Sentence examples for a passing curiosity from inspiring English sources
"a passing curiosity" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a situation in which someone temporarily takes interest in something, but their interest quickly fades and passes away. For example, "He had a passing curiosity about airplanes, but he soon realized it wasn't a hobby he wanted to pursue."
The difference in the way the cases are prosecuted is more than just a passing curiosity.
For most Danes this was but a passing curiosity; their real celebrations are for the 40th anniversary of Queen Margrethe's accession to the throne.
Their coach, the former Celtics star Kevin McHale, had more than a passing curiosity in Lin, and perhaps even a twinge of regret.
One reason for such impressive stickiness, perhaps, is that unlike other dating sites, Plentyoffish relies less on a marketing blitz than on word of mouth from satisfied customers, who in turn know the kind of people who don't have merely a passing curiosity about online dating, Frind says.
They commented that while it may be tricky to download the songs for the game, requiring the user to be persistent during the download, the sound quality was excellent and the simplification down to three buttons from five makes the game "accessible to anybody with even a passing curiosity".
"But when 94% of elections are determined by those who spend the most money...and when a multitude of central issues are exempt from the discussion, what do our votes really mean?" The persistence of the protests signals that the 'Occupy' phenomenon is more than just a passing curiosity for many of its young supporters.
He never let on that his interest in the group was more than a schoolboy's passing curiosity, but something had resonated in his mind — something about the discipline and the bearing of the Muslims, their sense of hierarchy, manhood, and self-respect, the way they refused to smoke or drink or carouse, their racial pride.
Now, this was hardly a rigorous scientific trial, just a rough-and-ready experiment to satisfy passing curiosity.
I ask not as one "well versed in classical music" but as a representative of "those who feel passing curiosity about this obscure pandemonium on the outskirts of culture".
The third act, when the weary citizens at the home of the aging Captain Shotover (another character who walks the tightrope between madness and wisdom) literally watch the onset of the war, lazily and with more passing curiosity than horror, suffers particularly from a falloff in energy.
The Somalis looked at me with passing curiosity.
