Well-worn, a fetish for worn-in trainers, is a perfect example of one of those bizarre sexual passions for something that most would cast off as an everyday item, which got me thinking: "Surely there are people around the world who fetishize every single piece of an outfit".
Well-worn, a fetish for worn-in trainers, is a perfect example of one of those bizarre sexual passions for something that most would cast off as an everyday item, which got me thinking: "Surely there are people around the world who fetishise every single piece of an outfit?" Turns out there are loads of them, which, anticlimactically, was the least shocking thing I've ever heard.
Passiflora is esteemed by gardeners for its large beautiful and bizarre so-called passion flowers.
Like him, Ferré was obsessed by the troubled minds of her characters, who are often the victims of violent passions, bizarre fixations, and strange diseases.
The North American International Auto Show in Detroit might not have the same passion for bizarre or shocking designs as do auto shows in Europe or Japan, but it is almost always a backdrop for some of the stateliest, most exciting or just all-American vehicle introductions.
So are those on the bizarre Bolivian bat wing passion flower vine, P. coriacea, also grown for its foliage, which is an odd diamond shape that looks like a leaf only in that it's green.
As far as Lau trec's favorite models, Yvette Guil bert and Jane Avril, are concerned, they are the very symbols of the spirit of 1900 with its bizarre, per verse modernity, its passion for the artificial and for the most equivocal forms of pleasure.
That something as lovely and ephemeral as the butterfly should provoke such strong passions may seem bizarre, but collectors have traditionally laid out huge sums for rare specimens.
(He even claims that Brazilians lack the European passion for sport – a bizarre assertion, even in 1941).
When you hear about my experiment, or Mike Rowe's experiences with dirty jobs, our society's obsession with "follow your passion" begins to seem bizarre.
