Chris Matthews, On Whether MSNBC Supports Obama: "Well, It's Not Official"
Public fascination with the romantic lives of our country's most powerful (mostly single) women is fairly predictable, train-wreck coverage that ranges from whispers of lesbianism to reports of so-called bitchy behavior to completely de-humanizing or hyper-sexualized commentary involving pantsuits. Maegan Carberry: Finding a Man's Love in a Man's World
If anyone wants to watch the rapid self-demolition of a mudfish, as I did with with clinical fascination, go here. Archive 2009-11-01
This fascination with themselves results in keeping diaries or writing poetry.
Their adventurous and inquisitive nature explains their fascination with the ancient beauty and splendor of Egypt.
I think, when I was a kid, I was always really fascinated with folk music and folk tales and fairytales and have always just kind of harbored this fascination with them. Colin Meloy: '10-Dollar Words' For A Cause
Moreover, his fascination with B-movies, science fiction and the rest of pop culture was self-conscious but not qualified by archness or irony.
For Fuhrman, the emergence of poetry as fruitful untruth is a source of fascination.
Many households must be watching this series in horrified fascination as they see their well-meaning attempts at parenting lampooned with such merciless accuracy. Times, Sunday Times
Mathematics tends to bisect people into either fascination or annoyance. Take A Second Shot At Understanding Maths | Lifehacker Australia
The colourful, fat tubular flowers of the Antirrhinum, with their snapping 'dragon mouths', have long held a fascination for small children.
Regrettably, it seems to have mesmerized my daughter, who responds with a mixture of fascination and horror.
Too often, free flowing emotions of sympathy dissipate with the initial fascination, without confronting the long-term consequences of misfortune.
He says he ‘never took a drug in my life ‘, although he retains a theoretical fascination for rock'n'roll bacchanalia.
Lillian's fascination with turtles began at age nine, when she received a red-eared slider as a pet.
Learning these drapes is part of the fascination of the sari: it's like doing very large-scale origami around your own body. Half a Billion Indian Women Can't Be Wrong
His letters have been a source of fascination to a wide audience.
I have always had a fascination for botanic gardens.
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.
Creating fascination is one of the best ways to create focus on anything you want to achieve. How to Create an Article of 1,000+ Words in 90 Minutes or Less | Write to Done
Kennedy's trademark fascination with violence, both physical and psychological, animates these stories in alternately bold and subtle guises: the literal bloodshed in "What Becomes" and "Story of My Life" complements the romantic heartbreak in "Edinburgh" and "Sympathy. Review of What Becomes by A.L. Kennedy
The reverence accorded canonical figures, the faith that art was immortal, the fascination with an individual artist's character - he ridiculed them all.
While it can all seem a bit smug to some, it is a more democratic scene than in decades past, though a fascination with the gentry remains. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Certainly, spices added flavour interest to a dish, but their fascination resided primarily in their symbolic value.
She shared his fascination for motorbikes.
This provides a final reminder of the fascination of Alaska. Times, Sunday Times
She looked startled and gazed at me with a terrified fascination. DEAD BEAT
Ninety-odd photos from an archive of more than 5000 in the Akademie der Künste Berlin held me in fascination for most of the afternoon - beautifully expressive, often richly textured - but what I may remember even more vividly is the hour-long film portrait of her, made in 1992 by Antonia Lerch. 'All the new beginnings...'
The "hidden hand' and " fancy footwork' exercised an enduring fascination for him. THE GUARDSMEN
She stood across the crowd, with something I could only describe as bewildered fascination written all over her expression. Crescendo
Still, American fascination with PMQs bemuses Britons. U.K. Election Turns to U.S. for Style
Separated from a certain fascination that there was for her in Edward's acerb wit, she saw that he was doing a dastardly thing in cold blood. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
It was launched by an engineering wizard with a fascination for radio.
If we've ever had internal conflicts about cheating or wanting to cheat, had sexual longings for or experiences with someone of the same sex, imagined being with a prostitute or had pedophilic fantasies, watched porn or coveted a neighbor's husband or wife, we're going to be drawn -- in guilty fascination or fearful hostility -- to public disclosures of both forbidden sexual behavior and it's humiliating confession. Michael Bader, D.M.H.: Everything Said About Anthony Weiner Is Bull
We have been struck by the fascination people have for oral, local and family history. Times, Sunday Times
It did not replace my fascination for mammals, birds and reptiles.
For a desert people winds, rain, thunder, lightening, hurricanes, thunderbolts, whirlwinds, and other meteorological phenomena held tremendous fascination.
Racing appears the most absurd outgrowth of our fascination with the car: drivers hurtle around in circles, at the limits of adhesion.
However, the fascination of physicists with the natural world shows no sign of ending.
The road has a specific morbid relevance to Howie; it's where his mother was killed, and its concrete expanses hold both repulsion and fascination for him.
The truth is, he who shall duly consider these matters, will find that there is a certain bewitchery, or fascination in words, which makes them operate with a force beyond what we can naturally give an account of. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
Their manners and movements are unaffected and elegant; they dress in exquisite taste; and with a grace peculiarly their own, their manners have a fascination and witchery which is perfectly irresistible. The Englishwoman in America
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.
Yet this fascination with emotion trapped in pigment is pursued most powerfully and strikingly in British art of the modern and early modern era. Times, Sunday Times
The idea of a liaison with such an older man seemed to hold a fascination which they often discussed among themselves.
There's a morbid fascination with knowing celebrities are just like us. Times, Sunday Times
From the album "Armchair Apocrypha" (2007) When I was just a little boy I threw away all of my action toys I became obsessed with operation, oh Hearts and minds and certain glands You got to learn to keep a steady hand And thus began my morbid fascination Tore all the spines out from all of these self-help books Made myself a gun that not only shoots but looks real Yeah it shoots through steel with rays of dark matter Rays of dark matter Just the thought of all this red and black Thought of tongues that tasted bad Fill you with the nausea-ausea-ausea-alation Do you wonder where the self resides Is it in the head or between your sides And who would be the one who will decide it's two locations The noose is loosed around our necks made of DNA And everyday it's growing tighter, no matter what you do or say But you can shoot right through with rays of dark matter Right before they kick out, they kick out the ladder Rays of dark matter When I was just a little boy I threw away all of my action toys I became obsessed with operation Hearts and minds and certain glands You got to learn to keep a steady hand And thus began my morbid fascination WN.com - Financial News
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.
His poems display a vigorous and energetic fascination with nature.
All the genre paintings evince a personal fascination with their subjects.
For confirmed fans, even the round-the-clock building work seems to be more a source of fascination than annoyance.
For me, I guess the core reason was ‘fascination’ - things firing my imagination and integrating that with my angle on approaching the world.
R'shiel understood their fascination with the music and lamented its loss to the human world. TREASON KEEP
He watched in horrified fascination as the lieutenant took out a single match and poised it over the striking strip.
_Africaine_, reformed, refined, beautified in her descendants, transformed into the creole negress, commenced to exert a fascination irresistible, capable of winning anything (_capable de tout obtenir_). Two Years in the French West Indies
"What do you think the average Japanese kid thinks about America's, you know, exoticized fascination with Japan?"
The fifth was a biography of a famous writer, which Boy read twice with great fascination.
There's nothing, though, that would necessarily explain his aberrant fascination with dead animals.
I have a morbid fascination for thinking about how to survive without the trappings of modern life. Times, Sunday Times
The navies of all the major powers awaited the outcome of this confrontation with particular fascination. SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution
Outwardly quiet and unostentatious, he was a deeply thoughtful man who shared his father's fascination with the complex iconography of ecclesiastical architecture and trappings.
Joseph Viscomi asserts that "working on metal with the tools of poet and painter enabled Blake to create a multi-media space, a 'site' where poetry, painting, and printmaking came together in ways both original and characteristic of Romanticism's fascination with autographic gesture, with spontaneity, intimacy, and organicism Blake's Contraries Game
Ayrton Senna is always carrying on about the intellectual and spiritual fascination of discovering his own limits in a racing car.
Indeed, Bizet's Carmen represents a prime example of the continued European fascination with oriental Spain.
He found great fascination in her quiet, frank manner.
My sister bought me a tea infuser after seeing my fascination with it.
A casual view of some of our articles might suggest a morbid fascination with the dead.
Newspapers are simply responding to the eternal fascination of their readers with the private lives of the rich and famous.
Its graceful pentameter couplets express the mid-century fascination with theatrical performance.
Pop, in a word, is fascination versus meaning.
The fascinations of the circus are endless.
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.
Do you take ghoulish fascination in watching a man drive a long nail into his nostril? Times, Sunday Times
Brian Henry, a younger poet, shares with Palmer a fascination with negativity, absence and aporia.
Barbara would hearken in awed fascination to that story of the man lost in the desert, whose eyes looked once upon fabulous wealth but who could never find it again. The Windy Hill
The main fascination seems to be the residents 'utter lack of choice and opportunity. A Russian Novel by Emmanuel Carrère – review
By contrast, I think Arnold's fascination of late with "the tails" is a lot more in line with what will eventually win out in the way we think about markets. Comments on Hayek, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
They exert a hold and a fascination that is all-consuming. Times, Sunday Times
One of the strong currents found within the avant-garde art movement was that of a certain fascination with "primitivism", which looked to non-European sources for inspiration and which was significantly rooted in a rejection of more traditional Western forms of art. Continuity, Beauty and Dignity within the Liturgical Arts and their Development
But if you have a ghoulish fascination with plane crashes - and who doesn't? The Sun
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.
He then proceeded to eat his dinner using bread and his fingers in a decorous manner, much to my sons' delight and fascination.
Their fascination with our firepit is the foundation of all scientific discovery. Young Men and Fire
The object of the bronies' fascination is "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic," a remake of a 1980s animated TV show for preadolescent girls featuring plucky, candy-colored equines. Hey, Bro, That's My Little Pony! Guys' Interest Mounts in Girly TV Show
Connolly has a deep-seated fascination with (and, equally clearly, a repulsion from) the corporate world.
I am told that Lucy Ringwood promises to possess all that fascination so pleasing to your sex in ours, and which peculiarized her lovely mother. Romance Readers and Romance Writers: a Satirical Novel
Their paranoid espousal of various conspiracy theories, rabid support of Israel and religious Zionism, and fiery preaching about the "Islamic Threat" held for me a strange fascination.
China Art of contemporary era licks its value and fascination into shape just in this kind of variable space-time.
An alert reader is correct in noting my fascination with these, but some questions are best left unasked. Who asked for it? (Jack Bog's Blog)
Though four generations older than Henry Purcell, Orlando Gibbons wrote a body of music for viols that exerts much the same fascination as Purcell's later and more familiar viol fantasias.
Vuurdoorn is a druid/dryad and a ritualist with a fascination for silly humans without really caring for their well-being. Kederan XV Conquering Krimmhild
Much less importance for therapeutic purposes belongs to that hypnoid state which is reached without the idea of sleep where the subject comes with open eyes into a kind of fascination, produced perhaps by a sudden flash of light or by the firm eye of the hypnotizer. Psychotherapy
My atheism isn't due to a lack of interest in God at all, but rather the opposite: a fascination with humanity.
The internet has helped to feed the fascination people have for'other' worlds. Times, Sunday Times
A little finger explored the button on Stray's hat with fascination.
The obvious impossibility of this task only adds to its fascination.
He was no apologist, but the glittering, near-feverish eloquence of his writing suggests fascination, almost reverence.
On the press benches those deputed to chronicle the roll-call of the accused had adopted a glassy-eyed fascination with the process, scanning the lists of handlers of stolen goods for genuine firestarters, mostly in vain. England riots: justice grinds on as courts sit through the night
Air is always nice, of course, but the fascination with massive amounts of headroom in modern cars still seems slightly mysterious. Times, Sunday Times
In this collection he searches for the skull of Mary, for whom he had some fascination though she was unaware of it.
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.
But if it tries the moviegoer's patience, the film never cedes its fascination.
However I can understand that there is a fascination in motor bikes and quads for young people.
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?
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.
His fascination with the capacity of video to bridge such incomprehensible distances might suggest a preoccupation with instantaneity.
North American jazz-derived bands have not shown much fascination with ouds, koras, and tablas.
One of the fascinations of stamps is that they broadly reflect the history of their times.
Elsewhere, Astbury's signature blend of metal-god narcissism and shaman-like mysticism is in full bloom on the acoustic "Holy Mountain," glammy "Diamonds" and Bush rebuke "Tiger in the Sun," which oddly resembles the Cure's "Fascination Street. Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
I watched all the big fish with morbid fascination.
The British public's fascination with exotic animals is giving the RSPCA problems ranging from a tank full of terrapins dumped on a doorstep in Rotherham to a Burmese python abandoned in a back yard in Bradford.
A fascination with castrati—fueled by her reaction to certain men she met in Italy—leads her to Castlegar, British Columbia, where at a tiny airport she is serenaded by members of the local men's choir and served a surprisingly good bowl of borscht. Far-Flung Journeys Through Song and Prose
They'd spot my fascination for Hollywood's formative years, and my devotion to the novel.
As an anthropological study of male bonding, the dorm and field shenanigans hold a fascination. Times, Sunday Times
The work displays a fascination with sensuality in film and parallels this with voyeurism and the desire to touch.
The sunlight coruscating on the surface of the water began to lock her gaze in a grip of fascination. COMPULSION
The society hopes the exhibits will explain the fascination steam has aroused in the minds of the people.
Put it down to a morbid fascination with sport and the way it is portrayed. Times, Sunday Times
There were three farriers in action, shoeing horses and making the horseshoes, much to the fascination of onlookers.
How he maintains his athletic prowess is a subject of fascination among his fans and consternation among his opponents.
We also see the joy, fascination and wonderment on the faces of children as they read, talk with or entertain one of the characters.
Though London was, apparently, unaware of either the technical or psychological area in which he was working, his fascination for the device gives another dimension to the studies of his naturalistic literature. 1 Finally, to note the ways in which London's artistry is at work at this point in his career, there is considerable ingenuity in the somewhat original fashion in which London parallels the “retrogression” of Buck to the “progression” of Fang. Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang
My fascination with on-stage French snow may seem strange.
Each model or client shows the same fascination and wonderment with their lifecast as an infant does when first recognising itself in a mirror.
Why the endless fascination with serving food and drink? Times, Sunday Times
His letters have been a source of fascination to a wide audience.
If it be birds that ultimately euphemize human death and decomposition in Silas' hands, it's for no other reason than that our fear of death, a fear necessary to life, overrides even our fascination with the death of our own kind, the deaths of the animals nearest to us in the evolutionary chain, and so on down the line. G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas
The public showed a fascination in the morbid during the year. Times, Sunday Times
Few others could have pulled off turning our feculence into fascination. Garbage Land: Summary and book reviews of Garbage Land by Elizabeth Royte.
A love for music and a fascination for robotics prompt two Brooklyn men to build the world's first fully robotic Gamelan Orchestra.
The two-hour CBS special, culled from a pair of New York concerts toasting his three decades as a solo artist, reached 25.6 million viewers, proof aplenty that Jackson remains an object of fascination. Archive: Michael in the mirror
Certainly, such things hold a great fascination. Times, Sunday Times
The fascination of the game lies in trying to guess what your opponent is thinking.
And yet even the halfwit books retain a certain fascination, as Messrs. Will Books Survive?
The woman who made her name on the back of a seemingly inexhaustible fascination with property prices has changed her tune. Times, Sunday Times
There seems to be this fascination with orality.
His true fascination was with the exploration of human character through facial expression.
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.
Perhaps because of antics such as these, and Woodrow and Aiden's fascinations, the word "apocalypse" has been thrown around in connection with the film. SFGate: Top News Stories
What a fascination a title exercises upon the imagination! The Room in the Dragon Volant
A fascination with the sloganlike rhetoric of Tin Pan Alley runs through the collection, culminating in the title poem: 'So be a girly man/ & sing this gurly song/ Sissies & proud/ That we would never lie our way to war.'”—Publishers Weekly The Chicago Blog: Press Release: Bernstein, Girly Man
It challenges the seemingly benign interest we have in criminology and forces us to question our morbid fascination with terrible deeds. Times, Sunday Times
Why that should be so remains the subject of endless fascination or indignant denunciation. Times, Sunday Times
For me, the main fascination of the fantasy story lies in its manipulation of direct subconscious symbols. Secondary Fantasy Worlds and the Filipino « BAHAY TALINHAGA
She should be cuddling her baby son right now or watching with fascination as he learns to walk and talk.
The artist's fascination for the Japanese sumi (ink painting) genre is reflected in the series of landscapes presented here.
Yet fascination with firepower can be cumulative, leading to a quest for ever bigger and bloodier effects.
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.
The Waldenses (of whom the Albigenses are a species) were," he says, "never free from the most wretched excess of fascination;" and finally, though he allows the conduct of the judges to have been most odious, he cannot prevail on himself to acquit the parties charged by such interested accusers with horrors which should hardly have been found proved even upon the most distinct evidence. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
There's a morbid fascination with knowing celebrities are just like us. Times, Sunday Times
He was watching her with the paralytic fascination a rodent has for a poisonous serpent. FLOATING CITY
Where did it all start… if I were to pin point any particular instance, it was my fascination with dragons and the genre of science fiction / fantasy.
It's exactly the same attitude, despite all the fascination heaped on them, that people had towards the geisha in Japan.
They stood watching dumbly in horrible fascination after it shattered.
This fascination with the workings of the semiconscious mind and with the phenomenology of sense impression goes back to his earliest efforts.
Their adventurous and inquisitive nature explains their fascination with the ancient beauty and splendor of Egypt.
The strange fascination of talent shows has made them a spectacle that continues to draw attentive audiences.
A casual view of some of our articles might suggest a morbid fascination with the dead.
Learn to reason with your intellect and not be led by your fascination for thrills and the unknown.
The poet Ezra Pound, a central figure of Modernism, is a case in point: while his fascination with Chinese writing spawned the ideogrammic method, the mimicry and gestures of the 'primitive languages in Africa' would never become more than a mere curiosity (ABC of Reading, 21). Recently Uploaded Slideshows
The poem turns out to be notable as much for its spirited adoption of the early twentieth-century's fascination with somnolent states as for a subtle differentiation from the era's norms.
A cheerful site for those of us with morbid fascination.
They are part of my fascination with the supernatural, the otherworldly, the dark and sinister, in contrast to the radiometer, which is of the material world, and which relies on the light, rather than dark. What does your writing area say about you? « Write Anything
The real fascination in snooker is watching one of the top players pot and position themselves, time and again. Suttree » Casual Games, Social Software » Casual semantics
I suppose we all have a fascination with death.
The fascination lay in the mystery of what was inside the box.
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.
To her father's disgust she bought them both, and presented them to two wide-eyed children who in bashful fascination were dogging their footsteps. Jerry Junior
Vidal's fascination with politics is undiminished.
Much of the fascination that the book continues to exert is owing to its context, and none of the editions I possess, including Paul Foote's 1966 translation and now this very deft version by Hugh Aplin, has failed to include quite a deal of background material without which Mikhail Lermontov's brief, intricate masterpiece is difficult to appreciate. A Doomed Young Man
The less definitive their track listings, the sketchier the circumstances of their disappearance, the stronger the fascination they hold. Times, Sunday Times
Watching the best players in the world right now mostly failing to match up to the requirements has provided a morbid kind of fascination.
And it gave me a lifelong fascination for the beach hut. Times, Sunday Times
In the 1970s, the enthusiasm of many obstetricians for electronic foetal monitoring was in fact a real fascination.
He has this fascination with not following crowds, which extends to using the back streets wherever possible.
Seeing over a thousand species of fish is part of the fascination of the reef.
An auction of Madoff family belongings held at New York's Sheraton Hotel and Towers in November arguably displayed Americans' fascination with the abyss--but the rubbernecker-bidders were also doing some good. Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II
The fourth clue is the fascination that conflict holds for politicians and their hangers-on. Times, Sunday Times
I learned how to find the sexiness and the intensity and the compelling sense of fascination and intrigue -- in sane, balanced, stable people.
The fascination of the game lies in trying to guess what your opponent is thinking.
I have a disturbing fascination with minutiae, general knowledge, pointless facts and other trivia.
This classic tale, with its evergreen Tchaikovsky score, tells the story of a girl who receives a nutcracker as a Christmas gift from her uncle, who is known for his fascination with the enchanted.
In this, again, they resemble Swift, though they rarely share his horrified fascination.
The abandoned ships were docked, forgotten in the fascination that was brewing around them.
His fascination with the subtleties of human behaviour makes him a good storyteller.
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.
Ayrton Senna is always carrying on about the intellectual and spiritual fascination of discovering his own limits in a racing car.
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.
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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