Sentence examples for heightened fascination from inspiring English sources

Last night's edition had the additional boon of coming in a week when the already heightened fascination with Westminster had been raised further by the widely-publicised claims in Lord Ashcroft's book about David Cameron's alleged attitudes to the military, partying and intimate drinking club initiation rites.

Crocodile hunter Steve Irwin's well-publicised death in 2006 from a stingray attack only heightened public fascination with the animals.

Celebrity culture is even more ingrained these days, and, given that our voyeuristic tendencies are heightened by the gory fascination some newspapers have with the plight of fallen heroes, I am sure Gazza never lacks for company at the bar from those desperate to be touched by his infamy, and to insert themselves in this gut-wrenching narrative.

He has great moral integrity.' The essential unknowability of Wenger - the mystery and fascination of him - is heightened by his refusal to play the media game or embrace celebrity.

The sense of fascination around cycling's premier event will be heightened by the fact it is to be Team Sky's last.

Meanwhile, his lasting fascination with the problems of mind and matter was heightened by emotional elements in his own life (Hodges 1983, p. 63).

And his book heightens a welcome new fascination with Motown's glory days.

He portrayed the character principally as a dim-witted buffoon; in the process, Rice not only created the template for other staple minstrel show characters, but he also fed on, heightened, and popularized pernicious stereotypes of African Americans even as his presentation reflected white fascination with black culture.

A fascination with travel and color also informs Debussy's "Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune," which the Knights played in an arrangement by Michael P. Atkinson that heightened the daring nature of its writing for wind instruments.

Heightened emotions.

Your emotions are surely heightened.