The phrase "fascination by" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It typically indicates the feeling of being captivated or intrigued by something. Example: She felt a deep fascination by the intricacies of human behavior.
Aren't they fascinating?" Nodding, I think I might hate them but am fascinated by his fascination, by how he sees.
And he conveys his fascination by orchestrating the unfolding details with a caressing flow of images.
In the grisly "Fascination," by Jim Grimsley, the main character is a composite of several infamous serial killers.
Isis may be regarded with appalled fascination by most people, but conditions inside its territory remain a frightening mystery to the outside world.
My research and that of most of my friends is not a story of triumph but rather of fascination by nature".
ML: No because, so far as I understand what you're saying, that would suggest that poverty of itself has a kind of fascination by itself.
These movies, which seem to exist in an airless, bodiless universe generated by the technological upheaval, inspire a kind of surreal fascination-by-default.
At times, Rothermel seemed more motivated by fascination than by the job at hand, as he delved into minor details and used street slang: "popped" for arrested, "cred" for credibility, "weight man" for a cocaine wholesaler.
They were fueled not by commercial prospects but by musical fascination and by the perpetual urgency of ethnomusicologists who feared that the styles they were recording would not last another generation.
Saadiyat Island is a proposed cultural supercity in Abu Dhabi, clearly inspired by the ongoing global fascination engendered by neighbouring Dubai.
It was the fear and fascination epitomised by Othello.
