Sentence examples for Prompted by curiosity from inspiring English sources

But, prompted by curiosity, I decided to embark on a genealogical expedition, and I am now learning details about my lineage that I had never known.

After the viewing, prompted by curiosity, I looked (very casually, just a few minutes' click-around) at news about the Hotshots and turned up an entire realm of activity that's integral to their lives yet is excluded from the movie, and that is at least as interesting regarding them and about their locale and American times at large as anything in the movie.

After the viewing, prompted by curiosity, I looked (very casually, just a few minutes' click-around) at news about the Hotshots and turned up an entire realm of activity that's integral to their lives yet is excluded from the movie, and that is at least as interesting regarding them — and about their locale and American times at large — as anything in the movie.

Written by scholars of both Dutch and Indian art, the essays in this volume instead demonstrate how Rembrandt’s contact with Mughal painting inspired him to draw in an entirely new, refined style on Asian paper—an approach that was shaped by the Dutch trade in Asia and prompted by the curiosity of a foreign culture.

Also, like most of my work, this project was prompted by my curiosity to see what would happen if I performed a surprising act in public.

The fact is that few of my readers are of that sort and so their inquiries are prompted by intellectual curiosity alone.

Nor were they prompted by an unseemly curiosity in the sense of a temptatio oculorum.

Prompted by her own curiosity, however, she opened it, unleashing a plague of evils, fear, distrust, suspicion and labor upon humankind.

You can do it, like Charles Dickens, when you are stuck in composition; or you may be prompted by insomnia, or curiosity, or perversity – or lust.

This investigation had been prompted by Gödel's curiosity concerning the similar denials, in relativity theory and in Kant, of an absolute time.

Jarre has a question for Snowden upon their next interaction, prompted by THUMP's own curiosity: "I promise next time I talk to him I will ask him if he's been to a rave," he says, laughing.