Sentence examples for evil fascination from inspiring English sources

Mlle Rachel was admired for her pantomime, the feverish excitement she brought to climactic scenes, and the evil fascination of some of her characterizations.

I'm not saying I'm above it all - I've already 'fessed up to an evil fascination with Miley Cyrus' muffin top - but I am saying it's starting to come full circle.

Evil, evil, evil.

The Third Man is essentially Greene's movie and it's permeated with the art of Catholic beliefs, his feeling for immanent good and evil, his fascination with storytelling, with men in flight and pursuit, with life lived on what Robert Browning called (in a favourite quote of Greene's) "the dangerous edge of things".

His award-winning novel, "The Fascination of Evil" (Pushkin Press), arrives stateside in translation in January.

Through the distorting lens of Lemon's memory, Shawn touches on resonant themes: the dependence of bourgeois comfort on third world hardship, and our voyeuristic fascination with evil.

To him, they represented, among other things, fear, insanity, aimless brooding, dangerous brooding, morbid brooding, imbecility, fear of loneliness, and the fascination of evil.

"You should not have mistrusted me" are the heartrending dying words of one character in The Betrothal in Santo Domingo, drawing attention to the fact that Kleist, for all his suicidal urges and fascination with evil, was no nihilist.

Australians, he said, should never abandon their freedoms in order to defend them, but added: "Arguably, the greatest freedom of all is the freedom to live without fear and dread; particularly the fear, and the morbid fascination with evil, that's at the heart of this darkness".

Though Norway's crime rate is laughably low when compared with most of the world, the country's fascination with evil is still apparent and widespread.

This fascination with intelligent evil is most apparent in a new main character, who has no analogue in the original: a sharkish sociopath, a genius of the long con and the longer monologue.