Sentence examples for intellectual fascination from inspiring English sources

"He had a real intellectual fascination with Nixon's determination and lower-middle-class upbringing," Powell said.

He decided to parlay his physical resemblance to and intellectual fascination with Roosevelt into a career.

The men shared an intellectual fascination with markets, and they became close, talking on the phone nearly every day, and playing tennis or chess several times a week.

Yet what makes these longueurs worth sitting through is the intellectual fascination of the moment-by-moment construction and the shining dancing.

Suicide, which had been an intellectual fascination for me in the grand, universal tradition of adolescent angst, suddenly became startlingly viable.

But for those gathered for the centennial celebration of Tsinghua and those watching China's rise from afar with intellectual fascination, this is perhaps an opportune time to begin this process of understanding.

His intellectual fascinations were great literature and biology, especially marine biology.

He is one of the few major college coaches in any sport to have a law degree, and his intellectual fascinations range from South Boston gangsters to pirates.

Worse, he commissioned regular articles on golf, and had an undisguised interest in football (this was before every intellectual affected a fascination for Aston Villa) and an even greater love for the turf.

The lack of recognisable musical influences in her own work is partly due to her enduring preference for drawing inspiration from other media, interpolating literary works by the likes of Barrie, Joyce and Tennyson, and films by such as Kubrick and Powell and Pressburger; and to her fascination with outré intellectual weirdos like Gurdjieff and Wilhelm Reich.

Spell said he had considered becoming a journalist instead of a lawyer, but was ultimately taken by his fascination with the intellectual underpinnings of the law.