Sentence examples for a marked fascination from inspiring English sources

Hamlet (murder), Oliver Twist (burglary, pickpocketing, fencing, prostitution and murder), The Wind in the Willows (cheeking the police – for which Mr Toad receives fifteen years in jail), and a huge number of other stories, show a marked fascination with criminal wrong-doing.

Featuring new band the Imposters, the album also marked a new fascination with looping drumbeats, best exemplified on the epic When I Was Cruel No 2. It is an ambient seven-minute exploration that's more trip-hop than anything else; looping ad infinitum with a ghostly woman's voice at the end of each bar that also recalls Gainsbourg and Bardot's Bonnie & Clyde.

These two films mark a new fascination with the subconscious.

It is a mark of Powell's fascination with the scene that the telegraphic terseness of his diaries altogether deserts him: the entry describing the dinner extends to several intently realised pages.

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Precocity is a shock, a fascination and a curse.

That first wave of popularity was marked by an intense public fascination with a rude, insolent, snarky, skateboarding boy named Bart.

Now, the proliferation of stories is the very sign of collective isolation, the obsessive fascination with characters a mark of frustration of contact.

The project was never built, but it marked an important step in Nouvel's fascination with a façade's potential for ambiguity.

For many, the closing notes of "My Generation" marked the end of a quadrennial fascination with a range of sports that often fail to capture our imagination in those long, football-dominated non-Olympic years... which makes things difficult for those running and promoting pretty much every Olympic event besides tennis, football and boxing.

Another stream was marked by both a fear of and a fascination with the great technological changes medicine was creating.