Sentence examples for had long fascinated from inspiring English sources

This conundrum had long fascinated geneticists: how could a fungus recognise a mating partner from so many potential choices?

The 1951 comedy "People Will Talk" (which I discuss in the clip above) treated a subject that had long fascinated its writer and director, Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

Instead, they spent Gregory's weeklong visit investigating a phenomenon that had long fascinated Ramachandran: the reported ability of flounder to camouflage itself against patterned backgrounds.

At the sports school in Leipzig, Rösler had listened raptly to tapes of English football crowds singing their songs, so when the offer came from Manchester City it was a chance to embrace a culture that had long fascinated him.

At New York, and later at The Voice, were she was named managing editor in 1974, she kept a file of clippings about women and work, a subject that had long fascinated her.

And White's daughter Maybelle, a victim of the bitter feud between her father and Dr Narcisse, was caught in the crossfire as she got too close to the criminal world that had long fascinated her.

Prefabrication has long fascinated architects.

Camellias have long fascinated gardeners and botanists.

Mrs Chandler has long fascinated observers.

But politics, she said, has long fascinated her.

Multiple facets of character have long fascinated us in literature.