Sentence examples for compelling curiosity from inspiring English sources

Until the nineteen-seventies, turbines remained a compelling curiosity, a sign of an alternative life style.

Practical matters and a compelling curiosity about Beethoven and the German repertory pulled the young Furtwängler to the conductor's life.

Two recently issued collections offer strong evidence of life: "Classic British Thrillers" from MPI Home Video (mpihomevideo.com) has two quota quickies by the great Michael Powell, "Red Ensign" (1934) and "The Phantom Light" (1935), as well as a compelling postwar curiosity, Lawrence Huntington's ingeniously constructed "The Upturned Glass" (1947).

He drew this flayed and opened animal with the same compelling mixture of curiosity and compassion that puts Leonardo da Vinci's human anatomical drawings among the world's greatest works of art.

There were many reasons I decided to move, but I believe the most compelling one was curiosity.

"To me, the science that comes out of Curiosity is much less compelling than the gesture of getting there — of flexing our collective toolmaker's muscles to go and grab that science and get that rover to that place".

The way things stand now though, the Withings Go is more of a curiosity than it is compelling — or, for that matter, tempting.

The accessible, compelling, provocative nature of art piques curiosity and elicits engagement, both of which are key in approaches drawing on constructivist theory (Dewey, 1913; Julyan and Duckworth, 1996).

And its overall performance doesn't match Mr. Nawab's considerable promise, though this sporadically compelling restaurant has definite peaks and curiosities, among them the costumes worn by the poignantly obliging waitresses.

Funder, 48 is compelling company, polite and generous, with a relentless intellectual curiosity mingled with a kind of vulnerability.

And under Joe Mantello's direction, they are doing so with an eloquence and an intensity that makes a compelling case for a show once regarded as a mere curiosity as a major piece from a major composer (1 50).