Sentence examples for Grim fascination from inspiring English sources

But the story still exerts a grim fascination.

War is appalling and mostly to be avoided, but it has a grim fascination.

As Ms. Jeffers noted with grim fascination, it has started "creeping around the wall, like moss".

The pianist Mitsuko Uchida has watched the economic waters rise with a grim fascination.

"Now we have the blessing of the tube visited on us, with kind of a grim fascination," he said.

At first, there was merely a grim fascination at the grating sound of a working man's voice.

Some, such as "Jihadi John," have become the subject of a grim media fascination.

I confess to a grim, if dismayed, fascination with the practice of censorship, which I can date to the appearance, in the Times, of an Op-Ed piece in 1982, "A Censor Confesses," which a preface describes as "excerpts from an interview with a former Polish censor, identified as K-62, that appeared in May 1981 in a Solidarity weekly".

There is a formal pleasure and fascination in the way Farhardi juxtaposes the grim, complex scenes of the couple's real life with the scenes from Arthur Miller's play, with its formal demonstrations of emotion.

Far be it for Pratchett to stick reverently to the hackneyed image of the Grim Reaper, the novelists' Death dresses up as Father Christmas and displays an endearing fascination for the human lives he is helping to extinguish.

For Coleman, these grim figures play a crucial role in contemporary society; they're figures of morbid fascination, both repulsive and magnetic.