Sentence examples similar to a separate fascination from inspiring English sources

Jan de Swart, an inventor whose lifelong fascination with the woods and metals he found about him took him into a separate career as an acclaimed and experimental sculptor, has died after suffering a heart attack.

"Similar to the fascination teen girls have with vampire characters in movies and books, dark characters are a way to forge a separate identity and to defiantly (or rebelliously) declare oneself as independent of authority figures," psychologist Jill Weber noted.

Precocity is a shock, a fascination and a curse.

Gråbøl's mother, an architect with a fascination with Chairman Mao and all things Chinese (Gråbøl and her brother could handle chopsticks from an early age), separated from her biological father before her birth in 1968 – and Gråbøl learnt English from her American stepfather, who in turn separated from her mother when she was 11.

My ancestors hail from eight different countries and three separate continents, yet my Irish ties have always held a special fascination.

DNA polymorphism exerts a fascination on a large scientific community.

These are stand-alone and separate exhibitions but they do have some intriguing conceptual links, not the least of which is a shared fascination with models, miniatures and dioramas.

A preternatural fascination with trains is common.

Americans have a cultural fascination with technology.

This has a surreal fascination.

War exudes a terrible fascination.