I can tell you the contemporary cat craze isn't just driven by fascination, but a primal search for kindred spirits.
It's not just affection for leather and brass that drives the fascination; harnessing the power of steam broke humans out of what William Rosen calls the "Malthusian trap" that had kept mankind ever on the brink of famine and collapse.
We were driven by a fascination with this man, we wanted to go inside his head and unravel all the myths around him.
Mitchell's Panacea project has been driven by his fascination with rhythmic counterpoints, vocals and streaming, Herbie Hancock-ish piano-playing.
Gu's position as the wife of a powerful but divisive leader, Bo Xilai, has driven the global fascination with the scandal.
Dankworth, who died on Saturday at the age of 82, was driven by that fascination with how good it all was throughout his six-decade career.
You have given credit to the manoeuvres of a perverse and dishonest women driven by her fascination for the sensational and the lure of money," she wrote.
Working with his partner, Caroline Bos, the 50-year-old Amsterdam native has become one of a handful of designers whose approach, driven by a fascination with new computer-age technologies, has a touch of the prophetic.
There were many times last year when Greeks could take very little about their future for granted, but the most ominous predictions often seemed driven by morbid fascination rather than measured analysis.
But the latest one, from a defendant in high-profile trial, has led to her being saddled with a police escort for protection and put her at the center of a media circus driven by a fascination with the region's underworld.
