Sentence examples for abiding fascination with from inspiring English sources

His sense of alienation gave him an abiding fascination with what it means to be connected to other people.

Created in 1947, the C.I.A. has been responsible for many deeds, including our abiding fascination with spooks.

What we had in common was a deep regard for and an abiding fascination with places and what makes them tick.

Mr. Avital has an abiding fascination with North African and Middle Eastern music, which he explores on "Suite of the East".

He has an abiding fascination with the Russian empire and the respects in which it resembled and differed from its British, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian competitors.

The abiding fascination with China's modish new art has now spread to its southwestern neighbor, with international dealers and curators flocking in to discover talent.

For Oscar Wilde, with his extravagant public sufferings and real physical abasement, for the scholar F. O. Matthiessen, with his tortured closetedness and eventual suicide, Toibin -- who has acknowledged what he feels is the "abiding fascination of sadness... and, indeed, tragedy" -- clearly has great sympathy in his essays.

There is an abiding fascination, too, with trying to concoct a spider's web of connections between the creation of the Creature and Mary Shelley's own tragic circumstances.

The current exhibition in his birthplace, curated by Daniele Benati, Mauro Natale and Antonio Paolucci, director of the Vatican Museums, offers a welcome chance to ponder Melozzo's abiding fascination.

I confess, though, that as a practicing physician reading this book, my abiding fascination was plagued by frustrations.

But when the cultural appetite for cowboy stories dried up, Leonard aimed his abiding childhood fascination with outlaws in a different direction: toward the street.